Letter to the governors of Christ's Hospital, being a refutation of the invectives and misrepresentations contained in a letter from the Rev. Dawson Warren ... to William Mellish, Esq. M.P / [Robert Waithman].

  • Robert Waithman
Date:
[1808]
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Credit: Letter to the governors of Christ's Hospital, being a refutation of the invectives and misrepresentations contained in a letter from the Rev. Dawson Warren ... to William Mellish, Esq. M.P / [Robert Waithman]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ro % gation be irue, gnd conformable to the right of the presenti “and the above regulations, and all such as shill be Found * otherwise, shall be rejected.” SB , «“ Now, Sir, haying stated so much of ‘the reculations as will shew who the proper objects of that cNarity are, and _what the conduct of the governors ought to be, I shall next give you the form of a petition, which the parent (if any) is required to sign, before the child can be admitted :— “To the governors, é&c. « The humble petition of - humbly skeweth, that «« the petitioner’ (here is a blank left fora description of the situation and circumstances of the petitioner; and then it concludes with-the tollowing prayer)—‘* therefore « your petitioner humbly beseeches your worships, in your usual “< hity and charity to distressed men, froor widows, and fatherless «© children, to grant the admission of his child into Christ’s “© Hospital (blank left fer a ge and weaned there to be educated * among other floor children.” «!!1! Avery pretty petition, Sir, fora man to sign who has 1200]. per ann.; but this is not all, for the Minister, (in ‘this case himself ) Churchwardens, and three frincipal parishioners, are required to sign a certificate, wherein, after describing the age of the child, that he was born in the parish, “* is not ‘maintained at the parish charge,” they de- clare, “ that they know of no frrobable means for the education “< of the said child, unless the governors of Christ's Hospital “ should admit him into the said ELosfital.” «© Then, Sir, to crown the whole, you will see, by the | following declaration, which the person presenting a child ‘is required to make at the back of the ‘above certificate, what sort of a task Mr. Mellish’ had to undergo—«