Young Wesley, a student at Newington Green, had been present at the wedding, with a copy of verses in his pocket: and there, in a corner of the Doctor's gloomy house in Spital Yard, he came on the Doctor's youngest daughter, a slight girl of fourteen, seated and watching the guests.
"Hetty Wesley"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
By his second marriage he had two sons, Francis and David, both dead unmarried, and one daughter, Elizabeth, married to James Kirsopp, Esquire, of the Spital, Northumberland.
"Trial-of-Mary-Blandy"
Roughead, William
The revenues, however, fell far short of the requirements of the hoSpital-namely, about two-thirds of the yearly charge-and at a court held in 1642 preachers were directed to preach at the Spital of St. Mary, in Bishopsgate Street, informing the public of the need of pecuniary help, and exciting them to the exercise of charity.
"Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles"
Daniel Hack Tuke