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

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Image 363 of 37831st July 1799


Continued, Wednesday July 31st. 1799

Report Artsm & Appr.


Present Artsmasters are proper and competent
Officers for the purposes of this Charity; We have
also considered what other Arts and Occupations,
giving employment to a Sufficient number of
Apprentices, and most requisite in the City of
London , it may be proper to introduce, and We
have prepared a System of Regulations for the
Admission, Ordering, Government and Improve-
ment of the Apprentices.

In considering which of the Present Artsmasters
were competent for the purposes of the Charity, We
called before us all the Masters now in the House,
being Seven in number Vizt.

Artmars in the Hospl .


Thomas Reynolds< no role > , Broad Weaver elected 16th. Apl 1767
John Sanders< no role > , Broad Weaver elected 19th Decr. 1771
Roger Owen< no role > , Engine Weaver , elected 30th Apl. 1778.
John Harris< no role > Shagreen Case Maker elected 21st. Novr. 1782
Robert Smart< no role > , Engine Weaver , elected 14th. June 1787
Thomas Couling< no role > Shoemaker , elected 7th. June 1781.
George Sanderson< no role > Taylor , elected 29th. Novr. 1787.

Owen &Smart Competent

Reynolds, Thos< no role > .
Sanders,Jno< no role > .
Harris, Jno< no role > .
Couling, Thos< no role > .
Sanderson, Geo< no role > }
Not Competent.


And having is a mined them, and informed ourselves
of the nature of their respective Trades, their Ages,
and Circumstances, We are of Opinion, that Roger
Owen
< no role > and Robert Smart< no role > , are Officers competent for
the purposes of the Charity, and proper to be continued
in the Hospital; but that Thomas Reynolds< no role > , John
Sanders
< no role > , John Harris< no role > , Thomas Couling< no role > , and George
Sanderson
< no role > are not now competent Officers for those
purposes.

We are also of Opinion that it will be proper
to introduce into the Hospital a Printer, a Book-
-Binder an Engraver, a Man's Shoemaker, and
a Woman's Shoemaker and as Roger Owen< no role > , Engine
Weaver , has declared himself ready to take into
Partnership




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