Note 584 — LIII.—SITE OF THE HOSPITAL OF ST. GILES.

Parton (History of the Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, p. 1) and, following him, Dugdale (Monasticon VII., p. 635) give the date of the Hospital’s foundation as 1101. This is certainly wrong. Parton’s authority was an entry in Leland’s Collectanea, I., p. 418 (2nd edn.), which under the date 1101 mentions several events, (i.) Henry’s marriage with Maud, (ii.) his appointment of a military guard for his brother Robert who was in prison, (iii.) Maud’s foundation of the Hospital of St. Giles. The next entry is dated 1109. The date 1101 is obviously only intended to cover (i.) (which took place strictly speaking in 1100), for Robert was not taken prisoner until the battle of Tinchebray in 1106. The passage therefore would seem to suggest a date between 1106 and 1109 for the foundation of St. Giles.