Tabulated List of Foundations . . . 278 Bibliography . . . 339 General Index . . . 343 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT * Asterisk denotes that buildings remain in much the same condition as shown. The seals are copied mainly from impressions in the British Museum. 1. St. John’s Hospital, Oxford . . . J. Charles Wall . . . 1 [After M. Paris, B.M. Roy. 14 C. vii. f. 221.] 2. A Pilgrim . . . J. Charles Wall . . . 6 [B.M. 17 C. xxxviii. f. 39, xiv. cent.] 3. Domus Conversorum, London . . . J. Charles Wall . . . 20 [Idem.] Home for Jews, founded 1232. Site occupied by Rolls Chapel, Chancery Lane. 4. *Poor Priests’ Hospital, Canterbury . . . B. C. Boulter . . . 23 [From _Ancient Cities_ Series.] 5. *The Bede-House, Stamford . . . J. Charles Wall . . . 29 6. Seal of the Lazar-House, Mile End . . . J. Charles Wall . . . 47 7. The Leper and the Physician . . . J. Charles Wall . . . 59 [Trin. Coll. Camb. O.I. 20, by permission of the Librarian.] Represents, perhaps, the examination of a suspected person. 8. Elias, a Leper-monk . . . J. Charles Wall . . . 64 [Notes on Painted Glass in Canterbury Cathedral; from window in the Trinity Chapel, partly new, partly fragments of old glass.] 9. A Leper . . . J. Charles Wall . . . 68 [Exeter Pontifical, B.M. Lands. 451 f. 127; xiv. cent. MS., marginal sketch possibly xv. cent.] 10. “The Memorial of Matilda the Queen” . . . J. Charles Wall . . . 71 [After Matthew Paris, _Hist. Major_, Corp. Chr. Coll. Camb., MS. xvi, xxvi, by permission of the Librarian.] _Memoriale Matildis reginæ scilicet hospitale Sancti Egidii quod est Londoniæ._ 11. *Tomb of Rahere in St. Bartholomew’s, Smithfield . . . J. Charles Wall . . . 76 12. Memorial Brass of John Barstaple . . . — . . . 84 [By kind permission of Mr. J. W. Arrowsmith.] 13. *St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, Bristol . . . S. J. Loxton . . . 89 [By kind permission of the Proprietor of the _Western Daily Press_.] 14. Seal of St. Bartholomew’s, London . . . J. Charles Wall . . . 93 15. Seal of Knightsbridge Hospital . . . J. Charles Wall . . . 103 Depicts Blessed Virgin and Child with St. Leonard. Inscribed: _Sigillum: ospici sci: lenarde (?): kynght brigge_. 16. Seal of St. Alexis, Exeter . . . J. Charles Wall . . . 107 17. Seal of St. John’s, Exeter . . . J. Charles Wall . . . 107 18. Seal of St. John’s, Stafford . . . J. Charles Wall . . . 108 19. Plan of St. Mary’s, Chichester . . . J. Charles Wall . . . 112 [Dollman’s Domestic Architecture.] 20. Plan of St. Nicholas’, Salisbury . . . — . . . 113 Drawn by Mr. J. Arthur Reeve, architect. By kind permission of Canon Wordsworth. 21. Sherburn Hospital, near Durham . . . — . . . 118 [Hutchinson’s Durham, 1787.] The gateway and chapel remain.