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appears by the Court Books belonging to Christ's
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Hospital aforesaid that at a Court holden on
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the 21st.. day of September (being Saint Matthew's
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day) a PresidentTreasurer and other Govrs..
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were chosen for such Hospitals respectively And
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it also appears by such last mentioned Court
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Books that an Annual Election of Governors was
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continued at subsequent Courts holden in
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Christ's Hospital aforesaid till in or about the
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year 1587 from which time until in or about
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the year 1655 the like Courts for such Election
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as aforesaid appear by the same Court Books
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to have been several times held but not Yearly
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or in the same regular manner and it doth not
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appear by any of the Court Books belonging to the
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aforesaid Hospitals or any or either of them
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-that such Annual Elections on Saint Matthews
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day were kept up or observed after the said Year
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1655 from which time or soon after until the Year
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1683 in appears that the Governors were chosen at
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General Courts or Committees holden at the said
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Hospitals respectively and that in the said Year
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1683 and for several years after the President
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Treasurer Governors and Officers of the said
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Four several Hospitals were from time to time
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appointed by certain Commissioners authorized
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by his late Majesty King Charles the Second
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for the regulating of the said Hospitals and that
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as well in the last as in the present Century
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down to the present time the President Treasurer
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Governors and Officers of the said Hospitals have
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been from time to time appointed at the
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Nomination and by the choice of the respective
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Governors of such several Hospitals at their
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