Some Monumental Inscriptions of
St John's Hospital, Noted by Rev
Bryan Faussett about 1760
Kindly typed up for the website by Pat
Tritton
I saw Nothing remarkable in this
Hospitall but 3 Old* Bowls – 2 of them of Wood, and a Brass One, somewhat in
ye Shape of a Patera – 1 of ye Wooden Ones has ye following Inscription, on a
Plate of Gilt Silver, round ye. Fig. of a Man in a long Gownd, with a Staff in
one Hand, and a Purse, or Scrip, in ye Other. "Orate pro Anima … PYKE".
- in Saxon Characters. *See Acct. of 4 others, in the Hospital at
Harbledown 0 Vol. 4, p. 108, & of another in St Dunstans Canterbury, Vol. 4,
p.39.
This Hospital was also founded by Thomas ELLIS & Margaret his Wife.
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