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

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Image 704 of 79424th December 1778


Continued Thursday 29th.. April 1779.

£ S D

And that the Sum total of the Money
expended for Bethlem Hospital amounts to
£6052.7..5½ the particulars whereof appear
by the Hospital Ledger in fo. 209}
6052..7..5½

Which Sum of £5799..16s..4d the whole of the
Income being deducted out of the £6052..7s..5½d}
5799..16..4

Makes the Expenditure on Account of that
Hospital exceed the Income by. and causes a
deficiency of}
252..11..1½

Which deficiency has been supplied out of the surplus
Rents of Bridewell Hospital .

And we further Certify that the Balances remaining
at Christmas 1778 in the Hands of the treasurer and different
Officers of the Hospitals and Receiver of the Lincolnshire Estate
are as follows Vizt.

In the Hands of
£ s d

Nathl. Thomas< no role > Esqr . treasurer 943..6..2
John Woodhouse< no role > Esqr . Clerk 255..10..3¼
John Griffiths< no role > Steward of Bridewell 46..0..11½

The Representations of William Rashfield< no role >
late Steward of Bethlem }
76..10..6

Henry White< no role > present Steward of Bethlem 36..12..2½
John Bourne< no role > Lincolnshire Receiver 2..11..1½
£1360..11.2¾

And we have in the Schedules to this our Report
annexed setforth the Names of all such Tenants who at Christmas
last were above 9 Months in Arrear with the Sums they
respectively owed and their Annual Rents and in whose
Collection the same areAnd it Appearing to us that an Arrear
of £4.. mentioned to be due from the Drapers Company has been
carried on for several Years in the Hospital Books notwithstanding
upon Inquiry lately made Receipts have been given in full to the
Christmas preceding passing the Accounts We are of Opinion the same-
should be wrote off by the Auditors for the next Year so that
the Accounts of the Hospital may Correspond with those of the Company
Nevertheless the same is Submitted to the Judgment of the Court.




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