A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 2. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1906.
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HOSPITALS
23. THE HOSPITAL OF ARMSTON
In 1232 Ralph de Trubleville and Alice his wife built a hospital with a chapel, dedicated to the honour of St. John Baptist, at Armston, a hamlet of Polebrook, on their own ground, with the assent of Robert le Fleming, the patron and parson of the church of Polebrook. The entry of this foundation in Bishop Wells's roll states that the chaplain and brothers were to be dressed in a religious habit of russet cloth with the figure of a pastoral staff in red cloth on the breast. There was to be a belfry attached to the chapel for calling together the brethren, who were to be duly ministered to by the chaplain. Licence was granted by the bishop for a cemetery attached to the hospital, where the lay brothers (conversi) and the poor and sick of the hospital might be buried; but the mother church was to receive all offerings from the hospital.
It is also recorded in the same year that Aumary Schelton, chaplain, was presented by Alice de Trubleville to the rule of the hospital of Armston. (fn. 1)
Pope Boniface IX. in 1393 issued a mandate to the abbot of Sautre and the archdeacons of Buckingham and Ely to correct and reform the statutes, ordinances, and customs of the chapel or hospital of the poor of St. John (Baptist) Armston, in the diocese of Lincoln, going thither in person, and summoning, if expedient, the patron, rector, and minister thereof. (fn. 2)
The hospital was again the subject of a papal mandate in 1401, when Boniface directed the bishop of Aquila to intervene in a dispute as to the church of Oundle, which had become void through the resignation of the late Richard Treeton, on his acceptance of 'the hospital with cure of St. John, Armston.' (fn. 3)
The Chantry and College Commissioners of the end of Henry VIII.'s reign reported that the 'chantry' of Armston with £8 1s. 4d. a year had been dissolved by Sir Richard Kirkham since 4 February, 1535-6 (fn. 4); the commissioners of 2 Edward VI. that it had been sold since the last commission to 'Syr Edmund Mountague, Knight, Cheyf Justice of the Commonplais as yt is seyd.' (fn. 5)
Masters or Priors of Armston
Aumary of Schelton, (fn. 6) 1232
Hugh, (fn. 7) died 1298
Henry of Barnton, (fn. 8) 1298, resigned 1303
John le Moyne, (fn. 9) 1303
Robert Stacy, (fn. 10) resigned 1332
John of Felmersham, (fn. 11) 1332, resigned 1344
Roger Saltiel, (fn. 12) 1344, resigned 1345
Walter of Eketon, (fn. 13) 1345, died 1349
Roger of Milton, (fn. 14) 1349, died 1353
John Stalleworth, (fn. 15) 1353, died 1354
Regnold Pothors, (fn. 16) 1354, died 1357
William de Percehag, (fn. 17) 1357, died 1361
Robert Martyn, 1361, (fn. 18) died same year
William of Clopton, (fn. 19) 1361, died 1369
Henry of Etyngton, (fn. 20) 1369, died 1381
Richard of Treton, (fn. 21) 1381, resigned 1390
William Wynceby, (fn. 22) 1390, resigned 1392
John Belle, (fn. 23) 1392, resigned 1394
John Gryme, (fn. 24) 1394
William Mason, (fn. 25) 1430, died 1437
Thomas Petham, (fn. 26) 1437, died in same year
Thomas Cooke, (fn. 27) 1437, resigned 1446
Roger Shryghey, (fn. 28) 1446, died 1465
John Draper, (fn. 29) 1465, resigned 1482
Thomas Warberton, (fn. 30) 1482
James Tunstal, (fn. 31) 1540