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The friend not coldly viewed because assisted from thy store, But all life's gentle courtesies thence only shewn the more ;Whom thoughts like these attend,

To life's remotest end

REMEMBRANCE bears thee company, a comforter and friend.

REMEMBRANCE! Fathom they who can, what thoughts his bosom swell

Who mourns the changed affections of the one he loved so well:

The beaming eye, the witching smile, the voice so rich so kind;

Looks, words, hopes, promises, all gone, all scattered to the wind ;

His cup is filled to th' brim ;
And on its murky rim

REMEMBRANCE sits-oh ask not what REMEMBRANCE is to him.

REMEMBRANCE! Compound strange of painful thoughts, and blissful too,

As autumn skies now louring, now lit up with heavenly

blue;

But this our consolation, that in stormy sky or fair,

In sunshine or in darkness, still a PROVIDENCE is there;
That still, come cloud, come ray,

Come wind, "come what come may,"

GOD and an honest heart will bring us through the roughest day.

T. G. A.

NOTES TO ACCOMPANY THE PLANS OF THE

CHARTERHOUSE.

It must be acknowledged, that whilst the Charterhouse is universally known as one of the most important Public Schools in the kingdom, few persons unconnected with it (antiquaries excepted) are acquainted either with its locality or its history; much less are they aware of its being not only a School, but a College, the officers of which live at a common table and are under the government of a Master; and also a Hospital, wherein eighty Poor Brothers, taken from all ranks and professions, are provided with apartments and wholly maintained.

Situate at the distance of a single half-mile in a direction nearly due north from the Cathedral church of St. Paul, and occupying a spot nearly midway between the eastern and western extremities of the metropolis north of the Thames, the Charterhouse, otherwise called Sutton's Hospital, stands aloof not less from the intercourse of commercial than of fashionable life; no part of it being visible to ordinary passengers except its garden wall, which," so old as seeming only not to fall," overhangs the footway for a considerable space in Goswell Street, the thoroughfare leading from the General Post-Office to Islington. The whole site of the buildings and playgrounds occupies between twelve and thirteen acres, and it is probably the largest property in the whole metropolis, which has preserved its original character, being now as it was four centuries ago, the residence of a collegiate body, and being almost as entire as when the first founder of the monastery, Sir Walter de Manny, devoted in the year

1371 the "thirteen acres and one rod of land” which he had acquired, to the purposes of his foundation.

Such is the position of this extensive property which is inclosed on all sides with walls, and approached only through Charterhouse Square; and consequently the Charterhouse is very rarely entered but by those who come thither from motives of business, or friendship, or the desire to revisit places to which they are attached by early associations. If perchance one who was before a perfect stranger to the place is brought within its walls, he is struck by the collegiate character of the buildings, the ancient gates of the monastery, the porter's lodge, the quadrangular courts, the residences of the master and officers, the school, the dormitories, the pensioner's apartments, the hall, the chapel, the gardens, the playgrounds: in the very midst of the metropolis he finds a place devoted to retirement and to religion, free from the noise and bustle of the world, a Monastery without moroseness, a School situated in an open and healthy spot, possessing every advantage for the preservation of discipline, and a Collegiate body, cheered by the comforts of domestic life. The whole aspect of the place at once explains to him the causes of that deepfelt attachment to the Charterhouse, which persons educated there seldom fail in afterlife to express; and whilst he recognises in it one of the noblest structures devoted to the public education of youth, he pronounces those most blessed, who have found within its walls an asylum from the troubles of the world.

Such an introduction by way of preface to the following notes is rendered necessary, by the probability of the present publication falling into the hands of many, to whom the real nature of the foundation is but imperfectly known. The writer's object has been, not only to

give to his brother Carthusians the means of revisiting in imagination a spot rendered dear to them by the recollections of all the hopes and fears, the joys and sorrows which cross the path of boyhood and of youth, but also to perpetuate the knowledge of some facts illustrative of the history of the Charterhouse, interesting to the historian and the antiquary. Accordingly, while the Carthusian is requested to look with indulgence upon such parts of the present article as relate to antiquity, the Antiquarian must be prepared to forgive allusions to things and circumstances interesting only to those who have passed their boyhood together, and who have been united in the same pursuits. The plans here illustrated are four in number:

PLAN A. is a reduction from an original drawing contained on the last skin of a parchment roll preserved in the Registry of the Charterhouse, upon which is described the course of the pipes by which the water was brought to the Monastery from the White Conduit at Islington.

PLAN B. exhibits the ground-plan of the buildings as they stood a few years after the foundation of the present hospital by Thomas Sutton in 1611.

PLAN C. exhibits the upper or chamber story of the buildings at the same period.

PLAN D. is a general plan of the site of the Charterhouse, showing the play-grounds and buildings as they stood before the rebuilding of parts of the hospital was commenced in the year 1825. On the same plan is shown the site of the buildings which have been erected since that period.

Description of Plan A.

1. The plan may be best understood by the reader supposing himself to be standing at the present Schooldoor, on the spot where the word "North" is written, and from which he will command a view of the "Green."

2. In the centre is seen the Conduit: the lower part is probably of stone; the upper part seems by its structure to be of wood.

3. The plan shows the course of the different pipes, by which the water was conveyed from the Conduit to the back of the cells, and through the little Cloister to the Buttery, and so forward, till it passed out of the Monastery, first supplying an inn called the Windmill, and probably spending itself in some watercourse which ran down to the River Fleet.

4. At the south-west corner stands the Little Cloister, denoted by the words "pm claust." On the south side of this cloister is an opening through which the water-pipe passes, and where was probably the door, which served as the general entrance to the monastery, and which is alluded to in a letter addressed in 1535 by Jasper Fylott to the King's High Secretary, in which he says "These "Charterhouse monks would be called solitary, but to "the Cloister door there be twenty-four keys in the hands "of twenty-four persons."

5. The Buttery was on the west side of the little cloister, as is shown by the words "botery cok." According to Jasper Fylott's account there were "twentytwo keys of the Buttery in the hands of twenty-two persons."

6. The situation of the Brewhouse is shown by a circular cistern adjoining to the Buttery.

7. Over the cell marked A. may be read the words

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