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EKISTOL. 2^9
St. Peter's Hospital particularly attracted my
attention, which is lituated near the street, and
behind the church dedicated to that Saint. From,
the number of gables on the front, decorated
with st range grotesque carving, it has evidently
been the mannon os a person of consequence ;
and is appropriated to Thomas Norton, who. lived
in the reign os Henry IV.
This hospital, the general receptacle for aimost
every description of poor persons, even including
lunaticks and idiots, is attended by a physician,
three surgeons, an apothecary, a chaplain, and
governed by a treasurer, mafter, and matron.
The citizens of Bristol have established several
other hospitais and institutions for the relief os
<heir fellow-beings, equally honourable to them
as members of the great community of England
and as Christians, Nor have they by any means
been deficient in providing sor the wants os youth
of both sexes, who are taught and provided sor In
various ways, by different religious persuasions,
to the number os a thousand ; exclusive of the
schools founded by the Thornes, Henry VIII. and
Queen Elizabeth, Sunday schools, &c.
When the benevolence of Bristol is under con-
stderation, it would be unpardonable not to men-
tion Edward Colston, born there in 1636. whole
unequalled liberality is slill the conitant theme os
his
St. Peter's Hospital particularly attracted my
attention, which is lituated near the street, and
behind the church dedicated to that Saint. From,
the number of gables on the front, decorated
with st range grotesque carving, it has evidently
been the mannon os a person of consequence ;
and is appropriated to Thomas Norton, who. lived
in the reign os Henry IV.
This hospital, the general receptacle for aimost
every description of poor persons, even including
lunaticks and idiots, is attended by a physician,
three surgeons, an apothecary, a chaplain, and
governed by a treasurer, mafter, and matron.
The citizens of Bristol have established several
other hospitais and institutions for the relief os
<heir fellow-beings, equally honourable to them
as members of the great community of England
and as Christians, Nor have they by any means
been deficient in providing sor the wants os youth
of both sexes, who are taught and provided sor In
various ways, by different religious persuasions,
to the number os a thousand ; exclusive of the
schools founded by the Thornes, Henry VIII. and
Queen Elizabeth, Sunday schools, &c.
When the benevolence of Bristol is under con-
stderation, it would be unpardonable not to men-
tion Edward Colston, born there in 1636. whole
unequalled liberality is slill the conitant theme os
his