The two foundations of St. Bartholomew's Hospital : A. D. 1123 and A. D. 1546, being an introductory address given at a meeting of the Abernethian Society, October 8th, 1885 / by W. Morrant Baker.

  • William Morrant Baker
Date:
1885
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Credit: The two foundations of St. Bartholomew's Hospital : A. D. 1123 and A. D. 1546, being an introductory address given at a meeting of the Abernethian Society, October 8th, 1885 / by W. Morrant Baker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a dismounted knight has been taken within the friendly shelter of the Hospital to be mended of his wounds and bruises by the priestly house-surgeons and dressers of the period, who would staunch the bleeding with the red-hot iron or the boiling pitch with kindly sympathy and in as tender a manner as the nature of the case permitted. And that it is not a mere fancy which would lead one to think that the wounded would be taken from Smithfield into St. Bartholomew’s Hospital may be gathered from an interesting historical fact which is thus recorded in Stow’s Chronicles (second edit., p. 461). The scene is that so well known in English history, in which Richard the Second rides to Smithfield to meet the rebels there assembled under the leadership of Wat Tyler. “The Mayor [William Walworth] being of an incomparable boldneffe and manhoode without any doubting ftraight arrefted him [i.e. Wat Tyler] on ye head. Wat Tyler furioufly ftrake the Mayor with his dagger, but hurte him not by meane he was armed. Then the Mayor drew his bafelard and grievoufly wounded Wat in the necke, and gave him a great blow on the head; in which confli&e, an Efquire of the King’s houfe called John Cavendifh, drew his fworde and wounded him twife or thrife even unto death; and Wat, fpurring his horfe, cried to the Commons to avenge him ; his horfe bare him about foure fcore foote from thence, where he fell