. A history of the town and parish of Nantwich, or Wich-Malbank, in the county palatine of Chester. 500 NANTWICH. ADDITIONS AND ILLIAM MALBANK is said (on page i6) to have been thefounder of St. Nicholas Hospital; and in further proofof that statement it may be added that an Inquisition postmortem, dated 6 Hen. IV. [1404-5] recites that WilliamMaubank [Malbank] formerly Lord and Baron of Nantwichdied seized of the site of St. Nicholas Hospital in Nantwich,a Hall, and 2 salt-pits with all the lands and perquisitesbelonging to the said Hospital. These were granted by himto God and
. A history of the town and parish of Nantwich, or Wich-Malbank, in the county palatine of Chester. 500 NANTWICH. ADDITIONS AND ILLIAM MALBANK is said (on page i6) to have been thefounder of St. Nicholas Hospital; and in further proofof that statement it may be added that an Inquisition postmortem, dated 6 Hen. IV. [1404-5] recites that WilliamMaubank [Malbank] formerly Lord and Baron of Nantwichdied seized of the site of St. Nicholas Hospital in Nantwich,a Hall, and 2 salt-pits with all the lands and perquisitesbelonging to the said Hospital. These were granted by himto God and to St. Nicholas of the said Hospital in pure andperpetual alms to support a certain priest celebrating Divineservice in the said Hospital for ever.* Dr. Ormerod, in his additions to the History of Cheshire (Old Edition) mentions a singularly curious oak chest, said to have once belonged to St. Nicholas Hospital inNantwich, which he purchased from a tenant at Erdswick Hall in this county. He saysthe chest had belonged to the Astons of Hulgreve Hall, who participated in the divisionsof the religious spoil at the Reformation. In his descr
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