Chappel daily at the accustomed time of Divine Service The like shall be observed by the Schoolmaster Usher and poor Scholars of the Foundation upon every Sunday Holy-day and Vigil in the Afternoon And that there be a Sermon every Sunday at Morning Prayer either by him the said Preacher or some other deputed by him The Master and Preacher shall have in care and charge to see that the whole Houshold and those of the School of the Age of Sixteen years and upwards shall receive the Blessed Sacrament yearly at the three Solemn Feasts of Christmas Easter and Whitsontide unless they be satisfied by some lawful excuse and just cause of their failing otherwise the party denying or delaying shall be liable to the Masters Chastisement and the Governours further Censure The Master and Preacher shall have Superintendancy over the Chappel Clerk Organist and Sexton to see if each of them carefully perform the Duties of his place the one in Reading of Divine Service at the hours accustomed assisting the Preacher at the Communion and burying the Dead The second in teaching the poor Scholars to Sing and playing on the Organs at set times of Divine Service The third in keeping the Chappel in a cleanly comely and decent manner and carefully performing all other Services belonging to such a place otherwise they and every of them shall be subject to the Masters Punishment Preachers since the Foundation 1. Mr. Harsnet 2. Mr. Parker 3. Mr. Ford. 4. Mr. Percivall Burrell 5. Mr. William Middleton 6. Mr. Daniel Toughtevil 7. Mr. Foxely 8. Mr. Clark 9. Mr. William Adderly 10. Mr. George Griffith 11. Dr. Timothy Thirscross 12. Mr. Patrick The Physician HE shall be qualified with the Degree of a Doctor in that Profession and shall have his yearly Fee of twenty pounds confirmed unto him he shall make choice of his Apothecary and not exceed the Sum of Twenty pounds a year for Physick Bills according to the Rate set down in our Establishment otherwise the Governours reserve the power to themselves to make choice of another that will accept of these Conditions or to determine whether they will have any Physician in Ordinary Fee or not Physicians ever since the Foundation 1. Mr. Thomas Barker 2. Dr. Barker his Son 3. Dr. Laurence Wright 4. Dr. Bates 5. Dr. Gabriel Beavoir 6. Dr. Castel 7. Dr. Walter Needham The Register and Solicitor HE shall be lodged and dieted in the Hospital a Man of good Conversation well practised in following Law Causes a good Penman ready diligent and faithful in all such Imployments as the Governours or Master shall put him upon His Imployment shall be to Summon all Assemblies to Register their Orders and Decrees in the Assembly Book to draw all Patents and Leases make them ready for the Common Seal and enroll them in the Book of Entries to draw all Leases for the Gvernours and wait upon them for the signing and dispatch to attend the Hospital Council and take their Direction upon any occasion of Law business and having the Masters Warrant to follow the same withall dexterity and diligence to call in Arrearages of Rents and make seizure or re-entry for default of payment by Warrant of the Governours to take all Petitions and present them to the Table to take Bond for the teaching well using and maintenance of poor Scholars made Apprentices and by the Masters order and direction to put in suit the Bonds forfeited either for Non-payment of Debts not performance of Covenants or for any other cause whatsoever and to prosecute and answer all Suits in Law whatsoever for and concerning the said House and Hospital He shall not directly nor indirectly contract for the preferring of poor men or Boyes into the Hospital nor with any of the Tenants for renewing their Leases such business shall immediately be preferred by Petition to the Governours only and then presented by him to the Table and if he be a Transgressor herein he shall forfeit his place He shall not cancel or deface any Orders concluded at an Assembly and signed by the Governours there present upon peril of loosing his place He shall not presume to receive or meddle with any monies accrewing due to the Hospital by way of Fine Rent or Debt however Registers ever since the Foundation 1. Mr. Thomas Heyward 2. Mr. Samuel Martyn 3. Mr. John Yeomans 4. Mr. Brent 5. Mr. Cresset afterwards Master 6. Mr. John Holland 7. Mr. William Taylour 8. Mr. William Massey 9. Mr. Spelman 10. Mr. Lightfoot The Receiver HE shall not enter into the Execution of his Office before he give good Security by ten several Bonds of two hundred pounds a piece wherein himself with two sufficient Sureties in every Bond shall stand bound to the Governours for the faithful executing his Place and discharging his Accompt he shall deliver out no monies but only to the Manciple for Diet unless he have order and warrant from the Master He shall according to such Letters of Attorney as are or shall be made in that behalf make publique demand of Rents due by the Hospital Tenants upon the dayes expressed in the Conditions of their Leases and shall take witness thereof that such further course may be taken for satisfaction as shall seem good to the Governours At Michaelmas every year when his Accompt shall be given up he shall have two hundred pounds imprested to him by the Master out of the Surplus remaining that year or out of the House Stock which imprest shall be for expence for Dyet and other Charges till Michaelmas Rent come in repaying the said mony into the Iron Chest of the Hospital Stock at or before the end of November then next coming Receivers ever since the Foundation 1. Mr. Smith 2. Mr. David Lewis 3. Mr. John Clark 4. Mr. Andrew Hill 5. Mr. Alexander Lawson 6. Sir John Payn. 7. Mr. Payn. The Manciple HE shall put in Bond of One hundred pounds with one sufficient Surety for discharging himself by a just and allowed Accompt of all such Sums of mony as the Receiver shall from time to time imprest unto him upon the Masters warrant for the Affairs of the Hospital He shall attend his Service in the Kitchin till all the Tables be served and taken away and then he shall take his Meals with the inferior Officers and Grooms at their accustomed Table and Rate established in these our Ordinances following He shall keep a Book of the weekly expence in Dyet carry it to the Auditors to be examined he shall within four days after the week is expired bring it to the Master to be perused and signed by him and whom else he will call He shall not disburse or lay out any Sum or Sums of mony for any Provisions for the Hospital save only the Provision of Dyet without the Masters warrant wherein also he shall not exceed the Rates set down in our Establishment ensuing nor shall he buy any such Provisions in the Market or elsewhere but with
healing his sores and binding up his wounds by relieving his pain and refreshing his spirits he eases his own mind and does an office of kindness to himself and this seems to be the proper sense of the Prophet When thou seest the naked cover him that thou hide not thy self from thine own flesh Lastly nothing more secures our Interest in Heaven nor gives a fairer Title to the blessed Mansions above for the Scripture informs us that at the great and terrible day of Judgment inquiry will be made Whether we have fed the hungry and clothed the naked visited the sick and redeemed the prisoner for Charity is so requisite in order to our well being in the other world that Abraham would hardly think himself now in heaven had he not a Lazarus in his bosom It may be these Arguments were the cause of so much good that is found of this nature in the world for I believe we read of few or no Hospitals before the Plantation of Christian Religion Nor is this a private fancy of my own but partly gathered from the silence of former Ages in reference to these works of Charity and partly from several barbarous Instances of State-policy which were enjoyned to prevent the necessity of such Structures and Provisions for needy people These were customary in many Countries and gravely prescribed by Aristotle himself in these words Lib. 7. Pol. cap. 16. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. which may be thus Englished As for the destroying or bringing up of Children there should be a Law that none might bring up any who were imperfect or lame in any of their Limbs and for the avoiding of too great a number of Children if it be not permitted by the Laws of the Country to expose them it is requisite to set down how many a man may have and if any have more than that prescribed number there must be used some means that the fruit may be destroy'd in the Mothers womb Several who were sick and weakly having no means of subsistence and hopes of human pitty did make Sale of their lives that upon their recovery both they and their Posterity should be slaves to him that was at the expence of the Relief If any person happened to be lame or blind he thought it in vain to endeavour to move the compassion of barbarous and self-ended men therefore their custom was to lay violent hands upon themselves to put a period to their miserable lives and wretched fortunes This was the lamentable effect of Pagan uncharitableness But when once Constantine the Great appear'd enabled with the Riches and Authority of Empire he bravely redressed all these horrid and inhuman practises Euseb Hist Lib. 10. and erected many structures for to entertain and refresh the sons and daughters of pitty and compassion This excellent example Julian the Apostate could not but applaud and imitate as may be seen by his Letters sent to the Proconsuls and Cities of Asia perswading them to follow the examples of Christians in this matter and though he reigned alone scarce two years yet he left many monuments of Charity behind him After these Reigns the good and pious Emperours were strangely forward in this way of Charity and their Benefactions became almost incredible Nay the very Turks now are famous for it and it seems not only a good act of kindness and piety among them but also a wise forecast and prudent consideration For no Turk is solicitous to provide for the future condition of his family lest he should provoke the jealousie of the Grand Seignour and be crushed in a moment therefore they usually leave their Children to cut out their own Fortunes who if they should prove maimed or sickly are in these places provided for They have one Hospital at the entrance of Mare Majore coming from Bosphorus which was founded by Solyman's Daughter the Wife of Rustan Bassa and by her endowed with 8000 Ducats per An. There is another built by a certain Bassa in the Isle of Phermena not far from Delos in Greece in the Reign of Mahomet 2d. who conquered Constantinople it is endowed with 12000 Ducats per Ann. A third is at Constantinople begun by Mahomet 2d. and finished by Bajazet his son it enjoyes 60000 Ducats per An. These with many others in the Turkish Dominions are erected to entertain sick and lame people men who are unfit for labour and whose conditions require Relief The Governours of their Hospitals usually walk out and desire wearied Travellers and that sort of people which commonly line the Highways to repair hither and accept of the kindness and refreshments of the charitable House Many of them are by their Establishments to receive persons of any Religion which is certainly a generous instance of kindness and civility Near these Foundations commonly a Mosque or Temple is erected as now upon Mount Sinai and elsewhere for those that are relieved are required to pray there for the Soul of the Founder the place where they intend to raise such a work of Charity is frequently made choice of in some solitary and retired place to avoid vain glory Their Charity likewise extends to the Inhabitants of the Aery and Watry Elements for they hire men to feed fishes in common Rivers and with expence purchase the Release of encaged Birds We read likewise of five goodly Hospitals in Fez and of a Persian King who caused a Mosque to be built in Armenia at the foot of that Mountain whereon Noah's Ark rested this is a Receptacle for men of all sorts of Religions and Complexions Christians and Turks Moors and Arabs here all are entertained three days and three nights with much kindness and freedom and for its maintenance it is endowed with 40000 Ducats per Ann. Thus we may observe the rise and spreading of these Instances of Benefaction how much it redounds to the honour of Christian Religion that as it at first out of its excellent Principles began this work so now it does continue it and provokes the emulation of all Countries For the honour of our own Nation I shall conclude with the words of Dr. Willet in that part of his Synopsis p. 1243. called the Catalogue of Good Works in the Defence of Protestant Charity I trust I have made it good that more Charitable Works have been done in these 60 years of the Gospel than in the like time in Popery I think they cannot shew in any Age almost a Million bestowed in Works of Charity more than forty Hospitals above twenty Free schools and more than ten Colledges and Churches Thus says he is the slanderous objection of the Papists answered who said That Protestants do no Good Works but are rather Enemies to them THE CHARTER-HOUSE IN that fatal year When Prodigies familiar were Ills and Distempers in the East began And nimbly over Europe ran When living men amaz'd beheld the dead And Carkases o're all the world were spread Thou Walter Manny
others too in the putting out of their mony Once he thought of setting up a Bank in London like that in Amsterdam where People might take up mony at so moderate an Interest as should not eat out their Labour nor waste the heart and life of Trade by making the care pains and ingenuity of the Borrower sweat and toyl for the sole benefit of the Lender Therefore he lodged a 100 l. in some honest mens hands to lend to poor people weekly or monthly by small sums upon good pawns while he lived and when he dyed he left 1000 l. to the Chamber of London to be yearly lent to Ten young Trades-men without Use Besides he ordered his Executors to abate half a years Interest to all his Debtors when they call'd in his mony Thus did this great Man wax rich and known which made him to some evil-minded persons the object of Envy and he finds not the Shadow of that Charity in the World which he shew'd in Substance and Reality Some urge that he served himself too much upon the hopes many had entertained of being his Heirs by receiving those Gifts which some covetous Friends miserunt in hamô by easily purchasing those Lands which they expected should return with Interest I do not understand the unreasonable presumption of men to name and adopt themselves their Neighbours Heirs and if they confirm it not they shall be branded with Injustice The Wisdom of the Serpent is as well required as the Innocency of the Dove He that strives to outreach his Friend is justly caught in his own Snares Others strongly believe he was the Subject of Ben. Johnson's mirth Which if it were true is no real Scandal to this good Man when all things just and honourable sacred and of good report are shamefully exposed to the lewd affronts of a bold and licentious Stage Besides 't is probable the Poet never intended what they think For in that Age several other men were pointed at and who was the true Person was then a matter of doubt If the Poet design'd to injure the Fame of Sutton he was first of all an ungrateful Wretch to abuse those hands which afforded him Bread for he allowed him a constant Pension And secondly he disowned his very Hand-writing which he sent to our Founder in Vindication of himself in this matter In the late unhappy times another sort of Enemy appears and will hardly suffer this pious Benefactor to lye quiet in his Grave The Revenue made a great noise and prov'd something melodious to the ears of the commanding Party therefore they endeavour to find out a way to subvert the House Foundation and all No better Plea than the old Popular Argument used before against his Sacred Majesty Charles the First of ever blessed memory Popery Popery 'T is presently whisper'd about That Sutton dyed a Papist That the House was built upon naughty Popish ground That all the Walls were full of Tapers and Crosses That it was designed to Jesuitical ends and Purposes That there was a great Vault underneath which reach't almost to Islington and for ought they knew it might be full of Powder and Malignants Plots and Superstition all conspiring against the Good Old Cause At this time Edward Cresset Master of the Hospital by his Interest in that Party interposed and laid that storm for which he received publick Thanks from the Lords the Governours Anno 1660. This Freak hardly deserves consideration especially proceeding from that sort of men Mr. Sutton was too well known for this Project to take effect He was an Honest and Religious Protestant constant and exemplary upon all occasions at the Publick Service of God regular and strict in Family Duties accustomed to Prayer reading the Scriptures and very solicitous in his choice of a Holy and Learned Chaplain His thoughts were usually Heaven-ward in his Ejaculations frequently desiring God That as he had bountifully blessed him with a plentiful Estate so he would be pleased to direct him in the disposal of it This he has been often over-heard to say walking in his Garden His Thoughts were not only Divine but his usual Company were Ministers of God's Word for there is no Writing scarce of his to which there is not the hand of a Divine or two Or else he visited the Fatherless and Widows the Impotent and Indigent and in a great measure kept himself unspotted from the World Now that which seems most wonderful is this That men professing the Protestant Religion should indeavour to pull down one of the greatest Monuments of the Reformed Religion it being the common Argument whereby we use to prevent the Papists extravagant Relations of Good Works Had he been a Red-letter Man Mr. Knott the Jesuite in his Answer to Dr. Potter's Book called Charity Mistaken would never have vented this following Reproach But he must be crucified between these two Do your Hospitals deserve so much as to be named Have you any thing of that kind in effect of particular note saving the few mean Nurseries of idle Beggars and debauched People except Sutton 's Hospital which as I have been informed was to receive no profit till his death who also dyed without Children Brother Sister or known Kindred so that per adventure it was escheated to the King c. At length he says He could tell us of the Annunciata at Naples which spends Three hundred thousand Crowns viz. above Eight thousand pounds per Annum feeds and cures One thousand sick persons Nurses and entertains Three thousand Sucking-children c. Then he gives a hint of another famous Hospital in Rome called Sancto Spirito To both which Instances Mr. Fuller does as reproachfully reply by saying That the Infamous Disease of Naples might well cause the erection of so mighty a Structure and as for that at Rome the wonderful plenty of unlawful Issues Children basely born did require so great a Receptacle I question not but both are too blame for where ever we find any sparks of goodness and piety though they lodge in the breast of a Turk or Jew Papist or Protestant yet it is but common Justice to afford every man his due praise 'T is easie also to discover the Jesuit's mistakes for first Mr. Sutton intended to reside upon his Benefaction as Master of it though it pleased God sooner to take him to himself to admit him into the Land of Promise Then his Kindred were known far and near for Simon Baxter Son of his Sister Dorothy endeavoured to overthrow the Settlement of the Estate as being next Heir in Law as after may be seen at large His other Objections concerning penuriousness shall be answered in another place Here now I could to purpose recriminate but that I am sensible it is disingenuous and uncharitable and widens the Breaches of Christendom Let the froward World endeavour to defame and calumniate to bespatter all that is good and laudable yet certainly we ought to rise up in the Vindication of him