[Illustration: FIG. 1. Charing Cross and the Chapel of St. Mary Roncevall in the early part of the sixteenth century. (After Van den Wyngaerde.) ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF OLD CHARING The Hospital and Chapel of Saint Mary Roncevall Eleanor of Castile, Queen of England AND THE Monuments Erected in Her Memory BY JAMES GALLOWAY, A.M., M.D. _Senior Physician, and a Vice-President, Charing Cross Hospital_. LONDON JOHN BALE, SONS & DANIELSSON, LTD. OXFORD HOUSE 83-91, GREAT TITCHFIELD STREET, OXFORD STREET, W. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREFACE. ------- These Studies in the history of Old London were written at the request of Students of Charing Cross Hospital, and were first published in their Gazette. The rough outlines, marks of which may be easily discerned, were formed by the notes for Lectures delivered to the Students and Nursing Staff of the Hospital on various occasions. It is hoped that in the present form these Studies may continue to be of interest to friends of Charing Cross Hospital, and perhaps also to the large and increasing number of Students of the history of London. London, Easter, 1914. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE HOSPITAL AND CHAPEL OF SAINT MARY RONCEVALL ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE HOSPITAL AND CHAPEL OF SAINT MARY RONCEVALL AT CHARING CROSS. ------- “En Rencesvals si est Carles entrez; * * * Rollanz remeint pur les altres guarder. * * * Halt sunt li pui e tenebrus e grant, Li val parfunt e les ewes curranz. * * * Li gentilz quens, qu’il fut morz cunquerant.” “La Chanson de Roland,” édition, Léon Gautier.