. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark and parts adjacent. RY OF LONDON. 571 hear the other boys read and spell after dinner ont Sundays. As areward for filling this situation the head classical master is allowedto grant a silver medal to those whom he thinks deserving, which hegives, with very few exceptions, to all who have filled the situationsyear or more. A library has within the last few years been established withinthe hospital; and no book is allowed to be read, until it has beeninspected by the senior scholars, or Grecians, as they are termed. The following wa
. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark and parts adjacent. RY OF LONDON. 571 hear the other boys read and spell after dinner ont Sundays. As areward for filling this situation the head classical master is allowedto grant a silver medal to those whom he thinks deserving, which hegives, with very few exceptions, to all who have filled the situationsyear or more. A library has within the last few years been established withinthe hospital; and no book is allowed to be read, until it has beeninspected by the senior scholars, or Grecians, as they are termed. The following was the state of this interesting charity in 1827 : Children put forth apprentices, and discharged from Christshospital, 194, ten whereof being instructed in themathematics and navigation, were placed forth appren-tices to commanders of ships, out of the mathematicalschool, founded by Charles the Second 194 Children buried in the year 3 Children under the care and charge of the hospital, in Lon-don and at Hertford 1132 To be admitted on presentations granted to this time, 150 1282. :restorej> *Si7 - Sculpture of the Earl of Warwick. Opposite to the south-west entrance into this hospital, on thesouth side of Newgate-street, is Warwick-lane, (formerly Eldeness-lane) which derives its name from the inn or house of RichardNevil, the king-making earl of Warwick. Speaking of his comingto London to the convention of 1458, Stow says, he was accompa-nied by * six hundred men, all in red jackets imbroidered with rag-ged staves, before and behind, and was lodged in Warwicke-lane :in whose house there was often six oxen eaten at a breakfast, and 572 HISTORY OF LONDON. every taverne was full of his meate, for hee that had anie ac-quaintance in that house, might have there so much of sodden androst meate, as he could pricke and carry upon a long memory of this earl is preserved by the above stone statuein front of the house at the west corner in Newgate-street ; it was re-paired
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