Continued Wednesday 30th April 1783

Visitation of God were become dangerous to the
Community Accordingly the growing Charity was
Cherished not only by Citizens, upon whose Notice it
more immediately pressed but by others who had Judgmt.
to select proper Objects of their Attention and Ability
to Assist them. And here the Mind which rejoices
to Indulge the Pleasing Sensations of benevolence
cannot but feel the warnest glow when it Perceives
how much the Hospital of Bethlem has been Indebted
to secret unknown Benefactors Private Charity may
not Perhaps excite and animate others so much as
Public Benefactions but it affords the strongest
Recommendation of the Institution which it favors.
He who Conceals his good Decds cannot Possibly be
Influenced by any other than the purest motives it
is the Merits of the Objects only that he regards these
he weighs well before he gives his Alms and he is
Seldom mistaken in their Application

About the Year 1644 it was under
Consideration to enlarge the Old Hospital but the
Situation was too Close and Confined to allow of its
being rendered a Commodions Asylum for the Numerous
distracted Persons of both Sexes that claimed its
Protection and Probably the dreadful Commotions of
that period checked the Idea of Improvement. When
Peace and legal Government were restored and England
had rest from the Violence with which it had been
Convals'd the Concerns of civil Society were again attended
to and it became a matter of Serious Deliberation to
Build a New Hospital .