Continued Friday 14th. June 1782

Limitations and Trusts as in the said Charters or
Letters Patent are expressed and contained.

And whereas the said Mayor and Commonalty
and Citizens of the said City of London in Pursuance
and by Virtue of such Charlers or Letters Patent took
upon themselves the Management and Government of
the said several Hospials and made several Orders &
Regulations touching the sameAnd Whereas
at a General Court holden at Christs Hospitals upon the
27th. Day of September 1557 by the Governors of all the
said Hospials It was Ordered and agreed that
the said Hospital of Saint Bartholomew should from
thenceforth be united to the rest of the said Hospitals
and be made one Body with them and that for the
Government of all the said Hospitals Sir Martin Bowes< no role >
Knight then an Alderman of the City of London should
be Controller General and Sir Andrew Judde< no role > Knight
then also an Alderman should be Surveyor General
and that three Aldermen a Treasurer and eight other
Citizens therein named and described should be Governors
for each and every of the said Hospitals and such Hospitals
respectively from thenceforth continued under the same
kind of Management with a small Increase of Governors
down to the Year 1564 when upon the 21st. Day of
September in that Year (being Saint Mathew's Day)
A President Treasurer and other Governors were chosen
at Christs Hospital for each of the said Hospitals and
these Elections upon Saint Mathews Day were continued
annually down to the Year 1587 and form that Period
Courts were at several times held at Christs Hospital
down to the Year 1652 inclusing for Electing or
Confirming Governors of the said Hospitals respectively
but not Yearly or in the same regular manner as
then to fore and Courts were also held during that Period