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T1 - Hospitals in Early Modern London
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Research Assistant, 2018-2021. Lucas Simpson was a student at the University of Victoria.
Project Manager, 2020-2021. Assistant Project Manager, 2019-2020. Research Assistant, 2018-2020. Kate LeBere completed her BA (Hons.) in History and English at the University of Victoria in 2020. She published papers in
Project Manager, 2015-2019. Katie Tanigawa was a doctoral candidate at the University of Victoria. Her dissertation focused on representations of poverty in Irish modernist literature. Her additional research interests included geospatial analyses of modernist texts and digital humanities approaches to teaching and analyzing literature.
Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of
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King of England and Ireland
The
The city of London, not to be confused with the allegorical character (
St. John’s of Jerusalem provided housing and care
for pilgrims and crusading knights. It was held by the
St. Anthony’s Hospital was associated with the
Parish of St. Benet (Fink) and was on the opposite side of Threadneedle Street from the church of the parish, St. Benet Fink.
According to the christians obtayned of the king that it should be
dedicated to our blessed Lady, and since an Hospital being there builded, was called S. Anthonies in
London
(Stow 1598, sig. K8v). The hospital
consisted of a church, almsnouse, and school.
According to
Although its name evokes the pandemonium of the archetypal madhouse, Bethlehem (Bethlem, Bedlam) Hospital was not always an asylum. As Priorie of Cannons with brethren and
sisters
, founded in one of the Sheriffes of London
(Stow 1:164). We know from
St. Thomas Hospital was a hospital and parish church dedicated to
Bridewell was a prison and hospital. The site was originally a royal palace (Bridewell Palace) but was transferred to the
Bride Well
.
Located in Farringdon Within Ward, Christ’s Hospital was a opened in
Enduring for over three centuries, longer than any other London friary, Greyfriars garnered support
from both England’s landed elite and common Londoners. Founded in
St. Katherine’s Hospital was a religious hospital
founded in was not much inferior to
that of [St.] Paules [Cathedral]
(Stow).
Savoy Hospital was located along the Strand in Westminster.
for the
reliefe of one hundreth poore people
(Stow 1598, sig. 2D7r). The hospital was suppressed by
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As John Slack writes, the dissolution of the monasteries destroyed much of the institutional fabric which had provided charity for the poor
, leaving a perceived vacuum which had somehow to be filled
(Slack 16). To this end, several of the hospitals that had been taken under the possession of the crown in the dissolution were granted to the royal hospitals
. Despite the name, the unified hospital system was a civic program under the administration of the royal hospitals
were as follows:
As recalled in the
2. Aldermen and 6. Commoners, and afterward more were appointed, to the number of 24, to address the problem of poverty in London (Stow 1633, sig. 2G4r). The resulting report created three degrees of poverty, each with three subdivisions. The three general categories were poverty by
impotency(unable to work because of age, blindness, or lameness), by
causalty(temporarily unable due to injury or disease), or
thriftlessness(which includes
Rioutours,
Vagabonds, and
the Idle person, as Strumpets and others) (Stow 1633, sig. 2G4r). Christ’s Hospital was designated for those falling under the first category, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and St. Thomas Hospital for the second, and Bridewell, where
the vagabond and idel Strumpet is chastised and compelled to labour, to the overthrow of the vicious life of idleness, for the third (Stow 1633, sig. 2G4r). Thus, although part of London’s civic hospitals program, Bridewell functioned more like a prison and workhouse than a hospital in the modern sense. While Bethlehem Hospital is left out of this account from the
St Bartholomew’s for the sick, St Thomas for the old and impotent, Christ’s Hospital in the old Greyfrairs for the(Slack 231).virtuous education and bringing upof orphan children and foundlings, Bethlehem Hospital for lunatics, and Bridewell for employing the idle poor
Because St. Katherine’s Hospital was founded by the crown originally, it was not affected by the dissolution. Similarly, Savoy Hospital was held by the crown before the dissolution, and its status was therefore not affected by it.