Notes on the bibliography of three sixteenth-century English books connected with London hospitals / by Sir D'Arcy Power.

  • D'Arcy Power
Date:
1921
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Credit: Notes on the bibliography of three sixteenth-century English books connected with London hospitals / by Sir D'Arcy Power. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4 I do not like thee, Dr. Fell, The reason why I cannot tell; But this I know, and know full well, I do not like thee, Dr. Fell.’ So I have brought it here this afternoon for your inspection with such facts as I have been able to gather, that you may sit in judgement upon it, and, I fear, damn it as an impostor. The book contains the rules which the citizens of London desired should govern the Charities which had been placed under their control after the upheaval in the middle of the sixteenth century. It declares how many governors shall be elected ; the manner in which they shall be chosen ; the length of time they shall serve and the charge to be given to them ; the manner of conducting the Courts and of appoint¬ ing the Officers; the duties of the Officers, and many other details, serviceable and necessary at the time, but of no interest to us at present. The first notice of the Orders occurs in the Repertories at the Guildhall, where, under the date 1557, 28th Sept., 4 & 5 Ph. & Mary, it appears that the 4 Court of Aldermen ‘ agreed that all the articles and ordinances then read con- 4 cerning the government and ordering of the Poor in West 4 Smithfield and the hospitals of the City, lately devised by 4 S[i]r Martin Bowes and S[i]r Rowland Hill, knights, and 4 diverse other aldermen and commoners of this city being 4 Governours and Surveyors at that present of the said house 4 should be entered of record and from thenceforth put in 4 due execution ’. The Order is headed 4 Offley, Maior and Sir Thomas Offley was Mayor in 1556-7. The 4 Memoranda, References, and Documents relating to The Royal Hospitals of the City of London compiled by Mr. James Francis Firth, the Town Clerk, and issued by the Court of Common Council in 1836, state that4 these articles