For ‘the younge and very poore children of Norwich’: A Study of Anguish’s Children’s Hospital
Henley, Joseph William
Master’s Thesis, University of East Anglia (September 2008)
Abstract
This dissertation is primarily concerned with the analysis of a seventeenth-century children’s hospital, opened in Norwich in 1621. An ex-mayor named Thomas Anguish bequeathed to the corporation a part of the houses and lands that he held in the parish of St. Edmund, by way of his will dated 22 June 1617. His will stipulated that the grounds should be used to set up and found a children’s hospital, for the sick poor children of Norwich. We will determine why, at that 
time and in that place, there was such a call for the social reform of the young, within several important historical contexts.
We will see how the seventeenth-century climate necessitated a more institutional approach to child welfare, as a result of the failings of the more ad-hoc welfare schemes that were already in place in Norwich. These failings had all been made plain in the 1570 Census of the Poor, a revolutionary move by the Norwich magistrates to count and number Norvicians as a way of better dealing with increasing levels of disorder.
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