Memoranda, references, and documents relating to the royal hospitals of the city of London / prepared and printed under the directions of the Committee of the Court of Common Council appointed in relation to the said hospitals.

  • London. Court of Common Council. Committee in Relation to the Royal Hospitals.
Date:
1836
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Credit: Memoranda, references, and documents relating to the royal hospitals of the city of London / prepared and printed under the directions of the Committee of the Court of Common Council appointed in relation to the said hospitals. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MEMORANDA. IHE Hospital of St. Bartholomew in West Smith- field is stated to have been founded between the years 1123 and 1133, by Raherus^ the jester or min- strel of King Henry I., who becoming serious, obtained of that king a grant of a void space of ground in the west suburbs of London, called Bmithfield, whereupon he built a priory, and on the south side thereof he also built an hospital for a master, brethren, and sisters, and for poor diseased persons till they got well, for women with child until delivered, and for the mainte- nance of the children born there, until the age of seven, if their mothers died in the hospital^. Neither the grant of King Henry I. to Raherus of the land in question nor the deed of foundation of the hos- pital is recorded, yet there is a charter of that monarch dated at Westminster in the year 1133, granting divers liberties and privileges not only to the priory but also to the hospital. Know ye that I have granted, and ' Ex Cod. Cotton. Vesp. B. ix. in Mus. Brit. See also Neiv- coui'fs Repertorium, i. p. 293 ; Mon. Anglic, ii. p. 166 ; Stow's Sur- vey, ed. 1633, p. 415. 2 Ad omnes pauperes infirmos ad idem liospitale confluentes quousque de infii-mitatibus suis convaluerint, ac mulieres pregnantes quousque de puerio surrexerint, necnon ad omnes pueros de eisdem mulieribus genitos, usque septennium, si dictse mulieres infra hospitale praedictum decesserint.—Rot. Glaus, 26 Edw. III., m. 28, B