orders, and for exactly the same reason, because at the original foundations of the colleges, as well as of the Hospital, the Fellows were all priests.  As for the Master, he remained a layman.  This new order of things, therefore, raised the position of the Brothers, and gave a new dignity to the Hospital; further, the School as well as the Bedeswomen defined its position as a charity.  It still fell far, very far, short of what it might have done, but it was not between the years 1698 and 1825 quite so useless as it had been.  A plan of the Precinct, with drawings of the church, within and without, and of the monuments in the church, may be found in Lysons.  The obscurity of the Hospital, and the neglect into which it fell during the last century, are shown by the small attention paid to it in the books on London of the last century, and the early years of the present century.  Thus, in Harrison’s ‘History of London,’ though nearly every church in the City and its immediate suburbs is figured, St. Katherine’s is not drawn.  In Strype (edition 1720) there is no drawing of St. Katherine’s; in Dodsley’s ‘London,’ 1761, it is described but not figured; and Wilkinson, in his ‘Londina Illustrata,’ passes it over entirely.  The Hospital buildings consisted of a square, of which the north side was occupied by the Master’s house, with a large garden behind, and the Master’s orchard between his garden and the river; on the east and west sides were the Brothers’ houses; and on the south side of the square was the church and the chapter-house.  On the east of the church was the burying-ground.  South of the church was the Sisters’ close, with the houses occupied by the Sisters and the Bedeswomen.  The old Brothers’ houses were taken down and rebuilt about the year 1755, and the Master’s house, an ancient building, full of carved timber-work, had also been taken down, so that in the year 1825, when the Hospital was finally destroyed, the only venerable building standing in the Precinct was the church itself.  To look at the drawings of this old church and to think of the loving care with which it would have been treated had it been allowed to stand till this day, and then to consider the ‘Gothic’ edifice in Regent’s Park, is indeed saddening.  The church consisted of the nave and chancel with two aisles, built by Bishop Beckington, formerly the Master.  The east window, 30 feet high and 25 feet wide, had once been most beautiful when its windows were stained.  The tracery was still fine; a St. Katherine’s wheel occupied the highest part, and beneath it was a rose; but none of the windows had preserved their painted glass, so that the general effect of the interior must have been cold.  The carved wood of the stalls and the great pulpit, presented by Sir Julius Caesar, may still be seen in the Regent’s Park Chapel, where are also some of the monuments.  Of these the church was full.  The finest (now in Regent’s Park) was that of John Holland, Duke of Exeter, and