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Hatcher, at page 598, gives a description of the present building. 

 He says " It is a substantial low brick building of quadrangular 

 shape with stone coins. The entrance is through a door in the 

 middle of the south side, into a lobby, supported on pillars, with 

 apartments above. On the eastern and western sides are the 

 dwellings of the brethren, and the north side consists of a small 

 chapel and common room. The quadrangle is forty-six feet by 

 seventeen. The chapel is eighteen feet long, fitted up with seats 

 and wainscotted. Over the door is a merchant's mark which 

 appears to have been taken from the original building and inserted 

 in its present place as a memorial of antiquity." This mark has 

 disappeared, but there is a stone upright, above another bearing 

 a merchant's mark, now laid horizontally, which looks as if the face 

 had scaled off. so that probably it was on this stone. The existing 

 merchant's mark contains the letters I. D. 



"At the east end, on each side, are tables of the benefactors to 

 the chaiity "since the year of his Majesty's happy Eestoration in 

 1660," commencing with William Chifnnch, and ending with 

 William Moulton in 1799. This chapel is provided with a clock 

 and bell. Service is performed by the chaplain, once a month, 

 and on Mondays and Thursdays, weekly, prayers are read by one 

 of the brethren. Behind the chapel a small piece of ground is 

 laid out in gardens for their recreation." 



December 16th, 1706. A resolution was taken with respect to 

 the Hospital of the Trinity, and the debts for rebuilding it were 

 ordered to be liquidated out of the purchase-money of two tene- 

 ments in Downton, paid by Sir Charles Buncombe. 



The present hospital was built 1702 and the following years. 



1706. Oct. 23. An entry in Corporation Ledger D. 4 states 

 that it was agreed that the inheritance of two tenements in 

 iDownton should be sold to Sir Charles Duncombe for forty years' 

 [purchase at the rate of £7 a year, and on the 16th December, 

 |1706, it was ordered that the debts for building Trinity Hospital 

 should be paid out of Sir Charles Duncombe's purchase money, 

 and that the remainder of the money should be lent out at 3 per 

 pent, on approved security. In 1710 £270 belonging to the 



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