The excellent and renowned history of the famous Sir Richard Whittington three times lord-mayor of the honourable City of London. Giving an account of all the remarkable and noted passages of his life. This may be printed, R.P.
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The excellent and renowned history of the famous Sir Richard Whittington three times lord-mayor of the honourable City of London. Giving an account of all the remarkable and noted passages of his life. This may be printed, R.P.
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[London :: published by J. Conyers,
1690?]
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Whittington, Richard, d. 1423 -- Early works to 1800.
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"The excellent and renowned history of the famous Sir Richard Whittington three times lord-mayor of the honourable City of London. Giving an account of all the remarkable and noted passages of his life. This may be printed, R.P." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A39006.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.
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CHAP. VI. His Deeds or Acts of Charity in Buildings and Gifts were many; the most material of which I shall not spare to mention.
IN the Vintry he built a Church, dedica∣ting it to St. Michael; calling it Pater∣noster in the Royal; adding a College dedicated to St. Mary and an Hospital cal∣led God's House, indowing them liberally. He built likewise another College, which he called by his own name. And of his sounding was the Prison of Newgate. He added to and much repaired St. Bartholo∣mew's Hospital: And erected a Library at
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the Gray-Fryers, London. And built a Stone Market-house in the place now called the Stocks. He enlarged and paved Guild-hall, adding a Conduit to serve the places near it with Water: and many other things worthy of himself and of imitation by others.
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