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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01394	An answer to several letters written by Scotish gentlemen in His Majesties dominions beyond the seas to the master & governors of the Scotish Corporation and Hospital in London, giving a true account of the erection of the said company, and its progress from the year 1664, to 1677, for the satisfaction of such as desire that information.	Renney, John.; Scottish Corporation in London.	1677 (1677)	Wing A3375; ESTC R170322	5,241	7

AN ANSWER TO Several LETTERS Written by SCOTISH GENTLEMEN In His Majesties Dominions beyond the Seas To the MASTER GOVERNORS OF THE Scotish Corporation AND HOSPITAL in LONDON Giving a true Account of the Erection of the said Company and its Progress from the Year 1664 to 1677. for the Satisfaction of such as desire that Information GENTLEMEN WE cannot but judge well of your Intentions by the desire you testifie in your Letters to be informed of the Grounds and Motives that induced us to procure the Erection of a Corporation of our Countreymen in London And as we rejoyce to perceive you acted by the same Charitable and Publick Spirit that moved us so we think it our Duty to satisfie your just Demands as clearly and succinctly as possibly we can Though we need not put you in mind that many useful and great Works have had their Rise from low and fortuitous Beginnings your own and the experience of the World being sufficiently furnished with many Instances of this Nature yet that you may the more fully understand the Original and Progress of our Society by the accidental Motives and real Causes of its Establishment take the pains Gentlemen to be informed That in the Year 1664 a worthy Member of this Society who is still alive being visited with a long Fit of Sickness and in doubt of Life resolved to communicate to the Poor of his Countrey whom he found to be numerous and under great streights part of the Fruits of those his Labors which the Lord had been pleased to bless with Success But his Charity having a farther Prospect than a present Supply to the Indigent at that time and being willing to mortifie a Gift that might be a standing Stock for the Relief of the Poor not only of the present but future Ages and to secure the same to Posterity as far as worldly Contingencies could permit and beyond the uncertainties of private Trustees whose malversation or decay often disappoint the pious Intentions of Donors he took thereupon the advice of Councel Their Answer and Resolution was that his present Charity might be safely enough distributed but that if his intention was to settle a perpetual Stock the use and improvement whereof might be a standing Supply for the Poor of his Countrey the surest Expedient for that was to obtain Letters Patent from His Majesty for the erecting of an Incorporation of Scots in London which having the Priviledges of a permanent and authorized Society would be by Law impowred to act and oblige themselves and Successors in such a manner as no private Consociation could pretend to This Resolution was immediately imparted by the Sick Person to the most sober and discreet Men of our Countrey who then had the direction of that voluntary Contribution which by the name of Box-money was collected for the use of the Poor They maturely weighed the matter first privately among themselves and then in a general Meeting of our Countreymen who all foreseeing the advantages of the Design and applauding the Councel notwithstanding their doubts of procuring the Patent bestirred themselves so zealously in that Affair that having made application to the Earl of Lauderdale and made appear to him the profitableness of that Project they obtained of His Gracious Majesty by the intercession of the Earl after a Reference and satisfactory Report made to His Majesty on that Subject a Patent in ample Form which took place the Third of September 1665. and Mr. James Kinnier was chosen first Master So good a Work was almost stifled in the Birth for the Contagious Plague which then dispeopled London and those fatal Flames which the Year following by the deplorable ruine of the City purified it from Infection to the very foundation if not wholly crushed yet suspended for some time the execution of our good Intentions These dismal Times however put not a stop to the main Wheel of Charity for during the Sickness Year when our Beginnings were but small there were Three hundred Scots and of Scotish Extraction who dyed of the Plague in and about London buried at the Charge of the Company with as much decency as the Calamity of the Time would permit and many who were Infected maintained and taken care of until they recovered and by God's blessing the Contagion ceased without putting the several Parishes where they had lived to one Farthing of Expences Whil'st the City lay buried under its own Rubbish though many of our Members who had been scattered by these two heavy Visitations were again returned and as earnest in their desires as formerly to promote that Work of Charity yet the lowness of our Stock which was hardly sufficient to supply the Necessities of the Poor that then lay upon us made us almost despair of bringing our designs to any accomplishment We wanted a Hall for our Meetings Ground to build upon and Money to purchase and effectuate both Nevertheless in the Year 1670 the City having to admiration recovered or rather out-done much of its ancient splendor we resolved with revived hopes vigorously to set upon the performance of our long intended resolutions To that effect having several times assembled the Body of our Company to consult about the measures we were to take we at length had notice given us of a piece of waste Ground in Black-Fryers where formerly had stood a large dwelling House belonging to a Lady having after a view found the Ground for our purpose we made application to the Lady for the Purchase She was unwilling to sell the Ground right of her Inheritance but being informed of the Pious and Charitable use that it was designed for she frankly granted us a Lease of it for a Thousand Years Having laid this foundation we again in several Meetings of the Corporation considered of the wayes of raising Money to go on with our Buildings and found so great readiness not only in the Members of our own Society but also in several persons of worth and quality of our Nation who liberally and bountifully both gave and lent us Money upon no other Security but the Bond of the Corporation that we were enabled in several Gradations to build first four dwelling Houses fronting the Street in Black-Fryers that leads to the River with an Inscription on the Frontispiece declaring them to be for the use of the Poor of our Countrey which were finished in the Year 1671 next our Hall and a House contiguous to it the Hall having its Entry from the Street in Black-Fryers and lying open to Bridewell Ditch with an Emblem of Charity cut in Free Stone and fastened in the Wall finished in the Year 1672. And lastly another House which stands upon a parcel of disputed Ground that lay long undetermined with a Kitchin and two Rooms over it for a Dwelling-house for our Beadle which at the sole Charge of the Members of the Company were finished in the Years 1675 and 76. The Charge of the whole Building viz. Seven Dwelling-houses