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<p n="2965">appears by the Court Books belonging to Christ's<lb></lb>
Hospital aforesaid that at a Court holden on<lb></lb>
the 21st.. day of September (being Saint Matthew's<lb></lb>
day) a PresidentTreasurer and other Govrs..<lb></lb>
were chosen for such Hospitals respectively And<lb></lb>
it also appears by such last mentioned Court<lb></lb>
Books that an Annual Election of Governors was<lb></lb>
continued at subsequent Courts holden in<lb></lb>
Christ's Hospital aforesaid till in or about the<lb></lb>
year 1587 from which time until in or about<lb></lb>
the year 1655 the like Courts for such Election<lb></lb>
as aforesaid appear by the same Court Books<lb></lb>
to have been several times held but not Yearly<lb></lb>
or in the same regular manner and it doth not<lb></lb>
appear by any of the Court Books belonging to the<lb></lb>
aforesaid Hospitals or any or either of them<lb></lb>
-that such Annual Elections on Saint Matthews<lb></lb>
day were kept up or observed after the said Year<lb></lb>
1655 from which time or soon after until the Year<lb></lb>
1683 in appears that the Governors were chosen at<lb></lb>
General Courts or Committees holden at the said<lb></lb>
Hospitals respectively and that in the said Year<lb></lb>
1683 and for several years after the President<lb></lb>
Treasurer Governors and Officers of the said<lb></lb>
Four several Hospitals were from time to time<lb></lb>
appointed by certain Commissioners authorized<lb></lb>
by his late Majesty King Charles the Second<lb></lb>
for the regulating of the said Hospitals and that<lb></lb>
as well in the last as in the present Century<lb></lb>
down to the present time the President Treasurer<lb></lb>
Governors and Officers of the said Hospitals have<lb></lb>
been from time to time appointed at the<lb></lb>
Nomination and by the choice of the respective<lb></lb>
Governors of such several Hospitals at their</p>
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