serve Almighty God in for ever with public and divine prayers and other exercises of religion, and also one kitchen and bakehouse common to all the people of the said hospital.  Jesus Hospital is a quadrangular building, containing forty almshouses surrounding a court which is divided into gardens, one of which is attached to each house.  It has a pleasing entrance through a gabled brick porch which has over the Tudor-shaped doorway a statue of the founder and mullioned latticed windows.  The old people live happy and contented lives, and find in the eventide of their existence a cheerful home in peaceful and beautiful surroundings.  The Fishmongers also have almshouses at Harrietsham, in Kent, founded by Mark Quested, citizen and fishmonger of London, in 1642, which they rebuilt in 1772, and St. Peter’s Hospital, Wandsworth, formerly called the Fishmongers’ Almshouses.  The Goldsmiths have a very palatial pile of almshouses at Acton Park, called Perryn’s Almshouses, with a grand entrance portico, and most of the London companies provide in this way homes for their decayed members, so that they may pass their closing years in peace and freedom from care.

[Illustration:  The Hospital for Ancient Fishermen, Great Yarmouth.  Aug 1908]

Fishermen, who pass their lives in storm and danger reaping the harvest of the sea, have not been forgotten by pious benefactors.  One of the most picturesque buildings in Great Yarmouth is the Fishermen’s Hospital, of which we give some illustrations.  It was founded by the corporation of the town in 1702 for the reception of twenty old fishermen and their wives.  It is a charming house of rest, with its gables and dormer windows and its general air of peace and repose.  The old men look very comfortable after battling for so many years with the storms of the North Sea.  Charles II granted to the hospital an annuity of L160 for its support, which was paid out of the excise on beer, but when the duty was repealed the annuity naturally ceased.

The old hospital at King’s Lynn was destroyed during the siege, as this quaint inscription tells:—­

     THIS HOSPITAL WAS
    BURNT DOWN AT LIN
     SEGE AND REBULT
     1649 NATH MAXEY
      MAYOR AND EDW
     ROBINSON ALDMAN
    TREASURER PRO TEM
               P.R.O.

Norwich had several important hospitals.  Outside the Magdalen gates stood the Magdalen Hospital, founded by Bishop Herbert, the first bishop.  It was a house for lepers, and some portions of the Norman chapel still exist in a farm-building by the roadside.  The far-famed St. Giles’s Hospital in Bishopsgate Street is an ancient foundation, erected by Bishop Walter Suffield in 1249 for poor chaplains and other poor persons.  It nearly vanished at the Reformation era, like so many other kindred institutions, but Henry VIII and Edward VI granted it a new charter.  The poor clergy were, however, left out in the cold, and the benefits were confined to secular folk.