The Hospital of St. Thomas of Assn. By Sir John
Watney. (Blades, East, and Blades.) — This second edition contains some additional items of historical information relating to the hospital. This was founded on the site of the house in which Thomas Becket was born. It continued to increase in wealth up to the time of the Dissolution, when the net value of its pc:se'Ssions was reckoned at something less than 4300 per annum. The Mercers' Company bought the building and adjoining tene- ments. The purchase money (4969 17s. 6d.) was raised by a loan from Aldermen belonging to the Company of 410, from members of the Court 45, and from members of the Livery 41, and 4274 15s. Id. was taken out of the treasure-chest of St. Paul's School. The buildings, which were adapted to the purposes of a hall and chapel, perished in the Great Fire, and were rebuilt in 1683 at a cost of 411,880 Is. 4d. The Livery seems to have been more numerous then than it is now.
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