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XIII.—Account of the Hospital of St. John the Baptist, Wycombe

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Bishop Tanner informs us that the Hospital of St. John the Baptist at Chepping Wycombe in Buckinghamshire was founded for a master, brethren, and sisters before 20 Hen. III. As the remains of the buildings belonging to it are threatened with demolition in the carrying out of a scheme for erecting a new Grammar School, sanctioned by the Charity Commissioners on the application of the Governors of the Wycombe Grammar School and Almshouse Foundation, it will be interesting, in the first place, to give some notion of the original situation of the Hospital and its surroundings. The present street, called Easton Street, a portion of the road from London to Oxford, cuts through what must have been a part of the Hospital grounds, and renders it difficult to realise the appearance of the place in the twelfth century, the street having been formed close to the buildings and leaving them in an irregular position.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1885

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page 285 note a Not. Mon. 1744, Buckinghamshire, “Wycomb.” See also Willis's, Not. Parl. vol. ii. 1716Google Scholar. App. to vol. i. p. 7, and vol. i. 2nd ed. 1730, p. 113.

page 285 note b See Parker's Wycombe, 1878, p. 34.

page 286 note a See Wycombe, pp. 26, 27.

page 287 note a , Dugdale'sMonast. 1830, vol. vi. p. 780.Google Scholar

page 287 note b “They had great property in this hundred”: see Langley's Desborougk, 1797, p. 298.

page 287 note c Wycombe, p. 16.

page 287 note d Camd. Soc. No. LXV. 1857, p. 59.

page 288 note a Walcott's Sacred Archœology, 1868, p. 51.

page 288 note b Fosbroke's British Monachism, 1802, p. 22.

page 288 note c Helyot, Histoire des Ordres Monastiques Religieux et Militaires et des Congrégations Séculières, 1714–19, tom. iii.

page 289 note a Dugdale, vol. vi. p. 606.

page 289 note b Wycombe, p. 140.

page 289 note c Collect, cl. Matth. Hutton ex reg. Thomæ Beke Episc. Lincoln, cited by Tanner.

page 289 note d Wycombe, p. 140.

page 290 note a Wycombe, p. 141.

page 290 note b See Not. Parl. above referred to.