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Title: Parish priests and their people in the Middle Ages in England
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Cutts, Edward Lewes, 1824-1901
Subjects: Clergy -- England Great Britain -- Church history 1066-1485 Great Britain -- Social life and customs 1066-1485
Publisher: London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge New York: E. & J.B. Young
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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try priests were incorporated into a com-munity, and lived in St. Williams College, whichwas originally the prebendal house of the Prior ofHexham. The Benedictine Abbey of St. Mary was foundednear the cathedral between 1080 and 1090, and therewere two other Benedictine foundations in the cityearly in the twelfth century, the Priory of HolyTrinity in Micklegate, and the little nunnery of * References to the plan of Bristol. Places of the city indicatedby letters— A. Great St. Augustine. N, Allhallowes. B. Little St. Augustine. O. St. Mary Port. C. The Gaunt. P. St. Peters. D. St. Michael. Q. St. Phillip. E. St. James. R. The Castle. F. Froom Gate. S. St. Nicholas. G. St. Johns. T. St. Thomas.j^v.H. St. Lawrence. V. The Temple* L St. Stephens. W. Ratcliff Gate. K. St. Leonard. X. Temple Gate. L. St. Warburgs. Y. Newgate.M. Christ Church. 504 PARISH PRIESTS AND THEIR PEOPLE. Clementhorpe, and also the Premonstratensian Houseof St. Andrew. St. Leonards Hospital was a grand foundation by
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York Minster—south-west view. Athelstan, after his great northern victory in 936, toenable the cathedral clergy to relieve the needy andmaintain hospitality. In 1280 it had an income of THE MEDIAEVAL TOWNS. 505 nearly ^11,000 (perhaps equal to ;^200,ooo of modernmoney), and had in its infirmary 229 men and women,and in its orphanage 23 boys. In 1293 it gave awayevery week at the gate 232 loaves and 256 herrings ;it distributed every Sunday 33 dinners and 14gallons of beer, and 8 dinners for lepers, and toevery prisoner in the castle (at that time 310) a smallloaf. It maintained 26 obits in commemoration ofbenefactors. Another hospital, St. Mary Magdalene, was foundedby the Dean of York, 1330, for a master, two chaplains,and six infirm or aged priests. There was a hospitalfor lepers at St. Nicholas, on the Hull Road. Allthe guilds had small almshouses attached. At thegate of every religious house a daily distributionof gifts to the poor was made. There were manybeggars, who were put

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