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This old mansion-house, called the Biggin, is perhaps the strangest homestead I have seen in my rambles. The Biggin, as almshouses, now affords shelter to several old women, who make me welcome and are pleased at the interest with which I regard their historic struc- ture. I would not visit these almshouses on a dark night, for my head would certainly come in contact with one of the many massive posts which support some of the upper rooms. I could convert this Biggin into a cosy college for a f...ew " gentlemen Digitized by Google GILBERT DE SEMPRINGHAM 217 commoners," for here is the quadrangle, there is the pump for sousing the townsmen, and on these fine old masses of oaken pDe we could carve much nonsense in prose or verse. But the likeness of the Biggin must be seen ere the quaintness of the original can be appreciated ; so I leave readers to the study of Mr. Griggs's drawing, which will tell them more than the longest The Biggin Almshouse, Hitchtn, paragraph. On this spot once lived a community of Gilbertine nuns.
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