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"Fundator Hospitalis D'ni Thomae apud Sandwicum" [Visitation of Kent, 1619. p. 28]

THE HOSPITAL OF ST. THOMAS, SANDWICH
Richard II on 28 June, 1392, granted licence for Thomas Rollyng and William Swan, clerks, John Godard and Richard Benge to grant a messuage and 132 acres of land in Woodnesborough to twelve poor inmates of a hospital to be founded by them at Sandwich in honour of St. Thomas the Martyr. It appears from the deeds of the hospital that they were the feoffees of Thomas Elys of Sandwich, the real founder, and so the hospital is sometimes known by his name. Its property and management have always been vested in trustees. [From: 'Hospitals: Hospitals in Sandwich and Sevenoaks', A History of the County of Kent: Volume 2 (1926), pp. 226-227. www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=38241]