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Savoy Hospital (London, England)

LC control no.nr 97010203
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Corporate name headingSavoy Hospital (London, England)
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Beginning date1519-22
LocatedLondon (England)
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Found inIts Julius Episcopus seruus seruorum dei, ca. 1510: text (a bull granting privileges on behalf of the Savoy Hospital, London)
London Encyclopaedia: p. 228 (In London there were 12 main hospitals (and many more smaller, houses of friars and canons). ... There were also some 25 major hospitals (and many minor ones) belonging to religious orders of which 8 were large establishments and a number specialised in the care of lepers, the insane and the aged poor. These hospitals included ... the Savoy Hospital)
The building accounts of the Savoy Hospital, London, 1512-1520, 2015: p. 3 (The Savoy was largely finished by the summer of 1519, at which point it seems to have opened its doors to London's poor.)