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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE ENDOWED HOSPITALS OF SCOTLAND. The traditional English traveller is reported to have said that the people of Edinburgh must be very sickly, they had so many hospitals round about their town. But of course this was only a piece of Southron ignorance, as everybody knows that the so-called Hospitals of Edinburgh are only charity schools. The origin and affiliation of the name is clear enough. George Heriot, the worthy and magnificent goldsmith to James I. of England?the Jingling Geordie of Sir Walter Scott's charming novel?waxing old, in the year 1623 made a disposition and assignation of his property, in which the following occurs: ? And forsamekle as I intend, be Goddis grace, in the zeele of pietie, to found and erect ane publick, pious, and charitable worke within the said burgh of Edinburgh, to the glory of God, ffor the publict weill and ornament of the said burgh of Edinburgh, ffor the honour and dew regaird quhilk I have and bears to my native soyle and mother city of Edinburgh forsaid, and in imita- tione of the publict, pious, and religious work foundat within the citie of London, called Chrystis Hospital thair, to be callit in all tyrne coming Hospital and Seminarie of Orphans, for educa- tione, nursing, and upbringing of youth, being puir orphans and fathirless childrene of decayit burgesses and freemen of the said burgh, destitut and left without meanes, etc. The name of hospital, then, came to Edinburgh from Christ's Hospital in London, of which we know that it wasone of three hospitals founded by Edward VI., who was moved thereto by a noble sermon on charity which Bishop Eidley preached before him in Westminster. What Christ's Hospital has been during the last century we all know more or less, if only from the notices of it af...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217979856 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217979858 |
| Weight | 0.83 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.57 In |
| List Price | $22.44 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 252 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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