Bawtry; Bristol (Three Kings of Cologne); Canterbury (St. John, St. Thomas); Chichester; Gloucester (St. Margaret); Honiton; Ilford; Lichfield; Oakham; Ripon (St. John Baptist, St. Mary Magdalene); Rochester; Salisbury; Sandwich; Sherborne; Sherburn; Stamford; Wimborne; Winchester (St. John’s); Glastonbury (2); Leicester (Trinity); Tiverton; Wells. Those of Wilton (St. John), Taddiport near Torrington, and Holloway near Bath, are now chapels-of-ease; that of St. John and St. James, Brackley, is used in connection with Grammar School and Parish Church; Roman Catholics worship in St. John’s, Northampton, and French Protestants use the Anglican liturgy in [p125] St. Julien’s, Southampton; the chapel of the Domus Dei, Portsmouth, is part of the Garrison Church; St. Mark’s, Bristol, is the Lord Mayor’s Chapel; St. Edmund’s, Gateshead (Holy Trinity), and St. Cross, Winchester, are Parish Churches. FOOTNOTES: [74] Chron. and Mem., 57, iii. 262–3. [75] Cal. of Documents relating to Scotland, III, p. 199. [76] The original hall stands west of the chapel, and is let as a public dining-hall. [77] J. Rouse, 1825, Pl. 76. [78] Close 16 Hen. III, m. 17. [79] Leicestershire, Vol. I, pt. ii. 495. [80] Bibliographica Top. Brit., viii. facing p. 718. [81] M. E. C. Walcott, _Arch. Cant._, VII, pp. 273–80. [82] B.M., MS. Calig. D. vii. f. 240. [83] Weever, _Funeral Mon._, ed. 1767, p. 459. [p126] CHAPTER IX THE CONSTITUTION “_It is agreed amongst men of religion that order be observed, because without order there is no religion._” (Rules of St. John’s, Nottingham.) We now turn to the inner working of the hospital and inquire how the lives of inmates were ordered. Early charitable institutions were under a definite rule, either that of the diocesan bishop or of the monastic order with which they were in touch. In the Constitutions of Richard Poore of Sarum (_circa_ 1223), one clause is headed: “Concerning the Rule of Religion, how it is lawful to found a _xenodochium_.” Persons desiring so to do shall receive a form of government from the bishop, “since too great diversity of forms of religion brings in confusion to the church of God.” Laymen therefore applied for an episcopal constitution; the burgesses of Nottingham, for instance, charged Archbishop Gray with the drawing up of an “Ordination” for St. John’s (1231–4). Even when a community was under a monastic house, the diocesan was often asked to compile statutes, as Grossetête did for Kingsthorpe and Bishop Stratford for Ilford; but the abbot of St. Albans drew up his own code for St. Julian’s. There was apparently a definite Anglican Rule, for “The Statutes of St. James’ according to the Use of the Church of England” were promulgated at Canterbury in 1414. [p127]