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Service was held in the church for the inhabitants of the Precinct, but the Hospital was wholly secular. The Master devoured by far the greater part of the revenue, and the alms-people Brothers, Sisters, and Bedeswomen had no duties to perform of any kind. In the year 1698 this, the third chapter in the life of the Hospital, was closed.
'Ah! thou wilt, thou wilt, cried Alice; 'and since there are Beguines enough for their own Netherlands, thou wilt come to England and be our foundress here. 'Nay, little one; here are the bedeswomen of St. Katharine's in London. 'Ah! but we have other cities. Good Father, have we not? Hull Southampton oh! so many, where poor strangers come that need ghostly tendance as well as bodily.
'Who nominates these bedeswomen? asked Esclairmonde. 'That does the Queen, said Mistress Bolt. 'Not this young Queen, as yet, for Queen Joan, the late King's widow, holds the hospital till her death, unless it should be taken from her for her sorceries, from which Heaven defend us! 'Can it be visited? said Esclairmonde. 'I feel much drawn thither, as I ever did to the Beguines.
But if God be pleased to grant me this battle also, then, with His good pleasure, I shall not be forced to have such respect to persons; and when I return, lady, whether the endowment come from your bounty or no, God helping us, you shall begin the holy work of St. Katharine's bedeswomen among the poor of Paris.
South of the church was the Sisters' close, with the houses occupied by the Sisters and the Bedeswomen.
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