THE CULDEES.
their successors for ever,
for the
thither, to exercise hospitality
better enabling
them
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support the poor
to
who
resorted
and perform other works of piety, a thrave of corn from every
York a donation which continued to be enjoyed until a late
ploughland in the diocese of
period under the name of Petercorn.
to receive fresh accessions to their
—
The record goes on to state that these Colidei continued
endowments, and especially from Thomas, whom William
The Colidei soon after erected or
York in 1069.
founded in the same city, on a site which had belonged to the crown, an hospital or haltingplace for the poor who flocked thither; to which were transferred the endowments which
the said Colidei or cl