. London . be augmented. Next to the Colleges come the Hospitals. St. Bartholo-mews, most ancient and richest, belongs to Norman London. One who walks along the street called London Wall willchance upon a churchyard, on the north side of which stillstands a fragment of the old wall. This churchyard, narrowand small, is surrounded on three sides by warehouses ; onthe fourth side it looks upon the street. On the other side ofthe street is a large block of warehouses, the monument of amost disgraceful and shameful act of vandalism. On thisspot stood Elsing Spital. It was founded in the year 1329
. London . be augmented. Next to the Colleges come the Hospitals. St. Bartholo-mews, most ancient and richest, belongs to Norman London. One who walks along the street called London Wall willchance upon a churchyard, on the north side of which stillstands a fragment of the old wall. This churchyard, narrowand small, is surrounded on three sides by warehouses ; onthe fourth side it looks upon the street. On the other side ofthe street is a large block of warehouses, the monument of amost disgraceful and shameful act of vandalism. On thisspot stood Elsing Spital. It was founded in the year 1329 I 20 LONDON as a priory and hospital for the maintenance of a hundredblind men by one William Elsing, its first Prior. On theolution of the religious houses Elsings Spital sur-rendered with the rest, and was dissolved. What became ofthe blind men is not known. Then they took the fine PrioryChurch, and having pulled down the north aisle--on the siteof which houses were built—they converted the rest of the. SOlTII VIEW OF THE PALACE OF THE BISHOPS OF WINCHESTER, NEAR ST. SAVIOURS church into the parish church of St. Alphege, which hadpreviously stood in Cripplegate. The site of the old churchwas turned into a carpenters yard. The porch of St. Alphegeremains of the ancient buildings. Of Sion College, which incourse of time succeeded Elsings Spital, we will speak inanother place. That splendid Foundation which rears its wards on thesouth of the Thames, over against the Houses of Parliament, PLANTAGENET 121 St. Thomass Hospital, was founded in 1313, as an almery orhouse of alms for converts and poor children ; but two yearslater the House was refounded on a much larger scale. Afterthe Dissolution, its site, then in Southwark, was purchased bythe citizens of London. To sum up, London was as well pro-vided with hospitals in the fourteenth century as it was withconvents and religious Houses. They were St. Bartholomews,Elsing Spital, St. Giles Cripplegate, St. Mary Spital, St. Maryof
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