Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . te of2nd of December of that year:— We deliverdthe Privy Council letters to the Governors of St. Southwark.] OLD ST. THOMASS HOSPITAL. 9i Thomass Hospital, in Southwark, that a moiety ofthe house should be reservd for such sick andwounded as should from time to time be sent fromthe Fleete during the war. Much injury was done to the property belongingto this establishment by the fires which, as alreadystated, took place in Southwark in the Stuart times,although the hospital itself received no damage oneither occasion.
Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . te of2nd of December of that year:— We deliverdthe Privy Council letters to the Governors of St. Southwark.] OLD ST. THOMASS HOSPITAL. 9i Thomass Hospital, in Southwark, that a moiety ofthe house should be reservd for such sick andwounded as should from time to time be sent fromthe Fleete during the war. Much injury was done to the property belongingto this establishment by the fires which, as alreadystated, took place in Southwark in the Stuart times,although the hospital itself received no damage oneither occasion. However, towards the close of Prince of exemplary piety, and wisdom above his years, theglory and ornament of his aye, and most munificent Founderof this Hospital, was erected at the expense of Charles Joyce,Esq., in the year mdccxxxvii. Through the first court is the entrance to thesecond, by a descent of steps. This court has aDoric colonnade with a cornice, on which is thebasement to nine pilasters. On the north side isthe chapel for the use of the patients, in which. the seventeenth century the building had becomeso much decayed that a public subscription wasmade in order to re-edify and enlarge it, and thefirst stone of the new edifice was laid by Sir JohnFleet, who was Lord Mayor of London in whole was executed at different times, and thework was not completed till the year 1732. The following description of the edifice is givenin Brayleys History of Surrey, published in1843 :—The hospital buildings now consist ofseveral quadrangles; in the centre of the first ofwhich, facing Wellington Street, is a brazen statueof Edward VI., by Srheemakers, bearing this in-scription, on one side in Latin, on the other inEnglish :— This Statue of King Edward the Sixth, a most excellent service is performed daily ; on the south, the parishchurch ; on the cast, the hall, elevated on Tuscancolumns, with compartments for the chaplain,treasurer, steward, &c.; in the north-east
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