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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66120	Commission for Greenwich hospital		1695 (1695)	Wing W2312; ESTC R19262	13,313	19

Jeremy Sambrook Sir Gabriel Roberts Sir John Foche Sir Henry Furnes Sir William Scawen Sir Joseph Herne Knights Sir Richard Onslow Baronet John Lock Gilbert Heathcott and Arthur Shallott Esquires Our Trusty and Welbeloved Sir Richard Haddock Sir Cloudsley Shovell Knights Edmund Dummer Charles Sergison Samuel Pett Thomas Wilshaw Dennis Liddall Benjamin Tinewell Esquires Principal Officers of Our Navy and the Principal Officers in the nature of Commissioners of Our Navy for the time being and Our Trusty and Welbeloved Sir Charles Hedges Knight Iudge of Our Supreme Court of Admiralty Henry Guy Esquire Thomas Papillon Esquire Thomas Western Esquire Charles Duncomb Esquire Peter Houblon Esquire Edmund Bolter Esquire Thomas Firmin and William Lowndes Gent. Our Trusty and Welbeloved John Hill EsQ Master and Assistant of Trinity House of Deptford Strond Captain Samuel Rutter Captain John Bowers Captain John Conaway Captain Roger Paxton Captain John Benbow Sir Matthew Andrews Captain John Nicholls Captain Ralph Sanderson Robert Lord Lucas Sir Henry Sheer Knight James Southern Esquire Captain Robert Fisher Captain George Phenny Captain Samuel Atkinson Captain Henry Greenhill Captain Henry Risby Captain Balthazar St. Mitchell Captain Humphrey Ayles Captain John Jacob Captain William Cruft Captain William Gutteridge Captain John Hazelwood and the Master and all and every the Wardens Assistants and Elder Brethren of Trinity House of Deptford Strond for the time being Greéting Whereas We are extreamly desirous that the Trade Navigation and Naval Strength of this Our Realm of England whereupon the Safety and Flourishing State thereof does so much depend should by all Proper Means be Promoted and Advanced And whereas We are perswaded that nothing will more effectually Contribute thereto then the Endeavouring by due and fitting Encouragements to encrease the Number of English Seamen as well for the Strengthning of Our Navy Royal and better Performing the Naval Services of Vs Our Heirs and Successors as for the Supplying and Carrying on the Occasions and Business of Our Merchants and other Our Loving Subjects Interested in Trade Commerce Fishing Plantation Discovery and other Affairs relating to Navigation And whereas the Sea-fairing Men of this Kingdom have for a long time Distinguished themselves throughout the World by their Industry and Skilfulness in their proper Employments and by their Courage and Constancy manifested in Engagements and Hazards for the Defence and Honour of their Native Countrey and nothing is more likely to continue this their Ancient Reputation and to invite greater Numbers of Our Subjects to betake themselves to the Sea than the making some Competent Provision That Seamen who by Age Wounds or other Accidents shall become Disabled for further Service at Sea and shall not be in a Condition to maintain themselves Comfortably may not fall under Hardships and Miseries but may be Supported at the Publick Charge And that the Children of such Disabled Seamen and also the Widows and Children of such Seamen as shall happen to be Slain in Sea-Service may in some Reasonable Manner be Provided for and Educated And whereas having frequently Reflected upon the Premisses since Our Accession to the Crown We have Determined with Our Selves to Erect and Establish a Hospital for the Purposes aforesaid And although by reason of the Expensive War in which We have been and are at present Engaged We have not been able to Carry on the said Good and Pious Purposes to such Effect as We have desired Yet in order to begin to put the same in Execution We and Our late most Dear Consort the Queén did by Our Letters Patents under Our Great Seal of England bearing Date the Twenty fifth of October last past Give and Grant unto you the said Sir John Sommers Thomas Duke of Leeds Thomas Earl of Pembrook and Montgomery Charles Duke of Shrewsbury Sidney Lord Godolphin Sir John Trenchard Edward Russell Sir Stephen Fox Sir John Louther of Whithaven Sir William Ashhurst Sir Robert Clayton Sir Patience Ward Sir John Moor and Sir William Pritchard and to your Heirs and Assigns for ever all that Piece or Parcel of Ground Scituate Lying and Being within the Parish of East-Greenwich in Our County of Kent and being Parcel or reputed Parcel of Our Manor of East-Greenwich aforesaid containing in the whole by Admeasurement Eight Acres Two Roods and Thirty two Square Perches be the same more or less as the said Ground is now Marked Staked or otherwise Set out in which Admeasurement the Ground is Signed for a Way or Passage to lead through the Premisses and therein mentioned to be excepted is comprehended and reckoned which said Piece or Parcel of Ground is Butted and Bounded as in the said Letters Patents is expressed And all that Capital Messuage lately built or in building by Our Royal Vncle King Charles the Second and still remaining unfinished commonly called by the Name of Our Pallace at Greenwich standing upon the Piece or Parcel of Ground aforesaid and several other Edifices and Buildings and other things in the said Letters Patents mentioned except as therein is excepted To the intent nevertheless that the aforesaid Premisses and every part thereof shall be Converted and Employed unto and for the Vse and Service of Our Hospital for the Relief of Seamen their Widows and Children and Encouragement of Navigation in such manner as is therein expressed and as by the Letters Patents aforesaid relation being thereunto had may more fully appear And as We are fully Satisfied that the Execting of such an Hospital as aforesaid will be of Great Benefit and Advantage to this Our Kingdom so also taking into Our Royal Consideration that the Constituting and Establishing a Foundation of that Nature and the Framing of Rules and Statutes for the Government thereof in such a Manner as may best Answer what is thereby Intended and Designed is a Matter of Great Difficulty and such as does require Mature Deliveration and Advice know ye therefore that We Reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your known Discretions Abilities and Integrities Have Nominated Authorized and Constituted and do by these Presents Nominate Authorize and Appoint you the said Prince George Hereditary of Denmark Thomas Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury for the time being Sir John Sommers and Our Chancellor of England Keeper and Commissioners of Our Great Seal for the time being Thomas Duke of Leeds and the President of Our Privy Council for the time being Thomas Earl of Pembrook and Montgomery and the Keeper of Our Privy Seal for the time being Henry Duke of Norfolk William Duke of Devonshire Charles Duke of Bolton Charles Duke of Shrewsbury and William Duke of Bedford John Marquiss of Normanby and Charles Pawlett Esquire commonly called Marquiss of Winchester Robert Earl of Lindsey Charles Earl of Dorset and Middlesex Aubrey Earl of Oxford John Earl of Bridgewater Thomas Earl of Stamford John Earl of Bath Daniel Earl of Nottingham Lawrence Earl of Rochester William Earl of Portland Thomas Earl of Fauconberg Charles Earl of Monmouth

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