More information : St Mary Magdalene Hospital, Hertford for lepers, men only, was founded in 1220 (a) for a master and leprous brethren. These were displaced by the Trinitarians c.1261.
It later became Holy Trinity and St. Thomas the Martyr hospital
which the Trinitrians apparently continued to maintain for poor
people, it being called the hospital of the poor in 1448.
Dissolved before 1535. (1)
A hospital outside Hertford is mentioned in an Inquisition of
1263. (2)
"The house of St. Mary Magdalene by Hertford" is mentioned on
April 20, 1287. (3)
Who founded the hospital of St. Mary Magdalene is not known.
As it was in the hands of the Friars of the Holy Trinity in 1287
there can be no doubt that it was the leper-house outside
Hertford [ see (2) above ] of which brothers of the Trinitarian
Order had taken possession about 1261 after removing the lepers.
How long "it lasted as a religious house is uncertain. A bequest
to 'the chapel of the Trinity in Hertford' in 1504 (c) does not
necessarily imply that the friary was then no longer in
existence, though it probably came to an end some years before
the general Dissolution, for it was described ... in 1540 as a
'messuage' called le Trynytie in Hertford formerly belonging to
the Crossed Friars in Mottenden. (d)"
Amongst its property was a close called 'le Freres Crofte' in
Hertford. (e) The first known warden was William Peverel before
1255 (f) and the last William in April, 1287. (g). (4)
TL 334 126: A large area of some 50 acres, situated between the
Ware and London Roads and called Great and Little Trinity (h)
probably had some connection with this establishment. (j) (5)
No field action. (6)
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