NATIVES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 431 



"'the contributions were finiflied, being delivered to the mayor, 

 " were by him put into the hands of the king's commiffioners. 



" In the fcheme drawn up for the relief of the poor, they 

 " were ranged under three divifions : in the firft were placed the 

 " poor diftreffed orphans ; in the fecond, the fick, the lame, and 

 " infected ; in the third, the lazy and licentious vagabonds. For 

 " the orphans, Cbrift's Hofpital was provided, where they were- 

 " furnifhed with neceflaries, brought up in a virtuous and reli- 

 " gious manner, and fitted for fome honed bufmefs. The hofpi-c 

 " tals of St. Thomas in Soutbivark, and St. Bartholomew in Wejl- 

 " Smithfeld, were appointed for the reception of the wounded, 

 " fick, impotent, and maimed: and the king gave his palace of 

 " Bride-well, erected by Henry VIII. for the reception of vagabonds,. 

 " ilurdy beggars, and ftrumpets ; where they were to receive due 

 " correction, and be kept to hard labour. For the better endow-- 

 " ment of this, and the other hofpitals, and to fiirnim them 

 "with a competent maintenance, the king diflblved the hofpital 

 " in the Savoy, for the fupport of pilgrims and travellers; but 

 " which was now employed to moll fcandalous ufes, and made 

 " a flicker for lewd and lazyperfons, and the harbour of thieves 

 " and vagabonds : and he gave their lands, amounting to fix 

 " hundred pounds per annum, and all their furniture, to the city 

 *'-of London, for the maintenance of thefe new foundations." (p) 



Such was the piety and charity of this great prelate. He was 

 juftly the admiration of the age he lived in, and will ever reflect 

 aluftre upon this his native land, and be considered as one, who 

 had a godlike dignity and elevation of foul, fuperior to all the 



(p) Lives of the Compilers of the Liturgy of the Church of England, by the Reverend 

 Mr. Dcwnes,- 



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