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St. Bartholomew's Hospital. | 186 |
St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
To the Butler. | 06 | 13 |
04 |
To the Cook. | 06 | 00 | 00 |
To the Porter. | 06 | 00 |
00 |
To the three Surgeons. | 60 | 00 | 00 |
To the Eight Beadles. | 26 | 13 |
04 |
And for Liveries. | 10 | 00 |
00 |
To the Matron and twelve
Sisters. | 26 | 06 | 08 |
To the Matron for her Board Wages,
at 1s. 6d. per Week | 03 | 18 | 00 |
Twelve Sisters for their Board Wages
at 1s. 4d. per Week, each | 40 | 12 | 00 |
To the Matron for her
Livery. | 00 | 13 | 04 |
To the Sisters for their
Livery. | 06 | 00 | 00 |
To the Ministers of Christs
Church by the King's Assign-
ment; that is to say, a Vi-
car, a Visitor of Newgate, five
Priests, two Clerks, and a Sex-
ton Yearly. | 106 | 00 | 00 |
To the Ministers of the Church
within the Hospital, by the
same Assignment, that is to
say, to a Vicar, a Clerk, and
a Sexton. | 23 | 06 | 8 |
To certain Men of Law, and
other Persons, given in Fees
by the said King's Majesty,
Yearly by Patent. | 28 | 04 | 00 |
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For the Diets of 100 Persons
at 2d. per Day. | 300 | 06 | 08 |
For 68 Loads of Coals at 16s.
per Load. | 54 | 08 | 00 |
For Wood Yearly. | 24 | 00 |
00 |
For Candles Yearly. | 05 | 00 |
00 |
For Yearly Reparation of the
Hospital and Tenements ap-
pertaining to the same. | 40 | 00 | 00 |
Sum of the Charges
certain | 798 | 02 | 00 |
Toward the which was Yearly
received by the Kings En-
dowment. | 333 | 06 | 08 |
And by the like Endowment of
the City of London. | 333 | 06 | 08 |
In the whole | 666 | 13 |
04 |
So the Hospital was charged
Yearly of certain (besides
uncertain) Expences, over
and above the Sum of their
Revenues. | 130 | 08 | 08 |
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Which only arose from the Charity of certain merciful Citizens.
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Of the Antiquity of this Hospital, see more in the Description of Faringdon Ward
without, in which it is seated.
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It may not be amiss to relate the Form of the Charge beforesaid, that was used
to be
given to the new Governors when they were admitted. The whole Company of the
Twelve old Governors, sitting in Assembly together, caused their Clerk to read
unto the
Six newly elected the Charge hereafter following:
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"It may please you to understand, that ye are here elected and chosen, as
Fellow
Governors of this Hospital, to continue by the space of two Years. By all which
time,
according to such laudable Decrees and Ordinances, as have been, and shall be
made,
by the Authority of the Lord Maior, chief Patron hereof, in the Name of the
City, and
the Consent of the Go-
vernors for the time being, all your other Business set apart, as much as you
possibly
may, ye shall endeavour your selves to attend only upon the needful Doings of
this
House, with such a loving and careful Diligence as shall become the faithful
Ministers
of God, whom ye chiefly in this Vocation are appointed to serve, and to whom for
your
Negligences or Defaults herein, ye shall render an Account. For truly ye cannot
be
blameless before God, if after you have set Hand to this good Plough, and
promised
your Diligence to the Poor, ye shall contrariwise turn you Head backward, and
not
perform the Succour that Chirst looketh for at your Hands, and hath witnessed to
be
done to himself, with these Words, Whatsoever ye do to one of these needy
Persons
for my Names sake, the same ye do unto me. And contrariwise, if ye neglect and
despise them ye despise me.
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The Charge to the Governors.
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"
We therefore require and desire every of you, on God's Behalf, and in his most
holy
Name, that ye endeavour your selves, to the best of your Wit and Powers, so to
comfort, order and govern this House, and the Poor thereof, that at the last Day
ye may
appear before the Face of God, as true and faithful Stewards and Disposers of
all such
Things, as shall for the Comfort and Succor of them (during the time of your
Office) be
committed to your Credit and Charge. And this to do we require you faithfully
to
promise in the Sight of God, and Hearing of your Brethren. And so doing We here
admit you into our Fellowship."
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And so likewise had all the Officers, Superior and Inferior, their respective
Charges, in
a certain Form of Words given them, but too long to be here set down, as they
remain
in an old Book, set forth in K. Edward VI. his Reign, called Orders and
Ordinances for
the better Government of the Hospital of St. Bartholomew the less. Which may be
found in the Appendix.
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There was also a pious Form of Thanksgiving, which the Diseased being cured, and
to
be discharged the Hospital, were to repeat upon their Knees in the Hall, before
the
Hospitaler and two Masters of the House at the least, having learned it without
Book
according to the Hospitaler's Charge; which being so decent as well as pious an
Act I
cannot forbear to insert.
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"We magnify and praise thee, O Lord, that so mercifully and favourably hast
looked
upon us, miserable and wretched Sinners, which so highly have offended thy
Divine
Majesty, that we are not worthy to be numbred among thy elect and chosen People.
Our Sins being great and grievous, are daily before our Eyes. We lament and be
sorry
for them, and with sorrowful Heart and lamentable Tears, we call and cry unto
thee for
Mercy. Have Mercy upon us, O Lord, have Mercy upon us, and according to thy
great
Mercy wipe away the Multitude of our Sins: And grant us now, O Lord, thy most
holy
and working Spirit, that setting aside all Vice and Idleness, we may in they
Fear walk,
and go forward in all Virtue and Godliness.
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A Thanksgiving to be said by the Diseased,
when cured and discharged.
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"
And for that thou hast moved, O Lord, the Hearts of godly Men, and the Governors
of
this House, to shew their exceeding Charity towards us, in curing of our
Maladies and
Diseases, we yield most humble and hearty Thanks to thy Majesty, and shall
incessantly laud and praise thy most holy and glorious Name, beseeching thee,
most
gracious and merciful Lord, according to thy holy Word and Promise, so to bless
thine
own Dwelling House, and the faithful Ministers thereof, that there be here found
no
lack, by that their Riches and Sub-"
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