Annals of Christ's Hospital / by E.H. Pearce.

  • Pearce, Ernest Harold, 1865-1930.
Date:
1901
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Annals of Christ's Hospital / by E.H. Pearce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hand, Stow implies that the church had been robbed of all its goods in 1538, and used as a store all along.* Neither of them mentions the fact that Richard Grafton set up a print- ing press in the church, in addition to the one worked by him in a portion of what “Blues” know as the “Hall-Play.” But the Chronicler and Stow are at one in stating that on the 3rd of January, 1547, the church was reopened, and “masse sayd at the auteres with dyvers presttes, and it was namyd Crystys churche of the fundacion of Kynge Henry the viij.” Our story of Christ’s Hospital would not be complete without this glance at those who went before us. “ Others have laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.” Survey, ed. 1603, p. 320.