The church of St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield : Its foundation, present condition, and funeral monuments / By Norman Moore.

  • Moore, Norman, 1847-1922.
Date:
1892
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Credit: The church of St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield : Its foundation, present condition, and funeral monuments / By Norman Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    His history is a wonderful example of the f ruitfulness of a resolve to lead a new and useful life. He was an ecclesiastic, and filled the stall of Chamber]ayne's Wood, in St. Paul's Cathe- dral. His stall was the sixth on the north side of the choir, and his portion of the whole psalter, repeated daily by the Canons, began with the words, It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto Thy name, 0 Most Highest. Every day he repeated the ninety- second and following Psalms to the end of the ninety-eighth. Among the courtiers of King Henry I. he was famous for his witty conversation, at the time when the character of the King's clerical associates was indicated by the fact that he promoted Roger, afterwards Bishop of Sarum and one of the benefactors of St. Bartholomew's Priory, because he had come across no man who could say Mass in less time. The loss of the heir to the throne in the White Ship wrought a great change in the King. Devotion became the fashion, and his associates were some of them turned to serious things in more than outward form. It was at this time, about a.d. 1120, that Rahere went a pilgrimago to Rome. While there he visited the malariou i spot, some three miles outside the walls, shown <