London (England) -- Description and travel; London (England) -- History -- 16th century -- Sources; London (England) -- Surveys
On the north side of this street, from over against the east corner
of St. Martin’s Oteswich church, have ye divers fair and large houses
till ye come to the hospital of St. Anthonie, sometime a cell to St.
Anthonie’s of Vienna. For I read that King Henry III. granted to the
brotherhood of St. Anthonie of Vienna, a place amongst the Jews, which
was sometime their synagogue, and had been built by them about the
year 1231; but the Christians obtained of the king that it should be
dedicated to our Blessed Lady; and since a hospital being there built,
was called St. Anthonie’s in London; it was founded in the parish of St.
Bennet Finke, for a master, two priests, one schoolmaster, and twelve
poor men: after which foundation, amongst other things, was given to
this hospital, one messuage and garden, whereon was built the fair large
free school, and one other parcel of ground, containing thirty-seven
feet in length, and eighteen feet in breadth, whereon was built the
alms houses of hard stone and timber, in the reign of Henry VI., which
said Henry VI., in the 20th of his reign, gave unto John Carpenter,
D.D., master of St. Anthonie’s hospital, and to his brethren and their
successors for ever, his manor of Ponington, with the appurtenances,
with certain pensions and portions of Milburne, Burnworth, Charlton,
and Up Wimborne, in the county of Southampton, towards the maintenance
of five scholars in the university of Oxford, to be brought up in the
faculty of arts, after the rate of ten pence the week for every scholar,
so that the said scholars shall be first instructed in the rudiments of
grammar at the college of Eaton, founded by the said king.
In the year 1474, Edward IV. granted to William Say, B.D., master of the
said hospital, to have priests, clerks, scholars, poor men, and brethren
of the same, clerks, or laymen, choristers, proctors, messengers,
servants in household, and other things whatsoever, like as the prior
and convent of St. Anthonie’s of Vienna, etc. He also annexed, united,
and appropriated the said hospital unto the collegiate church of St.
George in Windsor.
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