Identifier: oldnewlondonnarr03thor (find matches)
Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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anarrow escape from perishing in their ruins. Theleaders of the party, it appears, were so con-scientious in their anger, that they gave orders thatnone of their men should turn anything found totheir own use, but that gold, silver, and all otherspoil, should be burnt. Finding, therefore, certainboxes, which they thought might contain such loot,they threw them into the flames, with the resultabove stated. Others of these hypocritical ruffians later, its revenues being seized upon by royalty.The hospital was re-founded and re-endowed byQueen Mary soon after her accession, when theladies of the court and maids of honour ....stored it anew with beds, bedding, and otherfurniture in a very ample manner. The hospital, however, fared but badly underElizabeth. It escaped, indeed, the royal claws,but it was most unfortunate in its master, who embezzled its revenues exceedingly, and soldaway divers chantries belonging to it. Happily,he was deprived. For a number of years the Savoy Chapel served
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THE SAVOY IM 1650. (Frr;n a v^iy sciirc Etching by Hollar.) perished at the same time. To the number ofthirty-two, we are told, the rebels entered acellar of the Savoy, where they drank so much ofsweet wines, that they were not able to come outin time, but were shut in with wood and stones,that walled up the doors, where they were heardcrying and calling seven days after, but none cameto help them out until they were dead. Reverting to the kings hands after this, we nextfind it beautifully restored and rebuilt by HenryVH., who dedicated it to St. John, in 1509, as ahospital for the reception of a hundred poor people.In spite of a report made by the Royal Commis-sioners in the fifth year of Edward VL, to the effectthat there was no default and no disorder to befound in its inmates, it was dissolved two years for both the neighbouring parishioners of St. Mary-.le-Strand as well as for inmates of the precinctof the Savoy. In the time ot the plague appearing, the libertyof the Duchy of La

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