| Spittle without | | poor | £478 | Bishopsgate | | | | | | | | 12. St Mary's, | | Brotherhood | Hen. V. and | Refounded Edw. Rounceval | | | Edw. VI. IV. | to Edw. VI. | | | | 13. St Thomas of | | Master and | Surrendered | Sold to Mercers Acon | | brethren | Hen. VIII. | | | | | 14. St Thomas in | Rich. | Sick people | Hen. VIII. | By citizens and Southwark | Whittington | | | Edw. VI. | | | | 15. Hospital and | | Almshouse | Suppressed | The poor remain almshouse, | | for 13 poor | | and are paid by Whittington | | men and | | Mercers Coll. | | College | | | | | | 16, 17, 18. Three | | all cells of | Hen. V. | hospitals | | Clugny. | | In the same petition they also ask that the king will give to the mayor and commonalty the four great churches of the Grey, White, Black and Augustinian Friars because they state that the remaining churches "suffyce not to receyve all the people comyng to the sayd parysshe churches" and the sick crowd in with the healthy to the "great noysance" of the inhabitants[53]." [53] _Memoranda of the Royal Hospitals of the City of London_, Appendix I. pp. 1 and 2. On the 23rd of June, 1544, the king, to some slight extent, acceded to their requests and refounded St Bartholomew's Hospital. He agreed to furnish an endowment of 500 marks a year if the Common Council would do the same[54]. In 1546 the Common Council therefore bound themselves to do so, and in December an indenture was drawn up between the City and the king. The king granted not only St Bartholomew's but also Bethlehem Hospital, besides the Church of the Grey Friars, which was henceforward named Christ Church, and the parish church of St Nicholas. The City agreed to provide 100 beds in St Bartholomew's, which for a time was called the House of the Poor in Smithfield[55]. In 1547 the king confirmed his grant by Letters Patent[56]. [54] _Ib._ II. p. 4. [55] _Ib._ III. p. 8. [56] _Ib._ IV. p. 8.