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Chantries in 1548, the hospital and its chapel closed and became the property of the Crown. At this date, the institution was valued at 76 shillings a year, and was recorded as having bells to the value of 2 shillings, but no plate, jewels, goods, ornaments or lead. The last
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inquisition of his son, also
Richard Wright, the hospital's lands included "another pasture called Chapel-croft, and half of another pasture called the Chapel-field adjacent, lying in Acton". The tithes were transferred by the younger Wright's daughters and heirs, Margaret Woodnoth and Elizabeth
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there ought to be one chaplain to sing divine service every day; and in which there ought to be three beds for the reception of poor sick people where they shall remain until they shall have recovered health; and that a certain service has been withheld for four years now elapsed; and it is now
346:, which he continued to receive until at least 1562; he died in 1585. The Wright family was prominent in Nantwich from the mid-16th century. Wright's will shows him to have been a relatively wealthy man, who is known to have also been the owner of Nantwich's Bell Inn. He was the great-uncle of
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Medieval treatment for leprosy involved cleanliness and washing in healing springs, and St
Lawrence's was presumably at or near the brine spring known as Lawrence Well. By the late 14th century, leprosy was in decline in Cheshire; in around 1348, at the time of an outbreak of
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The said Chapel is worth £4 per ann. from lands and tenements belonging to the same. And there is paid to the Barons of Wich
Malbank for toll of salt 4 shillings. So that there remains clear, 76 shillings. Also the tithes amount to
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Nantwich on 1 May 1639. One of the buildings of the hospital is mentioned in a document of 1653: "a messuage called the Hospitall now divided into three dwellings in/near the Welsh Row in Wich Malbanke".
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