Citizens of the City of London Governors
of the Possessions Revenues and Goods of the
Hospitals respectively And that at a Court held
by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the said
City on the 16th.. day of June in the 4th.. and 5th..
Years of the Reign of Philip and Mary an order
or Entry was made in the words or to the purport
following (to wit,) that day Richard Grafton
brought in there the Common Seal then lately
devised made and appointed for the Affairs and
Sealing of Writings of and concerning the several
Houses of Christ's Hospital, Bridewell,
and Saint Thomas's Hospital in
Southwark Which was forthwith delivered in a
little Purse to the Chamberlain safely to be kept
And that at another Court of the Lord Mayor and
Aldermen of the said City held on the 4th.. day of
November in the third year of the Reign of Queen
Elizabeth It was that day ordered and agreed
by the Court there that the Chamberlain should
pay to Mr.. Alderman Bowes without delay
£4..6s- which his Mastership had already
disbursed for the making of a New Seal of Silver
and for some Silver put into the same more than
was before in the Old Seal newly devised to serve
for the affairs and Writings that should at any
time thereafter be made to pass under Seal for
any Lands, Leases of lands or tenements or
other things whatsoever belonging or
appertaining to any of the Hospitals of the