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Continued Thursday 26th Mar 1752
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of Bridewell till day
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a profits Reported
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Mr. Cottin Mr Jane 1712}
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Upon Reading a Report from the Comittee of this House dated
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18th. March 1752 under the hands of
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Richard Rawlinson
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Edwd. Umfreville
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John Forty
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Vere
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Richard Manby
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John Clark
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Samuel Southouse
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as follows ViztIn
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Pursuance of an order of last Court this Comittee have enquired
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into the Duty and profits of the Office of Steward of this Hospital & imported
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the Account laid before the Court the 6th. of May 1736 by the Officers & Servts.
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of both Hospitals what they Apprehend to be their Care Duty and Trust
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And do conceive that the Duty of the Steward of Bridewell is
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To wait on New Governors with Staves & acquaint them with their Election
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To Collect the rents & Annuitys payable to this Hospital
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To provide and Deliver out the Diet daily for the prisoners
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To receive of the HempDresser what becomes due for the Prisoners Labor
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To Direct the Workmen to do such repairs as Ordered by the Comittee
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To direct such Repairs as by Accidents or decay may become imediately and
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absolutely Necessary to be done and all other of Small Charge and
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Expences not Exceeding 40s.
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To Examine the Workmens and Tradesmens bills & see that they be right, &
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pay them as the Committee directs
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To Attend to all Courts and Comittees of this Hospital to be ready to be called
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in as Occasion shall happen and to Observe such Directions as he shall
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receive from time to time.
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And the Comittee are of Opinion to make a Small Alteration of the
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Order of the 7th. of May 1647 for the Prisoners Diet had that for the pt. time it shoud
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be for each Prisoner for a Day & Night as follows Vizt
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on Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, & Thursdays.
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B Ten Ounces of good beef boyld without boneOne Winchester pint of Pottage
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one penny loaf of the best Wheaten breadOne Winchester quart of one small
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beer at noon and a print at Night
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On Wednesdays, Fridays, & Saturdays
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Three Ounces of butter or four Ounces of good Cheshire or Warwattshire Cheese
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one Winchester pint of good Milk Pottage, and bread and beer as on other days
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And that the Provisions shou'd be weighed and Measured in the presence of
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the Porter or his Man to be Distributed among the Prisoners as usualAnd
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that the Particulars of the Diet shoud be fierly written & hung up in Each of
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the Workshops in this Hospital.
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And this Comittee are of Opinion that the Workmens books wch are now
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left at the Porters stand for the future be left at the Stewards and that the Workmen
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shoud therein Enter every Night all the Work and Materials that day done and
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furnished for this HospitalAnd that the Steward do inspect the Workmen
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Employed in the Hospital or precinct And take an Accot. of the Number of Men
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every day and that he shoud also Weigh & take an Accot. of all Iron, Lead, Stands &c.
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that shall be brot. into or taken out of this House for the use of the Hospital
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And this Comittee find the yearly profits of the Steward to be as follows Vizt
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His Salary £32for Hoses Shoes and Shirts about £2In lieu of pmt. fees £2
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and 7 Chaldon of Coles computed at £10.10In all £46..10
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besides his Appartment in the Hospital & a little profit he may have by that
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And upon the whole M
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er the Comittee are of opinion That as the Steward is
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a place of Trust and a good deal of business the before mentioned Allowances are
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not Adequate to the Care and Trouble And that it woud be proper to increase
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the Steward Salary if the Court shou'd think fit All wch is Nevertheless Submitted
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to the Judgment of the Court. This Court having duly Weighed and Considered
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the said Report doth Confirm the same.
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And it is Ordered that the Stewards Salary of £32 for the future be
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£50 P Ann
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