f Gaillard, for his life. And eight years
afterwards the Chief Justice and his fellow feoffees granted this
property also to the Abbot of Malmesbury.[106] In the Inquisition _ad
quod damnum_ already quoted, it is stated that "the messuage and garden
are held of the King by Gailard Pete," which seems to imply that the
Chief Justice and his fellows had been acting all along as trustees; and
it is also stated that

"they are worth yearly according to their true value 13s. 4d.
and not more because they are charged yearly to the Master of
the Church of the New Temple within the Bar of London in 6s.
8d. quit rent."

The Abbot of Malmesbury had now become possessed of three properties in
Holborn: the tenement of Walter Barton, next to Staple Inn, acquired in
1387; Lyncolnesynne, acquired in 1369; and the tenement of Gailard Pete,
acquired, like that of Walter Barton, in 1387. In the reign of Henry
VIII., at the dissolution of the monasteries, there was still at this
spot a chapel, a hall, a kitchen, and a "great garden," where the monks
had "liberty to walk" when they came to London; and the brewery also was
still in existence.[107]

In 1399 a rental of the property of the Convent of Malmesbury was drawn
up, in which the following items appear[108]:--

"De Firmario novi hospicii apud Londoniam vocati { VIII li.
{ pro missa
Lyncolnesynne ad iiii^{or} terminos solvendo per annum { Abbatis

De tenemento quondam Gaillardi Poet in Holbourne XX s

De tenemento quondam Walter Bartone Allutarii XIII s IIII d"

Written in a different hand, with different coloured ink, at the bottom
margin of the page, and certainly of a later date, the following remarks
have been added:--

"London Hospicium Armigeri jam magnum hospitium
quod est ruinosum reddit per annum XL s

Tenura Celda proxima annexa hospicio reddit per annum IX s

tenencium Secunda celda reddit per annum X s

infra silvam Tertia celda reddit per annum VIII s

magni hospicii Quarta celda que est ..."

[Here the page is cut away.]

The "Inn of the Esquire ... which is ruinous" of the marginal note is
obviously the same as the "Lyncolnesynne" of the original entry, with
the rent reduced from L8 to 40s. per annum. It is