THE HOSPITAL OF KING'S BRIDGE,
ALIAS EASTBRIDGE
IS likewise situated in the same hundred, being
exempt from the liberties of the city, and within the
jurisdiction of the county of Kent at large. It takes
its name from its situation close on the south side of
King's bridge. This hospital was formerly called, by
both the names of Eastbridge hospital and the hospital of St. Thomas the martyr of Eastbridge; which
latter it had, from its being at first erected and endowed by the charity and piety of St. Thomas Becket,
in king Henry II.'s reign. (fn. 1) For this we have the testimony of one of his successors, archbishop Stratford;
who, upon his new ordination of the hospital, and in
the charter of it, acknowledged archbishop Becket to
be the first founder and endower of it; besides which,
there is no other record extant, or to be found concerning the foundation of this hospital, or the intent
why it was erected. (fn. 2) But to look back to the times
intervening between these two founders, in which it is
recorded, that archbishop Hubert, who sat in this see
in king John's reign, was an especial benefactor to it,
by the gift of several mills, tithes, and other premises,
which were confirmed by the prior and convent of
Christ church. In this archbishop's time there was
another hospital, neighbouring to this of King's, alias
Eastbridge, called Cokyn's hospital, built and en
dowed by one William Cokyn, a citizen of Canterbury, whose name in his posterity long survived him,
in this city. (fn. 3) This hospital was dedicated to St. Nicholas and the Virgin and martyr St. Catherine; and
was situated in the parish of St. Peter, almost directly
opposite to the late Black Friars-gate, having had a
lane by it, once called Cokyn's lane, though long
since shut up, and built upon. This hospital lastmentioned, was built on the scite of a house adjoining
to the above William Cokyn's dwelling, or else was
turned into one by him. Afterwards, by his charter,
he united these two hospitals, and then by another
charter, entitled them to all his lands, possessions and
chattels, and made them his heirs. This union was
confirmed by the bull of pope Innocent III. anno
1203, in which it is called the hospital of St. Thomas
of Canterbury; and in Cokyn's grant of union, it is
stiled the hospital of St. Nicholas, St. Catherine, and
St. Thomas the Martyr of Eastbridge. (fn. 4) Eastbridge
hospital becoming thus by union or consolidation possessed of and owners of Cokyn's hospital, it ceased
soon afterwards, probably, to be used as one, and was
hired or rented out, among the possessions of the hospital of Eastbridge; in which state it continues at
this time. (fn. 5)
To return now again to the hospital of St. Thomas
of Eastbridge, for which there being no statutes for the
government of it, archbishop Stratford, anno 15 Edward III. drew up certain ordinances for that purpose, (fn. 6)
the effect of which was, that the hospital being
founded for the receiving, lodging and sustaining of
poor pilgrims, was then, owing to the negligence of
the masters, who had wasted the revenues of it, but
meanly endowed, and that the buildings of it were in
a ruinous condition: to remedy which, and to continue the charitable intent of it, he decreed, that the
church of St. Nicholas, Harbledown, should be for
ever appropriated to it; that for the government of
this hospital, there should be a master in priest's orders, appointed by the archbishop and his successors,
who should keep a proper secular chaplain, or vicar,
under him, to be removed at the master's will and
pleasure. That such poor pilgrims as happened to die
within this hospital, should be buried in Christ church
yard, in the place heretofore allotted to them there.
That every pilgrim, in health, should have no more
than one night's lodging and entertainment, at the
expence of 4d. that there should be twelve beds in
the hospital, and that some woman, upwards of forty
years of age, should look after the beds and provide
all necessaries for the pilgrims; that those who were
not in health, should be preferred to such as were;
that no lepers should be received into it; that if there
was a smaller number of pilgrims reforting to the hospital, at any one time, a greater number should be
received into it, in lieu of such deficiency, at other
times, as far as the revenues of the hospital would allow of it; and further, he inhibited them from having
any common seal in the hospital, with several other
particular orders and injunction, as may be seen in
the instrument more at large.
This hospital had several very liberal benefactors in
early times. Among others, Hamo de Crevequer
gave the church of Blean to it, which gift was afterwards confirmed by archbishop Stephen Langton, and
was afterwards appropriated to it by archbishop Sudbury in 1375, Thomas, lord Roos, of Hamlake, in
the 33d year of king Edward III. gave the manor of
Blean to it, and the year afterwards Sir John Lee, as
appears by the ledger of the hospital, gave to it a messuage, with 180 acres of land and divers rents of assize, in the same parish, for the increase of vorks of
piety in it. (fn. 7)
In the year 1362, archbishop Islip founded a perpetual chantry in this hospital, and transferred to it,
for the benefit of it, at the request of Bartholomew
de Bourne, the chantry founded in the church of Livingsborne, alias Beaksborne, by his ancestor James de
Bourne. (fn. 8)
By the instruments of the archbishops Islip and
Sudbury, dated in the above year, it appears, by the
former, that there was founded in this hospital, a perpetual chantry for divine services; the priest of which
was to receive a yearly stipend of ten marcs, of the
master of the hospital, out of the revenues of it; for
which he was to celebrate divine service, and minister
the sacraments and sacramentals in it, to such poor
and infirm as should resort hither; and that the priest
and his successors should possess the mansion, within
the bounds of the hospital, between the infirmary and
the great gate of it, and the chamber over it. After
which king Edward III, having given a messuage,
called the Chaunge, at the time almost wholly in
ruins, to Thomas Newe de Wolton, then master of
this hospital, and his successors, in aid of the maintenance of the priest who should celebrate in it for his
health, for his soul afterwards, and that of John at
Lee, who in part founded the chantry, &c. and the
said messuage having been repaired and rebuilt by
the executors, and at the cost, though charity, of his
predecessor, the value of the rent amounted to seven
marcs yearly, and would, as it was presumed, amount
still higher in future; and it being difficult at that
time to find a proper priest, who would undergo the
duty and residence required in it, for the salary of
ten marcs, the king's piety in augmenting the priest's
stipend, was as yet frustrated—Archbishop Simon
Sudbury, therefore, by his instrument dated in 1375,
in which he recited the above ordination of his predecessor, ordained and decreed, in addition to that
before-mentioned, and by the consent of the said
Thomas, master of this hospital, and the executors of
his predecessor, that the endowment of this chantry
of ten marcs, should be augmented with five marcs
and an half out of the seven marcs of rent of the messuage given by the king as aforesaid, with power of
distress, &c. and whereas the presentation of the
chantry of Bourne, united to this hospital, as in the
ordination of the first chantry aforesaid made by his
predecessor, more plainly appeared, belonged to Bartholomew de Bourne, his heirs, or assigns, before the
union; he therefore decreed and ordained, that the
presentation and collation to be made to the same,
when vacant, should belong to him and his successors,
and to the said Bartholomew de Bourne, his heirs,
or assigns, alternately; the first turn to belong to the
archbishop, because the assigns of Bartholomew de
Bourne (fn. 9) had presented the then incumbent to it, &c. (fn. 10)
Though the revenues of this hospital lay chiesly in
the parish of Blean, yet it was possessed of other rents,
lands and tenements in Canterbury, Harbledown, and
in Birchington. It was likewise possessed of lands in
Herne, Reculver, Swaycliffe, Chistlet, and Bekesborne,
belonging to the before-mentioned chantry, which at
the suppression of it were seized on, as such.
By a bull of pope Honorius III. this hospital had
the privilege of not paying tithes of their gardens. (fn. 11)
By the return made to the king's commissioners in
king Henry VIII.'s reign, it appears, that there was
here a neat handsome chapel, dedicated to the Virgin
Mary, to which had belonged two bells, to ring to
service, as was reported to them by the parson and
churchwardens of All Saints; who said further, that
this hospital was a parish church, in which there was
ministred all sacraments and sacramentals, to the poor
people resorting thither, and to the keeper of it, and
his household, and all others remaining within the precinct of it, by the chantry priest; the matter of fact
was, that this chapel was formerly served by the chantry
priest of the chantry in it, mentioned before, to have
been transferred to it, who had 10l. 6s. 8d. yearly stipend or wages, besides his mansion or dwelling, which
was at the west end of the hospital, of all which it was
deprived at the suppression of it by the statute of the
1st year of king Edward VI. (fn. 12) when a pension of six
pounds per annum was granted to Nicholas Thompson,
alias Campion, the incumbent of it, which was remaining anno 1553. (fn. 13)
The value of the revenues of the hospital itself, as
returned anno 26 Henry VIII. according to both Dugdale and Speed, were 23l. 18s. 9⅓d. per annum, but
this must have been the clear income, for according to
Sancrost's manuscript valor, they amounted in the
whole to 43l. 12s. 3d. (fn. 14)
The state of this hospital, as it stood in the time of
cardinal Pole, at archdeacon Harpsfield's visitation in
1557, was, as appears by the entry in the book of it;
that they were bound to receive way faring and hurt
men, and to have eight beds for men, and four for
women; to remain for a might, and more, if they were
not able to depart; and the master of the hospital to
be charged with their burial, and they had twenty lords
of wood yearly allowed, and 26s. a year for drink,
that there was 10l. land a year, with a mansion, which
the priest always had for officiating in the chapel, taken
away by the king, and that it was the head church to
St. Cosmus and St. Damian Blean, but that they had
no ornaments but organs. (fn. 15)
This hospital, though it outlasted the general suppression of most of the foundations of the like sort in
the reigns of king Henry VIII. and king Edward VI.
yet in the beginning of queen Elizabeth's reign, the
lands and tenements belonging to it, as well as the hospital itself, then converted into tenements, were occu
pied and possessed by private persons, until archbishop
Parker, in the 10th year of that reign, recovered, by
his prudent care, some of the lands and possessions, and
restored the house again to pious and charitable uses.
He framed new ordinances for the government of it,
which he wisely contrived should be suitable to those
times, as well as agreeable to the first foundation of the
hospital, and the former statutes of archbishop Stratford, as far as might be; reserving nevertheless, a
power to his successors, archbishops of Canterbury, to
revise, alter, abolish and new make all, or any part of
them; they are dated May 20, 1569. (fn. 16)
In them it appears, that in consequence of the ordinances of archbishop Stratford, the master of the hospital might take all the profits of it to his own use, bestowing only for the relief of wandering and wayfaring
brethren, and poor, in bread and drink, after the rate
of 4d. a day, and one night's lodging for twelve persons, if so many came there at one time, in the whole
not above 6l. 2s. 6d. per annum, but the archbishop
(Parker) by the authority in the above former ordinance concerning the disposition of the
profits of this
hospital, to him and his successors reserved, to alter and
change the same, did by these ordinances in that behalf
made, under his hand and seal, not only increase the
above sum, to be from thenceforth bestowed on certain
poor inhabiting within the county of the city of Canterbury, but also appointed other sums of money thereout, yearly to be paid towards the keeping of a freeschool, for a certain number of poor children of the
county of the said city, to be taught to write and read
freely within the hospital.
By the same ordinance, as well as by an indenture,
between the master of this hospital and the master of
Corpus Christi, or Benet college, in Cambridge, dated
May 22, anno 11th Elizabeth, the archbishop founded
out of the revenues of this hospital, two scholarships,
each of the yearly value of 3l. 6s. 8d. that sum to be
paid yearly from thence, by the master of the hospital
to the master of the college; the two scholars to be
chosen, named, examined and approved by the master
of this hospital and the dean of Canterbury, if any such
there should be; if not, then by the master only, and
to be taken from the free-school in Canterbury, being
such of the scholars there as were born within Kent,
and being sent to Cambridge, should be called Canterbury scholars; who, after their admittance and receipt
there, should remain and continue in that college, according to the orders and statutes of it, and should
have of the provision of it, convenient chambers, commons, reading and other necessaries, as other scholars
in it, according to common custom, for the term of
two hundred years next, from the date of the indenture, with other rules and regulations in it relating to
them. (fn. 17)
Not long after this, queen Elizabeth issued a commission of charitable uses, to enquire into the state and
condition of this hospital, which was done, and a return
thereof made accordingly; and again, soon after the
death of archbishop Parker, there was a second commission, directed to Sir James Hales and others, who
certisied, that the hospital house stood ruinated, and
neither master nor brethren were resident, or dwelling
of long time. The house was let out into tenements
for yearly rent. The beds that were wont to lodge and
harbour poor people resorting thither, were gone and
sold, contrary to the old order and foundation of the
same; and that the hospital was relinquished and concealed from the queen, &c. Upon which, she granted
it, with all its revenues, by letters patent, dated July
20, in her 18th year, to John Farnham, one of her
gentlemen pensioners, to hold in see farm for ever. —He soon afterwards conveyed his interest in it for 550l.
and the release beside of a debt owing by him, to Geo.
Hayes. After this, archbishop Whitgift recovered
this hospital, with the revenues of it, from Hayes, and
then settled it upon a new foundation, so firm and sure,
that it has continued to the present time, and remains
a perpetual monument of the archbishop's piety and
prudence, who may be justly reputed the sounder and
restorer of it; (fn. 18) and he framed new ordinances and statutes, for the better government of it, by which the
hospital is now ruled. In these it is, among other
things, ordered and decreed, that the archbishop should
collate the master, who should be in holy orders, and
should be instituted and inducted according to the
usual form and custom, who should have the lodging
known by the name of the master's lodging, in the hospital; and a yearly stipend of 61. 13s. 4d. and twenty
loads of wood from the lands belonging to it, to be delivered cost free. That the master should appoint a
school-master, who by himself or deputy, should freely
instruct twenty poor children of this city, above the
age of seven years, to write, read and cast accompts,
and to have books, paper, &c. provided for them, out
of the prosits of the hospital, and not to remain in the
school above three years. The school-master to have
a lodging in the hospital, and a stipend of four pounds,
and for his further relief, if the master approved of it,
to be receiver of the rents, &c. of the hospital; for
which he should receive 26s. 8d. and two loads of wood
yearly, to be delivered cost free, and one summer livery cloth. That out of the prosits of the hospital,
there should be paid for ever, to the two scholars to
be taken out of the common school at Canterbury,
commonly called the mynte, by the master of the hospital, with the consent of the archbishop, and placed
in Benet college, 3l. 6s. 8d. each, according to the
former ordinances made of it. That whereas by former ordinances, the master of the hospital was only
tied to pay in time of peace, unto the poor passengers,
or to such other poor people as the master should think
good, thirty pence a week; and in time of war that
payment ceasing, to provide twelve beds for the lodging of poor soldiers, passing through this city, within
the hospital, for the space of one night only, which is
now grown wholly out of use, especially since the loss
of Calais; therefore, for the better relief of the poor
inhabiting within this city and the suburbs of it, it was
ordered, that the former last recited orders should
cease, and instead of them, there should be five inbrothers, and five in-sisters, to be permanent and have
their habitation in the hospital; and after the space of
twenty years next ensuing, there should be five other
out-brothers, and five others called out-sisters; each
of the said in-brothers and in-sisters to have a several
dwelling and lodging within the hospital, and 26s. 8d.
by the year, and one load of wood to be delivered cost
free, between Midsummer and Michaelmas; and each
of the out brothers and out-sisters to have 26s. 8d. by
the year only; that the mayor of this city should from
time to time, nominate to the master of the hospital
for every of the brothers and sisters rooms, when they
should be void and unfurnished, two poor persons, men
or women, as the places should require, being lame,
impotent, blind, or aged, above fifty years of age, who
should have inhabited within the city, of suburbs, seven
years before; of which two, the master should chuse
and admit one; and in default of the mayor's nomi
nating for the space of three months, the master to
make choice, and admit any, qualisied as above-mentioned. That in the room of every out-brother and
sister, the mayor should nominate such persons as
above specisied, whereof one at least should be such as
had dwelt in the city or suburbs, by the space of three
whole years at least, to the end that such as dwelt there,
and not within the county of the city, should receive
the whole benefit of these ordinances. That the master, out of the profits of the hospital, should repair and
sustain it, and every part within the precincts of it, and
also sufficiently sustain and maintain the bridge, called
the king's bridge, alias Eastbridge, within the city of
Canterbury; (fn. 19) and pay to the queen, her heirs and successors, 7l. 10s. yearly, due to her for the pension of a
chantry, sometime within the hospital, and all other
dues and payments going out of it. That the master
should not let for years or lives, the lands or tenements,
nor make any woodsales of the wood, without the express consent, in writing, of the archbishop, and should
yearly make an accompt to him, if demanded, so that
of the surplusage all charges deducted, the portions of
the brethren and sisters might be increased at the will
of the archbishop, as theretofore had been used. That
the in-brethren or sisters, master or schoolmaster, who
should die within the precincts of the hospital, might
be buried within the church-yard of the cathedral,
according to a former agreement made between the
archbishop, his predecessor and the then prior and convent of Christ church, with many other orders and re
gulations mentioned in them, (fn. 20) all which were confirmed
and ordered to be inrolled in chancery, by an act passed
in the 27th year of that reign, (fn. 21) by the means of which,
the rights of this hospital have been preserved to this
time.
There have been some few modern benefactors to
this hospital.
Mr. Avery Sabin, sometime an alderman of this city,
by his will in 1648, gave a rent charge out of his estate
at Monkton, in Thanet, of 20l. per annum, for charitable uses to the poor of this city, of which, ten marcs
were assigned yearly to be paid to the five in-brothers
and five in-sisters of this hospital. (fn. 22)
Mrs. Elizabeth Lovejoy, widow, by her will in
1694, gave, out of her personal estate, the sum of five
pounds yearly to this hospital, to be shared and divided
among the poor of it, in like manner as her gift to Cogan's hospital, above-mentioned. Besides which, this
hospital receives yearly the sixth part of the interest,
due from 1631. 16s. 3d. being the sum due from Mrs.
Masters's legacy, who died in 1716, which is vested
in the mayor and commonalty, in trust, for the several hospitals in Canterbury, of which a full account
may be seen among the charitable benefactions to this
city.
In 1708 John Battely, D. D. archdeacon of Canterbury, and master of this hospital, new built three of
the sisters lodgings, and did several other great repairs, and at his death left by his will, to the in-brothers and sisters, one hundred pounds, the interest of
which he ordered should be proportioned by Mr. John
Bradock, of St. Stephen's, and Mr. Somerscales, vicar
of Doddington.
Mr. John Bradock, master of this hospital, in 1719
gave by his will, 25l. 13s. 4d. for the better payment
of the poor people, at Lady-day and Michaelmas.
Mr. Matthew Brown, of St. Peter's, in Canterbury,
in 1721, gave by his will 10s. per annum for ever, to
the in brothers and sisters of this hospital.
In 1768, Thomas Hanson, esq. of Crosby-square,
London, gave by will, the interest of 500l, for ever, to
the in brothers and sisters of this hospital; which being
now invested in the 3 per cents. reduced Bank Annuties, produces 17l. 1os. per annum.
Besides these, the hospital had many temporary benefactors, as well towards the repairs of it, as in money; among which were, the archbishops Juxon,
Sheldon and Sancrost. The yearly tenths of this hospital amounting to 2l. 7s. 10d. are payable to the
archbishop.
In 1691, the yearly revenues of this hospital
amounted in the whole to 101l. 5s. 9d. besides which
were the fines upon the renewals of the leafes, and alderman Sabine's gift of 13s 4d. a piece, by the year,
which came not into the master's hands, but was paid
by one of the aldermen of the city.
The present building is antient; it has a decent
hall and chapel, where the schoolmaster, who has a
good apartment in the house, and is called the reader,
instructs twenty boys gratis, in reading, writing, and
arithmetic. There are rooms also for five in brothers,
and five in-sisters, but some of these rooms are subject
to be flooded in a very wet season. (fn. 23) The master has a
neat handsome house, sitauted in a court near the hospital, but on the western or opposite side of the river.
The antient common seal of this hospital having
been for a long time missing, the late master, Dr. Backhouse, at his own expence, supplied the hospital with
another in the year 1783.
Arches over the Stour at Black Friars
The south side, or part of King's bridge, as far as
the middle of it, from end to end, adjoining the front
of the hospital, is esteemed exempt from the liberties
of the city, and within the county of Kent at large, and
is repaired and maintained by the master of it. The
north or opposite side is esteemed within the city and
its liberties, and is repaired and maintained by the corporation; this arises from the bridge having been widened to double its former width, within these few
years. (fn. 24)
Names of the Masters of King's Bridge, alias
Eastbridge Hospital.
1. RALPH was the first master, or custos of this hospital, whose name is to be found in the most antient
charters of this house. He is called custos, sometimes
procurator, and sometimes master of the hospital; he
was witness to an antient charter of the hospital of St.
Nicholas and St. Catherine, founded by William
Cockyn, before that hospital was united to this of
Eastbridge.
2. PETER was master in the years 1236 and 1240,
as appears by antient charters in the archives of Christchurch, to which he was witness.
3. John succeeded Peter, as may be learned from
some charters in the chest of this hospital, dated 1242
and 1247.
4. GEOFFRY is called master, in an antient charter
of this hospital, dated anno 1261.
5. WALTER, in another charter, is said to be master,
anno 1264.
6. JOHN, vicar of Wycham, is called master, in a
charter dated anno 1280.
7. JOHN DE TYNODEN is recorded to be master, in
a charter dated in 1320.
8. JOHN DE THUIGDEN was admitted master May
23, 1323, and demised lands in 1324, and is recorded
in the archbishop's register.
9. WILLIAM BURGOOS succeeded him, as appears
by the archbishop's register.
10. RICHARD DE IVINGO was master, anno 1334.
He was rector of Faukkingge, and by exchange of
that rectory was presented to the church of Brooke, in
Kent, anno 1335.
11. ROGER DE RONDES was master at that time
when archbishop Stratford framed the statutes for this
hospital, viz. September 23, 1342. He is mentioned
in the registers of Christ-church in the years 1344 and
1348.
12. WILLIAM DE FARRHAM was collated by the
prior and chapter of Canterbury (the see being then
vacant) to this mastership, on June 18, 1349.
13. WILLIAM GRADEEL was admitted master on
August 1, 1351.
14. THOMAS DE WOLTON was collated on Dec.
18, 1351. He is called Thomas de Wilton and Thomas Newe de Recolore. He was rector of Aldington
and vicar of Recolure; he founded and endowed a
chantry in the church of Reculver, anno 1354. He
was an eminent man, and in his time great benefactions
were conferred upon this hospital, as has been already
mentioned before.
15. JOHN OVINGS, being master, presented Simon
Crawle to the vicarage of Blene, anno 1381.
16. JOHN LUDHAM was collated on July 2, 1382.
17. JOHN WITTICLIFF was instituted master on
April 9, 1383.
18. WALTER CAUSTON, monk and precentor of the
church of Canterbury, was admitted on Nov. 25,
1383; he continued in that office in 1392. He was
constituted prior of St. Martin's, in Dover, by archbishop Arundel.
Robert de Bradegare had been nominated to this
mastership by the archbishop in 1378, but refused to
accept of it; for which reason his name is omitted
among the number of masters.
19. JOHN MOUNTAGUE was collated on Aug. 26,
1395.
20. THOMAS PELICAN was inducted on April 4,
1400, and resigned this office in 1405.
21. THOMAS BURTON, rector of Snargate, was
admitted on July 5, 1405, and continued master in
1418.
22. THOMAS CHICHELEY was admitted on June
24, 1429.
23. THOMAS KEMP. He resigned this office.
24. THOMAS CHICHELEY occurs again. He was
archdeacon of Canterbury, prebend of St. Paul's, provost of Wingham college, prothonotary to the pope,
and was inducted to this mastership on July 30, 1445; (fn. 25)
he died on Jan. 26, 1446.
25. JOHN BOURCHIER, LL. D. archdeacon of Canterbury, was collated on April 20, 1467; he was provost of Wingham, and prothonotary likewise to the
pope; he died on Nov. 6, 1469, and was buried in the
cathedral of Canterbury. (fn. 26)
26. JOHN FITZWARREN was master on June 17,
1469.
27. THOMAS HALLIWELL was collated on May 24,
1494.
28. PETER LYGHAM, LL.D. was collated in 1538,
and was dean of the arches at that time. (fn. 27)
29. WILLIAM SWORDER was admitted on April 27,
1538. (fn. 28)
30. WILLIAM MORPHET, anno 1562.
31. THOMAS LAWSE, LL. D. was admitted on Feb.
18, 1569, being canon of Christ-church, Canterbury,
which he resigned, but continued master of this hospital until his death, which happened on August 9,
1595. (fn. 29)
32. RICHARD ROGERS, S. T. P. bishop suffragan
of Dover, and dean of Canterbury, was collated on
August 25, 1595; he died on May 19, 1597. (fn. 30)
33. ISAAC COLE, A. M. was inducted master of
this hospital on June 18, 1596. He was the fourth
son of Amandus Colf, alias Colt, of Calais, in France,
and afterwards of the city of Canterbury, was born in
Kent, and educated at Oxford. He died on July 15,
1597, and was buried in the chapter house of Canterbury cathedral. (fn. 31)
34. JOHN BOYS, S. T. P. dean of Canterbury, was
inducted on August 14, 1597, and died on Sept. 28,
1625. (fn. 32)
35. ROBERT SAY, S. T. P. was inducted on Oct.
26, 1625. He was rector of Harbledown, and dying
on April 8, 1628, was buried in the chancel of Mongeham church. (fn. 33)
36. JOHN SACKETTE, S. T. B. rector of Great
Mongeham, was inducted on May 27, 1628, and dying
on August 24, 1664, was buried in the chancel of
Mongeham church. (fn. 34)
37. EDWARD ALDEY, A. M. canon of Christchurch, in Canterbury, was collated on October 20,
1664. He died on July 12, 1673, and was buried in
the chancel of the late St. Andrew's church, in Canterbury, where he had a monument erected to his
memory.
38. SAMUEL PARKER, S. T. B. archdeacon and
prebendary of Canterbury, was inducted September 10,
1673. He was rector of Chartham and Ickham, in
this county, and continued master of this hospital after
he was bishop of Oxford, to his death, which was on
March 20, 1687.
39. JOHN BATTELY, S. T. P. archdeacon of Canterbury, and prebendary of that church, was inducted
on Sept. 1, 1688, who is recorded as having been a
good and generous benefactor to this hospital, as well
in the extraordinary reliefs, which he afforded to the
poor of it, as in the repairing and beautifying the
buildings, chapel, and hall of it. (fn. 35) He died in October
1708. (fn. 36)
40. JOHN PARIS, A. M. was admitted that same
year; he was rector of the united parishes of St.
Mary Bredman and St. Andrew, in Canterbury, and
vicar of Bekesborne, in this county. He died on
November 5, 1709, and was buried in St. Andrew's
church.
41. JOHN BRADOCK, A. M. was collated to this
mastership in January, 1709. He was vicar of Hackington, alias St. Stephen's, near Canterbury, and dying
on August 14, 1719, was buried in the chancel of that
church.
42. JOHN LEWIS, A. M. was admitted on Dec. 16,
1719, of whom and his preferments, more may be
seen under Minster, in Thanet, in the History of the
County of Kent. He died on Jan. 16, 1746.
43. JOHN SACKETTE, A. M. was admitted master
on March 14, 1746. He was minister of Folkestone,
and rector of Hawking, in this county, and is well
known by his publications as an antiquary and a poet.
He died in 1753. (fn. 37)
44. HENRY HEATON, B. D. was the next master
collated to it, being admitted on July 2, 1753. He
was a prebendary of the church of Ely, rector of Ivychurch, and vicar of Boughton Blean, in this county.
He died on July 7, 1777, and was buried in the latter
church.
45. WILLIAM BACKHOUSE, S. T. P. was admitted
on Sept. 23, 1777. He was archdeacon of this diocese,
and rector of Deal, in this county, before which he
had various preferments in it, which he either resigned
or exchanged at different times for others. He died
Sept. 29, 1788, at his parsonage-house at Deal, and was
buried in the chancel of that church. (fn. 38)
46. WILLIAM GREGORY, A. M. was inducted in
1788. He was one of the six preachers of this cathedral, and is now rector of St. Andrew's, in this city;
and has been collated to the vicarage of Blean, of which
he himself is patron, in right of his mastership. He is
the present master of this hospital.
THE SEVERAL PRECINCTS AND VILLES without the
walls of the city, in the suburbs of it, which are exempt
from the liberties of it, being usually called extraparochial, and esteemed within the hundred of Westgate, and
within the jurisdiction of the county of Kent at large,
come next, in turn, to be described.
Of these, the villes and precincts of the antient priory
of St. Gregory, and of the hospital of St. John, are
situated in the suburb without Northgate.