Orders and ordinances for the better government of the Hospitall of Bartholomew the Lesse / with prefatory note by William Morrant Baker.

  • St. Bartholomew's Hospital (London, England)
Date:
1885
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Credit: Orders and ordinances for the better government of the Hospitall of Bartholomew the Lesse / with prefatory note by William Morrant Baker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    ed, already leafed out at term, and rent fcant reafonable for the behoof of the poor. So that firfl: to make them ag[ain worth the wonted revenue, and then to continue them in the fame, was no fmall charge, and the help thereunto, which out of the better repaired might have grown, was by the former leafes and rentings prevented. In the Hofpitall it felfe (be- fidethe penfionsiffuingoutof thefaidfivehundredMarks,and granted by the Letters Patents of his faid Highnefs to the Hofpitaller there and to other the Minifters of the fame) was found fo much of houfhold implements and ftuffe, toward the fuccouring of this hundred poor, as fufficed three or four Harlots, then lying in childe-bed, and no more, yea, barely fo much, if but neceffary cleanlinefs were regarded, fo farre had the godly meaning of the gracious King been abufed at at thofe dayes; and yet was little then fmelled and lefs talked of The good Citizens neverthelefs not fo much difcouraged with others evill doings, and the great fall of their hope, as moved with the duty of their enterprife and godly regard, not to their own poor and affli<5led onely, but to all other fore and difeafed, which daily out of all quarters of the Realm refort to the City (as into a commune receipt and refuge of their mifery) proceeded with fuch fpeed as they could to the redrefs of all thefe decayes, diforders and defaults; and be- ftowed thereabout above their covenant of five hundred Marks yeerly, for their welcomming and beginning not much lefs than a thoufand pounds, whereby (together with other their good endevours) when they had won it to fuch point, that it was fit to receive the number, and to fuccour the fame with all neceffaries requifite,and in fuch cafe needful,and had indeed received, and daily maintained it at the full; certain bufie bodies more ready to efpy occafion how to blame other, then skilfull how to redrefs things blame-worthy indeed, yea, I fear me having all their zeal in their tongue onely, not con- tented privately one, and another, among their neighbours to hinder the profit of the poor, and to flander the good Citi- zens occupied thereabout, rounded into the eares of the Prea- chers alfo, their tender confideration. Who being lefs cir- cumfpe6l in crediting their matter miniftrers then to men of fuch