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MAUDLYN HOUSE
The Maudlyn House was where people with leprosy were placed. It was located well out of the Town, on the brow of North Hill, allegedly where the old Blind Institution building stands. (The Town Wall was where Charles Cross Police Station is today and the most northerly Town Gate, the Old Town Gate, would now be buried under the Drake Circus Shopping Centre). It was referred to in the fourteenth century and again in the Chantry Rolls of 1547, when it reputedly held fourteen inmates. A map drawn at the time of the Siege of Plymouth during the Civil War, shows a fort on the site. It is mentioned in the report of a sale of land in 1648, when the land being sold to Mr John Martyn was stated as being 'neere the late howse called the mawdlyn howse, neere Plymouth'. Sources:
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