Esq. Here lieth buried the body of Thomas Sutton, late of Castle
Camps, in the County of Cambridge, Esq., at whose only cost and
charges this Hospital was founded and endowed with large
possessions, for the relief of poor men and children. He was a
gentleman born at Knayth, in the County of Lincoln, of worthy and
honest parentage. He lived to the age of seventy-nine years, and
deceased the 12th day of December, 1611."

The Charter House gardens are exceeding pleasant, and of a very
great extent, considering they stand so far within this great town.

I shall, in the next place, survey the free schools and charity
schools.

Anciently I have read that there were three principal churches in
London that had each of them a famous school belonging to it; and
these three churches are supposed to be--(1) The Cathedral Church of
St. Paul, because, at a general council holden at Rome, anno 1176,
it was decreed, "That every cathedral church should have its
schoolmaster, to teach poor scholars and others as had been
accustomed, and that no man should take any reward for licence to
teach." (2) The Abbey Church of St Peter at Westminster; for of the
school here Ingulphus, Abbot of Croyland, in the reign of William
the Conqueror, writes as follows: "I, Ingulphus, a humble servant
of God, born of English parents, in the most beautiful city of
London, for attaining to learning was first put to Westminster, and
after to study at Oxford," &c. (3) The Abbey Church of St. Saviour,
at Bermondsey, in Southwark; for this is supposed to be the most
ancient and most considerable monastery about the city at that time,
next to that of St. Peter at Westminster, though there is no doubt