Hospitals: Lorwing

A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 2. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1907.

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'Hospitals: Lorwing', in A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 2, (London, 1907) pp. 124. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol2/p124 [accessed 24 March 2024]

42. THE HOSPITAL OF LORWING

The hospital of Lorwing, between Berkeley and Dursley, was founded for a master and brethren by Maurice of Berkeley I between 1170 and 1189. (fn. 1) It had but a brief existence, for in 1225 Thomas of Berkeley I, the son of the founder, gave the endowment to the prior of Stanley St. Leonard, a cell of Gloucester, on condition that the abbot of Gloucester renounced all claims to the church of Slimbridge. (fn. 2)

Footnotes

  • 1. Tanner, Notitia Monastica (ed. 1744), 148; Smyth, Lives of the Berkeleys (ed. Maclean), i, 69.
  • 2. Smyth, op. cit. 69.