Editing Thomas Sutton (section)

==Legacy{{anchor|Establishment of Thomas Sutton's Charities Act 1609}}==
Sutton left part of his fortune to be invested in establishing an [[almshouse]] for 80 impoverished gentlemen, combined with a school for 40 boys, on the site of his house off [[Charterhouse Square]], on the outskirts of the City of London. This institution was to be named the Hospital of King James in Charterhouse, although it later became known as [[London Charterhouse|Sutton's Hospital in Charterhouse]]. The almshouse survives on the original site; while the school, now [[Charterhouse School]], relocated to [[Godalming]], [[Surrey]], in 1872. The London buildings were badly damaged by bombs during the [[Second World War]], but were restored during the 1950s.

Sutton's personal arms, blazoned ''Or, on a chevron between three annulets gules three crescents of the field'', are still used by the school.

[[John Aubrey]] is responsible for the almost certainly spurious legend that Sutton was the original of Volpone the fox in [[Ben Jonson]]'s play ''[[Volpone]]''.