Bridewell Royal Hospital:
Minutes of the Court of Governors
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12th July 1792 - 31st January 1800

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Image 55 of 37829th November 1792


Bridewell and Bethlem
Hospitals London}


At a Court held at the
said Hospital of Bridewell
on Thursday 29th. November
1792 .

The Right Worshipful Brass Crosby< no role > Esqr. Alderman President
The Right Worshipful Richard Clark< no role > Esqr . Alderman Treasurer
Henry Cranke< no role > Esqr Auditor General

Peter Perchard< no role > Esqr Francis Hammond< no role > Esqr Mr. Deputy Wilson
John Birch< no role > Esqr John Read< no role > Esqr Thomas Nixon< no role > Esqr.
Mr. Richard Till< no role > John Addington< no role > Esqr Edward Parry< no role > Esqr
Mr. William Phillips< no role > Mr Thomas Nixon< no role > Benjamin Kenton< no role > Esqr.
William Waddington< no role > Esqr John Roebuck< no role > Esqr George Godwin< no role > Esqr.
John Farrer< no role > Esqr Hammond Crosse< no role > Esqr Mr Gabriel Leckey< no role > Junr.
John Frost Widmore< no role > Esqr Mr. John Watts< no role > Robert Bland< no role > M. D.
Thomas Calverly< no role > Junr. Esqr William Chamberlayne< no role > Esqr John Holliday< no role > Esqr
Robert Sherson< no role > Esqr John Jackson< no role > Esqr Cecil Pitt< no role > Esqr
Edward Bigg< no role > Esqr William Willis< no role > Esqr The Revd Moses Wight< no role >
The Revd. Osborn Wight< no role > The Revd. Thomas Bowen< no role > Mr. Richard Woodhouse< no role >

The Minutes of the last Court were read and confirmed

The several Minutes of the House Committee of the 5th. September the 3rd. October and the
7th. November were read from which it appears that the Committee had transacted the
following business

They recommend John Roebuck< no role > Esqr. George Godwin< no role > Esqr. John Hodgson Durand< no role > Esqr. William
Pill
< no role > Esqr. Doctor William Austin< no role > and John Meyrick< no role > Esqr. as proper persons to be Governors
of these Hospitals.

Lincolnshire Recr.
discontinued


They had directed the Clerk to acquaint Mr. Bourn that the Office of Lincolnshire
Receiver is discontinued by order of Court and to desire he will receive the rents up to
Lady Day last and make up his accounts to the same period as soon as he conveniently
couldAnd

Emmett, Mr. Peregrine< no role >
offered himself as
Bailiff.


Mr. Peregrine Emmitt< no role > having offered himself as Bailiff to the Lincolnshire Estates and
recommended a mode of letting the Royalties and Tythes there the Committee had Resolved
that Mr. Emmitt be recommended to the Court as a proper person for Bailiff with a Salary of
£30 per Annum to commence from Michaelmas Day last he first giving security for £1000
himself and two sureties and that it be his duty to superintend the management of the Estates
in that County collect the rents there under £20 per Annum pay the Quit rent thereout and
remit the Balance to the Steward of Bridewell and that he also give notice to the other
Tenants in that County to remit their rents when due and see that the same be remitted
accordinglyAnd
the Committee directed the Clerk to communicate the above recommendation to Mr. Emmitt to




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