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and the Rector receives 100l. a year in
lieu of tithes.
Bartholomew lane, extends from Thread-
needle street to Lothbury, and is so
named from St. Bartholomew's church
at the corner.
St. Bartholomew the Great, situated
near the east end of Duck lane, on the
north east side of Smithfield, escaped
the flames in 1666, and is a large plain
church, with a tower crowned with a
turret. It is a rectory in the patronage
of the Earl of Holland. The Rector's
profits, besides casualties, amount to
about 60l. per annum.
St. Bartholomew the Less, is seated on
the south east side of Smithfield, adjoin-
ing to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. It
was founded in the year 1102, and be-
longed to the neighbouring convent of
the same name; but as it was not de-
stroyed by the fire in 1666, it remains
in the same state it was in before that
dreadful calamity. It is a low building,
composed of brick and rough stone
plaistered; and consists of a roofed body
with Gothic windows, and a tower
with a corner turret. This church is
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a vicarage, in the gift of the Lord
Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Coun-
cil, who upon receiving the grant of the
church and hospital, covenanted to pay
the Vicar 13l. 6s 8d. per annum, which,
with an allowance from the hospital,
and casualties, amounts to about 120l.
per annum.
St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on the
south east of Smithfield, for the cure of
the poor, sick and lame, formerly be-
longed to the Priory of St. Bartholomew
in Smithfield; but both the priory and
hospital being dissolved by K. Henry VIII.
that Monarch, in the last year of his
reign, founded the hospital anew, and
endowed it with the annual revenue of
500 marks, upon condition that the
city should pay the same sum, which
proposal was readily embraced, and the
managers of this foundation were incor-
porated by the name of The Hospital of
the Mayor, Commonalty and Citizens of
London, Governors for the poor, called
Little St. Bartholomew's, near West Smith-
field. Since that time the hospital has
received prodigious benefactions from
great numbers of charitable persons, by
which means not only the poor of Lon-
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