Lyddington...

The Bede House, Lyddington. Originally the medieval wing of a palace belonging to the Bishops of Lincoln, by 1600 it had passed to Sir Thomas Cecil, son of Queen Elizabeth’s chief minister, who converted it into an almshouse for 12 poor ‘bedesmen’ over 30 years old and two women, over 45, who would have to be free of "lunacy, leprosy or the French pox”…