tent ' ac deinde usque ad in vicesimum diem Octobris proxime sequen praerogat intitulat ' An Act for the establishing and confirming of the Foundation of the Hospital of King James founded in Charter-house in the County of Middlesex at the humble Petition and only Costs and Charges of Thomas Sutton Esquire and of the Possessions thereof The Return thereof Tibi precipimus quod tenorem Actus predict cum omnibus illum tangerd nobi in cancellariam ' nostram sub Sigillo tuo distincte aperte sine dilatione mittas hoc breve T. meipso apud Westm ' xxviiio. die Junii Anno Regni nostri quarto Cesar Ra. Executio istius brevis patet in Scedula hinc annexat ' H. Elsyinge Cler ' Parl. Inspe'ximus etiam predict The time of the begining and continuance of the Parliament viz. from the 17. day of March in the third of King Charles the First until the 26. of June next following Scedulam eidem brevi annexat ' in Filaciis dict Cancellarie nostre de Recordo similiter residen in in haec verba In Parliamento inchoat ' tent ' apud Westm ' Decimo septimo die Martii Anno Regni Serenissimi Excellentissimi Domini nostri Caroli Dei gratia Anglie Scotie Francie Hibernie Regis Fidei Defensor ' c. tertio ibidem continuat ' usque in Vicesimum sextum diem Mensis Junii tunc propter sequen communi omnium Dominorum tam spiritualium quam temporalium Communium consensu Regie Majestatis assensu inter alia fancitum inactitatum stabilitum fuit hoc sequens Statutum The Title of the Act. An Act for the Establishing and Confirming of the Hospital of King James founded in Charter-house in the County of Middlesex at the humble Petition and only Costs and Charges of Thomas Sutton Esquire and of the Possessions thereof Cujus quidem Statuti tenor sequitur in haec verba viz. The Act. Whereas our late Soveraign Lord King James of blessed memory at the humble suit of Thomas Sutton late of Balsham in the County of Cambridge Esq deceased Recital of the Letters Patents by his Highness Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England hearing date the Two and twentieth day of June in the Ninth year of his Majesties Reign of England did give and grant unto the said Thomas Sutton full power licence and lawful authority to erect and establish at or in the late dissolved Charter-house besides Smithfield in the County of Middlesex an Hospital and Free School in such sort as in and by the said Letters Patents is expressed And did further by the same Letters Patents nominate ordain assign constitute limit and appoint certain persons in the same Letters Patents named to be Governours of the Lands Possessions Revenues and Goods of the said Hospital And did by the same Letters Patents Incorporate the said Governours and their Successors to be a Body Politique and Corporate to have continuance for ever by the Name of the Governours of the Lands Possessions Revenues and Goods of the Hospital of King James founded in Charter-house within the County of Middlesex at the humble Petition and only Costs and Charges of Thomas Sutton Esquire And did further by the same Letters Patents give licence to the said Thomas Sutton to give grant and assure to the said Governours the Mansion-house commonly called Charter-house besides Smithfield in the said County of Middlesex and divers and sundry other Mannors Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments mentioned in the said Letters Patents as in the said Letters Patents more at large appeareth And whereas the said Thomas Sutton Recital of the Founders Deed of Bargain and Sale minding the performance of the said Charitable Work by his Indenture of Bargain and Sale bearing date the First day of November in the Ninth year aforesaid and enrolled in his said late Majesties High Court of Chancery did according to the said licence to him in that behalf given for the consideration in the same Indenture mentioned give bargain sell grant confirm and convey to the said Governours of the Lands Possessions Revenues and Goods of the Hospital of King James founded in Charter-house within the County of Middlesex at the humble Petition and only Costs and Charges of Thomas Sutton Esquire and to their Successors for ever the said Mansion-house commonly called Charter-house besides Smithfield in the said County of Middlesex and divers and sundry other Mannors Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in the same Indenture mentioned and expressed upon especial trust and confidence that all and singular the Rents Issues Revenues Commodities and Profits of all and singular the said Mannors Houses Lands Tenements and Hereditaments should be for ever truly faithfully and wholly distributed converted and imployed to and for the maintenance and continuance of the said Hospital and Free School and other the Charitable uses in the said Deed indented mentioned as by the said Deed indented more at large appeareth Recital of the Heirs Suit in Law against the Foundation And whereas since the death of the said Thomas Sutton one Simon Baxter the Heir of the said Thomas Sutton hath attempted and endeavoured to impeach and overthrow the Incorporation and Foundation of the said Hospital and the endowments thereof and so to obtain and get to himself the Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments that were the said Thomas Suttons and by him conveyed to the Governours of the said Hospital for maintenance of the poor there Howbeit the said Heir drawing the same in question in his said Majesties Courts of Kings Bench and Chancery and the Case being adjorned by the then Iustices of the Kings Bench into the Exchequer Chamber after solemn argument and deliberate advice of all the then Iustices of both Benches and Barons of the Exchequer it was clearly resolved That the said Foundation Incorporation and Endowment of the said Hospital was sufficient good and effectual in the Law And Iudgment was thereupon given accordingly in the said Court of Kings Bench and also a Decree agreeing with the said Iudgment was had in the said Court of Chancery upon consideration whereof and for that the said Foundation and Endowment doth daily maintain Fourscore poor men some maimed in the Wars some undone by Shipwrack and Misfortune on the Seas and Forty poor Scholars with a Master Preacher Teachers and Attendants and other Officers in very ample manner with good and sufficient allowance in all things It is most humbly desired in the behalf of the Governours and poor People of the said Hospital That it may be enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same The body of the Act. And be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the said House called the late dissolved Charter-house besides Smithfield The place of the Hospital and
your memorial both eternal and blessed or if you had rather the whole Common-wealth But now I find my self too hold and too busie in thus looking to particularities God shall direct you and if you follow him shall Crown you Howsoever if good be done and that betimes He hath what he desired and your Soul shall have more than you can desire The Success of my weak yet hearty Counsel shall make me as rich as God hath made you with all your abundance God bless it to you and make both our Reckonings cheerful in the Day of our Common Audit Never man received Advice more kindly than Mr. Sutton and blessed God for the return of his Prayers in the Garden He never was inclinable to Dr. Willet's former Proposal upon these accounts he understood the Patrons of Chelsey Colledge were few nor was his design to be an additional Benefactor but a Founder Besides he plainly saw those Enemies to the work who thought they lay in secret and what was more he perceived it was look't upon with a jealous Eye by the Universities as a disparagement to them Then other Divines and Churchmen thought they were undervalued because the Fellows of this Foundation were likely to gain Priviledges prejudicial to them And lastly the Politick States-men did dislike the Project suspecting Court Divinity and History from a Colledge This is supposed to be the place meant by the Incomparable Cowley in his excellent Instructions towards the Institution of a Colledge Nor to add a City-Hospital could he be induced though much solicited the poor of those places being likely to be well provided for by the daily Legacies of such who were not in any capacity to do so great things as himself Being thus solicited by others to perform that which he had long since resolved within himself and having observed how many hopeful Youths miscarried for want of competent Means for their Education and how many ancient Gentlemen having the same tender Breeding with their Elder Brothers yet have but the slender Fortunes of a Younger Brother that they were too generous to begg not made for work whose ingenuous Natures were most sensible of want and least able to relieve it but were cast away and brought to misery for want of a comfortable Subsistence in their Old Age Therefore he resolved to prevent by his memorable Charity as far as he could these growing inconveniences The blind Devotion of former Ages had so abused the ends and designs of Charitable Works that King Edward the First as well as Theodosius the Emperour made a Law of Mortmain whereby it is made unlawful for any man to bestow Land of such a value to any Religious or Charitable use without licence from the King of Mortmain in Parliament This Law of Amortization in the Emperor's time much grieved many good men For St. Jerome thus complains to Nepotian I am ashamed to say it the Priests of Idols Stage-players and Common Harlots are made capable of Inheritance and receiving Legacies only Ministers of the Gospel are barred by the Law thus to do and that not by Persecutors but Christian Princes neither do I complain of the Law but am sorry we have deserved it To the same purpose is that of St. Ambrose Ep. 31. deploring the State of the Clergy Upon the account of this Law Mr. Sutton was forced to petition his Majesty K. James and the Parliament March 10. 1609. for leave and licence to erect and endow an Hospital in the Town of Hallingbury Bouchers in the County of Essex An Act of Parliament granted to Thomas Sutton Esq to erect an Hospital at Hallingbury in Essex c. HVmbly beseecheth your Majesty your loyal and dutiful Subject Thomas Sutton of Balsham in the County of Cambridge Esquire That it may please your most excellent Majesty and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled to enact ordain and establish And be it enacted ordained and established by the Authority aforesaid That in the Town of Hallingbury otherwise called Hallingbury Bouchers in the County of Essex there may be builded and erected at the costs and charges of your Suppliant one meet fit and convenient House Buildings and Rooms for the abiding and dwelling of such a number of poor people men and children as your Suppliant shall name limit and appoint to be lodged harboured abide and be relieved there And for the abiding dwelling and necessary use of one Schoolmaster and Vsher to instruct the sâ—m children in reading writing and Latin and Greek Grammar and of one Divine and godly Preacher to instruct and reach all the rest of the same House in the knowledge of God and his Word And of one Master to govern all these persons of in or belonging to the same House And that the same shall and may be called and named the Hospital of King James founded in Hallingbury in the County of Essex at the humble petition and at the only costs and charges of Thomas Sutton Esquire And that the right reverend Father in God Richard now Archbishop of Canterbury and his Successors Archbishops there Thomas Lord Ellesmere Lord Chancellor of England and such as after him shall succeed to be Lord Chancellors or Lord Keepers of the great Seal of England for and during the time they shall so continue or be in the same office Robert Earl of Salisbury Lord High Treasurer of England and such as after him shall succeed to be Lord Treasurers of England for and during the time they shall continue or be in the same Office The Reverend Father in God Launcelot Bishop of Ely and his Successors Bishops there Richard Bishop of Rochester and Dean of the Cathedral Church of Westminster and his Successors of and in the same Deanery of Westminster Sir Thomas Foster Knight one of the Iustices of your Majesties Court of Common Pleas usually holden at Westminster Sir Henry Hobart Knight your Majesties Attorney General John Overall Doctor of Divinity Dean of the Cathedral Church of Saint Paul in London and his Successors Deans there Henry Thursby Esquire one of the Masters of your Majesties Court of Chancery Thomas Fortescue Thomas Paget Geffrey Nightingale and Richard Sutton Esquires John Lawe and Thomas Browne Gentlemen and such others as shall be from time to time for ever hereafter chosen and nominated in and to the places and steads of such of them as shall decease by your Suppliant during his life And after his decease by the most part of them which then shall be Governors of the said Hospital to be and succeed in and to the place and places of him and them deceasing shall and may be the Governors of the said Hospital and of the Members Goods Lands Revenues and Hereditaments of the same at all times hereafter for ever And that the same Governors and Hospital shall for ever hereafter stand and be incorporated established and founded in name and in deed a body politique and corporate to have
said Messuages Tenements or Hereditaments of the said now Lord North according to the true meaning of the said several Deeds And that it shall and may be lawful at all times hereafter to and for the said Dudley Lord North his Heirs Tenants and Assigns and all others inhabiting and possessing the said Mansion-house or any other the said Messuages Tenements or Hereditaments of the said Lord North for themselves their servants and workmen to have free ingress and regress into and from the Orchards Gardens or other places of the said Hospital where it shall be needful to survey repair cleanse amend and new make the said Pipes Conduits Cocks Chanels and Water-courses and all other Pipes Conduits Cocks Chanels and Water-courses that hereafter shall be erected or placed within the precinct of the said Hospital for the conveying of Water unto the said Mansion-house or other the Messuages Tenements or Hereditaments of the said now Lord North or any of them and to that purpose to subvert and digg up the Soil of the said Orchards Gardens or other places of the said Hospital where it shall be needful Provided also A Proviso for the Viscountess Maidstone and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that this Act or any thing therein contained shall not in any wise extend unto the Mansion-house of the Right honourable Elizabeth Viscountess of Maidstone scituate and being in Charter-house Church-yard near unto the said Hospital nor to any the Buildings Outhouses Gardens or Grounds therewith used or thereto pertaining nor to any Mansion-houses Buildings or Grounds therewith used of any other person or persons within or near the precinct of the said Church-yard or Hospital and not conveyed or mentioned to be conveyed by the said Thomas Sutton to the said Governours by the said Indenture of Bargain and Sale But that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Viscountess of Maidstone and all and every other person and persons whatsoever to hold and enjoy the said several Mansion houses and Premisses therewith used or thereto pertaining together with all ways and passages with Carts or otherwise and all Liberties Profits Easements Water and Water-courses Pipes Cocks and Passages for Water and liberty to digg cleanse amend and new make such Pipes Cocks and Water-courses as fully and as amply as if this Act had never been had nor made Ego Henricus Elsyinge Armiger ' Clericus Parliamentorum virtute brevis dicti Domini nostri Regis de Certiorando mihi direct ' his annexat ' certifico superius hoc scriptum verum esse tenorem Actus Parliamenti supradicti in eo brevi mencionat ' In cujus rei testimonium Sigillum nomenque meum apposui atque subscripsi Dat' secundo Die Julii Anno regni dict' Domini nostri Regis Caroli quarto H. Elsyinge Cler ' Parl. Nos autem separales tenores brevis scedulae predict ad requisition ' Gubernatorum terrarum possessionum revencionum bonorum Hospitalis predict duximus Exemplificand ' per presentes In cujus rei testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium Decimo octavo die Julii Anno Regni nostri quarto Cesar Car. Examinat ' per nos Rob. Riche Edw. Clarke Clericos Irrotulat ' Rotul ' Patent ' Cur ' Cancellar ' Domini Regis Caroli infra script ' de Anno Regni ejusdem Regis Angliae c. Quarto Now all things are fixed and settled according to the admirable Ends they were designed for every one enjoying the benefit and refreshments of our Noble Founder's Charity Ezra 6.9 Day by day we have our Portions without fail that we may offer Sacrifices of sweet Savour unto the God of Heaven and pray for the Life and Prosperity of our most gracious King and the Happiness of our Noble Governours The Names of the present Governours 1. The most Reverend Father in God Gilbert Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury 2. The Lord Chancellor of England 3. The Duke of Buckingham 4. The Duke of Monmouth 5. The Duke of Ormond 6. Lord Chamberlain 7. Lord Treasurer 8. Earl of Bridgewater 9. Earl of Craven 10. Earl of Shaftsbury 11. Lord Bishop of Winchester 12. Lord Bishop of Rochester 13. Lord Robarts 14. Mr. Secretary Coventry 15. Sir William Wild. 16. Martyn Clifford Esquire Thus the Government of this Foundation is fixed upon the most Honourable Grandees of our State and the most Reverend Prelates of our Church they who sit at the Helm of our Kingdom and are graciously pleased to steer and guide this goodly Ship of Renowned Sutton's Charity And here we may note the great Wisdom of our Founder who made choice of men of Honour and Power who were able to maintain his Foundation by their Interest and to grace it with their Honour When any of these Noble Lord happen to decease another is chosen within two months by the voices of the Major part The Patent runs thus TO all whom these Presents shall come the Governours of the Lands Possessions Revenues and Goods of the Hospital of King James founded in the Charter-house within the County of Middlesex at the humble Petition and only Costs and Charges of Thomas Sutton Esquire send greeting in our Lord GOD everlasting Whereas _____ one of the Governours of the Lands Possessions Revenues and Goods of the Hospital of King James aforesaid lately died and departed this life by means whereof his room and place of a Governour did become and yet is and continueth void Know ye therefore that the said Governours according to the true intent and meaning of the Letters Patent of our late Soveraign Lord King James for the Foundation of the said Hospital bearing date the Two and twentieth day of June in the Ninth year of his Reign do elect nominate and appoint _____ to be henceforth one of the Governours of the Lands Possessions Revenues and Goods of the said Hospital of King James founded in the Charter-house within the County of Middlesex at the humble Petition and only Costs and Charges of Thomas Sutton Esquire in the room and place of a Governour so being void as aforesaid by the death of the said _____ _____ to be and continue in the room and place and to have exercise and enjoy the said room and place of one of the Governours of the Lands Possessions Revenues and Goods of the Hospital aforesaid according to the true intent and meaning of the said Letters Patent In witness whereof the said Governours have hereunto set their Common Seal and every one of them his particular Seal c. The Members that are kept and maintain'd in the Hospital chiefly consist of old Gentlemen and Children 1. FOurscore ancient Men who have been formerly in the Wars and been serviceable to their King and Country or else decay'd Merchants whose Estates have been swallowed up in the Deep or aged and poor Housholders who have formerly lived in a fair esteem in the World who have a long
his Noble and Magnificent Benefaction Edv. 3. Anno 11o. He was sent Ambassadour to the French King which was no mean Imployment for him either as he was a Gentleman or a Stranger In this Voyage he couragiously lands his men on the Isle of Agnes on purpose to revenge the Death of some English men who not long before were slain by the Inhabitants when they came for fresh water Here he made a general slaughter and takes the Earl of Flanders his Brother Captain of the Island Prisoner His next martial performance was in company of Henry Earl of Derby Duke of Lancaster into Gascoign and Guyen where these two only attended with Five hundred men at Arms and some few Archers did mighty things vanquisht the Enemy and recover'd many walled Towns and Castles It chanced that the Countess of Montfort Sister to Louis Earl of Flanders like an undaunted Virago put on Armour and leads and encourages her People to repell the common Foe She desires aid of the King of England and hath it granted under the conduct of no less a man than the Lord Walter de Manny Not long after the King himself fighting with the French that he might not be known in Person puts himself and the Prince under the Colours and Defence of the same Invincible Warriour This may suffice for a small description of his Strength and Valour I shall now proceed to the occasion of this singular Instance of his Piety and Beneficence He lived in an Age wherein all things seemed as wonderful as himself Ann. 1345. on the Conversion of St. Paul a great Earthquake shook Germany wherewith many Villages and Castles fell down likewise Stones mixt with Rain fell out of the Air Moreover the same day many publick and private Houses fell at Venice afterwards the Earth was shaken more or less fifteen days whereof it hapned that almost all Women with Child were delivered before their time And after this a noysom Pestilence called Inguinaria invaded the People the venom of the Disease was so deadly that scarce one in an hundred escaped alive It began first in Scythia there raged along the Coasts of the Sea Pontus and Hellespont at length through Greece and Illyria it came into Italy 1346. A great Vapour coming from the North-part to the great fear of the Beholders was seen in the Air and fell on the Earth And the same year certain small Beasts in great number fell from the Element in the East through whose corruption and stench there ensued a great Plague which for three years reigned over the whole World First creeping into Asia from India was vehement in England Florence Germany and all Europe The Jews were thought guilty of it by poisoning Fountains and therefore they were burned every where 1349. The Eighth of the Calends of Febr in Noricum on that side it is joyned with Pannonia Illyrium Dalmatia Carinthia and Istria there was a great Earthquake in the Evening which lasted forty days Six Cities and Castles were overthrown and swallowed up In London the Plague was so vehement that in a place called Charter-house-yard were buried of the better sort of People Sixty thousand says Cambden in his Britannia Middlesex p. 311. Ibi floruit opulenta Carthusianorum aedes à Gualtero Manny Hannonio posita Qui summa cum laude sub Edv. 3. bello Gallico meruit Celeberrimúmque fuit eo loco ante Caemeterium in quo grassante peste 1349. Londino sepulta fuerunt plusquam quinquaginta hominum millia quod inscriptione ibi in aere pâ—steris fuit testatum In this dismal time it pleased God to stir â—p the heart of this Noble Knight to have respect to the danger that might fall in the time of this Pestilence then begun in England if the Churches and Church-yards in London might not suffice to bury the multitude Wherefore he purchased a piece of ground near St. John's street called Spittle-Croft without the Barrs in West-Smithfield of the Master and Brethren of St. Bartholomew Spittle containing Thirteen Acres and a Rod and caused the same to be Enclosed and Consecrated by Ralph Stratford Bishop of London at his own proper Cost and Charges In which place in the year following Stow reports were buried more than Fifty thousand Persons as is affirmed by the King's Charter and by this following Inscription which he read upon a Stone Cross sometime standing in the Charter-house-yard An. Dom. M. CCC XL. IX Regnante magna Pestilentiâ consecratum fuit hoc coemeterium In quo infra septa praesentis Monasterii sepulta fuerunt mortuorum corpora plusquam quinquaginta millia praeter alia multa abhinc usque ad praesens Quorum animabus propitietur Deus Amen Here not long after he caused a Chappel to be built wherein Offerings were made and Masses said for the Souls of so many Christians departed And afterwards Ann. 1371. he founded an House of Carthusian Monks which he built in Honour of the Salutation of the Mother of God as may be seen at large in the King's Charter and the Pope's Bull which I have annexed This Pestilent Disease continued in one place or another till the Year 1357. at which cessation the Bishop of Norwich the Earl of Northampton Earl of Stafford Sir Richard Talbot and Sir Walter de Manny sailed over into France to make a Peace which they did for a year only But after many long and happy years when the Prince of Wales eldest Son to Edward the Third dy'd at Bourdeaux the Prince with his Wife and other Son Richard came over into England then in the year 1371. dy'd our worthy Heroe at London and was buried in the Monastery of the Chartreux which he had built leaving behind him only one Daughter married to John Earl of Pembroke Thus departed the generous Soul of this pious Founder thus he desired to sleep in peace among his Carthusians in the Fields as 〈◊〉 M. ss terms them in the Cott. Libr. and left such a Monument of his Bounty to Posterity that I suppose it no Crime to make this Honourable mention of Him For at the Dissolution of Religious Houses this was valued at Six hundred forty two pounds four pence half penny If any person be offended at what is said because he lived in a dark and gloomy Age I refer him to the Preface of that great Man Cambden in his Britannia Sunt ut audio qui Monasteria eorum Fundatores à me memorari indignantur dolentuâ— audio sed cum bonâ illorum gratiâ dixerim iidem indignentur imo forsan oblivisci vèlint majores nostros Christianos fuisse nos esse cum non alia Christianae eor um pietatis in Deum devotionis certiora illustriora uspiam extiterint monumenta nec alia fuere plantaria unde Christiana Religio bonae literae apud nos propagentur utcunque saeculo corrupto averruncanda filix in illis plus nimio succreverit CHAP. V. Of their Fabulous Miracles AS we
at the Master's Table allowed it in kind at the rate of xiiii d. a man  ix iiii Five Attendants allowed it in kind at the same rate  v. x. Forty Scholars one Butler and one Groom allowed it in kind at six to a Mess with iiii d. allowance  xvi iiii Fourscore Brothers are allowed it in money by the Establishment vii   Ten at the Manciples Table two of the Kitchin and one Porter allowed it in mony iii.   In all Dyets and Beavors viz. weekly  xxxiii l. vi s. i d. ob In all Dyets and Beavors viz. yearly M. viic xxxi l. xviii s. vi d. ob For exceeding days  l. s. d. Twenty three Exceeding days namely Christmas-day St. Stephen St. John Innocents New years Epiphany Candlemas Shrove-sunday and Tuesday Kings-day Queens-day Lady-day Easter-day Munday and Tuesday Ascension Whitsunday Munday and Tuesday Midsummer Michaelmas All Saints Fifth of November and Twelfth of December xliiii ix iiii In all Dyets Beavors and exceeding days yearly Mt. viic. lxxvil. viis. xd. ob For Liveries  l. s. d. Fourscore poor men for Gowns at xls. a piece yearly Clx.   Forty Scholars for Gowns finished and made up at xxxvi s. ii d. a piece which makes yearly lxxii vi viii Summer Suits for forty Scholars at xxix s. vi d. a piece ix   Winter Suits like number at xvii s. x d. a piece xxxv xiii iiii For every Scholar yearly six pair of Shoos at xxd. the pair four pair of Stockings at xx d. the pair Hatt and Band iiii s. Garters Points and Gloves at xvi d. in all yearly xliiii   For every Scholar two Shirts at iii s. apiece and six Bands at x. d. apiece in all yearly xxii   For Books Paper Ink Quills and teaching them to Write and Cipher yearly xiiii   Four Gowns for the Chappel-Clerk Organist Manciple and Matron at xl s. apiece yearly viii   Sixteen Gowns for Sixteen Grooms and other inferior Officers at xx s. a man xvi   In all Liveries and other Necessaries yearly iiiic. xxxil. For Wages  l. s. d. For the Master of the Hospital yearly l.   The Council of the Hospital xv   The Steward of Courts for Cambridge and Essex x.   The Steward of Elcombe  xl  The Preacher xl   The Register and Solicitor xxx   The Receiver xxx   The Auditor without Dyet xl   The Schoolmaster xxx   The Chappel Clerk viii   The Usher xv   The Organist xiii vi viii The Manciple viii   The Pantler with xxvi s. viii d. for Beavors viii   The Physician and Physick xl   The Butler for the House with xxvi s. viii d. for Beavors viii   The Butler for the Scholars vi xiii iiii The Bailiff of Elcombe  xl  Other Bailiffs x.   Fourscore poor men at C s. for wages and xxvi s. viii d. a piece for Beavors vc vi.xiii. iiii The Sexton attending in the Hall and Chappel with xxvi s. viii d. for Beavors vii vi viii The Scholars Groom iiii   Other five Grooms at iiii l. wages and xxvi s. viii d. for Beavors xxvi xiii iiii The Gardner xx   The two Scullions viii vi viii The Porter for Wages and Beavors viii   The Matron xvi   The Landress xxx   The Cook besides his accustomed Kitchin Fees xvi   The Plummer for his time xx   The Barber for the Scholars  xl  The two Out-porters iiii   The Clock keeper  xl  The Surveyor of the Hall  lii  The Keeper of the great Chamber  xl  The Scholars Butler and Groom to make their Dyet equal to others  ciiii  The Scavenger vi   The Scrape Trencher  xl  Portage of Meat from Market vi x.  In all Fees and Wages yearly Mt. lxvil. vi Other Ordinary Allowances  l. s. d. The Masters Fuel x.   The Preachers  c.  The Register and Solicitor  c.  The Receiver  c.  The Schoolmaster iiii   Chappel Clerk  xl  The Usher iiii   The Organist  xl  The Manciple  xl  Law Charges xl   Fuel for the Hospital and allowance for weak and sick clii   Reparations lx   Renewing of Houshold-stuff l.   Washing and Starching Scholars Linnen vi   Candles xlv   Burials x.   Communions  xl  Quit Rents ix xvi  Surplus allowed for the Master and Strangers in the Hall viii   Loss in cutting out Beef xi    C. l. s. In all the other ordinary allowances yearly iiii xxxii xvi  l. l. l. C. l. s. d. Sum total of the yearly Expence of the Hospital for Dyets Liveries Wages and other ordinary allowances M. M. M. vii vi ix x. ob Besides Extraordinaries for Pary x l. Palmer ciiii s. This Establishment was made Nine and forty years ago since which time there have been considerable alterations chiefly upon the account of the increase of the Revenue which I shall set down in a fit place hereafter The next thing to be considered is the consummation of the Settlement to put it beyond all question which cannot be effected without a new Act of Parliament particularly designed to confirm this new Foundation in distinction from that at Hallingbury Therefore you find it propounded in the beginning of the Establishment which was in the first year of King Charles his Reign and in the third this following Act of Parliament was obtained which I have been told was never before printed and therefore proper for this place The Exemplification under the Great Seal of England of the Act of Parliament for confirmation of the Hospital of King James founded in Charter-house in the County of Middlesex at the humble Petition and only Costs and Charges of Thomas Sutton Esquire and of the Possessions thereof CAROLUS Dei gratia Anglie Scotie Francie Hibernie Rex Fidei Defensor ' c. Omnibus ad quos praesentes Litere pervenerint Salutem Inspeximus quoddam breve nostrum de Cerciorand ' è Curia Cancellarie nostre nuper emanand unacum quoddam retorn in dorso ejusdem brevis fact in Filaciis dicte Cancellarie nostre de recordo residend in haec verba carolus Dei gratia Anglie The Writ of Certiorari Scotie Francie Hibernie Rex Fidei Defensor c dilecto nobis Henrico Elsyinge Armiger ' Clerico Parliamentorum nostrorum Salutem Volentes certis de causis Certiorari super tenore cujusdam Actus Parliamenti nostri apud Civitatem nostram Westm ' Decimo septimo die Martii ultimo praeterito inchoat ' ibidem usque vicesimum Sextum diem instan Mensis Junii
his Assistants for the time being to this end and purpose That they shall distribute or cause to be distributed the yearly profit arising of the same over and above the yearly Rent payable to the Kings most Excellent Majesty amongst the poorest people dwelling within the said Town of Beverly Also I give to the Maior and Aldermen of the City of Lincoln for the time being all such Profits and Revenues as shall arise and grow of the Parsonage of Glentham within the County of Lincoln and all the residue of the years that shall remain after my decease to this intent that they shall distribute and bestow or cause to be distributed and bestowed the same amongst twenty of the poorest people that shall then be dwelling in the said City with the consent and privity of the Dean of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln or the Recorder of the same for the time being they the said Maior Aldermen Dean and Recorder foreseeing that the Parsonage be letten for their most benefit Item I give into the Treasury or Store-house of mine intended Hospital to begin their Stock with and to defend the Rights of the House One thousand pounds of lawful English mony And I give to every one of my Feoffees whom I have put in trust about my intended Hospital to whom I have not given any thing in this my last Will the Sum of Twenty six pounds thirty shillings and four pence of lawful mony of England Item I give to Amy Popham if it please God she live to keep House three Feather-beds and so many pair of Holland Sheets with the Boulsters to them and so many Hangings of Tapestry as furnish her a Bed-chamber The rest of my Housholdstuff I will shall be sold by mine Executors for the speedier payment of my Legacies and performance of this my last Will. Item I give to the Widow Tassel of Balsham the Sum of Five pounds of lawful mony of England and to Thomas Lawrence the elder of the same Town Five pounds of lawful mony of England Item I give and bequeath unto the Brother of Percival Graung my late Servant deceased the Sum of Twenty pounds of like lawful mony of England And of this my last Will and Testament I make and ordain Richard Sutton of London Esquire and John Law one of the Procurators of the Arches London my Executors charging them as they will answer at the last Day of Judgment that they or one of them in the absence of the other endeavor themselves with all earnestness and diligence to see this my Will performed according to my true meaning and charitable intent And I make Overseers of this my last Will and Testament the Reverend Father in God George Abbot Arch bishop of Canterbury unto whom I give and bequeath the Sum of Forty Marks of lawful mony of England or a piece of Plate of that value at his election and choice And also Launcelot Andrews Almonizer to the Kings Majesty my other Supervisor and Overseer of this my last Will and Testament unto whom I give and bequeath the Sum of Twenty pounds of lawful mony of England or a piece of Plate of that value at his election and choice Item My will and full intent and meaning is That if any person or persons whosoever to whom I have in and by this my last Will and Testament given and bequeathed any Legacy or Sum or Sums of mony shall any ways gainsay impugn contradict or impeach this my last Will and Testament that then all and every one so impugning contradicting impeaching or gainsaying this my last Will and Testament and every of their Children and Kinsfolks to whom I have in and by this my last Will and Testament given and bequeathed any Legacy or Sum or Sums of mony shall have no part nor portion of any such Gift Legacy or Bequest but shall utterly lose the same and be utterly barred thereof as if no such Legacy Gift or Bequest had been given unto him her or them by this my last Will and Testament any thing before in these presents mentioned or contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Item I give and bequeath to Richard Sutton one of my Executors before named the Sum of One hundred pounds and to Mrs. Law over and besides the Legacy before to her given I give the Sum of Forty pounds to make her a Gown withal Item I give to Master Hutton the Vicar of Littlebury Twenty pounds To the Town of Camps Castle where I dwell to be distributed amongst the poor of the same Parish Ten pounds Also to the poor of the Town of Elcomb to be equally distributed amongst them the Sum of Ten pounds Item I give and bequeath those my Mannors of Littlebury and Hadstock in the County of Essex to the Right Honourable the Lord Thomas Howard Earl of Suffolk and to his Heirs for ever upon Condition that he do well and truly pay or cause to be paid to my Executors before named or to the Survivor of them the Sum of Ten thousand pounds of lawful mony of England within One year next after my decease And if he shall refuse to pay the said Sum of Ten thousand pounds for the said Mannors then I give and bequeath the said Mannors of Littlebury and Hadstock to my said Executors and to their Heirs for ever And then I will and devise that the said Mannors of Littlebury and Hadstock shall be sold by my said Executors or the Survivor of them to the uttermost price and value that they may be sold for and the mony coming of the sale thereof together with as much more as shall make up the same Sum the full Sum of Twenty thousand pounds I will shall be imployed and bestowed by my said Executors or the Survivor of them with the advise of my Supervisors aforenamed in some good works and charitable uses for mine intended Hospital and for poor people or otherwise as they in their wisdoms and discretions shall think fit Item I give to Mr. Flud Parson of Newington the Sum of Thirteen pounds six shillings eight pence And to the wife of Benjamin King of Southminster Six pounds thirteen shillings four pence Item I give to Thomas Averell if it shall be found that he hath dealt faithfully and plainly with me in my business the Sum of Ten pounds which he oweth me Item I give unto the wife of Mr. Ingry of Littlebury Three pounds six shillings eight pence Item I give to Sir Henry Hubberd Knight the King's Majesties Attorney General a piece of Plate of the value of Ten pounds And to Mr Locksmith his Clerk the Sum of Ten pounds Item I give to the poor of the Parish of Hackney Ten pounds Item I give to Bridget Law the Sum of Ten pounds And to the Lady Altham daughter to Mr. Auditor Sutton the Sum of Twenty pounds Item I give to Sir Edward Philips Master of the Rolls a piece of Plate of the value of Twenty pounds And to