Continued, Thursday 31st. Jany 1799 .

Report
Select Committee

"can be appropriated with greater effect than at
"present to the benefit of its original and proper
"objects conformably to the beneficient intention
"of the Royal Founder, and our Ancestors."

To the Right Honorable the Lord, Mayor President,
the Worshipful the Treasurer and Governors of the
Hospital of Bridewell.

My Lord and Gentleman.

Your Committee, in the discharge of
their Duty and in order to lay the most permanent and
solid foundation they are able for the appropriation of the
Estates and Revenues of the House of Bridewell to the
benefit of its original, and proper objects, conformable to the
beneficent intention of the Royal Founder and our Ancestors
have proceeded to inquire into the nature and extent of such
intention and in the progress of that inquiry your Committee
beg leave to refer to four Instruments. all of the Year 1552 as
the documents from which the original Constitution of
Bridewell is to be ascertained, Vizt.

Four Documents
Considered the
last of which
in the Church
Note all ye
Subsequent
reasoning
knowne draper
there Document

1st. A Supplication of the Poor addressed to the Privy Council
in favour of the foundation of Bridewell.

2d. A Declaration, made to the Privy Council, by the
citizens of London , concerning the uses to which Bridewell,
was intended to be applied.

3d. An Indenture, of the 12th. June 1552 between King
Edward the Sixth, and the Corporation of London, concerning
the intended Grant of Bridewell for the purpose stated in
the Declaration, above mentioned, and the,

4th., The Grant and Charter of Bridewell made by King
Edward the Sixth, on the 26th. day of June 1552. "for the
"furtherance amplifying and increase of so honest and noble
"a Work."

That it appears to your Committee, that soon after the
granting of this Charter, King Edward the Sixth died without