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"for his better maintenance." And "for the better comfort and succour of the poor brethren and sisters, when visited by the hand of God with sickness, diseases, &c.," the ordinances require the master to visit them, and pray with them, "except in time of plague, pestilence, or any contagious distempers."

These orders being made and confirmed, Mr. Thomas Turner, who had made submission in everything, and humbly requested to be continued master of the hospital, was admitted, and took the oath prescribed by the new rules. In 1576 the rental of the charity was £45. 2s. 6d., and in 1638 the rents amounted to £133.7s. 6d. There were then twelve poor brethren at 14s. and six poor sisters at 12s. per week, and a donation was made to the poor in gene ral, on account of a pestilence, of £56. In 1624 an order was made to admit into the house the whole number of twenty-six poor persons, according to the foundation. As has been observed at page 58, this hospital, chapel, and the master's house, were pulled down in 1644, when the town was besieged. In 1645 the hospital was rebuilt at a cost of about £474., towards which expense Mr. Stiles, the master, was paid £278.18s. 3d., by order of Lord Fairfax, Governor of the town. In 1678, the chapel was rebuilt. In 1698 the rents of the several lands and tenements belonging to the hospital amounted to £212. 2s. 11d. per annum; in 1752, to £422.9s. 8d.; and from various causes the property since that period has increased the income of the hospital to upwards of £2,000. per annum. There are now seventy inmates in the institution, each of whom has a separate room, and an allowance of 6s. per week and coals. The master's salary is £200. a year and a residence. The Rev. J. H. Bromby is the present master. The master and pensioners are appointed by the Corporation of the borough. In 1780, the old buildings were taken down, and the present edifice erected on its site. It is situated in Charter House Lane, and is a large brick structure, with wings. In the centre is a semi-circular portico supported by six Tuscan pillars, and on the architrave is the following inscription :-Deo et pauperibus, Michael de la Pole, Comes de Suffolk, has adas posuit A.D. 1384.--Renovatas iterum auctiusque instauratas piæ fundatoris memoria D.D. Johannes Bourne, Rector, A.D. 1780. Above this portal is a pediment, within the tympanum of which is the arms of the De la Poles; and on the summit of the roof is a circular turret of eight Ionic pillars, with a dome. The Chapel is large and well furnished, and contains handsome mural monuments to four of the late masters of the institution. The master conducts full service here on Sundays, and prayers on Wednesdays and Fridays. The master's house stands opposite the hospital, on the east side of Charter House Lane. This lane is of modern erection, for the hospital, house, garden, &c., were formerly within one enclosure.

Lister's Hospital, South Church Side, for six poor men and six poor women, each of whom receive 7s. per week and coals, was founded by Sir John Lister, Alderman, and M.P. for Hull in 1642. A lecturer reads prayers in the hospital every Thursday, for which he receives £2. a year and a house. The hospital is a good respectable looking brick edifice.

Gregg's Hospital, Posterngate, was founded by John Gregg, Alderman and merchant of Hull, in 1416, for twelve poor women. This Mr. Gregg also founded two chantries in the church of Holy Trinity, and endowed the whole with houses, lands, and tenements, lying within the town. This hospital was one of the few that had the good fortune to be restored in the reign of Edward VI. Mr. John Buttery, in 1779, left by will the sum of £346. 6s. 8d., to be paid to the Corporation of Hull, in trust, to pay to each of the poor inmates of this hospital two pence per week, and to each of the inmates of Watson's Almshouse four pence per week, for ever. Each of the poor women in Gregg's Hospital now receives 2s. per week, coals, and an apartment in the almshouse, which is a plain brick building.

Crowle's Hospital, in Sewer Lane, was erected, founded, and endowed, by George Crowle, Esq., Alderman and merchant of Hull, and Eleanor his wife, in 1668, and affords an asylum to fourteen poor women, each of whom receive 2s. 6d. per week with coals. Over the front door is the following inscription, placed there by the founders :

Da dum tempus habes tibi propria Manus Hæres
Auferet hoc nemo, quod dabis ipse deo. G. C. 1668. Е. С.

Ratcliffe's Hospital, in Dagger Lane, was bequeathed by a person of the name of Ratcliffe, a weaver, and endowed by Mr. Buttery, in 1775, and augmented by the Corporation. Six poor women receive 2s. 6d. per week and a supply of coals.

Harrison's Hospital, in Chapel Lane, founded in 1550, was the first charitable foundation which was established in Hull after the Reformation. It was founded by John Harrison, Alderman, for fourteen poor old women, who now receive each 2s. per week with coals.

Gee's Hospital stands in a passage in the same lane, and was founded in 1600, by William Gee, Esq., Alderman and merchant of Hull. Ten poor aged women receive each 2s. per week with coals.

Ellis's Hospital, founded by Joseph Ellis in 1683, is situated in a passage in Salthouse Lane, and consists of six rooms occupied by six poor persons, each of whom receives from the Corporation 2s. per week with coals.

Kingston-upon-Hull Incorporation for the Poor. In the 9th and 10th of William III. (1698), an Act of Parliament was obtained for erecting workhouses and houses of correction in Hull, for the better maintenance and employment of the poor; and by this Act the Mayor, Recorder, and Aldermen for the time being, and twenty-four other persons to be elected by the different wards, were constituted a Corporation, to continue for ever, and to have the care of and to provide for the maintenance of the poor of the said town. Under the authority of this Act the Corporation thereby constituted, having obtained of the Mayor and burgesses a grant of an old building in Whitefriargate, called the Cloth Hall, immediately pulled it down, and erected the large building called Charity Hall, on its site, and appropriated it to the purposes of a workhouse, or house of industry. In the space of a few years the poor were so greatly increased that the yearly assessments they were by the Act empowered to raise, fell far short of the sum required, so they were obliged to have recourse to Parliament for another Act, in the 8th of Queen Anne, 1709. Other Acts, granting extended powers, were obtained in the 15th and 28th years of the reign of George II., but all these were repealed by an Act of the 5th of George IV. (1821), by which forty guardians of the poor, to be selected by the eight wards, were constituted a Corporation, by the name of the "Governor, Deputy-Governor, Assistants, and Guardians, of the Poor of the town of Kingston-upon-Hull." The guardians are elected for three years, and the fine, in case of refusal to serve, is £50. Finding the old Charity Hall too small and inconvenient, from the great increase of paupers, this Corporation, in 1852, built a new workhouse on the Anlaby road, at a cost of about £15,000. It is a fine pile of red brick buildings, the front faced with cut stone, in the Italian style, and will accommodate about 600 paupers. The average number of inmates for the past year is about 250. The district of the borough, to the poor of which this Corporation is bound by the Act to administer relief, consists of the parishes of Holy Trinity and St. Mary. The present Governor is John Fountain, Esq.; Deputy Governor, Bishop Barnby, Esq.; Clerk, Mr. W. J. Reed; Workhouse Master, Mr. John Vickers; Chaplain, Rev. Thomas Scott Bonnin.

Sculcoates Union Workhouse. - The Poor Law Union of Sculcoates comprehends eighteen parishes (including those parts of the borough of Hull which do not belong to the parishes of Holy Trinity or St. Mary), and embraces an area of fifty-six square miles. The workhouse is situated on the Beverley road, and is a handsome red brick building, with stone dressings, chiefly in the Tudor style of architecture. It was erected in 1845, at an expense of about £11,000., and affords accommodation to 500 paupers. The average number for the past year was 260. The present Chairman of the Board of Guardians is Daniel Sykes, Esq.; Clerk, Mr. William Chatham; Chaplain, R. K. Bailey; Master, Mr. Joseph R. Jessop.

ECCLESIASTICAL EDIFICES.-CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, usually denominated High Church. The earliest notice of a place of religious worship in this town is that already mentioned at page 5, of this volume, in which we find the monks of Melsa were compelled to rebuild a chapel here, which they had destroyed before the year 1204. We have met with no account of the subsequent establishment, or existence of any church or chapel in this place until 1285, when, according to a MS. in the Warburton Collection in the British Museum, the "High Church, dedicated to the Holy Trinitie, was at first founded as a Chappell, by one James Helward," the mother church, as the author of the MS. states, being Hessle. The historians of Hull (Gent, Hadley, and Tickell) state that the building of this church was not commenced until 1312, but in disproof of the correctness of these authors, we have the positive evidence of the pastoral letter of Archbishop Corbridge, of the 18th March, 1301, addressed to the Prior of Gisburne (Guisborough), patron of the mother church of Hessle, for the dedication of a cemetery to the chapel of the town of Kingestone (ad Capellum ejusdem ville de Kyngestone infra limites parochie predicte, ut fertur constructum), to show that there was a chapel then standing, though without any burying ground attached to it.* This burying ground is described in the will of John Schayl, in 1303, as the cemetery of Holy Trinity of Kingston-upon-Hull. The present church was constructed at different times, but the east end, now used as the chancel, is of the greater antiquity. This part of the edifice was the ancient chapel of Wyke, and it is certainly the most ancient building in Hull.

In 1320, the churchyard being too small for the town, the inhabitants petitioned King Edward II. to grant them a certain piece of ground, called Le Hailles, lying at the west end thereof, which he accordingly did. In the reign of Henry VIII. this church was in a ruinous state, and the Corporation having sold their plate, as we have seen at page 36, applied part of the purchase money to its reparation. About the same time an Act of Parliament was passed for the suppression of all the chantries, colleges, free chapels, and guilds, in the kingdom; and of that class of religious institutions between thirty and forty fell into the hands of the King in this town. Amongst them, according to Tickell, were the two chapels of the Holy Trinity and St. Mary, for both came under the denomination of free chapels, having been founded, or partly, if not entirely supported by means of endowments, granted for offering daily prayer for the repose of the souls of the donors. The same authority tells us that when the people became clamorous, as we have seen at page 198 of vol. i., King Edward VI. refounded these chapels at the same time that he restored four of the suppressed hospitals in Hull; but it is probable that the chapels of Holy Trinity and St. Mary were not suppressed altogether, so as to have their doors closed, and divine service entirely suspended-for we have not found it so recorded anywhere-Henry, we should think, contented himself with suppressing and seizing upon the revenues of the various chantries connected with these chapels, as well as of the College of Prebendaries, which was founded in Trinity Chapel, by Walter Skirlaw, Bishop of Durham. Edward VI., however, in the sixth year of his reign, made some attempt to restore the revenues of Trinity chapel, but a great part of them were lost, and could never afterwards be recovered. At the same time he granted the perpetual advowson of the chapel to the Corporation.

* In Reg. Arch. Corbridge int. Archiv. Arch. Ebor.

During the distractions of the various sects which divided the nation under the Commonwealth, the Council of state granted the chancel of Trinity church to the soldiers, who selected for their preacher a Mr. Can, an Independent from Amsterdam. The arches between the body of the edifice and the chancel were walled up, so that this congregation and that of the townspeople, who assembled in the west end of the building, might not disturb each other in their devotions. The Independents filled the chancel with benches, pulled up most of the brasses from the gravestones, defaced the monuments and inscriptions, and made entrances by two doors through two old chantries, the one on the north and the other on the south side; and thus did the church continue divided between the Presbyterians and Independents until the restoration of the monarchy. In 1645 the Book of Common Prayer was publicly burnt in the Market Place of Hull. In 1661 Holy Trinity Church, which up to that time was only a Chapel of Ease to the mother church at Hessle, was, on the petition of the Corporation, constituted a parish church by Act of Parliament, the Corporation being appointed by the same Act to nominate the Vicar and his successors, subject to the approval of the King. And for the better maintenance of the Vicar, a salary of £100. a year, over and above the vicarage-house, tithes, fees, &c., was charged upon the parishioners, to be assessed by a rate.

In 1522 this church was put under an interdict; the doors and windows were closed up with thorns and briars, the pavement torn up, and the bells deprived of their tongues. No worship was performed in it; every person who presumed to enter the building, was declared to be accursed; and even the dead were not suffered to be buried. There is no reason assigned for this severe sentence.

Previous to the change in religion, this church had no fewer than twelve

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