. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. 97, the doctor, who was then vicarof St. Martins, gave ^1,000 towards a fund for 156 OLD AND NEW LONDON. [St. Martins-in-the-Fields. the maintenance of his school, and afterwards, bythe consent of Dr. Patrick, Bishop of Ely, anothersum of p^50o which had been left to them jointly,in trust, to be disposed of in charitable uses; thesetwo sums, together witli the leasehold m3ssuages,for the term of forty years, he vested in trustees,for the support of his school and library. Out ofthe profits of these investments the l
. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. 97, the doctor, who was then vicarof St. Martins, gave ^1,000 towards a fund for 156 OLD AND NEW LONDON. [St. Martins-in-the-Fields. the maintenance of his school, and afterwards, bythe consent of Dr. Patrick, Bishop of Ely, anothersum of p^50o which had been left to them jointly,in trust, to be disposed of in charitable uses; thesetwo sums, together witli the leasehold m3ssuages,for the term of forty years, he vested in trustees,for the support of his school and library. Out ofthe profits of these investments the librarian andmasters have an annual salary for teaching thirty him on occasion for frequenting taverns or coffee-houses, told him they would study or employ theirtime better if they had books. This put the piousDoctor on this design. On the 23rd Evelynagain writes, Afterwards I went with Sir Chris-topher Wren to Dr. Tenison, when we made thedrawing and estimate of the expense of the libraryto be began the next spring near the Mews. The library is not by any means confined to. WEST VlliW OF THE OLD CHURCH OF ST. MART1nS-LN-THI;-FIELDS ; PULLED DOWN IN(FroIII a Print Jitblishtd by J. T. Smith in 180S.) boys, sons of the inhabitants of St. Martinsparish. This institution was at first situated in CastleStreet, at the back of the Mews, which, as wehave already shown, afterwards gave place to theNational Gallery. Here it stood down to theyear 1872, when it was removed and re-openedin Leicester Square. The original design of the founder was to su])plythe clergy and studious j^ersons of Westminsterwith a place of retirement and study. He toldme, says Evelyn (Diary, Feb. 15, 1684), therewere thirty or forty young men in orders in hisparish, either governors to young gentlemen, orchaplains to noblemen, who, being reproved by theological subjects, but comprises works of generalliterature. Amongst the 5,000 volumes of theordinary staple from which libraries were formed acentury and a half a
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