St Thomas's Hospital:
Minutes of the Court of Governors
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20th February 1678 - 16th July 1735

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Image 246 of 45810th December 1707


in St. Thomas's Parish , And of a small Tenement in an Alley
leading to the Tents in the same Parish For our Purchasing of his
Interest in the said Two old Tenements wherein he had at Midd.
last about Sixteen Yeares to Come at £5.6s. P Ann For
Thirty Five pounds, We Conceiving it will be for the Advantage
of the Hospll. to Lett the said Tenements to be Rebuilt with a
large peice of Ground lying contiguous to the said Old Houses
And We have Agreed to Lett him the said other small Tenemt.
for One and Twenty Yeares from Lady day 1709. at which
time the present Lease Expires At the Old yearely Rent
of Eleven Shill For a Fine of £50. which he paid down.

George Smiths< no role >
Grant.


And Wee have Agreed with George
Smith
< no role > Bricklayer . To Grant him a Lease of the Ground lyeing
in the New intended Street in St. Thomas's Parish next to Mr.
Rydoubts House being about Sixty two Foot Front Upon part of
which the said Two old Tenements are now Standing For One &
Fifty Yeares from Michas. 1707. at a Pepper Corne for the
First Yeare, And at £7.54s. P And For the last Fifty yeares
of the said Terme, He is to layout £500. in Building Four or
more New Substantiall Brick Messuages or Tenemts. on the said
Ground within Three Yeares Each Three Storeys high in Front, and
Fronted with Grey Stock Bricks, Collars Forwards, And so much of
the said Ground is to be left for the said new Street as Mr. Trear and
any Two of the Governrs. of the Comittee for the time being shall
sett out for that purpose, He is to have the Old Buildings to
his own Use.

Cold Bath. to be
Erected.


This Comittee upon Adviseing with the Physitians
and Surgeons being of Opinion That a Cold Bath may be
very Necessary in this Hospll. for the Use of such Poor Patients, in
whose Cases the Doctors shall think it propper, have Ordered that
One be forthwith Erected and made in this Hospitall for the Use
of the said Patients.

Isaac Gonyquet
St. Eloy,
Proposall.
[..]

Captain Isaac Gonyquet St. Eloy< no role > our Tennant
of a Messuage with Two Gardens Two Barnes, A Pidgeon House
with Stables and other Out houses thereunto belonging and about Forty
eight Acres of Land lyeing dispersedly in the Comon Feilds in Sunbury
in the County of Middx upon a Lease wherein were Fifteen yeares




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