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Fig. 1.
Charing Cross and the Chapel of St. Mary Roncevall in
the early part of the sixteenth century. (After Van den Wyngaerde.)

HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF OLD CHARING

The Hospital and Chapel of Saint
Mary Roncevall
Eleanor of Castile, Queen of England
AND THE
Monuments Erected in Her Memory
BY
JAMES GALLOWAY,
A.M., M.D.
Senior Physician, and a Vice-President, Charing Cross Hospital.
LONDON
JOHN BALE, SONS & DANIELSSON, Ltd.
OXFORD HOUSE
83-91, GREAT TITCHFIELD STREET, OXFORD STREET, W.
PREFACE.

These Studies in the history of Old London were written atthe request of Students of Charing Cross Hospital, and were firstpublished in their Gazette. The rough outlines, marks of whichmay be easily discerned, were formed by the notes for Lecturesdelivered to the Students and Nursing Staff of the Hospital onvarious occasions. It is hoped that in the present form theseStudies may continue to be of interest to friends of Charing CrossHospital, and perhaps also to the large and increasing number ofStudents of the history of London.

London,

Easter, 1914.

THE HOSPITAL AND CHAPEL OF
SAINT MARY RONCEVALL
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THE HOSPITAL AND CHAPEL OF
 
SAINT MARY RONCEVALL
 
AT CHARING CROSS.

“En Rencesvals si est Carles entrez;
*       *       *
Rollanz remeint pur les altres guarder.
*       *       *
Halt sunt li pui e tenebrus e grant,
Li val parfunt e les ewes curranz.
*       *       *
Li gentilz quens, qu’il fut morz cunquerant.”

“La Chanson de Roland,” édition, Léon Gautier.

The fact that the conventual Hospital of St. Mary Roncevall wasfounded at the village of Charing in the time of Henry III, and thatit continued to exist till the dissolution of the religious houses byHenry VIII, is well known to students of the history of London; but,

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