. Charterhouse: old and new. , used certainly to die offalarmingly in the winter months, but the mor-tality was due to their extreme old age ratherthan to the insalubrity of the place. WhyCharterhouse was so healthy it would be difficultto say. There might have been virtue in thesoil on which it stood, there might have beenvirtue in the presence of the numerous plane-trees which were dotted over the estate; butthis fact remained, that though built over aquondam plague-pit, and in the very midst of 6 CHARTERHOUSE factory smoke and grit, it was unmistakably-healthy. Two deaths, which will be ref
. Charterhouse: old and new. , used certainly to die offalarmingly in the winter months, but the mor-tality was due to their extreme old age ratherthan to the insalubrity of the place. WhyCharterhouse was so healthy it would be difficultto say. There might have been virtue in thesoil on which it stood, there might have beenvirtue in the presence of the numerous plane-trees which were dotted over the estate; butthis fact remained, that though built over aquondam plague-pit, and in the very midst of 6 CHARTERHOUSE factory smoke and grit, it was unmistakably-healthy. Two deaths, which will be referred tolater on in this Memoir, occurred in the executivestaff of the School when I was there; but theyoccurred in the natural course of things, andmight have easily happened elsewhere. Theywere the death of the Head Master, Dr. Elder,and the death of the Gownboy Matron, kins, a lady more than seventy years ofage. With these few introductory remarks letme now pass on to the general history of theSchool. OLD AND NEW. CHAPTER II CHARTERHOUSE AS A MONASTERY T is both curious and instruc-tive, partly by imagination andpartly by archaeological research,to picture the aspect of Lon-don at the time of the foun-dation of monastic Charterhouse in this date London was Norman London,and, as Leigh Hunt remarks in his Town,Norman London was Saxon and Roman Lon-don, greatly improved, thickened with manyhouses, adorned with palaces of princes andprincely bishops, sounding with minstrelsy, andglittering with the gorgeous pastimes of knight-hood. The friar then walked the streets inhis cowl, and the knights rode with trumpetsin gaudy colours to their tournaments in Smith-field. London is conjectured to have then beenabout one mile long and half a mile wide. 8 CHARTERHOUSE Charterhouse therefore stood well out in thecountry, and was surrounded by fields, hills,wells, and brooks, the names of Smithfield, Moor-fields, Snow Hill, Clerkenwell, Walbrook, andHolborn testifying theret
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