upon Ground within the liberty and Precinct thereof
which the said Church Wardens Overseers and
Inhabitants have assessed after the Rate of Two
pounds Eighteen shillings a Year as followeth
that is to say "The Mayor and Commonalty and
"Citizens of the City of London Governors of that
"House of the Poor commonly called Saint Bartholomews
"Hospital near West Smithfield London of the
"Foundation of King Henry the Eight for their
"Elaboratory where Several Houses stood which
"were used to be charged in the poors Rate
"12s..0d.Quarterly
which rate hath been continued and now
continues to be rated to the detriment and loss of
the Charity. And that all the said four Pyles
of Buildings being finished in One thousand seven
hundred and Sixty Six the Governors pulled down
Nineteen Old Houses and Shops (part of the said
antient Buildings) to make an Aron to the Hospital
for the benefit of the Patients which is a said
can occupied space of Grand of about Sixty Six
Yards by Sixty for which the said Parish Officers
have assessed and rated the said Governors after the
rate of forty one pounds five shillings a Year as
followeth that is to say "The Mayor Commonalty
"and Citizens of the City of London Governors of the
"House of the Poor commonly by called Saint