The annexed print is faithfully copied from the very scarce etching of the same subject, by Hollar, in Dugdale's Monasticon.[*] 

It exhibits this monastery in points of view; the great gatehouse, or entrance, built by prior Dockra, in the reign of Henry VII. and still standing; the west end of the conventual church, with some ancient buildings adjoining it; and the principal front towards .

Of these views, the last is by far the most curious, not only as shewing more of the building than the others, but as every atom of that part of the structure, excepting the east end of the church, is now completely destroyed. From this valuable memorial we may form a tolerably correct idea of the extent and magnificence of this once rich and celebrated Hospital, as well as gain some insight into the age and style of its architecture: several of the windows in particular, we may observe, were extremely beautiful, and of a very early fashion.

The gateway is not very faithfully delineated; but being exhibited more in its original state than we now see it, this representation is not without its value. The battlements at the top must at that time have given a great addition to the stateliness of its appearance. The title-pages of the Gentleman's Magazine would have immortalized this part of the structure, had there been no other memorial remaining.

The west end of the church, now faced with a modern screen of brick-work, is shewn in the print in the state it was left by the Protector Somerset, the architecture being of that mixed kind then adopted: its elegant nave and transepts, its beautiful high enamelled spire, pathetically lamented by Stowe as the pride of the metropolis, and all its ancient glory, had fallen a sacrifice a century before this view was taken, to the rapacity of that minister. The choir, much modernized and defaced, still exists, and is now the parochial church of St. John, Clerkenwell.

priory was founded about the year by Jordan Brisset and Muriel his wife, who had previously founded the nunnery at Clerkenwell. The church was dedicated by Heraclius, patriarch of Jerusalem, years after the above period; which space, from its foundation, we may conjecture, had been employed in erecting that and the other buildings of the monastery. It was the chief seat of the religious order called the Knights Hospitalers of Jerusalem, and previous to its dissolution possessed immense revenues. During the insurrection of Wat Tyler this fine convent was in great part burnt by the mob; the succeeding priors endeavoured to repair the damage; but the church and buildings were not completely finished until the year , when Thomas Dockra was prior.

monastery, at the suppression, was valued to expend yearly

[*] It is singular that almost all the existing impressions of this print are extremely faint and worn, by which it should seem that the plate had been much worked; yet it is so scarce that many copies of Dugdale want it, and a single impression, when met with, is not to be purchased under two or three guineas.