Papers illustrative of the origin and early history of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea / Comp. in the Secretary's Office at that Institution.

  • Royal Hospital (Chelsea, London, England)
Date:
1872
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Credit: Papers illustrative of the origin and early history of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea / Comp. in the Secretary's Office at that Institution. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    But now being sensible, yt ye complete finishing of so chargeable an erection & much more ye perpetual endowmt thereof for ye constant maintenance of so many aged & infirm persons will require a greater expense than or particular bounty (as or affairs now stand) can well extend to : We have thought fitt to call in ye aid, & assistance of all or charitable and well-disposed subjects of estate & quality, & particularly of those of ye clergy who are such, & do therfore hereby will & require you, y* you forthwth send yor circular letters to all ye B.ps of yor province; earnestly inciting them both by their own example (if they be men of plentifull estate) & however by such topics, & arguments of perswasion wherwth so great & good a cause will abundantly furnish them to deal effectually wth such clergymen wthin their respective dioceses, who by ye bounty of their patrons, or other- wise are masters of considerable estates, exhorting them to contribute, liberally to this good design so manifestly tending to ye glory of God, & service of your Kg. and country. And we do assure both you, & them all, that whatsoever hath to be done shall be done in compliance wth this or command & sure so just expectations shall be by us most gratiously accepted as a ptic. evidence of your good affection toward us & of yr zeal for or service. Given, &c. (:Tanner MS. 290,/ 223.) May it please yor Grace Nov. 19 [1684]. I haue bin long designing to give yor Grace account of my visitation of ye D. & Chapter, one article wherein is Haue you weekly communions according to ye rubrick I hope ere long I shall be able to doe that, to yor Grace’s satisfaction & mine owne, though I haue met some unexpected trouble. But Stainforth is an honest, understanding man. Now I write in great hast, my coach staying in the snow in York Street. My businesse is this. I haue received a second letter from ye Kg about Chelsey Colledge, wherein a change is made of some words particular to ye clergy for some other y* may comprehend the laity and fetch them in to ye same contribution. This I feare will be, not only very troublesome to all ye Bps, but (at least) of no use to the King We can neither follow Lds gentlemen to their houses, nor summon them to meet us If we light on them we shall talk wth small authority, & they will heare wth as litle regard. Hatred & contempt we may get, but noe money this I write a la votee I beseech yor Grace to consider the thing itself, not my reflexions on it, & speak with whom you think proper, if you doe think fit to speak wth any or to take notice of the matter. I cannot write to Sr Step*1 Fox by this post from whom I received the letter. & doe me the favor to send yor opinions to Yor Grace’s most faithful serv* Joh. Ebor (Dolben). ( Tanner MS. 32,f 176.) In this extremity a scheme was devised for raising money from the troops themselves in the following manner. When Sir Stephen Fox became paymaster, in March 1661, he found the