Continued Friday 14th. June 1782

at and for the said Hospitals for Nominating or
Electing Governors of those Hospitals respectively and for the
Management thereof and from and after that time it does not
Appear that such Annual Elections on Saint Mathew's Day
were kept up or observed at Christs Hospital for Nominating or
Electing Governors of the said Hospitals respectively save only
for Confirmation of the Governors Elected at the said Hospitals
But it appears that the Governors of the said Hospitals of Saint
Bartholomew Christ Bridewell and Bethlem respectively have
been chosen at General Courts or Committees holden at the said
Hospitals from and after the said Year of our Lord 1652 down
to the Present timeAnd Whereas it also appears
by Ancient Records or Entires and otherwise that Lists of the
Governors chosen for the said Hospitals of Saint Bartholomew
Bridewell and Bethelem and Saint Thomas have been
annually rent from those Hospitals to Christs Hospital previous
to the Meeting of the said Governors on Saint Mathew's Day
for Confirmation and that such Lists have constantly been
delivered to the Clerk of Christ Hospital and by him together with
a List of Governors of Christs Hospital presented to the Lord Mayor
of the City of London for the time being and by his Lordship
immediately delivered over or directed to be delivered over Yearly
and every Year at that time and place to the Town Clerk of the
same City Attending his Lordship on those Meetings in the
Presence of the Aldermen or great part of them without
making any Objection to or Attempting to alter in any respect
the Annual Lists of Governors so delivered or that made of
Confirmation which Practice or usage hath been continued
as to all the said Hospitals to the Present time save and
Except that the Presidents Treasurers Governors and Officers
of the said several Hospitals were for same Years appointed
by certain Commissioners Authorized by his late Majesty King
Charles the second for the Regulation of the said Hospitals.

And Whereas great benefit hath been de [..] ed to the
Charitable Instituion of the said Hospitals from such Mode