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Commission for Greenwich hospital
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Comptrols and Orders as you shall think necessary or safe for the full and due Charging of the Treasurer and Receiver General and also the said Deputies Substitutes and all and every other Person and Persons whatsoever who shall Receive or be Chargeable with any Moneys or other Profits for the said Charitable Vse or Purpose to Answer Pay or Account for the same And that you Our said Commissioners or any Seven or more of you from time to time as often as you or any Seven of you shall Suspect or Doubt of any Concealment Fraud or any Deceitful or Indirect Practice in reference to any Moneys or other things Subscribed Contributed Given Bequeathed or Appointed to the said Vse shall and may enquire thereof by the Examination of Witnesses upon Oath which you have hereby Power to Administer or by any other Lawful Ways and Means whereby the truth of the Matter in all such Cases may best be Known and to proceed thereupon with Effect And Our Pleasure is and We do hereby Require and Command That you Our said Commissioners or any Seven or more of you do from time to time Certifie to the Commissioners of Our Treasury now being or to the Treasurer or Commissioners of Our Treasury for the time being the Names of the Persons Societies Bodies Politick or Corporate who shall Subscribe or Contribute Give Devise or Appoint any Moneys or any Real Estate or other Matters or Things towards this Charitable Design with the Sums of Money Goods Chattels Estates or other things by them respectively Contributed Given Limited Appointed or Devised to the end a Perpetual Memorial may be made of such Well-disposed Persons who shall become Benefactors as aforesaid and whereby the Treasurer or Receiver General may be Charged with more certainty in his Accounts And in regard We do Confide very much in the Ability and Faithfulness of Our Trusty and Welbeloved John Evelyn senior Esquire We have Nominated Assigned and Appointed and We do hereby Nominate Assign and Appoint him the said John Evelyn senior to be the Treasurer and Receiver General of all the Moneys and other Profits which shall be Subscribed Contributed Given Bequeathed Devised Designed or Appointed to or for the Building Furnishing or Endowing of the said Hospital or for any Matter or Thing Relating thereunto to continue in that Trust during Our Pleasure And in Case of his Death or Removal We do hereby give full Power and Authority to you Our said Commissioners or any Seven or more of you whereof any one or more of you Our Privy Councellors and any one or more of you the Commissioners of Our Treasury and any one or more of you the Commissioners for Executing the Office of High Admiral of England for the time being to be Threé at the least from time to time to Appoint one or more fit Person or Persons to the said Place or Trust of Treasurer and Receiver General and such Person or Persons from time to time to Remove or Displace as you shall see Cause And Our Pleasure is That the Treasurer or Receiver General for the time being shall have full Power and Authority and he is hereby fully Authorized from time to time upon the Receipt or Receipts of any Sum or Sums of Money or other Profits for the Purposes aforesaid or any of them to give an Acquittance or Acquittances for the same which shall be good and sufficient Discharges to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever And the said Treasurer or Receiver General for the time being in his Receipts Payments and Accounts shall be subject to such Inspection Examination and Comptrol as you or any Seven or more of you whereof such as are before Appointed for a Special Quorum to be Three at the least shall Establish or Appoint And We do hereby for Vs Our Heirs and Successors Strictly Command Enjoyn and Require That none of the Moneys or other things which shall be Given Contributed Devised Bequeathed Designed or Appointed as aforesaid shall be Diverted Issued or Applied or be in any wise Applicable to any Vse or Purpose whatsoever other then to the Charitable Purposes before mentioned or some of them or to Defray necessary Charges relating thereunto And to the end that the Building and Fitting of the said Hospital may be Carried on with as much speed as is possible We do by these Presents give full Power and Authority to you Our said Commissioners or any Seven or more of you of which any one or more of you Our Privy Councellors or any one or more of you the Commissioners of Our Treasury and any one or more of you the Commissioners for Executing the Office of Our High Admiral of England for the time being to be Three at the least when and as soon after as We shall have Approved under Our Sign Manual your Report or Certificate in that behalf to take down and demolish or cause to be taken down and demolished so much of the Buildings and Structures now standing upon the Ground by Vs Granted as aforesaid as shall be judged as aforesaid to be unfit and not Serviceable for the Vse of the said Hospital hereby intended as also to Convert Alter and Fit such of the present Structures as shall be Appointed to stand as aforesaid in such Manner as shall be Appointed as aforesaid And also from and after such time as We shall have Approved and Allowed of such Model or Models as you shall have presented as aforesaid under Our Sign Manual or otherwise shall have Allowed or Approved of any Model Scheme or Design for Building Fitting or Furnishing the said Hospital to put in Hand Carry on and Finish with such Convenient Speed as the nature of the thing and such Moneys as shall be in the Hands of the said Treasurer or Receiver will admit the Buildings and Structures of the said Hospital and of all the Offices and Conveniencies belonging thereto and to Furnish the same accordingly In the doing of which you are to pursue such Models Orders and Directions as shall be Approved or Appointed by Vs under Our Sign Manual as aforesaid And Our Pleasure is That you shall Proceed in the said Works in such Order and Method and by such Ways and Means and according to such Rules and Orders as to you shall seem best And that you shall call to your Aid and Assistance such Skilful Artists Officers and Workmen as you shall think fit and to Appoint to them severally their respective Charge or Business And that you Our said Commissioners or any Seven or more of you whereof any one or more of you Our Privy Councellors and one or more of you the Commissioners of Our Treasury and any one or more of you the Commissioners for Executing the Office of Our High Admiral of England for the time being to be Threé at the least shall by Warrants in Writing Direct the Issuing Payment Allowances and Expenditure of the Moneys or Profits to be Contributed Given Bequeathed Devised or
and how much of the Structures and Buildings now standing upon the Pieces or Parcels of Ground contained in Our Grant above mentioned will be unfit or not serviceable for the Hospital hereby intended to be Exected and in what manner such of the present Structures as you shall think fit to stand may best be Altered Fitted and Prepared for the Vse and Service of the said Hospital in Order to Represent the same to Vs with all convenient speéd And We do also Authorize and Require you Our said Commissioners or any Seven or more of you of whom Three or more to be such as aforesaid forthwith according to the best of your Iudgments and Discretions to prepare One or more Model or Models of such Buildings Works Erections and Conveniencies as you shall think most fit and proper to be Erected and Made in and upon the Premisses by Vs Granted as aforesaid for the Vse of the said intended Hospital with such Schemes or Draughts as may best Explain the same and with all convenient Speed to present such Model or Models to Vs for Our Royal Approvation And We do further hereby Authorize and Impower you Our said Commissioners or any Seven or more of you of whom Three or more to be such as aforesaid Calling to your Assistance Our Attorney or Sollicitor General or any other of Our Council Learned in the Law for the time being or such others as you shall think meet to Consider of and Prepare a Charter or Charters of Foundation of such Hospital and also such Statutes Constitutions Orders and Ordinances as may be Proper for the Foundation Perpetual Management Order Rule and good Government of the same and of the Poor People Officers Servants and others that shall be entertained in and about the same and for and concerning all other Matters and things relating thereto and to present the same to Vs for Our Royal Consideration And whereas the Great and Earnest Desire which We have to set about so Good and Pious a Work hath Engaged Vs to begin the same at this time although by Reason of the present Necessity of Our Affairs We cannot Advance so considerable Sums for the beginning and Carrying on the said Works as We do Desire and Intend and by Gods Blessing in times of Peace shall be enabled to do Yet nevertheless as a further Instance of Our Princely Zeal for Advancing the said Design We have Resolved and Determined and do hereby Declare and make Known That from henceforth We will yearly cause to be Issued and Paid out of Our Treasure at and upon the Feast of the Birth of our Lord Christ in every Year or at such other time in every Year as shall be desired by Our said Commissioners or any Seven or more of them the Sum of Two thousand Pounds for and towards the Edifying Perfecting and Endowing the said Hospital And to that end We do hereby for Vs Our Heirs and Successors Require the Commissioners of Our Treasury and Vnder-Treasurer of Our Exchequer now being and the Treasurer of Our Exchequer and Commissioners of the Treasury and Vnder-Treasurer of the Exchequer of Vs Our Heirs or Successors for the time being without any further or other Warrant to be had or obtained from Vs Our Heirs or Successors in that behalf from time to time to direct their Warrants or Orders for the Payment of the said yearly Sum of Two thousand Pounds as aforesaid out of such of Our Treasure of Vs Our Heirs or Successors as shall not be Appropriated to other Vses to the said Treasurer for the said Hospital hereby Appointed or to such other Treasurer or Treasurers as shall be Appointed as herein after is Directed at the said Feast of the Birth of Our Lord Christ in every Year or at such other times in every Year as shall be desired by Our said Commissioners or any Seven or more of them as aforesaid during the Continuance of this Our Commission And having no Doubt but that Great Numbers of Our good Subjects will be disposed to follow Our Example and will with great Chearfulness and Readiness Contribute to the Advancing so Charitable a Design which besides the Relief of so many Poor Disabled and Necessitous Persons will prove of Great Advantage to the Kingdom in the increasing the Navigation and Naval Strength thereof by Encouraging Fit Persons to betake themselves to Sea-Service as soon as Our Royal Intentions in the Premisses shall be made known and that their Assisting Vs in the Building and Endowing the said Hospital will be most Highly Acceptable to Vs We do by these Presents Authorize and Impower you Our said Commissioners or any Seven or more of you and We do by these Presents Give and Grant to you or any Seven or more of you full Power and Authority to Take and Receive from such of Our good Subjects as shall be Piously Disposed to Contribute towards the Erecting and Endowing of the said Hospital all such Voluntary Gifts or Subscriptions of or for any Sum or Sums of Money Goods or Chattels or of or for any Estate or Interest in any Manors Lands Tenements Rents Hereditaments or other Matters or Things whatsoever which any Person or Persons shall be willing to Give Limit Appoint or Bestow for or towards the Building Furnishing or Endowing of the Hospital aforesaid and for causing to be Collected and Received whatsoever shall be Given Contributed Bequeathed Designed or Appointed for that Vse by the Hands of the Treasurer that shall be hereafter Appointed to Receive the same And to the end that Our Intentions in the Premisses may be better known to Our Loving Subjects We do Require you to cause Publick Notification of these Presents or the Tenor or Scope thereof to be made in such Places or by such Ways and Means as you shall think most Conducible to the Furtherance of the said Charity And We do also by these Presents Authorize and Impower you Our said Commissioners or any Seven or more of you of whom any one or more of you Our Privy Councellors and any one or more of you the Commissioners of Our Treasury and any one or more of you the Commissioners for Executing the Office of Our High Admiral of England for the time being to be Threé at the least in case you shall find the same to be necessary for Carrying on the Design and Intention of this Our Commission by Instruments or Writings under your Hands and Seals to Depute and Substitute such Persons as you shall think fit to Intrust to take such Subscriptions as aforesaid and to Collect or Bring in the Moneys which shall be Contributed Bequeathed Designed or Appointed for the Vses aforesaid to the Hands of the Treasurer or Receiver General hereafter Appointed and to Displace or Discharge such Substitutes or Deputies or any of them and to Appoint others in the Place of them or any of them from time to time as you shall seé cause and to Settle Establish and Appoint such Cheques