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Harben notes that the first known mention of the hospital stated that a license [was] granted to William de Elsyng to alienate in mortmain certain houses in the parishes of St. Alphege and St. Mary Aldermanbury to found a hospital for 100 blind people in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Harben 217). The aforementioned William de Elsyng was the hospital’s warden from 1330–1331, and the hospital derived its other commonly used name, Elsing Spital, from him (Harben 217). In 1536, during the reign of Henry VIII, [t]he hospital was dissolved and the church of Elsingspittle [was] given to be the parish church of St Alphes, Cripplegate and in 1594, during the reign of Elizabeth I, Sir Rowland Heyward possessed the site (Harben 217). Stow notes that after the site had been converted into a dwelling house, a great fire consumed the building:
In the yeare 1541. Sir Iohn Williams maister of the kinges Iewels, dwelling in this house on Chrismas euen at night, about seuen of the clocke, a great fire began in the gallerie thereof, which burned so sore, that the flame fiering the whole house and consuming it, was séene all the citie ouer, and was hardely quenched, whereby many of the kings Iewels were burned, and more imbeseled (as was said). (Stow 1:234-235)
The site was later occupied by Sion College, which was erected on the site about 1623, but was removed to Victoria Embankment in 1886 and [t]he site is now occupied by business premises in Aldermanbury Avenue and London Wall (Harben 217).

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Hospital of St. Mary within Cripplegate The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 6.6, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 30 Jun. 2021, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/6.6/STMA58.htm. INP.

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Hospital of St. Mary within Cripplegate The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 6.6. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed June 30, 2021. mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/6.6/STMA58.htm. INP.

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2021. Hospital of St. Mary within Cripplegate In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London (Edition 6.6). Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/editions/6.6/STMA58.htm. INP.

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