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ed to continue to pay their yearly sub-
scriptions in advance.
Subscriptions and benefactions are like-
wise taken in at Messrs. Honywood, Ful-
ler, and Co. bankers in Birchin lane; and
at Mr. Gislingham Cooper's, banker in
the Strand. From the account published
by the Society in June 1758.
The reader may find the other hospitals
for lying-in women, founded after the
example set by this excellent charity, un-
der the articles LONDON LYING-IN
HOSPITAL, LYING-IN HOSPITAL in
Brownlow street, and LYING-IN HOS-
PITAL in Duke street.
MIDLEY'S wharf, Ratcliff.
MILBORNE'S Almshouse, on the west side of
Woodrof lane, Crutched Friars, was
erected by Sir John Milborne in the year
1535, for the reception of thirteen poor
members of the Drapers company, whom
he allowed 7d. per week, which was at
that time a sufficient support. In the
front of the building is the following in-
scription:
Ad laudem Dei & gloriosœ Virginis
Mariæ, hoc opus erexit Dominus Jo-
hannes Milborne, Miles & Alderman.
hujus civitatis, A.D. 1535.
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That is,
' To the praise of God, and the glory
' of the Virgin, this edifice was erect-
' ed by John Milborne, Mayor of
' this city in the year 1535.'
The Drapers company, to whom the
management of this almshouse was in-
trusted, have not only increased the num-
ber of the pensioners to fifteen; but have
doubled their pensions, with a load of
coals, and twenty or more shillings annu-
ally, out of the money left to be distri-
buted by that company at discretion.
St. MILDRED'S BREAD STREET, a church
situated on the east side of Bread street,
and in the ward of that name, is thus de-
nominated from its being dedicated to
St. Mildred, a Saxon lady, the daughter
of Merwaldus, brother to Penda King of
the Mercians. This Princess despising
the gaieties of a court, retired to a con-
vent at Hale in France, whence returning
to England, accompanied by seventy vir-
gins, she was consecrated Abbess of a
new monastery in the isle of Thanet,
where she died in the year 676.
A church under the same tutelary name
stood in that spot in the year 1333: but
the last structure being destroyed by the
fire of London, the present edifice was
erected in its room in 1670.
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