A history of the royal foundation of Christ's Hospital : with an acount of the plan of education, the internal economy of the institution, and memoirs of eminent Blues : preceded by a narrative of the rise, progress, and suppression of the convent of the Grey Friars in London (1834)
Trollope, William, 1798-1863 · London : William Pickering · leaf 129
here taken place,of little or no importance perhaps, but on which the school-boy memoryis wont to dwell with retrospective fondness and delight. At this stageof the history, therefore, a brief notice of these ceremonies may beappropriately introduced. The old hall was levelled with the groundin the… … It has been already stated that the Spital Sermons, as they arecalled, are now delivered annually in Christ Church on the Mondayand Tuesday in Easter week. Instead of the subjects which were wontto be discussed from the pulpit cross of St. Mary Spital, discourses arenow delivered commemorative of…
