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Updated: May 22, 2025

John's Hospital, as at St. Bernard's, the grateful wanderer who had found a refuge would leave behind him his thankoffering in recognition of the kindly treatment he had met with, and it might happen that these free gifts constituted no small portion of the income on which the canons for the most part a humble and unpretentious set of men-kept up their houses.

Augustus Jessopp - The Coming of the Friars