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THESE studies in the history of Old London, by the senior physician and vice-president of Charing Cross Hospital, originally published in the hospital Gazette, and reprinted for the benefit of that institution, form a useful contribution to local history. The first part contains an account of the hospital and chapel of St. Mary Roncevall at Charing Cross, a branch house of the great convent at Ronesvalles in the western Pyrenees. The London convent owed its foundation to the liberality of William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, eldest son of the great William Marshall, Protector of the King and his kingdom after the death of John. It enjoyed a long career of prosperity and usefulness until its final dissolution by Henry VIII. in 1544. On the site was built Northumberland House, purchased by the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1874, and now occupied by Northumberland Avenue and the great buildings which flank that thoroughfare.
Historical Sketches of Old Charing: The Hospital and Chapel of Saint Mary Roncevall; Eleanor of Castile, Queen of England, and the Monuments erected in Her Memory.
By Dr. J. Galloway. Pp. 82. (London: John Bale, Sons, and Danielsson, Ltd., 1914.) Price 10s. 6d. net.
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Historical Sketches of Old Charing: The Hospital and Chapel of Saint Mary Roncevall; Eleanor of Castile, Queen of England, and the Monuments erected in Her Memory . Nature 94, 87 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/094087c0
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