Joseph Adams< no role > Esqr . Mr. George Baker< no role > . Joshua Baker< no role > Esqr
Mr. John Davy Breholt< no role > , Mr. Richard Clay< no role > , Thomas
Emerson< no role > Esqr . James Gaultier< no role > Esqr , Mr. James Lamborn< no role >
Mr. Benjamin Alee< no role > , Nathaniel Newnham< no role > Junr . Esqr
& Mr. William Reynolds< no role > who now go off in course as
having been three years on the said Committee & of
Sr John Lade< no role > Bart . & Mr. Nathaniel Foche< no role > who are
Deceased

The Following Case being laid before
this Court by Mr. Treasurer

The State of Captn. Aldred
[..] to ye Legacy
bequated to this & ye other
Hospital

That Captn : John Aldred< no role > by his Will
dated 8th August 1740 Devises all his Estate both
Real and Personall to his Extors to be sold in
Trust for payment of several Legacys therein
mention'd and (amongst others) for the payment
of £2000 to this Hospitall, £2000 to, St. Bartho-
lomews and £1000 to Bethlem. and after pay
ment of these and other Legacys and his Debts
and Funeral Charges, he gives the residue of his
Estate to the Three Hospitalls Equally

That the Testalor left two Sisters his next of
Kin, and they sett up a Claim to the Leasehold part
of his Estate, Suggesting that the Devise as to that
part is within the late Statute of Mortmain and
consequently void. But rather than Run the Risque
by a Law Suit of Losing the whole are (as Mr. Treasu
rer is inform'd) dispos'd to come into a Compromise

That Severall opinions of Councill had been taken
upon the Construction of this Will, but the case being
new and no Judiciary determination of the like kind
having yet been made, these Opinions are many of
them doubtfull tho the weight of them Seems to be
in favour of the Hospitalls; However the Governors