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for that. So he lost his palace and his
head.
Endowed as School and as Home.
About 1920 or so, Thomas Sutton
bought the grounds and beside it
built school for poor boys, with the
privilege to the master to add others
to the specified number. That school
has been taken to Goldalming in Sur
rey and is one of the most important
schools for boys in England. There
are some 600 added to the original
number and the charges for them
make the Masters job rather "cushy."
l think this is the place where they
wear blue coats, hence a common
term. The original school buildings
are used as a school for the sons of
the Diapers and MERGERS Guild
Thomas Sutton also endowed the
Charter House as a home for men
who were single or widowers, over
fifty, who had lost their fortunes thru
no fault of their own, had done good
to their fellow men and could satisfy
the trustees as to their moral charac-
ter during their lives. The King and
the Queen, the various Archbishops
and some other notables were made
trustees and a board of 16 looks after
the affairs and management.
There are some so old men live here
and have, so we were told, much more
freedom to come and go and have no
| class distinctions as are kept at St.
Cross Hospital in Winchester. These
men too are not allowed to wear their
gowns outside the grounds, while at
st. Cross they can never be without
the gowns and badges.
We saw the huge fireplace where
the monks cookies their roasts and
beside it a smaller one, about five feet
across where they probably did their
eggs"
On one of the window panes, on the
"traitor's stairway" is cut with a dia-
mond, the fact that some old boy said
he would rather be living unmarried
in Charter House than have wife
and live elsewhere. Brother Bridger
likes to tell that little girl of ten
said "sour grapes" when she read it..
The room in which he lives, or has
for his office, with bed room beside
it, was occupied by Captain Thomas
Light, whom Thackeray visited when
he was writing "The Newcomes" and
used him as the prototype for Col.
| Newcome. A tablet on the wall out
side recounts this and in the hallway
is framed part of Thackeray's manus-
cript, Hopkinson Smith wrote "Thack-
eray's London" and gives a chapter to
Brother Bridger, who has an auto
graphed authors copy which he very
proudly displays. Smith also made a
sketch Of the room from the corner at
the door where Brother Bridger had
us stand then gave US a post card
copy of the illustration which appears
/ III lIOphluSOll pilIItH , DOOk, ana also
gave us one of the outside of that
room.
He certainly did treat US right. He
tapped the old monk treads of the
stairway in one of the buildings and it
sounded like stone, after being walked
on for 700 years it naturally had little
voice left.
Then he took us to the school ad-
joining and showed US in the wall of
the Charterhouse, which formed one
side of the school yard, where there
had been cells, endowed by Lord May
ors of London, this place is just out
side the limits of the City or London
Town. Here food was placed through
a hole and some monks got something
to eat besides what they had to cook
in those big fireplaces.
Beside the small arched entrance in
the outer wall, where the Porters
lodge is, there is a big gate and in il
a little door near which is a large
knocker This was a sanctuary anG
if man pursued got to the knockel
he was safe and a monk let him II