The Practitioner . y was indispute for more than 250 years after its foundation. It wasnot until 1373 that the ordinance of Richard of Ely acknow-ledged the dependence of the hospital on the priory to bemerely nominal, a conclusion which has had the happy effectof preserving for the use of the sick poor of London a greatfoundation which would otherwise have been diverted, likethose of the priory, from the service of religion and charityto the treasurj of King Henry VIII. Nothing now remains of the original buildings, nor is itpossible to trace them even in outline. They were in allprobability
The Practitioner . y was indispute for more than 250 years after its foundation. It wasnot until 1373 that the ordinance of Richard of Ely acknow-ledged the dependence of the hospital on the priory to bemerely nominal, a conclusion which has had the happy effectof preserving for the use of the sick poor of London a greatfoundation which would otherwise have been diverted, likethose of the priory, from the service of religion and charityto the treasurj of King Henry VIII. Nothing now remains of the original buildings, nor is itpossible to trace them even in outline. They were in allprobability mere scattered wooden structures whitewashed andof one storey, perhaps separated from each other by streets andnarrow lanes, but most likely grouped round a central know that there was such a hall and that it had a largefireplace in the centre, because Henry III. made a present tothe hospital on September 11, 1223, and again in 1224, in theseterms :— The King to Engelard de Cicogny greeting. Wc Plate Fic. I,
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