e called, and
lo he, whose heart was as that of a little child, had answered to his
name, and stood in the presence of his Master."

In 1381 Wat Tyler and his mob sacked and burnt the Temple and the Priory
of Clerkenwell. A few days later the brethren could see from their walls
the blow struck by Walworth the Mayor, the fall of Tyler from his horse,
and the courageous behaviour of King Richard. Wat Tyler was carried into
the hospital, but the Mayor went in and brought him out and had him
beheaded. Simon of Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury, was beheaded by
the rebels. Sir Norman Moore once asked a patient whence she came, and
she answered "from Sudbury in Suffolk." Dr Moore told his students the
story of Simon's death, and added that his head is said to be "preserved
to this day at Sudbury." The woman raised herself in bed and said, "My
father keeps it." Simon's tomb at Canterbury has been opened, and was
found to contain a headless body.

During the mastership of William Wakering, who died in 1405, and that of
Sutton, John Mirfeld flourished in the priory of St Bartholomew and wrote
his _Breviarium Bartholomei_, which may "fairly be regarded as the first
book on medicine connected with St Bartholomew's Hospital."

The brethren had no watches, and had to measure "the time for heating
fluids or making decoctions by reciting certain psalms and prayers." I
remember to have heard Sir Norman say how he demonstrated to his pupils
the efficacy of the words which our ancestors prescribed for the cure of
epilepsy. Their magic depended on the fact that they required some
minutes to recite, and this allowed the patient to recover from his fit.

I did not expect to find any evidence in regard to Falstaff, but the
following passage (ii., p. 2) shows that he must have been damped (in two
senses) on a memorable occasion {145}:--"In the year 1413, on the ninth
day of the month of April, which day was Passion Sunday, and a very rainy
day, the coronation of Henry V. took place at Westminster, at which
coronation I, Brother John Cok, who have recorded that royal coronation
for the refreshing of memory, was present and beheld it."

Sir Norman says (ii., p. 40):--"I was present at the coronation of King
George V., and watched the splendid assemblage gradually filling
Westminster Abbey, . . . and heard the shouts of 'God save King George!'
. . . and saw the King in his crown, with the orb in his left hand and
the sceptre in his