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

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Image 404 of 79413th March 1772


Continued Thursday 17th. December 1772

"Wife until all the same Annuities shall cease if She my said
"Wife shall solong live to and for her own use and benefit And
"in Case my said Wife shall happen to Die before all the said
"Annuities shall cease then upon further Trust and my
"meaning is that such Surplus and also such Increase thereof
"as aforesaid if any shall from such the decease of my said Wife
"be paid unto the Person or Persons who after the decease of my
"said Wife shall by this my Will be entitled to the Surplus of
"my Personal Estate and from and after the decease of
"the Survivor of them the said Eliza Le Counte< no role > Peter Le Counte< no role >
"and Henrietta Dover< no role > the Annuitants aforesaid them upon
"further Trust and my Will is and I do hereby direct that they
"the said James Van Sommer< no role > and Francis Perigal< no role > and the
"Survivor of them and the Executors and Administrators of such
"Survivor do and shall sell and dispose of the said Ground Rents
"for the best Price or Prices that can be got for the same and pay
"one Moiety of the money arising by such sale unto the
"treasurer for the time being of Bethlem Hospital and the other
"Moiety thereof unto the treasurer for the time being of Saint Lukes
"Hospital to be applied and disposed of for the support and
"Maintenance of the said Hospitals in such manner as the
"respective governors of the said Hospitals shall think fitn

Legacies Reversionary
to be inquird after


It is Ordered that the Clerk do see what reversionary
Legacys have been left to either of the Hospitals and Report
the same to the Count

Price Thos< no role > . put out Appr.
Ms Fettey Thos< no role > . Do.


At this Court the following Poor Boys were Ordered to
be put and Apprentices (Viz)
Thomas Price< no role >
Thomas Mossetley< no role >

Nowers Samuel< no role > Lease
to assign his Lease


Upon Reading the Humble Petition of Samuel Nowers
settingforth that the governors of Bethlem Hospital did by
Indenture of Lease bearing date the 7th Day of May 1738
demise unto John Baker< no role > of the Parish of Saint Leonard
Shoreditch in the County of Middlesex Carpenter All that Piece
or Parcel of Ground situate on the East side of Globe Yard in
Old Bethlem in the Parish of Saint Botolph without
Bishopsgate London whereon Ten Brick Messuages were
newly Erected and Built by the said John Baker< no role > To hold
to the said John Baker< no role > from Lady day then last past for the
Term of 60 Years at the yearly Rent of £14..10s payable Quarterly
That by Indenture of Mortgage bearing date the 12th. Day of
October 1738 the said John Baker< no role > Assigned over the said Demised
Premises to Mary Reeve< no role > for the Residue of the said Term for securing
the payment of £574-10s and InterestThat by Indenture
bearing date the 25th. Day of September 1746 the said John Baker< no role >
together with Mr. Theobald and Mr. Smart Trustees Appointed for




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