Note 30 — XIV. MONKS, NUNS, AND FRIARS.

Close to this Carthusian monastery Sir Michael also built—in 1384—a Maison Dieu, or Hospital, for twenty-six poor men and women, ‘feeble and old.’ Its buildings were pulled down during the second siege of Hull, but afterwards replaced by others. This is the ‘Charterhouse’ that exists to-day, the present buildings dating from 1780.