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<p n="3834">Thursday <rs type="date" id="BBBRMG20205_date387">6th. May 1736</rs>
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<p n="3835"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">of the Steward of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20205_geo2008">Bridewell</rs>
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The Care duty & Trust of the Steward of <rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20205_geo2009">Bridewell Hospital</rs>
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To wait on New Governors with Staves & acquaint them with their Election<lb></lb>
To Collect the Rents & Annuityes due and payable to this Hospital<lb></lb>
To provide and deliver out the Diell daily for the Prisoners<lb></lb>
To receive of the <rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20205_occ6586">Hempdresser</rs>
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what becomes due from him for the Labour<lb></lb>
of the Prisoners<lb></lb>
To direct the Workmen to do such Repairs as ordered by the Comittee<lb></lb>
To direct such Repaires as by means of Accident or Decay may become<lb></lb>
imediately and absolutely necessary to be done, & all others of small Charge &<lb></lb>
Expence<lb></lb>
To examine the Workmen's and Tradesmen's Bills and see that they be<lb></lb>
right, and to pay them as the Comittee direct<lb></lb>
To attend upon all Courts & Committees of this Hospital & observe such<lb></lb>
Directions as be shall receive from them from time to time.</p>
<p n="3836"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">of the matron.</note>
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The Care duty & Trust of the Matron of Bridewell Hospital</p>
<p n="3837">To Clean the Hall and Court Room before and after all Courts Comittees<lb></lb>
and other publick Days of the Governors assembling and Meeting as also at<lb></lb>
any other times then occasion and to take care the rooms are in every respect<lb></lb>
in decent Order fitt for their Reception, for which purpose she is to keep the<lb></lb>
keys of the said Hall in her Custody</p>
<p n="3838">To let in the Women Prisoners at all hours of the Night they shall be<lb></lb>
brought and to keep a due Order and Decorum a mong'em as for as lyes in<lb></lb>
her power but in case any Disputes arise among'em, which she can't quell<lb></lb>
to call in the Beadle to her Assistance and see that they quiet'em and<lb></lb>
put and End to the same</p>
<p n="3839">To let the Women down every Morning into the Shop to Work and to take<lb></lb>
care that none but those that are rendred Incapable, either by Sickness, or<lb></lb>
other Infirmityes of nature, be excused from their daily Labours</p>
<p n="3840">to settle every Night with the Hempdresser and an Accot. of the proceeding<lb></lb>
day concerning what number of Women prisoners are to be charged to his<lb></lb>
Account, and what to the house. and to see that none so charged to the House<lb></lb>
but such as are Incapable to Work at the Blocks for which purpose the<lb></lb>
Matron is to enter in a Book to be kept by her a distinct and particular<lb></lb>
Account thereof</p>
<p n="3841">To take upon her the Charge of and be answerable for all the Women<lb></lb>
Prisoners from the time every Night the Hempdresser delivers them up to<lb></lb>
her, till the next Morning they go into the Shop again to Work</p>
<p n="3842">To attend the Woman Prisoners when they burning their Area<lb></lb>
and Cleaning their Wards (which is done every Week) and to take care<lb></lb>
that they Wash their Cloaths every Saturday that they may appear as<lb></lb>
decent as they can at Chappell on Sundays, and likewise to see all Inches<lb></lb>
are able attend divine Service.</p>
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