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<p n="3856">Thursday <rs type="date" id="BBBRMG20205_date389">6th. May 1736</rs>
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<p n="3857"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">of the Porter's man</note>
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The Care duty and Trust of the Portersman of Bridewell Hospital</p>
<p n="3858">To attend Divine Service on Sabbath days</p>
<p n="3859">To take care that the Gates are Lock'd up every night at nine o' clock and to<lb></lb>
attend the same till the proper watch comes on</p>
<p n="3860">To let the Prisoners out every Morning to their Labour and to serve them<lb></lb>
with their Provisions and to lock them up at night</p>
<p n="3861">To Sweeep the Gates and Square every Saturday<lb></lb>
To watch at night and to attend the Gates all publick Holydays<lb></lb>
To go with the Engine When Ordered to a Fire<lb></lb>
To go with Prisoners before the respective Justices and<lb></lb>
To fetch the Doctor Surgeon or Apothecary for them if sick or Lame</p>
<p n="3862"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">of the Steward of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20205_geo2010">Bethlem</rs>
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The Care duty and Trust of the Steward of Bethlem<lb></lb>
Hospital</p>
<p n="3863">To enter the names of all the Patients admited the Parishes in on which are<lb></lb>
their respective settlements & the names & Places of abode of their Securitys</p>
<p n="3864">To discharge from the Curable and charge in the Incurable Book the names<lb></lb>
of the Patients so admitted & of their several fresh securitys</p>
<p n="3865">To enter in a Book all money received by him</p>
<p n="3866">To see that all the provisions contracted for be rightly delivered as to the<lb></lb>
Quantity and Quality and cause the same to be augmented or diministed as the Exigenex<lb></lb>
of the House requires</p>
<p n="3867">To take care that all stores not contracted for be of the best sorts & at<lb></lb>
reasonable rates to the best of his Judgment</p>
<p n="3868">To provide and deliver out all necessary Bedding & Cloathing for the Patient</p>
<p n="3869">To enter all the Patients discharges</p>
<p n="3870">To receive all the Annuitys</p>
<p n="3871">To adjust & receive all Payments due for Incurables</p>
<p n="3872">To receive from Mr. Treasurer all Sums of Money out of the Poors<lb></lb>
Box and otherwise as are requisite to pay the Bills passed by the Committee</p>
<p n="3873">To surpervise all the servants and if any of them shall be remiss in their<lb></lb>
duty to acquaint the Workly Committee To take care that the orders for the Good<lb></lb>
Government of the Hospital be strictly observed and if he finds any disorder<lb></lb>
or Mismanagement he is to acquaint the Committee</p>
<p n="3874">To see performed all Casual Orders of the Court Committee or Treasurer<lb></lb>
relating tot he matters aforesaid</p>
<p n="3875"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">of the Porter</note>
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The care duty and Trust of the Porter of Bethlem Hospital</p>
<p n="3876">To be Keeper of and to open and shutt the Gates<lb></lb>
To receive the money for the Poor at the First Gate</p>
<p n="3877">To take an account in writing to be set down in a paper by every<lb></lb>
Workman employed in the repairs of this Hospital of each days work and Materials<lb></lb>
furnished & being examine to file the same</p>
<p n="3878">To keep a Key of the Battery Door to see that there is no Waste therein<lb></lb>
to cutt out the meat on Tuesdays and Thursdays</p>
<p n="3879">To attend the Doctor Mondays and Wednesdays to give him an account<lb></lb>
of the Men Patients</p>
<p n="3880">To attend and assist at <rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20205_geo2011">Bathing</rs>
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and Bleeding the Men</p>
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