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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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Continued Wednesday 30th. April 1783.
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In the Year 1675 this great work was begun
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The Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common Council of
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the City of London Allotted to the Governors a large
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Piece of Ground near London Wall on the South Side of
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the tower quarter of Moorfields
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where the Hospital of
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Bethlem now Stands. The Expedition with which this
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stalely fabric was Compleated Challenges our Admiration From
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an Inscription over the Arch facing the Entrance into the
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Hospital it appears that
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it was begun in April 1675
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and finished in July the following Year. So Active was
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the Zeal that quickend the growth of this Noble Sbuctive
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The Generosity of the Contributors must have been equal
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to their Attention for the Charge of the Building
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amounted to no less a Sum than £17.000
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And never it may be truely Asserted were Expence
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and Trouble better bestowed the Hospital of Bethlem
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stands an illustrious monument of British Charity and
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wher. we consider the decent magnificence of the Building the
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Commodious arrangement of the interior Apartmts. on the effectual
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relief which it reaches out to the Poor objects whom it Shelters we
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may safely pronounce that it is not to be panallelld in the whole World
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