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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![—in all £48 6s. 8d Reparations on said void ground, now being the new Aimes-house, wages, bricklayers, building materials, &c., in all £262 19s. ; grand rtotal, £311 6s. l^d. Further were bought for the Ihospital, 4 doz. new blankets, 33 coverlets, tapestry vwork called counterfeit orress [arras], £14 14s. 4d.” The amount named seems small for land and a large Ibuilding by London Bridge, but we must consider ;:hat land was cheap : this same had been let in 1439 at 5 marks, or £3 6s. 8c?., the year. Wages were 4c?. ;.;o 6c?. the day, an ox was 27s. 6c?. ; work at St. IVIargaret’s, near at hand, cost at this time at the rate, in wages, of a tiler, day and half, 8c?.; his man, :d.; a dauber, that is, a plasterer, 4c?., &c.; and, Irther, the total sum named would imply now con- lerably more than £3,000. I lately discovered, connected with our subject, an portant paper in the Public Record Office. In the ichy of Lancaster records there is “ the Ren tall of lomas Becketts hospitall in Southwarke, of all the ids and tenements belonging to the hospitall.” contains the names of the tenants and the rents id ; it is without date, but from internal evidence ly be any time between 1512 and 1536. It is peculiarly interesting as containing among e tenants some important names; a Nicholas umwell; some of the actual artists of those mderful windows still at King’s College, Cam- idge; the Member for Southwark in 1511; a lole family of Nycolsons, and some hundred others. Dout this time, like as at other religious houses—for stance, Westminster Abbey and Christ’s Hospital there was here, that is, within the precincts of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22369533_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
