. London . rn when this change became even possible. It must havebeen long after its foundation, when the old prayer-machinetheory had lost something of its earliest authority, and, inthe face of the mass of human suffering, men began to askwhether the machinery engaged in iterating litanies mightnot be made more useful in the alleviation of suffering. Forwhatever cause, the House of God and the Blessed Virginbecame St. Mary Spital, and at the time of the Dissolutionthere were no fewer than one hundred and eighty beds in the LONDON House V ,!? St. Mary Spital was Holywell Nunnery. Onthe south
. London . rn when this change became even possible. It must havebeen long after its foundation, when the old prayer-machinetheory had lost something of its earliest authority, and, inthe face of the mass of human suffering, men began to askwhether the machinery engaged in iterating litanies mightnot be made more useful in the alleviation of suffering. Forwhatever cause, the House of God and the Blessed Virginbecame St. Mary Spital, and at the time of the Dissolutionthere were no fewer than one hundred and eighty beds in the LONDON House V ,!? St. Mary Spital was Holywell Nunnery. Onthe south side of Aldgate, outside the wall, stood the famousAbbey of St Clare, called the Minories, founded by Edmund,: of Lancaster, in the year 1293, for the reception oftain nuns brought over by his wife, Blanche, Queen ofN aire, who were professed to serve God, the BlessedVirgin, and St. Francis. There is a church, one of the meanest and smallest of allthe London churches, standing in the ugliest and dreariest. RUINS OF I HE CONVENT OF NUNS MINORIES, 1S10 part of the City, called the Church of the Holy Trinity,Minories, which is often visited by Americans because thearms of Washington arc to be seen here ; and by antiquaries,because tin head of the Duke of Suffolk, executed on TowerHill, is preserved here. The north wall of this church is partof the wall of the Clare Sisters Church, and is all that remainsin that squalid place of the noble Foundation. Sir Walter Mannys Carthusian House was not the onlyFoundation arising out of the great Plague of T348. On thenorth-east of the Tower arose at the same time a very stately PLANTAGENET 109 House, dedicated to the Honour of God and the Lady ofGrace. It began exactly in the same way as the Carthusians,by the purchase of a piece of ground in which to bury thosewlity died of the plague. John Corey, Clerk, first bought theground, calling it the Churchyard of the Holy Trinity. OneRobert Elsing gave five pounds, and other citizens con-tributing
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