The history of Christ's Hospital, from its foundation by King Edward the sixth. To which are added memoirs of eminent men educated there; and a list of the governors / [John Iliff Wilson].

  • J. I. W. (John Iliff Wilson)
Date:
1821
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Credit: The history of Christ's Hospital, from its foundation by King Edward the sixth. To which are added memoirs of eminent men educated there; and a list of the governors / [John Iliff Wilson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    execute is madness; and to profess that wherein both our consciences and our reader’s must have borne testimony against the falsehood, would be something worse. In the [succeeding] history, then, there was no aim at a complete account of all our learned men; and to acknowledge it to be defective, where it does not profess to be perfect, will be no derogation of it.” It will probably be said that the records of the Hospital were the authorities I should have con- sulted for the necessary information ; but I must here state that I have had the misfortune of un- dertaking the work at a period when the various duties of the gentlemen connected with the esta- blishment entirely precluded any of them from affording me the least assistance. If the publick should hereafter require an improved edition of the work, these gentlemen, or their succesors, may have more leisure to permit the books of the Hos- pital to afford information towards the prosecution of the subject; and in aid of a publication, the object of which is to represent the establishment, and all connected with it, in a point of view that could have no other tendency than to its honour. If, however, I have been unsuccessful within the walls, the contrary has been the case without, my applications having received the most flattering attention.