Bridewell Royal Hospital:
Minutes of the Court of Governors
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12th January 1738 - 4th April 1751

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Image 430 of 52410th March 1749


Continued Friday 10th. March 1748/9

Sc [..] Mosses & Co To have
Two of Warehouses (No. 21a 21b)
inter Bethlem}


Upon Reading a Report from the Comittee of this House bearing date the 2d. Marchh 1748/9
under the hands of Edward Holloway< no role > Esqr . Trear, Dr . Richard Rawlinson< no role > Mr. John Forty< no role > , Mr. William
Fletcher
< no role > , and Thomas Carew< no role > Esqr . as followsMr. William Seward< no role > on behalf of Messrs. Cater
and Compa Proposed to take the Warehouse (No. 25) under the East and of Bethlem Hospital (now
in Occupation of Mr Gideon Ley< no role > his) from Laday next to Michas following at £8.1s rent for the
said half year and to take a lease of that Warehouse and the Warehouse adjoyning East and of it
(No. 21b) from Michas next for 10 Years at £35 P Ann rent payable Quaterly at the Compiling
House at Bridewell Hospital and to exemters Counterpart of such Lease what will expire
with another Lease they have (No. 22) of the Warehouse Adjoyning Eastward The Comittee
of Opinion to Accept the said Proposal All which is Nevertheless habitated to the Judgment of
the Court And it is Ordered that this Opinion be Reported to the CourtThis Court having
duly Weighed and Considered the said Report doth Confirm the same

HodgesJohnTo have
Lease of House at Wapping
( No. 24a b)


Upon Reading a Report from the Comittee of this House bearing date she 18th. day of
Janry 1748/9 under the hands of Edward Holloway< no role > Esqr . Trear, Do. Richard Rawlinson< no role > St Thomas
[..] Esqr . Setting forthThat John Hodges< no role > of the Parish of St John Wapping in the County
of Middlesex Carpenter proposes to take a Lease of a Messuage or Tenement in Wapping (No [..] a b)
late in the Occupation of Dowsey for 2 Years from Xmas 1748 at the Yearly Rent
of £4 payable Quarterly clear of Taxes at the Compling House at Bridewell Hospital and
to take the House in the Condition it is now in and to lay out £83..13.- in repairs
According to an Estimate Signed by him, And that all Locks, Keys, Bolts Barrs, Partitions
Chimney Peices, Hearths, and other things (Except Shelves and Uttonsills in the shop)
which are now or shall hereafter during the Term be set up in the Pines shall be left
at the enf of the TermAnd the said John Hodges< no role > being called in proposed to make
the rent £5 a yearWhereupon the Comettee haveing Considered the said Proposals
are of Opinion to Accept the same upon which the said John Kedges gave half a Guinea
to the Poors boxAll which is nevertheless submitted to the Judgment of the Court
And it is Ordered that this Opinion be reported to the CourtThis Court having duly
Weighed & Considered the said Report doth Confirm the same And Order that a Lease
be made to the John Hodges< no role > Accordingly.

Apprentices

At this Court the following Poor boys were Ordered to be put out Apprentices at
the Nomination of the Governors here in after Named Vizt.

Nominated by

Indre dated 16th. June 1749

JohnsonJohn< no role > of St. Martin in the City Com York to Abra Phillips< no role > Robt.Fotherby< no role > Esqr
ChildHenry< no role > toMr. Barnaby Backwell< no role >

Apprentices free

At this Court the Persons hereunder Named were Ordered to be made free of this City
having Served their Apprenticeships in thos Hospital to the Arts masters hereunder
written Vizt.

LanderThos< no role > .to William Wellden< no role > by Indre dated 13th. Novr. 1740
GarlandJohn< no role > to William Dell< no role > by Indre dated 26th. Octr. 1741




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