Parish Clerks of London assembled and performed a religious play. It was at the S.E. corner of Ray Street. A pump marked the site until less than fifty years ago, when the water was found to be so polluted that it was removed. When the "Black Nunnery" was dissolved, the site was given to the Earl of Aylesbury, hence the present Aylesbury Street, Clerkenwell. Of COLLEGES, _i.e._, communities of religious men, were (1) _St. Martin's-le-Grand_ (already mentioned); (2) _St. Thomas of Acon_ (alias Acre), a military sanctuary founded by Agnes, the sister of St. Thomas Becket, over her brother's birthplace. It was on the site of the present Mercers' Hall, and was much regarded by the Corporation of London in the Middle Ages. Richard Whittington, Mercer, thrice Lord Mayor (last time, 1419), founded the College of "Saint Esprit and Mary," in the Vintry Ward, and the Almshouse for Mercers. The site still bears the name of College Hill. Mercers' School was removed from hence to Barnard's Inn, Holborn, a few years since. The College of St. Michael, Crooked Lane, was founded by Sir William Walworth, who was buried within the church. This church was removed to make room for the approach to new London Bridge, in 1831. Of HOSPITALS, note _St. Giles's-in-the-Fields_ for Lepers, founded by Matilda, queen of Henry I.; _St. James's Hospital_ "for leprous maidens," now St. James's Palace; _St. Mary of Rounceval_, a priory of the Abbey of Roncevalles in Navarre. It stood on the site of Northumberland Avenue at Charing Cross. _Elsing Spital_, by Cripplegate, was founded by Wm. Elsing in 1329, for the sustentation of a hundred blind men. The site was afterwards occupied by Sion College; but when that was moved to the Thames Embankment the ground was built over. Sir John Pountney founded and endowed a College in his own house in Candlewick Street, calling it _Corpus Christi_, to maintain a master and twelve mission priests. Their chapel was attached to the Church of St. Lawrence Pountney, which was burnt in the Great Fire and not rebuilt. The _Papey_, a house for worn-out priests, was in Bevis Marks. _St. Bartholomew the Less_ is now the Chapel of St. Bartholomew's Hospital precinct. The _Lock Spital_ was for the reception of lepers, the derivation being _loques_, rags. The old Hospital of _St. Katharine's by the Tower_ was removed, in 1828, to make room for St. Katharine's Docks, and set up anew by the Regent's Park.