London and Its Environs Described, vol. 4 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round ItAnonymous
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London and Its Environs Described, vol. 4 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round It
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London (England) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; London (England) -- Gazetteers -- Early works to 1800
The servants of the house are forbid to take any gratuity of the
patients or their friends, on any pretence whatsoever, on pain of
expulsion.
Such persons who are inclined to favour this charitable design, are
desired to send their subscriptions, with their names and places of
abode, to the Treasurers, at the weekly committee, held every Tuesday in
the forenoon at the hospital; and in order to supply the current expence
of this charity, the subscribers are requested to continue to pay their
yearly subscriptions in advance.
Subscriptions and benefactions are likewise taken in at Messrs.
Honywood, Fuller, and Co. bankers in Birchin lane; and at Mr. Gislingham
Cooper’s, banker in the Strand. _From the account published by the
Society in June 1758._
The reader may find the other hospitals for lying-in women, founded
after the example set by this excellent charity, under the articles
LONDON LYING-IN HOSPITAL, LYING-IN HOSPITAL in Brownlow street, and
LYING-IN HOSPITAL in Duke street.
MIDDLESEX _row_, St. Giles’s Broadway.
MIDLEY’S _wharf_, Ratcliff.†
MILBORNE’S _Almshouse_, on the west side of Woodrof lane, Crutched
Friars, was erected by Sir John Milborne in the year 1535, for the
reception of thirteen poor members of the Drapers company, whom he
allowed 7d. _per_ week, which was at that time a sufficient support. In
the front of the building is the following inscription:
_Ad laudem_ Dei, _& gloriosæ_ Virginis Mariæ, _hoc opus erexit
Dominus_ Johannes Milborne, _Miles & Alderman. bujus civitatis, A.
D. 1535_.
That is,
‘To the praise of God, and the glory of the Virgin, this edifice was
erected by John Milborne, Mayor of this city in the year 1535.’
The Drapers company, to whom the management of this almshouse was
intrusted, have not only increased the number of the pensioners to
fifteen; but have doubled their pensions, with a load of coals, and
twenty or more shillings annually, out of the money left to be
distributed by that company at discretion.
_St._ MILDRED’S BREAD STREET, a church situated on the east side of
Bread street, and in the ward of that name, is thus denominated from its
being dedicated to St. Mildred, a Saxon lady, the daughter of Merwaldus,
brother to Penda King of the Mercians. This Princess despising the
gaieties of a court, retired to a convent at Hale in France, whence
returning to England, accompanied by seventy virgins, she was
consecrated Abbess of a new monastery in the isle of Thanet, where she
died in the year 676.
A church under the same tutelary name stood in that spot in the year
1333: but the last structure being destroyed by the fire of London, the
present edifice was created in its room in 1670.
It consists of a spacious body, and a light tower divided into four
stages, whence rises a tall spire.
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