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<p n="3843">Thursday <rs type="date" id="BBBRMG20205_date388">6th. May 1736</rs>
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<p n="3844">To take care when the Doctor prescribes any Medicines for the<lb></lb>
Prisoners that they be rightly and duly administred according to his<lb></lb>
orders and Prescriptions</p>
<p n="3845">To make (when the Doctor shall give Orders for all the Sick Prisoners<lb></lb>
either Men or Women proper sick Diet and likewise attend upon them in<lb></lb>
all manner of Distempers which frequently hapen to be Distempers of<lb></lb>
the most Infections and Nanscous Nature, and consequently very<lb></lb>
Irksome to the Eye and offensive to the Smell and therefore no small<lb></lb>
fatigue for the Matron to go through according to her orders and<lb></lb>
Directions and the Trust reposed in her.</p>
<p n="3846"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">of the Porter</note>
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The Care duty & Trust of the Porter of Bridewell Hospital</p>
<p n="3847">To receive all Warrants of Commitments and discharges<lb></lb>
To sett the prisoners to hard Labour<lb></lb>
To attend all Courts and prepare the proper Callendar to be used<lb></lb>
in the Tryall of the Prisoners<lb></lb>
To attend on all Committees<lb></lb>
To Execute the Orders of several Courts and Comittees for the<lb></lb>
Shutting up the Gates</p>
<p n="3848"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">of the Beadles</note>
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The Care duty and Trust of the Four Beadles of Bridewell Hospital</p>
<p n="3849">The duty of the 1st. Warding Beadle Chappell Clerk & Sexton is<lb></lb>
to attend divine Service on Sabbath days Wednesdays Fridays and<lb></lb>
Red Letter days</p>
<p n="3850">To go every Morning to take Instructions from the Clerks Office and from<lb></lb>
thence to wait on the President & Trear to know if they have any Commands</p>
<p n="3851">To Summons and attend all Courts and Comittees belonging to this and<lb></lb>
Bethlem Hospital</p>
<p n="3852">To attend the City Marshall when required<lb></lb>
To go of all Errands relating to the Hospital<lb></lb>
to Summons the Tenants<lb></lb>
To Watch at Night and<lb></lb>
to attend the Gates on all publick Holydays<lb></lb>
To take care the Court yards are Swept every Saturday<lb></lb>
To go out with the Enquire when Ordered to a fire and<lb></lb>
To fetch the Doctor Surgeon or Apothecary for the Prisoners if sick or lame</p>
<p n="3853">The Duty of the 2d. Warding Beadle is</p>
<p n="3854">To go with Prisoners before the respective Justices and as to the rest of<lb></lb>
his duty it is the same as above Except attending Divine Service Wednesdays<lb></lb>
Fridays and Red Letter days & seeing the Yards be swept every Saturday</p>
<p n="3855">The Duty of the 3d. and 4th. Beadles is the same as the second<lb></lb>
Warding Beadle Except attending the City Marshall</p>
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