Gloucester in the Middle Ages

pandrcurle | 19:08 Sat 13th Dec 2008 | History

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Does anyone know the answer to this? From which building in Gloucester was food distributed to the poor in the middle ages?

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Lil O'lady

I'd have thought that the present cathedral, being a monastery in the middle ages, would be a major source of alms for the poor. This would be distributed directly to people who turned up at the gatehouse or taken out to people by lay brethren.

pandrcurle

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Thanks for your answers, but in Gloucester there was not only the abbey, now the cathedral, but 2 Priories and 3 Friares as well alms houses etc.

Rosetta

I don't know if there is anything useful here

http://homepage.mac.com/philipdavis/English%20 sites/1209.html

There a number of online articles noted.

As you say the churches and monasteries were largely responsible for distributing alms to the poor in the middle ages. .It is therefore possible that there was more than one supporting the local poor. I believe some Orders were more "outward" looking within the community and I believe the Greyfriars were such an order. I don't have a link for that though

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