. London . gs—a right which they still retain. TheHospital was placed in the charge or custody of the Prior ofHoly Trinity. A hundred years later there was a dispute as to the meaning of theright of custody, whichthe Priory maintainedto be ownership. Inthe end, Queen Eleanorobtained possession ofthe place, and greatlyincreased its wealthand dignity. Underher it consisted of aMaster, three Brothersin orders, three Sisters,and ten all lived in theircollege round theChurch of St. Kathe-rine. Queen Philippa,another benefactor,further endowed theHospital, adding twochaplains and six
. London . gs—a right which they still retain. TheHospital was placed in the charge or custody of the Prior ofHoly Trinity. A hundred years later there was a dispute as to the meaning of theright of custody, whichthe Priory maintainedto be ownership. Inthe end, Queen Eleanorobtained possession ofthe place, and greatlyincreased its wealthand dignity. Underher it consisted of aMaster, three Brothersin orders, three Sisters,and ten all lived in theircollege round theChurch of St. Kathe-rine. Queen Philippa,another benefactor,further endowed theHospital, adding twochaplains and six poorscholars. Philippas new Charter, with the building of asplendid church, raised the Hospital to a position far abovethe small Foundation of poor men and women designed byMatilda. It now stood within its Precinct of eleven acres,possessed of its own courts, spiritual and temporal, its ownlaw officers, and even its own prison. Its good fortune inbeing considered the private property of the Queen Consort. interior of the church ok st. kathe-rines by the tower SAXON AND NORMAN 55 caused it to escape the general suppression of the ReligiousHouses. It lived on—albeit a sleepy life—a centre of religionand education to the poor people among whom it was * should have lived there till this day ; it should havebecome the Westminster Abbey of East London ; but greedof gain destroyed it. Its venerable buildings—its chapel,college, cloisters, and courts were all destroyed sixty yearsago in order to construct on their site the docks called —which were not wanted for the trade of the order to construct docks, in rivalry with other docksalready established, this most precious monument of thepast—the Abbey Church of East London, was ruthlesslydestroyed. Who would believe such a thing? The dust andashes of the nameless dead which filled its burying-yard werecarried away and used to fill up certain old reservoirs on thesite of which were built streets
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