Charter-house, Its Foundation and History: With a Brief Memoir of the Founder, Thomas Sutton, EsqM. Sewell, 1849 - 121 pages |
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12th of December 1st Class aisle allowed appointed Archbishop of Canterbury Archway Assembly Balsham Baxter Berwick Bridge Bishop of London BLANCHARD building buried Buslingthorpe Cambridge Carthusians Chamber Chapel charity Charter Charter-House School Church Coll College Court decease ditto Dudley Duke of Norfolk Earl elected erected Esquire Essex establishment Exchequer executors FOUNDATION OF CHARTER-HOUSE Founder Founder's Day Governors of Charter-House Hadstock hath heirs Henry honour Hospital Hospitall House Howard Humphrey Middlemore John Hutton John Law Joseph Henshaw King James King's land Latin Letters Patent Littlebury lodging Lord Bishop Lordships Majesty manor and estate Master MEDALLISTS Monastery Newington noble officers ORATORS Oxon pensioners Poor Brothers Poor Scholars Preacher principal received repairing Richard Sutton school-master seal servants Sir Edward North Smythe statutes Sutton's Foundation thereof Thomas Sutton thousand pounds tion Usher vernors Walter de Manny
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Page 36 - William the Third, by the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. To our trusty and well...
Page 49 - ... expressed, and not otherwise ; and that such construction shall be made upon this foundation and incorporation, as shall be most beneficial and available for the maintenance of the poor, and for the repressing and avoiding of all acts and devices to be invented or put in ure contrary to the true meaning of these presents...
Page 11 - And now at the last, at mine exhortation and instigation, constantly moved and finally persuaded his brethren to surrender their house, lands, and goods into the king's hands, and to trust only to his mercy and grace. I beseech you, my lord, that the said Prior may be so entreated by your help that he be not sorry and repent that he hath feared and followed your sore words and my gentle exhortations made unto him to surrender his said house...
Page 10 - God, as it may appear to you by this bill enclosed, whereof, considering their behaviour and the whole matter, I am not sorry, but would that all such as love not the king's highness and his worldly honour were in like case.
Page 35 - Button willed should be employed and bestowed by his executors, or the survivor of them, with the advice of his supervisors, in some good works or charitable uses for his intended Hospital!, and for poor people or otherwise, as they in their wisdom and discretion should think fit. "We, being the overseers of the said Mr.
Page 88 - I took a walk in the Charter-house. I wondered that all the squares and buildings, and especially the school-boys, looked so little : but this is easily accounted for. I was little myself when I was at school, and measured all about me by myself.
Page 9 - Carthusians*, which ho had built, at his own expense, without the walls of London. His funeral was attended by the king, his children, and the barons and prelates of England.
Page 56 - ... in law, and be executed in all things according to the true intent and meaning thereof, under the several pains forfeitures and penalties as shall be expressed and contained in the same ordinances statutes and rules respectively : Provided always, that the said rules ordinances and statutes or any of them be not repugnant or contrary to the laws or statutes of this realm of England, nor against the purport or true intent of the recited letters patents.
Page 57 - Brethren they determined that they would have there "no rogues or common beggars, but such poor persons as could bring good testimony of their good behaviour and soundness in religion, and such as had been servants to the King's Majesty, either decrepid or old ; captains either at sea or land; soldiers maimed or impotent; decayed merchants; men fallen into decay through shipwreck, casualty of fire, or such evil accident ; those that had been captives under the Turks...
Page 82 - no children whose parents have any estate in lands to leave unto them, but only the children of poor men that want means to bring them up.