A memorial and petition to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, on the principles of public faith, common justice, and His own royal promise / [Samuel Lee].

  • Lee, Samuel, active 1743-1800
Date:
[1771]
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Credit: A memorial and petition to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, on the principles of public faith, common justice, and His own royal promise / [Samuel Lee]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 3* ] day of January, 1754, when a general court was held, and the penfioners examined by Lord Barrington in the prefence of the whole court. In confequence of which tfe following para- graph appeared in the daily papers. <c ON Tuefday laft was held a general court cc of the governors of Greenwich-Hofpital, at the Admiralty-Office, when the following tc penfioners, who had been under the care of Mr. Lee for the cure of their ruptures, at- *c tended, and were examined in the court by iC the feveral furgeons belonging to his ma- tc jelly’s yards; when their Lordffiips and the cc reft of the gentlemen unanimoufly expreffed an entire fatisfa&ion in Mr. Lee’s conduft, c< and were pleafed to continue him furgeon to u the faid Hofpital. “ A difeoverygreatly beneficial to mankind; a and the prudent and candid enquiry into the “ merits of it, by the noble perfonages at the “ head of this Board, is a laudable inftance of 44 their love of juftice, and regard for the pub- V lie welfare.” The underwritten is a lift of the names, ages, how long ruptured, and the ftate of each man, at the examination on Tuefday, the twenty-ninth, before the general court. Exa- ✓