ST JOHN’S HOSPITAL,

although an asylum “for honest poverty and old age,” did not escape the

rapacity which characterised the dissolution of religious houses. It

stood in the suburb of Frankwell, near a place since called The Stew.

Speed notices its site in his map (1610); but not a fragment of the

building now remains.

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