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<p n="2714">Thursday <rs type="date" id="BBBRMG20205_date264">14th. Octr. 1731</rs>
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<p n="2715"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Govr. elected</note>
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Upon reading a Report form the Committee of this House bearing date the seventeenth<lb></lb>
day of Septr. last setting forthThat in pursuance of an Order of Court of the 15th. of<lb></lb>
January last This Comittee having considerd of Mr. <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20205_n2715-1">John Boyfeild</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20205_occ4422">Scarlet Dyer</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20205_geo1215">Southwark</rs>
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who was nominated by <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20205_n2715-3">John Elderton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20205_occ4423">Esqr</rs>
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. to be one of the Govrs. of these Hospitals<lb></lb>
It is the opinion of this Comitee that he is a very proper person to be a Governor if the<lb></lb>
Court shall think fit All which never the less is submitted to the Judgment of the Court<lb></lb>
And it is ordered that this opinion be reported to the next CourtThis Court doth<lb></lb>
elect the said Mr. Boy feild to be one of the <rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20205_occ4424">Governors of these Hospitals</rs>
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And it is <lb></lb>
ordered that a Staff be sent to him accordingly</p>
<p n="2716"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20205_occ4425">Apprentice</rs>
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Indre dat 4th. July 1732.</note>
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At this Court <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20205_n2716-1">John Richards</rs>
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a poor Boy at the nomination of the Right<lb></lb>
Honourable The Earl of Scarsdall was ordered to be put out Apprentice to</p>
<p n="2717"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Apprentice made free</note>
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At this Court <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20205_n2717-1">Thomas Cole</rs>
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was ordered to be <rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20205_occ4426">made free</rs>
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of this City having servd<lb></lb>
his <rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20205_occ4427">apprenticeship</rs>
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in this Hospital to <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20205_n2717-2">Benjamin Thatcher</rs>
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one of the <rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20205_occ4428">arts masters</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
this Hospital P Indre dated 16th. Septr. 1723.</p>
<p n="2718"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20205_n2718-6">Weden - wm</rs>
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. - <rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20205_occ4429">Shoemaker</rs>
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Elected <rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20205_occ4430">Artsmaster</rs>
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}</note>
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Upon reading the Several humble Petitions of <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20205_n2718-1">Richard Holliwell</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20205_occ4431">weaver</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20205_n2718-2">Martin Newth</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20205_n2718-7">William Wenden</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20205_occ4432">Shoemakers</rs>
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each praying to be admitted an<lb></lb>
Artsmaster of this Hospital in the room of Mr. <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20205_n2718-3">John Mill</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20205_occ4433">Weaver</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20205_occ4434">deced</rs>
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& to take as<lb></lb>
many Apprentices as the Court shoud think fit and the Question being put whether a<lb></lb>
Weaver or a Shoemaker should be now chosen It was Ordered that a Shoemaker be<lb></lb>
elected and then the said <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20205_n2718-4">Martin Newth</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20205_n2718-5">William Wenden</rs>
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being put in nomination<lb></lb>
the plurality of hands appeared to be for the said William Wenden Whereupon It is<lb></lb>
Ordered that the said William Wenden (upon delivering a Certificate of his Settlement<lb></lb>
to the Clark and producing a Copy of his freedom of this City & giving Security as ususal<lb></lb>
in the like cases) be admitted an <rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20205_occ4435">Artsmaster</rs>
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of this Hospital untill the next Election<lb></lb>
day And it is further Ordered That he have such apartment (as the Comittee of<lb></lb>
this House shall direct.)</p>
<p n="2719"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20205_n2719-3">Bayus - Mrs. Sarah</rs>
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- her Leqacy<lb></lb>
& £1000 to Bethlem }</note>
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This Court being acquainted that Mrs. <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20205_n2719-1">Sarah Baylis</rs>
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late of the <rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20205_geo1216">Parish of Lee</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20205_geo1217">County<lb></lb>
of Kent</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20205_occ4436">Spinster</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20205_occ4437">deced</rs>
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by her Will bearing date on or about the 17th. day of October 1730 Did<lb></lb>
amongst other things be queath as follows Vizt. Item I give to the <rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20205_occ4438">President</rs>
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& Treasurer of<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20205_geo1218">Hospital of Bethlem</rs>
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erected for Incurables One thousand pounds In Trust for the<lb></lb>
poor people of the said Hospital which the said <rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20205_occ4439">President</rs>
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& Treasurer are to receive in the Stock<lb></lb>
of The<obscured></obscured>
ited Company of Merchants trading to the East Indies which Stock I do order my<lb></lb>
Executor hereafter named to transferr to them six Months after my Decease for the purpose<lb></lb>
aforesaid and of her said Will made Mr. <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20205_n2719-2">Richard Titterton</rs>
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sole <rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20205_occ4440">Executor</rs>
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and the Clerk<lb></lb>
of these Hospitals acquaninting the Court That he had by the direction of the Treasurer & the<lb></lb>
Comettee of this House laid a Copy of the said Will before Mr. Attorney General with a Quare<lb></lb>
Whether the Hospital is to have £1000. Stock or only so much Stock as at the Current<lb></lb>
price will amount to £1000 Money& that Mr. Attorney General had under written his<lb></lb>
opinion as followsVizt. I cannot say that this Case is perfectly clear, but taking all<lb></lb>
the words of the Clause together I apprehend that the Hospital is entitled only to so much Stock<lb></lb>
as at the Current price will amount to £1000 in money according to the value of the Stock <lb></lb>
at the end of six months after the Testatrix's deceasewhich being read unto this Court<lb></lb>
If was moved that a Bill in Chancery be brought agt. the Executer of the said Will for the<lb></lb>
opinion of the Court whether the Governors of the Hospital of Bethlem are to have<lb></lb>
£1000 in money or £1000. in east India Stock It is ordered that the consideration,<lb></lb>
thereof be deferrd till the next Court.</p>
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