St. Thomas's Hospital, from its foundation to 1553 : chiefly from a manuscript book in the library of the Earl of Ashburnham, now in the British Museum / by W. Rendle.
- William Rendle
- Date:
- [1882?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: St. Thomas's Hospital, from its foundation to 1553 : chiefly from a manuscript book in the library of the Earl of Ashburnham, now in the British Museum / by W. 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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![between the hospital and Tooley Street, otherwise St. Olafs Street, in Southwark, and makes a deed of gift to Sir E/ichard Richardson, Master, for the new hospital. We have account of the work and ex- penses ; thus, 22 Henry VII, “ expenses done by Sir Richard Richardson, Master of St. Thomas’s Hospital ; purchase of the void ground called the Faucon, and afterwards the Tenys Place, and clossh- bane, upon which ground said Master hath builded a new hospital for poor men.” The Sir prefixed to the Master’s name was commonly given to ecclesiastics, and had no connection with knighthood; Sir ■ William Engleby, for instance, was priest of St. Saviour’s, and Sir William Medison priest of St. Thomas’s. The Falcon was no doubt a place of ' entertainment on a large scale, east of the Boar’s , Head, Sir John Fajfetolfe’s property, and of the Black Swan in High Street, and south and west of the ^ town house belonging to the Prior of Lewes; it was, [ as we see, adapted for games of tennis and skittles, | \ clossh implying the ninepins, but I am not clear | v/hat is implied by clossh-6To proceed with ^ the bill:— I “ Paid to Mr. Scott of Kent and Ann his wife for the land, ready money, 40 marks, and for a gown cloth of damask for said Ann, £3 16s. 8d., in all £31 3s. 4c?.” [Note the price, £31, and the £296,000 which the present railway companies paid in these our days for the site, which is nearly the same as that John Reed transferred to the hospital in 1507.] “John Reed, as a notary, expences, self business and labour, £10; Richard Greys lease [an under lease] bought back £5 ; Thomas Polstead £2 3s. 4d.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22369533_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
