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Thig book is both incomplete and complete. It is incomplete because fe was the intention of its author! to write a full account, from origin-documents, of the London Char-teahouse., Such a book, from such "historian, would have been a document of extraordinary value to all students, and we can but regret that Sir W. St. John Hope was not spared to complete it, It is complete. within its limits because, Banding as he wrote it (except for final revision), it represents, what the had to say upon the first of the three stages in the bintory of the motitation, that in which, asa monastery, it represented the intentions of its pious founders, Everyone knows that the Char-teahouse was, frst, monastery; next, the town house, of great noblemen; and," third and. last, the great charity of 'Thomas. Sutton Which we now know in the pub-Tie school at Godalming ard in' the house of old gentlemen. of the type of Colonel Neweome, The peculiar Value of this book in reeonstroctthe story of the first of these ages lies in the fact that it is based on certain original documents whose importance was only' discovered a few years ago on their transfer from the Land Revenue Department to the Record Offee. They have been used before, in the book of the present Master of the Charterhouse, but they are here printed for' the first" time, The most Interesting of the docu: ments is a cartulary of Register of the Charterhouse, written' in. the early 16th century' by an unidentified monk, The register recounts many homely incidents, such as the dificulties which followed. the founda tion, the resentment of the London citizens at the occupation by th monks of the Charterhouse, Knights Hospitallers of St. John's and the nuns of St. James Clerkenwell, of fields and lands which they! had come to regard as their own for recreation; and the inno-cerning some of its mates, their daily doings, and their ghostly tions,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.