Continued Wednesday 13th. February 1765
And We further find that afterwards to wit in the Year
1557 Ordinances and Rules were drawn out for the good Government
of the House of Bridewell and for the Establishment of Manufactures
there And it was thereby declared that the House should have
Continuance for the Oppression of Idleness the Enemy of all Virtue and the
Nourisher of good Exercise the Conqueror of all Vice: and the Policy of the
three Hospitals in thereby declared to be first To Train up the Beggars Child
in Virtuous Exercise that of Him Should Springno more Beggars their to
place the Sore and Aged Person that he might have relief and Succour; to
Yield relief to the Poor and honest House holder being decayed and last
of all to force and compel the Idle Strumpet and Vagabond to honest and
Virtuous Exercise So that the lew'd and idle Sort should remain in
Bridewell to Labour so long as they were whole & being sick to be brought
to St Thomas's Hospital and recovering again his or their Health to be
returned from whence they came and not set at Liberty in the Highways
as it hath been accustomed, by means whereof was made of a Sick Beggar
an whole Thief; and like manner the Child brought up in Christs
Hospital if he were of good Capacity then to be Trained in Learning
if he were not apt to Learning then to commit him to some one
Occupation or other: if he were Sickto be Committed to St. Thomas's
Hospital and when he were whole to be returned to Christs Hospital, if
he were lew'd and Idle then to be brought to Bridewell and thus these three
Houses or Hospitals that is to say Christs St Thomas's & Bridewell are
So linked together as the one Serveth the other and the one may not be
without the other; and whose ever thinketh well of the one must think
well of the other and whose thinketh not well of all thinketh well of
none. And by such Ordinances and Rules directions are given touching
the Manufactures there; & particularly for Cloth making, Smythe and
Nailmaking and Encreasing the Number of Apprentices to the intent
the same Apprentices being themselves Perfect might Train and Teach
such Poor Children or other Needy People as then after should be called out
of the hateful Life of Idleness: and for the Appointment of Comptrollers &
other Officers for the regulation & good Management of the same House

And We further find by several Leases made and Executed
in or about the Year of our Lord 1557 Houses and Apartments within
the said House or Hospital were demised to divers Persons therein named
who were Appointed Taskmasters for the Management & Improvement of
different Manufactures and bringing up Apprentices to the same But it
does not Appear to Us that after the Year 1601 (when the Statute of 43d of
Queen Elizabeth was made for the relief of the Poor giving Power to Build
Work houses which have been since Erected in many Parishes in this Kingdom
that any Taskmasters have been Elected & taken in to the said Hospital

And we also find that it appears by several Orders made by this
Court 160 Years since & upwards that Artsmasters were & had been before
Established there upon Condition that they took & received such Apprentices
as should be placed with them by the governors of the same Hospital and
should instruct them in their several Trades and Occupations and that such
Artsmasters and their Apprentices were become so Numerous soon after that
Orders were made so long ago as the Year 1606 for intring their respective