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About the year of our Lord 1390. Boniface the ninth being Pope, in that region of the City beyond Tyber there began a Sodality devoted to the Blessed Virgin; which, because it built a fair Church to the honour of a certain image of the same Virgin found in a Garden, there∣fore had the Church and the Sodality too their title from a Garden. To the Church is added an Hospital for the sick.
The Hospital receives those that are sick of Fevers or troubled with sores, or wounds, There is a Physitian and Surgeon and Attend∣ants and all other things else provided that are necessary for the restoring of an infirm body. To the Church belong many Priests; And the Hospital, although it exclude none of any degree or condition, yet more willing∣ly admits Mechanicks; as Coopers, Millers, Mariners, Taylors, Gardiners, Carpenters, Carmen, Plowmen, Vine-dressers, &c. which sort of people contribute very charitably to it. The Confraternity or Sodality, who have the care and regiment of all, consists not of any Gen∣tlemen but of such Mechanicks.
Beds for the sick are made there ordinarily about fifty in number, and in the Autumne and other sickly times of the year: two or three times as many.