the Governors of such several Hospitals respectively
according to the modes of proceeding in such cases
which has prevailed for very many Years One of
such Leases from each Hospital was deposited
in the Chamberlain's Office for the said City with
a Docket for each Lease in the usual form to procure
the seal of the said Hospitals to be put thereto and
on the 7th.. of April 1778 the Clerks of the said Hospitals
severally attended a Court of Aldermen then held
for the said City and such Leases from the respective
Hospitals being brought into that Court and they
being called into the same Court severally
requested that such seal should be affixed to
those Leases as usual After which they withdrew
And being called in again they were informed by
the Town Clerk that he had the order of that
Court to deliver them Copies of the said
Resolutions or Orders of the Court of Common
Council of the 4th.. day of March 1778 and of the
resolution or order of the said Court of Lord
Mayor and Aldermen of the 17th.. day of the same
months and which were afterwards delivered
to the purport or effect herein before stated That
the Clerks of the said Hospitals not being
able to procure the seal of or belonging to the
said Hospitals to be affixed to the said Leases
or either of them and the interests of all the said
Hospitals being very materially affected and
likely to be greatly prejudiced by the with-
holding the said seal they applied again to
the said Chamberlain's Office and left a Lease