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14th. Octr. 1731
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Govr. elected
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Upon reading a Report form the Committee of this House bearing date the seventeenth
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day of Septr. last setting forthThat in pursuance of an Order of Court of the 15th. of
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January last This Comittee having considerd of Mr.
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who was nominated by
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John Elderton
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. to be one of the Govrs. of these Hospitals
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It is the opinion of this Comitee that he is a very proper person to be a Governor if the
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Court shall think fit All which never the less is submitted to the Judgment of the Court
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And it is ordered that this opinion be reported to the next CourtThis Court doth
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elect the said Mr. Boy feild to be one of the
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Governors of these Hospitals
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ordered that a Staff be sent to him accordingly
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Indre dat 4th. July 1732.
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At this Court
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John Richards
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a poor Boy at the nomination of the Right
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Honourable The Earl of Scarsdall was ordered to be put out Apprentice to
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Apprentice made free
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Thomas Cole
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was ordered to be
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made free
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of this City having servd
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his
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apprenticeship
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in this Hospital to
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Benjamin Thatcher
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one of the
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arts masters
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of
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this Hospital P Indre dated 16th. Septr. 1723.
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. -
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Elected
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Upon reading the Several humble Petitions of
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Richard Holliwell
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Martin Newth
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William Wenden
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each praying to be admitted an
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Artsmaster of this Hospital in the room of Mr.
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John Mill
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& to take as
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many Apprentices as the Court shoud think fit and the Question being put whether a
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Weaver or a Shoemaker should be now chosen It was Ordered that a Shoemaker be
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elected and then the said
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Martin Newth
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William Wenden
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being put in nomination
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the plurality of hands appeared to be for the said William Wenden Whereupon It is
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Ordered that the said William Wenden (upon delivering a Certificate of his Settlement
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to the Clark and producing a Copy of his freedom of this City & giving Security as ususal
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in the like cases) be admitted an
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of this Hospital untill the next Election
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day And it is further Ordered That he have such apartment (as the Comittee of
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this House shall direct.)
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- her Leqacy
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& £1000 to Bethlem }
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This Court being acquainted that Mrs.
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Sarah Baylis
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late of the
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in the
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deced
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by her Will bearing date on or about the 17th. day of October 1730 Did
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amongst other things be queath as follows Vizt. Item I give to the
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President
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& Treasurer of
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the
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erected for Incurables One thousand pounds In Trust for the
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poor people of the said Hospital which the said
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President
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& Treasurer are to receive in the Stock
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of The
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ited Company of Merchants trading to the East Indies which Stock I do order my
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Executor hereafter named to transferr to them six Months after my Decease for the purpose
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aforesaid and of her said Will made Mr.
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Richard Titterton
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sole
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and the Clerk
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of these Hospitals acquaninting the Court That he had by the direction of the Treasurer & the
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Comettee of this House laid a Copy of the said Will before Mr. Attorney General with a Quare
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Whether the Hospital is to have £1000. Stock or only so much Stock as at the Current
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price will amount to £1000 Money& that Mr. Attorney General had under written his
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opinion as followsVizt. I cannot say that this Case is perfectly clear, but taking all
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the words of the Clause together I apprehend that the Hospital is entitled only to so much Stock
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as at the Current price will amount to £1000 in money according to the value of the Stock
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at the end of six months after the Testatrix's deceasewhich being read unto this Court
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If was moved that a Bill in Chancery be brought agt. the Executer of the said Will for the
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opinion of the Court whether the Governors of the Hospital of Bethlem are to have
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£1000 in money or £1000. in east India Stock It is ordered that the consideration,
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thereof be deferrd till the next Court.
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