Continued Wednesday 30th. April 1783.

In the Year 1675 this great work was begun
The Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common Council of
the City of London Allotted to the Governors a large
Piece of Ground near London Wall on the South Side of
the tower quarter of Moorfieldswhere the Hospital of
Bethlem now Stands. The Expedition with which this
stalely fabric was Compleated Challenges our Admiration From
an Inscription over the Arch facing the Entrance into the
Hospital it appears that it was begun in April 1675
and finished in July the following Year. So Active was
the Zeal that quickend the growth of this Noble Sbuctive
The Generosity of the Contributors must have been equal
to their Attention for the Charge of the Building
amounted to no less a Sum than £17.000
And never it may be truely Asserted were Expence
and Trouble better bestowed the Hospital of Bethlem
stands an illustrious monument of British Charity and
wher. we consider the decent magnificence of the Building the
Commodious arrangement of the interior Apartmts. on the effectual
relief which it reaches out to the Poor objects whom it Shelters we
may safely pronounce that it is not to be panallelld in the whole World