9th February 1721/2

ColftonEdwd< no role > Esqr £500 to
Bethlem to be laid out in a [..]
rep to Cornas}

A Clause of the Will of Edward Colston< no role > Esqr . deceased
dated the 26th. day of May 1720 (of which Thomas Edwards< no role > Senr.
Thomas Edwards< no role > Junr. Frances Colston< no role > Henry Hoare< no role > and Robert Carr< no role >
are Trustees and Executors) was read as followeth ViztItem
I Give to the Hospital of St Bartholomew in London £500& to Christ
Church Hospital £1000, and to St Thomas's Hospital in Southwark
£500. and to Bethlem Hospital in Moorfeilds £500 which several
Sumes it is my intent and will shall be laid out in Lands and
hereditaments in fee Simple not only as an addition to increase the
Revenues of each Hospital but also shall be Subject & Leable to the same
Trusts & Rules by wch the sd Hospital are founded & Govern'dAnd my Will
is that none of the said four Sumes Shall be paid to their respective
Treasurers till their Governor s shall have found out & agreed for Lands Rents
& Tenemts to the value of ye Sumes hereby given& the Interest in the
mean time to be applyd to my personal EstateThis Court doth Order
that it be Referred to the Comee of this house to Inquire for a purchase
persuant to the said Will.

CookEdmd< no role > £10 Lock's Gift.

Mr Thomas Niccoll< no role > one of the Governor s of these hospitals Reporting to this
Court that in persuance of an Order of Court of the 17th. of Novr. Last Mr Richd Trubey< no role >
& he had under Inquiry and do find that Edmd. Cook< no role > who served his apprenticeship
in this hospital is sett up for himself in the Trade of a weaver and has the
Character of a diligent Soberman It is Ordered that the Steward of
this Hospital do give and pay unto the said Edmond Cook< no role > Ten pounds out
of Mr Locks Gift.

Apprentice

At this Court the poor Boy hereafter named was ordered to be putt
apprentice at the nomination of the Governor hereafter named Vizt

Indre dat 5th Mar: 1721/2

Cha: Ladbrook< no role > to Obadiah West< no role > P Mr Thomas Parry< no role > Nominated

Holmes Mary< no role > a prisonr. to
be sent to st. Thomas's Hospl. }

Mary Holmes< no role > being Comitted to this Hospital by Warrt of sr Jno. Fryer< no role >
Barrt . for Pilfring money from Susanna Merick< no role > and this Court being informed yt.
She is in a bad Condition wth the foul disease It is Ordered That the said Mary
Holmes< no role > be sent to St Thomas's Hospital in Southwark for Cure & that one of
the Beadle of this Hospital do wait upon the Trear of the sd Hospital & acquaint
him that it is ye desire of this Court that she may be admitted according & that she
may be sent back again hither wch. she shall be dischargd from the sd Hospital of St
Thomas

Ex & Kal