Lazar house

When the lazarhouse 'chanced to come down' under Edward VI, no doubt the grantee of the lazarhouse got rid of the obligation to provide this refreshment, and transferred the broad-bottomed bowl to the neighbouring publichouse, where for two centuries afterwards it occasioned, in the procession to Tyburn, the reve so graphically described by Mr. Ainsworth.

A second phase of Wright's life began when he married as his second wife Alice Edwards, whose first husband, Eilliam Edwards, had rented St Bennet's gates lazarhouse and taken charge of poor diseased people for at least 25 years up to 1614.

He'd need to be mad to exchange even a gaol for a lazarhouse.