Your Peticonrs: therefore most humbly his each your sacwer
Majesty That you would be pleased to withdraw your said Commee
That the said Governor: may without any apprehension of your
Majesties displeasure you on cheerfully in the discharge of the trust in
them reposed And that all the said Hospitalls may be [..] ered and
managed (as they have always hitherto been) in such manner as may
redone to the Honour of your Peticonrs: and to the Incouragement
of the Citizens of your City of London and other well disposed
persons largely to constitute to the Support of these noble and
necessary Charities as they have done it times past.

And Etc.

At the Court at St. James's the 17th. day of Aprill 1703.
Present
The Queens most Excellent Majesty in Councill.

Upon Reading this day at the Board the peticon of the Major Comonalty and Citizen
of London Governors of the possessions Revenued and Goods of the Hospitalls of Christ Bridewell
and Sr. Thomas the Apostle relateing to the dismissing Doctor Richard Torlesse< no role > Physician and Mr.
Thomas Elton< no role > Surgeon from the Service of the Hospitall of St. Thomas And humbly praying that the
Governors of the said Hospitall may supply the places of the said Doctor and Surgeon notwithstanding
her Majesties Order in Councill of the 23d. of March last, It is Ordered by her Majesty in Councill
That it be, as it is hereby Referred to Mr. Attorney Generall and Mr. Sollcitor Generall to
Examine the A [..] of the said Peticon (A Coppy whereof is hereunto annexed) and also the
Complaint of the said Doctor Torlesse and Mr: Elton for being removed from their said Employmts:
And to report their Opinion upon the [..] Matter to her Majesty at this Board.

Edward Southwell< no role >

To the Queens most Excellent Majesty.
May it Please your Majesty.

[..]

In Humble Obedience to your Majesties Order in Councill made the 17th. day of this Instant April
Wee have Considered of the annexed peticon of the Mayor Consonalty and Citizen of the
City of London Governors of the Possessions Revenues and Goods of the Hospitalls of Edward
the Sixth King of England of Christ Bridewell and St: Thomas the Apostle whereby they do
beseech your Majesty to discharge your Majestyes Order made the Three and twentieth day of
Marc. last Comanding them not to proceed to Elect a Doctor and Surgeon in the placed of [..]
Richard Torlesse and Mr. Thomas Elton< no role > who were lately removed by the Governors of the Hospital
of St: Thomas in Southwarke And that they way be at Liberty to Elect a Physician and Surgeon
for the said Hospitall The want whereof hath been greatly Inconvenient to the poor lame sick and
diseased people harboured in the said Hospitall And Wee have heard the Councell for the Petrs.
as also for the said Doctor Torlesse and Mr. Elton And do humbly Certify your Majesty That
the said King Edward the Sixth by his Letters patents be areing date the 12th. day of August in
the fifth yeare of his Reinne did Grant to the said Maior Comonalty and Citizens of the
City of London and their Successors The Scite of St. Thomas Hospitall in Southwarke
(then lately dissolved) and severall Messuages thereto the Intent the said late Hospitall
should for ever be a House for the Poor there to be relieve and Justained and be
the Sixth And thereby the said late King did Order and direct that the said Maior
Comonalty and Citizens of London and their Successors out of the Rents Pson and profit
of the said Premisses so granted to them should from time to time for ever provide and Maintain
in the said House of the Pser (amongst other Ministers and Servants) and Apt and Experience
Surgeon to sure the Sick and Infirme there and Apply the reside of the Profitts for the
Support of the poor there.

That the said Ring Edwd. the Sixth by other Lotters Patents having date the 21st.