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250 HISTORY OF
ing the establishment formed by Henry VIII.; so that the revenue of the college
would have felt a very sensible loss by the proposed suppression*.
In the year 1570, a theft was committed in the church, and the monument
of Henry VII. was deprived of several of its ornaments; but the thief, whose
name was Raymond, did not escape prosecution.
To avoid the ravages of the plague, which in these times frequently visited
the metropolis, Goodman, who also held the prebend of Chiswick, obtained the
privilege for his church of being the tenant in perpetuity of its estate; that it
might be a place of refuge, from any pestilential or epidemic disease, for the
chapter, the masters^of- the school, and the scholars on the foundation^.
In the year 1571, the chapel of St. Catherine, or of the Infirmary, in the
little cloisters, was taken down, though the door is still standing. Its first erection
Avas in the time of Edward the Confessor, and had been rebuilt some time after
the year 1300. It was used on public occasions, and was the scene of that
remarkable contest, which took place in 1175, between the Archbishops of
Canterbury and York relative to precedence, and the disputed honour of sitting
on the right hand of the pope's legate]:.
In the year 1585, an act was passed for the municipal government of West-
minster, which divided it into twelve wards, and appointed twelve burgesses,
with an equal number of assistants for their superintendence. In this statute a
due attention was paid to the interests and character of the chapter of this church
* All sanctuaries were, however, abolished in the 21st of James I.
+ It is in the time of Goodman that the Chapter Book first takes notice of the school. He seems
to have paid great attention to it in every respect. He brought the scholars into one spacious
chamber, and regulated the commons. He also accommodated the masters; and in his time the
ruinous leases of Benson, Cox, and Weston no longer occur in the Chapter Book.
| See p. 115.
ing the establishment formed by Henry VIII.; so that the revenue of the college
would have felt a very sensible loss by the proposed suppression*.
In the year 1570, a theft was committed in the church, and the monument
of Henry VII. was deprived of several of its ornaments; but the thief, whose
name was Raymond, did not escape prosecution.
To avoid the ravages of the plague, which in these times frequently visited
the metropolis, Goodman, who also held the prebend of Chiswick, obtained the
privilege for his church of being the tenant in perpetuity of its estate; that it
might be a place of refuge, from any pestilential or epidemic disease, for the
chapter, the masters^of- the school, and the scholars on the foundation^.
In the year 1571, the chapel of St. Catherine, or of the Infirmary, in the
little cloisters, was taken down, though the door is still standing. Its first erection
Avas in the time of Edward the Confessor, and had been rebuilt some time after
the year 1300. It was used on public occasions, and was the scene of that
remarkable contest, which took place in 1175, between the Archbishops of
Canterbury and York relative to precedence, and the disputed honour of sitting
on the right hand of the pope's legate]:.
In the year 1585, an act was passed for the municipal government of West-
minster, which divided it into twelve wards, and appointed twelve burgesses,
with an equal number of assistants for their superintendence. In this statute a
due attention was paid to the interests and character of the chapter of this church
* All sanctuaries were, however, abolished in the 21st of James I.
+ It is in the time of Goodman that the Chapter Book first takes notice of the school. He seems
to have paid great attention to it in every respect. He brought the scholars into one spacious
chamber, and regulated the commons. He also accommodated the masters; and in his time the
ruinous leases of Benson, Cox, and Weston no longer occur in the Chapter Book.
| See p. 115.