Report of the Commissioners appointed in pursuance of an act of parliament made and passed in the 5th and 6th years of King William the 4th, c. 71 : instituted, "An act for appointing commissioners to continue the inquiries concerning charities in England and Wales, until the first day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven." (Dated 30th June 1837.) Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty.
- Great Britain. Commissioners for Inquiring Concerning Charities
- Date:
- 1840
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Credit: Report of the Commissioners appointed in pursuance of an act of parliament made and passed in the 5th and 6th years of King William the 4th, c. 71 : instituted, "An act for appointing commissioners to continue the inquiries concerning charities in England and Wales, until the first day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven." (Dated 30th June 1837.) Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![London. Christ's Hospital, - continued. Indenture of Cove- nants. s. u. 1 O o u n U / o n yj A U D o o 1 9 U A U 1 A u A U A U A U 15 0 0 10 0 0 o A u o 3 6 8 1 0 0 5 6 8 88 0 0 4 0 0 To an hospitaller being a priest To five surgeons, each of them £15, yearly To two stewards, each of them £6. 13^. 4d. To two butlers, each of them £6 To two cooks, each of them £8 To four porters, each of them £6, yearly To a schoolmaster . To ati usher ... To two schoolmasters for the petites, each of them 53^. 4d. To schoolmasters for writing To two clerks ..... To two matrons, each of them 53s. 4d. To forty-four women, each of them 40^. a piece To two men that carry wood and coal, and to be charge of the same ..... Thus may it appear that the ordinary charges of this new erection, as before hath been particularly described, amountetb yearly to £3,290. 5j. Ad. Towards the maintenance whereof there is collected by the geste [chest perhaps], and free alms of the citizens, as may appear in a fair register, wherein is expressed tlie ward, parish, name, and sum that every person within the city gives hereunto, £2,914. So that (he ordinary charges of these two houses is greater than the ordinary alms that is given for the maintenance of them as may appear, &c., amounteth to £376. 5.y. 4.d. Towards the discharge whereof there hath been given this year by legacies and other gifts, by sundry and charitable persons, as may also particularly appear, £129. 15j. 7d. ob. So resteth to discharge the ordinary expenses, besides all manner of extraordinary ex- penses, reparations, furniture of necessary implements, and many other charges which cer- tainly are very great, £247. ^s. 8. ob. Which sum hath been paid and disbursed by the governors of the said houses out of their own purses, which daily travail for the good order of them, £247. 9s. Sd. ob. The Corporation of London having thus appropriated the hospitals of Christ's and Saint Thomas (of the latter of which they had become possessed by purchase from the Crown), and having further procured, by the intercession of Bishop Ridley, a grant of the manor-house of Bridewell, succeeded in 1553 in obtaining (together with a part of the Savoy lands), a charter of incorporation for the better management of these three establishments. The charter relates equally to the hospitals of Christ's, St. Thomas, and Bridewell, but we have selected the Report of Christ's Hospital, as the fittest place in which to introduce a full and literal translation, not only as being the most extensive establishment,'but because very serious discussions have recently been originated in the Court of Common Council upon the constitution of the governing body, as well as the mode of exercising their authority in this particular hospital, which rendered it desirable to collect under one head all the documentary evidence bearing upon the points in question. The first of the following instruments, which was a preliminary step to the charter, shows the objects for which the royal bounty was more expressly bestowed. This indenture, made the 12th day of June in the seventh year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord Edward VI. (1553), by the grace of God, King of England, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith and of the Church of England, and also of Ireland, in earth the supreme head; be- tween the same our Sovereign Lord the King on the one part, and the Mayor and Common- alty and Citizens of the City of London on the other part, witnesseth, that our said Sovereign Lord the King of his mere mercy, having pity and compassion on the miserable estate of the poor fatherless and motherless children, and sick, sore, and impotent people, and most graciously considering the good and godly endeavours of his most humble and obedient sub- jects, the mayor and commonalty and citizens of London, who diligently, by all ways and means, do travail for the good provision of the said poor, and every sort of them, and that by such sort and means as neither the child in his infancy shall want virtuous education and bring- ing up, neither when the same shall grow unto full age shall lack matter whereon the same may virtuously occupy himself in good occupation or science profitable to the commonweal; neither the sore nor sick, when they shall be healed, shall be permitted nor suflfered to wander as vagabonds in the commonweal, but shall likewise be put to labour and good and wholesome exercise, and so be made profitable members of the same; his Highness tendering the further- ance and advancement of this good and godly work, of his most princely benign mercy and bountiful goodness, moved with great pity for and towards the relief, aid, succour, and help of the said poor, is pleased and contented not only to be the patron and founder of this godly foundation and erection, but also is pleased and contented that his Highness, by his grace's letters patent under the Great Seal of England in due form to be made, will give and grant to the said mayor and commonalty and citizens of the said Ciiy of London, and to their successors, for ever, all that his grace's manor-house and place called Bridewell, with all and singular the mem- bers and appurtenances thereof, set and being in the parish of Saint Bridgide, in Fleet Street, in London, and all and singular houses, edifices, chambers, buildings, yards, gardens, void grounds, rooms, ways, easements, profits, and commodities whatsoever, to the said manor- house or place called Bridewell belonging, or in any manner of wise appertaining, or as parts, parcels, or members of the same, before this had, known, occupied, used, or demised; and our said Sovereign Lord the King is also pleased and contented, and by these presents promiseth](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2129866x_0082.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
