A HISTORIC GUIDE TO THE ALMSHOUSE OF ST. JOHN BAPTIST AND ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST SHERBORNE
Written by Charles Herbert
Published by Oxford University Press; John Johnson
in 1926
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A HISTORIC GUIDE TO THE ALMSHOUSE OF ST. JOHN BAPTIST AND ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST SHERBORNE
Written by Charles Herbert.
Stock no. 1327849
1926.
Softcover.
Very good condition.
Blue paperwraps with black titles and vignettes. B/w plates and photos. 80 pages. Covers lightly creased and lightly browned at edges.
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction
- The Old Almshouse and the New
- The Old Institution
- The Early Accompt Rolls
- The New Almshouse and the Enterprise of Richard Rochell
- A General Subscription List
- Disbursements
- The Foundation Deed
- The Brotherhood
- The Chaplain Perpetual
- The Prior
- The Housewife
- The Inmates
- The Steward and Doctor
- The Oath of theBrethren
- The Oath of the Inmates and Housewife
- Note on the Brethren's Oath
- Devotions
- Discipline
- Food Allowance
- Allowance of Clothing
- Lands and Tenements
- Licences in Mortmain
- The Principal and Original Donors
- Notes on the Founders
- Building of the New Almshouse
- Completion of the Chapel
- The Almshouse Store, 1476-7
- Some later Benefactors
- Nineteenth-Century Additions
- The Medieval Triptych
- Old Stained Glass
- Lost Coats of Arms
- An Ancient Custom
- Rules promulgated in 1788
- Rules in Force, 1926
- The Chancery Suit
- The Knoyle Family
- The Meere Family