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Annals of Christ's Hospital (in English)
Ernest Harold Pearce (Author)
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Synopsis "Annals of Christ's Hospital (in English)"
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...of this close bond between the parish church and the school; and it may be confessed at once that the history does not always speak of placid contentment. A self-governing institution has a natural bias against being considered part of the life of a parish. Energetic and impetuous vicars, and, worse still, vicars who were impetuous without the energy, were apt to assert their right to "visit" within the precincts, and the authorities of the school were just as apt to cut the visit short at the lodge-gates. On the other hand, so large an institution in a parish of small area could never confer any great advantage on the parish, and has sometimes been a source of serious loss, as will presently appear. We have already been introduced to "one Thomas Bryckett, Vicar of Christes Church," the earliest occupant of the benefice under Henry VIII.'s Letters, whose lodging was in the monastery before it was fitted for its future tenants. The arrangements made for his removal by the Governors seem to have been amicable enough, and he doubtless found a comfortable lodging in the parish. However, ten years later I find a reference in the earliest surviving Court Book (September 27th, 1557), to the apparent homelessness of the vicar. He "specially sueth for" the " next advoydance of one of the new tements belonginge to St. Bartholomewes Hospitall lyinge in Christe proche (parish)." At the "speciall instance and request of my lorde maior," the vicar was allowed to have one of these houses at the rent then paid, "duringe so longe tyme as the same vicar shall continewe Vicar of the said Christe Churche." The strange thing is that the vicar at once let the house on lease to St. Bartholomew's...
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