Memoranda, references, and documents relating to the royal hospitals of the city of London / prepared and printed under the directions of the Committee of the Court of Common Council appointed in relation to the said hospitals.

  • London. Court of Common Council. Committee in Relation to the Royal Hospitals.
Date:
1836
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    and idle persons of tlie city, and 700 marks, lands of the Savoy rents (which hospital he had suppressed), with all the beds, bedding, and other furniture belong- ing to the same, towards the maintenance of the said workhouse of Bridewell and of St. Thomas s Hospital, SouthivarkK The value of the above lands is stated to have been 600L per annum^. King Henry VIII. having suppressed the rehgious houses, the sick, lame, and impotent poor within the city were reduced to great distress, so much so that, in the thirtieth year of his reign (1538), the mayor, aldermen, and commonalty of the City of London ad- dressed a petition to his Highness, praying that the mayor and his brethren, or such other as should stand most in his gracious favour, should and might from thenceforth have the order, rule, disposition, and go- vernance of the hospitals or spitals commonly called St. Mary'5 Spital, St. Bartholomew's Spital, and St. Tho- mas's Spital, and the New Abbey at Tower-hill, with the rents and revenues appertaining to the same, for the only rehef of the poor, sick, and needy persons^.—See Appendix, No. I. The same king, on the 23d June, in the thirty-sixth year of his reign (1544), in order that there might be comfort to the prisoners, visitation to the sick, food to the hungry, drink to the thirsty, clothes to the naked, and sepulture to the dead, established upon the late hospital of St. Bartholomeiv in West Smithjield, a new hospital, to consist of one Master, a priest, and four ^ Stow,]). 456. Stoiv, J). 34i. Jor.4, fo. 129.