Bridewell Royal Hospital:
Minutes of the Court of Governors
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26th December 1722 - 15th December 1737

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Image 307 of 49131st March 1732


Friday 31 March 1732

All 3 Cont to Labor

{ MasonCatherine< no role >
StewardRuth< no role > &
ColneyMary< no role > }
P Francis Child< no role > Esqr . Lord Mayor being chargd. by the Oaths
of Joseph Moses< no role > & John Brock< no role > being taken last night stolling
about the Streets & being comon lewd loose idle & disorderly
Psons & giving no good account of their way of living.

Cont to Labor.


TrounleyAnn< no role > P Sr . Richard Brocas< no role > being chargd. by the Oath of Henry
Wright
< no role > for picking him up in the Streets last Night being a loose idle & disorderly Pson
having no vizible way of living.

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To be sent to St. Thomass Hospital


SpurlingMary< no role > . P Sr . Richard Brocas< no role > being chargd by the Oaths of
Richard Cross< no role > Constable & Philip Wright< no role > a Watchman of St. Sepulchres for making a
disturbance in the Street being a loose idle & disorderly Pson.

Ambler - Mr. Humphry< no role > - Petr.
for a Lease of ye. Blew Boar in
Bridewell Precinct - ref. to Comee
to Mids 1671
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1733


Upon Reading the humble Petition of Humphry Ambler< no role > Gent Selling forthThat
ye. Governors of this Hospital by Indre of Lease bearing date ye. 19th. May 1571 Demised to
Mrs. Anne Bream< no role > a House calld by the name of the blew Boar in Bridewell Precinct for
62 years from Midsummer then next at the yearly Rent of £4.15.8And that the
Petitioner as Representative of the said Mrs. Bream became intilted to the said House and
premisses for the residue of the Term which is almost expirdAnd praying that the
Governors will be pleased to grant him a new lease of the said premisses for 21 & Years to
comence from the expiration of the present Lease at ye yearly Rent of £5.-.- & to pay a fine
of ten GuineasIt is ordered That it be referred to the Committee of this House
to consider of the said Petition and to report their Opinion therein to this Court.

Govr. reced. his Charge.


At this Court the Charge was read to William Gore< no role > Esquire as one of the Governors
of these Hospitals .

Governors elected


Upon reading a Report from the Comittee of this Hospital bearing date the 30th.
of March instant setting forthThat in pursuance of an Order of Court of the 28th. of
January last this Comittee having considered of the several Gentlemen following who
were nominated to be Governors of these Hospitals It is the Opinion of this Comittee
that they are very proper persons to be Governors if the Court shall think fit Vizt.

Nominated by

Mr. Walter Barnard< no role > Packer St. HelensMr. Edward Whitehouse< no role >
Malachi Hawtayne< no role > Esqr Wandsworth Surry George Welham< no role > Esqr
Mr. Nevil Lemon< no role > Linendraper Cornhill Mr. James Bartlett< no role >
Mr. John Cook< no role > Vintner Cornhill Mr. President
Thomas Hardy< no role > Esqr Inner Temple Mr. Bezaliel Brownsmith< no role >
Mr. Allen Webb< no role > Druggist Cheapside Mr. Deputy Davis
Sr. George Wynne< no role > Barrtt. Flints hire Mr. Robert Fetherby< no role >
Mr. William Cooper< no role > Builder Grub street Dr. Richard Rawlinson< no role >
Mr. Thomas Skipp< no role > Threedmen Aldersgase Street Mr. Nathaniel Wolfreys< no role >
John Strange< no role > Esqr Chancery Lane Mr. Joshua Hinton< no role >
Mr. John Decton< no role > Indigo Man Forestreet Richard Snow< no role > Esqr .
Mr. William Newland< no role > Naggshead Court Gracechurch Street Mr. William Maigay< no role >
Mr. Stephen Harvey< no role > Barker Threadneedle Street Phineas Cheek< no role > Esqr
All which nevertheless is Submitted to the Judgment of the Court. And it is Ordered
that this Opinion be reported to the next CourtThis Court Doth elect the
said Gentlemen to be Governors of these Hospitals . And it is Ordered that Staffs
be sent to them accordingly.




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