Mirror of Literature,  11 (1828), 146–47.

Christ's Hospital

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Genre:

Miescellaneous

Subjects:

Patronage, Hospitals


    Describes how the beneficence of King Edward VI in founding Christ's Hospital, inspired Richard Castell, a shoemaker, to bequeath his lands for that institution and also 'for the succour of the miserable sore and sicke harboured in the other hospitalls about London' (147).



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