The foundations of medical history / by Sir D'Arcy Power.

  • D'Arcy Power
Date:
1931
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Credit: The foundations of medical history / by Sir D'Arcy Power. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Secretary or Superintendent—of Christ’s Hospital was ordered by that day seven-night to deliver an account in writing how, and in what manner, the Governors of that Hospital were anciently nominated and appointed and when and how the same came to be altered.” On March 10, 1690-1, the committee of aldermen reported that they had made enquiries and found that the lord mayor and certain selected members of the corporation were ex officio governors of the four royal hospitals but that the right had not been exer¬ cised for many years past. The inquiry had turned upon a consideration of the “Order of the Hospitals made in 1557” manuscript in the city records. The printing of the original manuscript was evidently the direct outcome of the struggle. It was necessary that every governor of the hospitals who took an active interest in the dispute should study the “Orders” by which the city controlled their actions. It was found that these had so far only existed in manuscript. A new copy was, therefore, obtained from the Guildhall and its authenticity was guaran¬ teed by the signature of the town clerk, John Good- fellow, who, as I have said, was in office from 1690- 1700. His signature, therefore, was clearly not a part of the original document and as the original manu¬ script was an extract from the city records, it bore the name of the lord mayor of the day but not of the town clerk in 1557.
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