NORWICH. 
in the univerfity of Cambridge, The Boys’ gues ee 
ifh rife t 
in the parifh of St. Edmund of Fifhergate, owes 
Thomas Angui $ mayor oft the city in the fer 
1 - ae ae be fat date the 22d of June, 1617, it 
per annum, and the number of boys was augmented to thirty- 
fix. Since that time both have been greatly increafed. 
a over the door of the Girls’ hofpital, fituated in 
Golden Dog =e — its firft endowment to Robert 
B con. who w or of this city in the year 1649. It 
provides for the boarding, clothing, educating, and teaching 
to work a certain number of female children. Two, the 
fir! number, was in 1742 increafed to twenty-one, and as 
the income has been augmented, more children have been re- 
gularly added. ‘Fhey are decently clothed in blue, and 
taught, under a matron, to read, {pin, few, &c. fo as to pre- 
pare them for ufeful fervices. St. Giles’s, commonly called 
the Old Man’s hofpital, was founded by bifhop Suffield, A.D. 
1249. It ftands on the north-eaft fide of the cathedral, and 
at prefent confifts of the hofpital sees which has a iquare 
tower at the fouth-weft corner. choir is converted i into 
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thefe, numbers of poor children are clothed, maintained, and 
educated ut of thofe which do honour to modern times 
may be feleéted the Infirmary, or hofpital for the reception 
of the fick ; and Bedlam, an afylum for lunatics. e Nor- 
folk and Norwich hofpital, a large brick building, ftands 
without St. Stephen’s gate, and was erected, in 1772, by vo- 
luntary contribution, at the expence of 13,323/. 8s. 11d. 
A new wing, which was added in 1802, completed the origi- 
nal plan. From a general abftract of the regifter it appears, 
that from the time of its being firft opened for out-patients, 
July 11, gee oe in-patients, November 7, 1772, till the 
end‘of the year 1806, a period of thirty-four years, there 
have been s ve een lift of out-patients 10,961, and 
of in-patients 14344 5m ing the total number 25,305 : 
out of which 16,427 fave been difcharged as cured, and 
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3590 thlchem hofpital, an as ins is ufually called, Bedlam, was 
aera! steel to ueft of her hufban d, by the 
widow pai oe ‘Cipaa, reGtor of Thorpe, 
Nor oak, in ie ar 1713, ‘ for the convenient reception 
and ee ale of ae. and not for natural born fools or 
idiots.’? For its endowment fhe fettled by will all her eftates 
ona body of truftees, who were to have the management of 
the houfe for ever. 
This city may be faid to poffefs two civic theatres, or 
public places defigned for the meetings of the municipality, 
the Guildhall and St. Andrew’s hail; the former was ori- 
pet es a {mall thatched building, ereGted for the purpofe 
of g the market-tolls, whence it took the name of 
a toll- booth, Inthe ume uf Edward TIL, « a room built 
ud, as ee with ftraw,’’ was added ; and it wav 
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then dignified with the appellation of the Guildhall, though 
it’ contained only {ufficien : fitting-room for the . 
panes e and fix other perfons. In Fear 1V.’s time, A.D. 
1407, a committee was ord. and a warrant pee them 
. raife money, and “ prefs all een carters, and other - 
orkmen,’’ for the erection of a new guildhall; and the 
‘ ame year the arched vaults defigned for Ao city prifon were 
raifed ; but the whole building was not completed till the 
year 14531 when the windows of the council-chamber were 
glazed. In this were various hiftoric and émblematic paint- 
ings, aitufve to the adminiftration of juftice, but they have 
mall windows at the eaft end 
t. Andrew’s hall, called in 
formerly the conventual church of the ey monaftery 
of Black friars. It was firft began, in 1415, by fir Thomas 
Erpingham, knt., and finifhed by his fon, fir par Erping- 
ham m, who reG&or of Bracon, and a monk of the fra- 
ternity. It soul {ts of a nave and two sifles, Sich remain 
nearly perfe&t. Formerly it had a handfome fteeple, which 
ftood in the centre, between the nave and the choir ; but fot 
want of repairing attention, it fell down November 6, 1712. 
The aifles are feparated from the nave by fix flender elegantly 
proportioned columns, which fupport the roof. the 
diffolution, the city, through the intereft of the duke of 
Norfolk, obtained a grant of it from king Henry VIII, in 
the thirty-fecond year of his reign, ‘to make of the church 
a fair and large hall for the mayor and his brethren, with all 
the citizens, to repair unto at a common aflembly, &c.’’ At 
that period the choir was converted intoa chape for the cor- 
poration and feveral guilds to hear mafs performed, ee 
and evening, and rake their pga offerings. an 
cient and numerous guild of St. George ufually held their 
meetings at a ftone, lately sone which was placed in. 
the fouth aifle, over the grav Robert Bernard, efq. 
This guild company, firft fociated A.D. 1388, was a fo- 
ciety of brothers and fifters, formed in honour of St. 
George the Martyr, for the purpofes of charity and pofthu- 
mous prayer. In 1416 they received a charter of ie a 
ration. 
doubt but it was originall 
tower to the caftle, for the defence of the tae Blom 
field thinks it was built, ‘¢ in order to levy the tolls then 
belonging to the prior and church,”’ and fays it was ufed a8 
a prifon for the jurifdiétion of the ser sae The ae 
tower is ftated to have been built in the 1390, at the 
expence of the city. The dukes . Norfolk formerly ta 
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