Historical sketches of St. Thomas's Hospital. Pt. II / by William Rendle.

  • William Rendle
Date:
1887
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Historical sketches of St. Thomas's Hospital. Pt. II / by William Rendle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    HOSPITAL. Part II. BY WILLIAM RENDLE, F.R.C.S. [Read November 25, 1885.] More than a year ago, I liad tlie honour of read- ing before this Society a short sketch history of St. Thomas’s Hospital in Southwark, from about a.d. 1200 downwards, chiefly from original manu- scripts. I gave the very words of the charity sermon, or address, put forth by the Bishop of Winchester for the re-building of the Hospital in 1228 after its destruction by fire, and many notices of bequests involving curious customs common to those times. You were brought down to another re-building in 1507, and to the forfeiture, as a religious institution, in 1538. Many most interesting matters were related, of great local and even national interest, which had their centre here. Some points were hurried over or barely referred to; two or three of these claim a little further notice now. As to the early origin of such places, Lanfranc, the Norman Archbishop, is said to have set the example, about 1100, of building hospitals for the poor and sick and unlearned, in connection with the great houses a