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Hospitals: Lathom almshouse

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A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 2. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1908.

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20. LATHOM ALMSHOUSE

This was a foundation, similar to the last, for a chaplain and eight bedesmen, founded by the second Earl of Derby in 1500. It also survived .the Reformation, or was soon refounded, and exists to the present time. (fn. 1)

Footnotes

  • 1. See V.C.H. Lancs. iii, 257.