Another character in the records is Arnold Knyght – a Lancastrian Falconer and Yorkist yeoman. He had been a falconer to three kings. Suffering from leprosy, he himself built a house on the site of the hospital by Whiteditch near Rochester in order to spend his life in divine service. Not all those seeking sanctuary in medieval hospitals were poor.
1450
Another character in the records is Arnold Knyght – a Lancastrian Falconer and Yorkist yeoman. He had been a falconer to three kings. Suffering from leprosy, he himself built a house on the site of the hospital by Whiteditch near Rochester in order to spend his life in divine service. Not all those seeking sanctuary… Read more »