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<p n="1021">Continued Wednesday 30th. April 1783.</p>
<p n="1022">In the Year 1675 this great work was begun<lb></lb>
The Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common Council of<lb></lb>
the City of London Allotted to the Governors a large<lb></lb>
Piece of Ground near London Wall on the South Side of<lb></lb>
the tower quarter of Moorfields<del>where the Hospital of<lb></lb>
Bethlem now Stands. The Expedition with which this</del>
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stalely fabric was Compleated Challenges our Admiration From<lb></lb>
an Inscription over the Arch facing the Entrance into the<lb></lb>
<del>Hospital it appears that</del>
it was begun in April 1675<lb></lb>
and finished in July the following Year. So Active was<lb></lb>
the Zeal that quickend the growth of this Noble Sbuctive<lb></lb>
The Generosity of the Contributors must have been equal<lb></lb>
to their Attention for the Charge of the Building<lb></lb>
amounted to no less a Sum than £17.000<lb></lb>
<del>And never it may be truely Asserted were Expence</del>
<lb></lb>
and Trouble better bestowed the Hospital of Bethlem<lb></lb>
stands an illustrious monument of British Charity and<lb></lb>
wher. we consider the decent magnificence of the Building the<lb></lb>
Commodious arrangement of the interior Apartmts. on the effectual<lb></lb>
relief which it reaches out to the Poor objects whom it Shelters we<lb></lb>
may safely pronounce that it is not to be panallelld in the whole World</p>
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