John Doreward was given a license in 1440 to found a hospital for seven poor men to dwell in on two acres of land.
The hospital was worth 40s.
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Hospital of Bocking, in Essex
for poor men (Knowles). The hospital survived dissolution and later became an almshouse which was still in existence in the nineteenth century.
Needs further verification to see whether women were at this foundation. EMS 5/08