David Tedder was not well known in Tudor Warwick, and we know very little about him other than that he was poor. We know he was a poor man because the people who wrote his inventory describe him as 'one of her Majesty's hospitall[ers].

They were referring to the fact that he lived in Lord Leicester's Hospital. Lord Leicester's Hospital was a home for old soldiers. In Tudor times a hospital was not like a hospital today. It was a place to live. Sometimes ill or injured people would live there but it was mostly somewhere that was a home for poor and old people. Places like this were also known as almshouses.

What was life like for David?