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)
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