'Ellesmere, gave his final decree, establishing its legality, on the 1st of July 1613. This result, however, though strictly just, was, in some covert way, connected with a gift of £10,000 from the governors to King James, under the specious pretence of appropriating it, as a deed of charity, towards the repairs of Berwick Bridge.

Opposition now ceased, and the governors assembled to devise the necessary statutes for the management of the Hospital, and treatment of its inmates. But, in a few years, some cause of alarm arose, and they deemed it necessary to apply to parliament for an act of confirmation. This, on a second application, was obtained

* The letter recommending this appropriation, was signed by Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Andrews, Bishop of Ely, "Supervisors of the last will of Mr. Sutton," on the 26th of June 1613; the decree was given on the 1st of July, King James, in a letter under the Privy Seal, on the 8th of July, acknowledges himself "well pleased to accept thereof," and on the 10th of July, the tally was struck in the Exchequer for the receipt of the £10,000. That sum was afterwards inserted among the free gifts and benevolences, under the head of " Money extraordinary, raised since his Majesty's coming to the crown." Malcolm gives the following summary in respect to the property bequeathed in Mr. Sutton's will. He left £12,110. 17s. 8d. in legacies, and near £4,000 was found in his chest. His gold chain weighed 54 ounces, and was valued at £162. His damask gown, faced with wrought velvet, and set with buttons, was appraised at £10; his jewels at £59, and his plate at £218. 6s. 4d. The total expenses of his funeral amounted to £2,228. 10s. 3d., and his executors had received from the time of his decease to 1620, £45,163. 9s. 9d." Lond. Redivivum," yol. i. 413.

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in the early part of 1629, and the future stability and permanence of the foundation was thus effectually secured.

The Charter House presents an irregular mass of buildings, erected at various periods, with little but their conveniency to recommend them. Some improvements, however, have recently been made, and a new and suitable range of dwellings are now raising for the accommodation of the pensioners, their old apartments having fallen into decay. The Great Hall, which is connected with the old refectory and cloisters of the lay brothers of the Carthusian monks, appears to have been built in Henry the Eighth's reign, and to have been fitted up by the Duke of Norfolk, in that of his successor, for a banquetting room. On the east side is a large fire-place, surmounted by a richly-carved chimney piece, having in the centre the Howard arms; above it is a gallery. At the north end is an oaken screen, with fluted columns of the Composite order, supporting a spacious music gallery, ornamented in front with caryatides crowned with fruit. An excellent portrait of Mr. Sutton, seated, and holding a plan of the Charter House in his right hand, is suspended above the dais at the south end; and on the west side are three mullioned windows, in one of which is a large square compartment, filled with fragments of stained glass, representing a conflict on a bridge, a ship, one or two coats of arms, and portions of other objects. In the middle of the roof, which is crossed by large beams, resting on corbel brackets, is the lantern, as usual in old halls.

In the Chapel, which is of brick, and divided interiorly into two aisles, by Tuscan columns, is an organ gallery, elaborately carved with numerous heterogeneous ornaments, in the style of James the First's time. Here, at the north-east corner, in a most inappropriate situation in respect to light, is the superb and admirably-wrought Monument of the FOUNDER. It was executed by Nicholas Johnson, Edmund Kinsman, and Nicholas Stone, "citizens and free-masons of London," who, on the 24th of November, 1615, gave their receipt for £100, as the last payment of the sum of £400, for which they had contracted to perform this work. This monument, which is twenty-five feet in height, and thirteen in breadth, consists, in the lower part, of a rich canopy of the Composite order, surmounting a recessed tomb, or pedestal, whereon lies the effigies of the deceased. The hands are in the attitude of prayer; he wears a plaited ruff, and a black gown, furred; and his beard and hair are grey. At the back of the recess, stand two military figures, in habits of his age, supporting an inscribed tablet, over which are small figures of Time, and a Genii, sitting near a skull and hour-glass: the Inscription is as follows:

"Here lieth buried the body of THOMAS SUTTON, late of Castle-Camps, in the County of Cambridge, Esquire; at whose only Costs 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 Knaith, in the County of Lincoln, of worthy and honest Parentage. He lived to the age of Seventy nine years, and deceased the 12th of December, 1611,"

Above the cornice of this division, is a finely sculptured bas-relief, in which above fifty small wholelength figures are introduced, sitting and standing around a Preacher; at the sides are Faith and Hope, and two boys, expressive of Rest and Labour. Over the second cornice, in the centre, are the arms, crest, and mantling of Mr. Sutton, viz: or, on a chevron gules, three crescents of the first, between three amulets of the last; crest, a Talbot's head: at the sides are small statues of Peace and Plenty. The whole is surmounted by a figure of Charity, elevated upon a pedestal; on each side of which is a Genii, seated, with a trumpet in one hand, and the other placed upon a skull. This monument is inscribed, "Sacred to the Glory of God, in grateful Memory of Thomas Sutton, Esquire.'

Among the other sepulchral memorials, is a bust of John Law, Esq., a Procurator of the Arches, and one of Mr. Sutton's executors, ob. 1641; a kneeling figure of Francis Beaumont, Esq., the 4th Master of the Hospital, who was buried in the vault under the founder's tomb, ob. 1624; and inscribed tablets for Thomas Walker, LL.D., who was schoolmaster here forty-nine years, ob. 1728; Andrew Tooke, A. M., his successor, the translator of Porney's "Pantheon," ob. 1731; and Dr. John Christopher Pepusch, the celebrated

* Mr. Sutton's body was deposited in the vault which had been prepared for it in this chapel (and which cost £9. 19s. 10d.) in March, 1616-17. It was brought from Christ Church, by the pensioners, by torch-light. On this occasion, £4. 6s. 8d. was expended for bread, biscuit, comfits, marmalade, suckett, jelly, figs, raisins, and wines.

musician, who was organist in this chapel, ob. July the 20th, 1752; aged eighty-five years.

In the piazza, fronting the chapel, is a large and handsome apartment, called Brooke Hall, which is traditionally said to have been occupied (after the Restoration, and with leave of the governors) by Mr. Robert Brooke, a former schoolmaster, who had been expelled during the Parliamentary ascendancy in 1643, for refusing to subscribe to the solemn league and covenant. His portrait, which is on pannel, and suspended over the fire-place, represents him as in the act of reading; and on the table before him, are various insignia of the scholastic art; at the sides, are the words, “And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach, 1624.”

The Master's house is entered from an archway, and includes a capacious suit of apartments, and a large gallery. Among them is the Governor's Room, which is very splendidly fitted up, and approached by a vast staircase of the Elizabethan age, most elaborately carved with a profusion of minute ornaments. In this room is an elegant chimney-piece of the Corinthian order, surmounted by the founder's crest, and between the pillars is the venerable picture of Mr. Sutton, ætatis 79, anno 1611, from which Vertue made his engraving for Dr. Bearcroft's History of this Foundation : the frame is enriched with emblematical carvings, finely executed, of aged men, boys consulting globes, mathematical instruments, scrolls, and the Sutton arms. The other pictures comprise whole lengths of Charles the Second; Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury, sitting; William, Earl of Craven, in armour, the romantic admirer of the Empress Palatine;