Bridewell Royal Hospital:
Minutes of the Court of Governors
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7th January 1762 - 15th March 1781

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Image 260 of 79427th July 1768


Continued Wednesday 27th. July 1768

Parliament to this great and respectable Corporation) will not
adopt any Scheme detrimental and destructive to the Rights
and Property of your Memorialists (Members of the same
Venerable Body acting also as Trustees of a Charity whereof
many of you have been the Worthy & generous Supporters)
merely upon a disputable Opinion of speculative Magnificence

Your Memorialists therefore Earnestly request
that (through your Worships kind Interposition
Favour) the proposed Scheme may not be carried
into Execution but that the present spacious
Opening terminating upon Fleet Market as now
used may continue to be the Street or Avenue to
the said Bridge and that your Worships (Considering
yourselves as Guardians and Protectors of this
Publick Charity) will take such prudent and
moderate Measures in Executing the Powers
Committed to your Care by the said Act as will
effectually secure and perpetuate to your Memorialists
and their Trust the Use and Enjoyment of their
antient the good & landable Intentions of their
Munificent Founder and Benefactors

Order of Court to deliver
Memorial to Bridge
Committee & to Refer it to
the House Committee to
Treat with Bridge Commee
& Report


Now upon Reading the said several Orders Reports and
Memorial It is Unanimously agreed that the said last mentd.
Report and Memorial be and the same are hereby approved
and Confirmed And It is thereupon Ordered That the Clerk
of these Hospitals do sign the said Memorial and Deliver the
same to the Clerk of the Worshipful Committee for building
the said Bridge And It is further Ordered that the Committee
of this Hospital be at Liberty and they are hereby Impowered
to treat with the Worshipful the Committee for building the
said Bridge upon the several Matters mentioned & contained
in the said several Orders Reports and Memorial And to
Certify to this Court the Result of their Proceedings with
their Opinion thereon Whereupon such further Order shall
be made as may be just and reasonable.

Report of House Commee
as to Embankment


Upon Reading a Report of the Committee of this Hospital
under the hands of William Kinleside< no role > Esquire treasurer Mr.
Jonathan Granger< no role > Mr. John Hall< no role > Charles Brown< no role > Esqr . Mr. Chas.
Hoyle
< no role > and Henry Cranke< no role > Esqr . in the Words & Figures following Vizt.

To the Right Worshipful the President the Treasure
and governors of Bridewell Hospital .

Upon Reading an Act passed in the 7th. Year of his present
Majesty [Intitled an Act for Compleating the Bridge cross
the River Thames from Black fryars om the City of London
to the Opposite Side in the County of Surry and the Avenues




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