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Updated: July 9, 2025
'No wonder King Henry loves his citizens so well! cried Esclairmonde. 'Would that our Netherlandish princes and burghers could take pride and pleasure in one another's wealth and prowess, instead of grudging and fearing thereat! 'To my mind, said Malcolm, 'they were a forward generation. That city dame will burst with pride, if you, lady, go with her to see those bedeswomen.
Katharine's in the Docks, providing for a chapter of ten bedeswomen, gentle and well-nurtured, who should both sing in choir, and likewise go forth constantly among the poor, to seek out the children, see that they learn their Credo, Ave, and Pater Noster, bring the more toward to be further taught in St.
Was she not at that very moment visiting some foundation of bedeswomen that was all she heard of at yonder feast of cats! In fact, under Dr. Bennet's escort, Esclairmonde and Alice were in a barge dropping down the Thames to the neighbourhood of the frowning fortress of the Tower as yet unstained; and at the steps leading to the Hospitium of St.
It would be interesting, by comparison of prices, to ascertain how much could be purchased with sixpence a day. The three Sisters had also £8 year, and the Bedeswomen had each two pounds five shillings and sixpence a year.
The Commissioners were of a different opinion. The Hospital, they said, never had a local character. This is the most startling statement that ever issued from the mouth of a Lord Chancellor. Not a local character? Then for whom were the services of the church held? Where were the Bedeswomen found? Where the poor scholars? Where did the church stand? Who got the doles? Not a local character?
'By your leave, sir, I know what I say. The hospital was founded I know not when, but these bedeswomen were especially added by the good Queen, by the same token that mine aunt Cis, who was tirewoman to the blessed Lady Joan, was one of the first. 'How was it? What is their office? eagerly inquired Esclairmonde. And Mistress Bolt arranged herself for a long discourse.
During his mastership there were no Brothers, and only a few Sisters or Bedeswomen. The Hospital then became a rich sinecure. Among the Masters were Sir Julius Cæsar, Master of the Rolls; Sir Robert Acton; Dr. Coxe; three Montague brothers, Walter, Henry, and George; Lord Brownker; the Earl of Feversham; Sir Henry Newton, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty; the Hon.
The Hospital was, as before, to consist of a Master, three Brothers, three Sisters, and bedeswomen.
Agnes should be induced to come and act the part of master to her bedeswomen, as did Master Kedbesby at home. She had even dared to murmur her design to Dr. Bennet; and when he, under strict seal of secrecy, had sounded King Henry, the present real master of Paris, he reported that the tears had stood in the King's eyes for a moment, as he said, 'Blessings on the maiden!
'I have seen nothing so like my own country since I came hither. 'That may well be, madam, said Mistress Belt, 'seeing that these bedeswomen were first instituted by a countrywoman of your own Queen Philippa, of blessed memory. 'By your leave, Mistress Bolt, interposed Master Price, 'the hospital of St. Katharine by the Tower is of far older foundation.
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