Sutton's Hospital
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The hospital was to be home
With the hospital was to be built a school for forty "poor" scholars - though in this context the word "poor" merely meant those without the prosperity of substantial estates behind them.
Thus Charterhouse was from the start the province of the professional classes - the sons of doctors, lawyers, clergy - rather than the landed gentry.
Sutton had established a Master and a group of Governors for his foundation by the time of his death on December 12th 1611, and the greater part of his vast fortune was bequeathed to the hospital and school, much to the annoyance of his heirs, who contested the will. However, the Governors, who were chosen for being
included the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord Chancellor (amongst others), who were well able to see that Sutton's intentions were carried out.
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