Note 11 — THACKERAY'S "GRAY FRIARS."
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Footnote 11:
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In his curious London and the Country, Carbonadoed and Quartered into severall Characters (1632), Lupton writes under the head of
"CHARTER-HOUSE.
"This place is well described by three things—magnificence, munificence and religious government. The first shows the wealth of the founder; the second, the means to make the good thing done durable; the third demonstrates his intent that thus established it.... This one place hath sent many a famous member to the universities, and not a few to the wars. The deed of this man that so ordered this house is much spoken of and commended; but there's none (except only one—Sion College) that hath as yet either striven to equal or imitate that, and I fear never will."