Continued Thursday 25th. Novr. 1779.

the Descriptions of the Mayor and Commonally and
Citizens of the City of London governors of the Possessions
Revenues and Goods of the said Hospitals respectively
and that at a Court held by the Lord Mayor & Alderman
of the said City on the 16th. day of June in the 4th. & 5th. Years
of the Reign of Phillip and Mary an Order or Entry was
made in the Words or figures or to the purport following
"Richard Grafton< no role > brought in there the Common Seal then
lately devised made and Appointed for the Affairs and
Sealing of Writings of and concerning the several Houses
of Christ Hospital Bridewell and Saint Thomas's Hospital
in Southwark which was forthwith delivered in a little
Purse to the Chamberlain safely to be kept and that at
another Court of the Lord Mayor and Alderman of the said
City held on the 4th. day of November in the 3d. Year of the
Reign of Queen Elizabeth It was that day Ordered and
Agreed by the Court there that the Chamberlain should pay
to Mr. Alderman Bowes without delay £4..6s..0d which
his Mastership had already disbursed for the making of
a New Seal of Sliver and for some Silver put into the same
Seal more than was before in the Old Seal newly devised to
serve for the Affairs and Writings that should at any time
thereafter be made to pass under Seal for any Lands Leases
of Lands or Tenements or other things whatsoever belonging or
Appertaining to any of the Hospitals of the same City or to
Bridewell the House of Poor or Bethlem and that he the said
Chamberlain should receive and take up again the same Sum
of £4..6s..0d of the governors of the said House of Poor And it
was also further Ordered Granted and Agreed That the said
new Seal shod. always from thenceforth remain and be kept
in the Chamber of the said City by the Chamberlain of the same
City for the time being in a Purse Sealed with the Seals of
the Lord Mayor of the same City for the time being and of
such of the Aldermen of the said City of the Grey Cloke as