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A90450	Mr. Pepys to the President and Governours of Christ-Hospital upon the present state of the said hospital. To the Honour'd Sir John Moor, Kt. and President, and the rest of my honour'd friends, the governours of Christ-Hospital. : York-Buildings, Monday, Novem. 21. 1698.	Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703.; Moor, John, Sir.; Christ's Hospital (London, England). Board of Governours.	1698 (1698)	Wing P1451C; ESTC R187059	23,676	33

wasteful and Arbitrary Methods to be found in the Management of Our Expences wholly inconsistent both with the Orders and Ends of our Pious Benefactors 9ly That of this Debt of 35000 l. there rests no less than 19500 l. specially owing to the Royal Foundation and of that above 1300 l. unlay'd-out of the Sums annually received by Us of the King's Bounty out of the Exchequer for putting forth his Children to the Seas notwithstanding what you were the last Year misled to the asserting and imposing on the Lords of the Treasury upon that Subject to the contrary And this without any one End of the whole Institution answer'd or likely to be under our present Managements Or any one Year lately pass'd wherein our Printed Reports thereof will bear Examination any more than the present Year is likely to produce One Child of its whole Number either duely Sent Abroad or qualified for it as he ought to be While the Season too is so near at hand when Our Performances therein should intitle Us to another Year's Payment 10ly Lastly That besides this Debt of 35000 l. thus lying on Us We labour under a further Annual Charge amounting by the Medium of Our last Seven Years Expences to above 14600 l. per. Ann. And this without Ought in present View towards either Clearing the One or Supporting the Other but a Revenue We our selves publish'd but at Easter last in Print to be little more than a Moiety of our Necessary and Vnavoidable Charge Which deing so and for the better applying the same to the Oceasion for which you now call for it it remains only that I subjoyn thereto these Three Short Reflections 1st That before the Address which I presume will be of Course on this Occasion made to the Lord Mayor and City for their Concurrence to the Discharge of the present and Admission of another Treasurer it seems indispenceable on our Parts that they be throughly apprised of the contents of this Paper in order to their considering what may be expedient to be first done for their own needful Security therein And this the rather for that whatever they may think fit to do with respect to any other Article of ir I hold my self bound to tell you that the Interest which my self in particular bear in all that concerns the Mathematick Foundation with regard no less to the Glorious End of it in the Advancement of the Navigation of England than my own special Misfortune in contributing what I did to the unhappy Choice made by my Royal Masters its Founders of the Place they lodg'd the Trust of it in will oblige me as a standing Piece of Duty to the Crown to insist upon a strict Account to be given of so unexampl'd a Miscariage as that of this their Foundation not yet 25. Year-old yet every Penny of its Endowment already spent and the Support of it thrown upon and at this day wholly born out of the Common Stock of of our otherwise sufficiently wretched Orphans who have no relation to it While at the same time no single Instance is to be shewn of the End of its Institution answer'd within the whole time of our present Retrospection 2ly That if in this Paper ought appears whereto either the Treasurer or any other Member of this Society shall see reason to except and exhibiting the same to this Court shall have it communicated thence to me with their Approval I shall most readily from Your own Books and Registers expose to you the Grounds of what I have asserted herein as One who am not conscious though yet fallible of any one single Prevarication from or Aggravation of the Truth in what I have here offer'd You. 3ly Finally That as unhappy as by this my Draught of it the State of your House must necessarily be thought to be with respect to its Revenue Charge and Debt I cannot but in faithfulness thereto further tell you that it is yet the very best Side of the Prospect I have to give You of its Condition in the other Parts of my Report And that therefore I shall not dare to trust either my self or this Court with the immediate Exposing of it though Originally designed for You as deeming it on many Considerations more becoming me and more behoofeful to the Service of the House and its Poor that I rather deliver it into the Hands and submit it to the Disposal of Those who as standing primarily accountable for Our Managements to the King are intitled to our aceounting for the same first to Them I mean my Lord Mayor and the foremention'd Body of the City from whom alone or in their Failure from a Royal Visitation the same if ever must receive its Remedy I am Gentlemen Your most humble and faithful Servant S. Pepys The Summons to the forementioned Court at Christ-Hospital SIR YOur Worship is earnestly desired to be present at a Court to be holden in Christ-Hospital upon Friday next being the 25th of this instant November at 3 a Clock in the Afternoon precisely for the due considering two Printed Papers lately presented by Mr. Pepys to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen and to the Court held at this House the 21st instant Vpon the present state of Christ-Hospital William Parrey Clerk Christ-Hospital 24 Nov. 1698. To the Right Honourable Sir Francis Child Lord Mayor and the Court of Aldermen Accompanying Copies of the precedeing Papers York-Buildings Tuesday Dec. 6th 1698. My Lord and Gentlemen AS fully as I had determined against interrupting this Court or myself with the Interchange of more Papers I hold my self accountable to you for the Issue of your late Allowance of my communicating those I last sent you to the Gentlemen of Christ-Hospital Which I did to the procuring the Call of an Extraordinary Court for the Consideration of the same Duplicates of which Transaction with a Copy of the Summons it self provided thereto I think it for your Service to lay before you together with the Issue of the Whole which you may please to take as follows Viz. 1st The Number present at this Court of its near four Hundred Governours was Fifty six Which tho short of what I have known attending the Choice of a Beadle a Porter or such only Occasion was yet double the Appearance seen at Ordinary Courts 2ly As full nevertheless as it was no Part of the Work it was specially called for was either done or had any Entry made towards it the Papers themselves in the full three Hours of its sitting not having had so much as a Reading-Time allowed them nor any other assigned for the doing it 3ly The Matter mainly handled therein was that of their Treasurer's being required by this Court to Sign his Accounts and present them back thereto when Signed In which I had the good Fortune of offering these Gentlemen together with the forementioned Papers some Thoughts of mine upon the Deference due to You both from that and

like bringing them to an Account Besides the Consideration of how much more to be Lamented any Miscarriage would be and less to be Excus'd that should attend the Neglect of it in case of any unexpected Change in the Person of our Treasurer whose known Age will alone justify my Apprehension of it even without the Help of that Declaration which Himself two Tears since thought fit spontaneously to make in open Court of his Disability even then both in Body and Mind for longer executing his Office and therefore resigning it had it accepted of by you 4thly In the Liberty taken by some Gentlemen not of the lowest Name in the Management of this House of arraigning in Common Conversation as well as singly to my self these Enquirys of mine on behalf of our Orphans as tending at least if not designed to the wresting the Government of it out of their Hands who valuing themselves upon the Title of Church-of-England-Men seem impatient under the Apprehension of being supplanted in it by the Fanaticks A Thought God knows of too little Weight with me for Fither's sake to trouble my Head with As well knowing how little the Felicity of Mankind has at any time been owing to Nominal Distinctions in Religion and no less remembring how little the Bishop of Jerusalem St. James could be thought ignorant of that best of Names of Christian I mean when to ascertain the Religion intended by him under his Epithetes of Pure and Undefiled he waved the Vse of either that or any other and rather chose to distinguish it by the Moral Lessons of Visiting the Fatherless and the Widow in their Afflictions and living unspotted of the World Lessons read to Mankind long before the Name of Christian or of its Holy Founder was ever heard of therein In pursuance of which If to subject our Orphans to all the Consequences of a Mispent Revenue if to add to the Affliction of their Widow-Mothers the sorrowful Effects too often seen in them of a corrupted Education if the Disappointments arising from both to the religious Purposes of their pious and bountiful Benefactors be in the Sense of these Gentlemens Church the fulfilling of that Description Much Good may do them with their Churchmenships and may I be their Cast-away 5thly Lastly In the Proof so lately given me of the little to be hoped-for of Remedy to these Evils from what I must acknowledge my having lodged my last Relyance-on towards it namely The getting them fairly laid before a General-Court Forasmuch as from the Ineffectualness of all my Endeavours on that behalf in the Solemnity of the Summons provided for that held the 25th of November last I find the Predominancy of those whose Business it is to obstruct it such as to have been able to prevent the very Reading of the Papers it was alone called to the Hearing of and consequently to send them home as little apprised of the Import thereof to the Weal of the House as they were at their coming thither From which so fresh Confirmation of a Truth I had but too often before both experimented and complain'd of and from the further Practices occurring to me on this occasion of intercepting suppressing and otherwise indirect disposing of Papers not thought for some Private Turns fitt to be admitted to Publick View I think it high Time for me to lay-down the Tenderness wherewith I have hitherto govern'd my self in the exposing of what I have already said and may hereafter have further to say hereon proceeding as I lately told You I should to the communicating the same without Restriction to the Gentlemen of this House in the like Open method I have with good Acceptance been for some time using towards the Honourable the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen our immediate Superiors on the same Subject I am with great respect Gentlemen Your most faithful and most humble Servant S. Pepys Mr. PEPYS upon the State of Christ-Hospital Paper IV. Mr. PEPYS To the Right Honourable Sir Francis Child Kt. Lord Mayor and to the Court of Aldermen upon the Present State of Christ-Hospital York-Buildings March 7th 1698 9. My Lord and Gentlemen THAT nothing may rest uncommunicated to this Court of what goes from me to that of Christ-Hospital any more than by your Allowance I with-hold from Them ought of what I offer You I here tender you a Copy of a Letter of mine thither of the 25. of January The Contents of which bearing my Farewel to Them as with all respect my purpose is in this to You I cannot but recommend the Perusal thereof to this Court as carrying with them such a Representation of the perishing State of that House in some fresh Particulars essential to the Well-being of it as render it a thing little less than hopeless for me by ordinary Means at least any longer to think of saving it After finding my self put to above seven Months Labour in compassing only its Treasurer's Signing that one Article of his Account which you had before had from him Vnsign'd and more than ten in finding Passage only through this Court thither to my late Report of the State of the same And What it is that may be look't-for from it even now it is there with a Committee of few less than forty and of them the Majority such as will find little Work for them in it but Self-Arraignment I submit to your Lordship and this Court Especially when you shall be pleas'd to reflect upon the present Circumstances of that House's Government viz. VNDER the Guidance of a President equal indeed to the worthiest of his Predecessors both in his general Virtues and special Munificence to that Place But One whose Piety has out-liv'd his Strength for being otherwise personally aidful to it in any of the Weightier Duties of that Charge VNDER a Treasurer who besides what you have elsewhere before you concerning him was also pleas d to declare himself unable both in Mind and Body for the longer Execution of his Office and therefore made his formal Resignation of it and had it as formally accepted-of from him in Court there above two years since VNDER the Direction of Gentlemen acting indeed as Governours and to whom as such I have for more than 23. years had the Honour of reckoning my self a Fellow-servant but are said to stand reported to You at this day by your Learned Council not to be such nor capable of being so without what they have never yet had the Confirmation of this Court And lastly VNDER an Administration also on the part of your Lordship and your Honoured Brethren so Gentle as to have suffer'd your Orders thither even in Points the most important to lye 7. Months together wholly neglected and your Authority as openly renounc'd without having yet thought fit to have ought done within my Notice at least in Assertion of it A Reflection My Lord as hard to be accounted-for as in it self Grievous .. Forasmuch as If after so