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The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… Mary's, St. Thomas's, and the new abbey on Tower Hill; but Rahere's hospital nominally shared the same fate as the … is obscure. From this point we must cease to refer to Rahere's great hospital; for with the disappearance of the …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… for the Black Canons regular of St. Augustin, by Prior Rahere, during the reign of Henry I, in the beginning of the … doubt that the greater part of the existing remains are of Rahere's time, and finished c. 1123, being about coeval with … Cathedrals. The present church was the choir, only, of Rahere's, the nave having been built at the beginning of the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… ploughed up in Windmill Field in 1820. 73 Unknown FINSBURY Rahere Street: carved stone head of a man found in 1936. 74 …
A History of the County of London
… St. Bartholomew appears to belong jointly to a clerk named Rahere 1 and to King Henry I, 2 for though the means were … within seventy years of the foundation of the house, 3 Rahere spent his early life more like a courtier than a … the thirtieth year of Henry I, as the bishop died in 1128. Rahere's position was a very difficult one, for in addition …
A Dictionary of London
… The nave extended into Smithfield. The tomb of the founder Rahere is a good specimen of Perpendicular work, but of much … monastic chartulary and is ascribed to a vision granted to Rahere the founder, in which St. Bartholomew appeared to …
A Dictionary of London
… (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon Ward Without. Founded by Rahere as a cell to the Priory (q.v.) and subject to its … (St.) Priory A priory of Augustinian canons founded by Rahere in 1123 in West Smithfield in Farringdon Ward Without …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… that of St. Bartholomew's is in the charter granted to Rahere in 1133. 4 Translated, the latter reads thus: 5 'I … the unwarrantable statement that, after his conversion, Rahere, the founder of the hospital that has done more to … and an impostor; 15 but it was after the suppression of Rahere's foundation that the jugglers, the cheats, and the …
A New History of London
… in the reign of Henry I. about the year 1102, by one Rahere the king's minstrel, who was himself the first prior. …
A Survey of London
… of Coke the Iew, the 7. of Edward the first: since to Rahere de Sopars lane, then to Simon Francis. Thomas Bradbery …