that soon after the great Fire of London Houses and Shops were made in
the Buildings within the Cloisters & precinct of the Hospital for the
Convenence of the Inhabitants of London (then in great distress for Houses)
who Occupying the same for their own Benefit became rateable and
Chargeable to the Poors rates That about the year 1730 some of the
Antient Buildings and Wards of the Hospital and some of the said
Houses & Shops having become ruinous were pulled down and by the
Donation of Govrs and other Benefactors four large Piles of Building have
been progressively Erected and are now used for the Hospital one of
which Piles or Wings contain a Hall a Compling House and other Rooms
which are used for Meetings of the Governors receiving Rents examining
and admission of Patients House for the Clerk and Appartment for the Stewart
And the other three Piles of Buildings are used for Wars for the Patients
and their Nurses only and that an Elaboratory also has been Erected for the
Service of the Hospital only upon Ground within the Liberty and Precinct
thereof That one of the sd. Piles or Buildings of the Hospital being finished
about the year 1758 the Churchwardens & Overseers of the Poor of the pause
of St. Bartholomew the less Assessed & rated the said Governors for such
Wards for the Poor the sum of £20 for and towards the Relief of the
poor of the said Parish as & for Lands on which Stood Tenements &
Houses by them Pulled down and demolished the Tenants whereof were used
to be Charged in the poors rate of 8s4 Weekly & have Continued that hath
ever since And that the said Parish Officers have Assessed & rated the Govr.
to the said Parish Poors Rate £2.8.0 Per Ann for & in respect of such
Elaboratory where Houses Stood which were used to be Charged to the
Poors rate by Quarterly assessments That all the said four Piles of
Buildings being finished in 1766 the Governors Pulled down nineteen
Old Houses and Shops (part of the said Antient Buildings) to make an
Area to the Hospital for the Benefit of the Patients which is a wide
Space of Ground of about 66 Yards by 60 for which the Parish Officers
have assessed and rated the said Governors at £41.5.0 P ann which is £10.6.3
P Quarter and which said Sums of £2.8d.0s £20.0.0 and £41.5.0 making
in all £63.13.0 are (over and above what is Charged upon their respice
Officers residing in this Hospital) and werewasfor the year 1767 and now Continues
to be assessed and rated on the said Governors in respect of the premises
Whereby the Complainants and Appellants conceived themselves aggrieved
and prayed [..] Relief from the Court The matter of which said Complaint
and