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
of the Governours meet at an Assembly and the greater part of them present determine and give order for any thing propounded then that Assembly shall stand good and those Orders shall be in force otherwise not And also all Elections and Expulsions made at such a full Assembly shall stand good otherwise they shall be held unlawful and it shall be the Masters duty to disavow them till the Governours pleasure be further known the next Assembly All Grants Leases and Presentations and all Elections of all Officers mentioned in the Charter and likewise of the Register Receiver Auditor Chappel Clerk Organist and Manciple as also of all poor men and poor Scholars shall be in the power of the Governours only and they shall not elect above Eighteen poor Men or Eighteen poor Scholars at any one Assembly No Patent or Fee shall be granted for life to any Officer whatsoever but durante beneplacito No poor Man or poor Scholar shall be admitted but into the next place after him that is or shall be pre-elected and they shall not come one over the others head any powerful means or importunity to the contrary notwithstanding The Orders and Constitutions of every Assembly shall be ingrossed in the Assembly Book by the Register and signed by the Governours present at that Assembly within forty days All which Orders and Constitutions the Master Register and other Members Officers Ministers and Servants of the House whom it may concern shall observe and obey as they will answer the contrary at their peril Other Assemblies shall be accidentary upon the occasion of the Death or Resignation of a Governour Officer of the Foundation or Incumbent upon any Spiritual Living being of the Patronage of the Hospital to elect or present another in his place wherein it is provided that the Spiritual Livings be conferred upon persons capable and such as do or have done actual Service to the House or have been Members thereof before any others A Committee of five at the least shall be chosen for the whole year at the Assembly in December whereof any three the Master being one may proceed in any business left to the Committees And they shall yearly between Easter and Midsummer assisted with some learned Men make a Visitation of the School and certifie the Table at the Assembly following of the state thereof and which Scholars between the Age of Sixteen and Eighteen are fit to be preferred to the Universities and there maintained by the Hospital which not Those Scholars sent to the Universities if they continue there and follow their Studies shall be allowed each of them Sixteen pounds yearly Pension at the four usual Feasts by even and equal portions for Eight years But in case they discontinue sooner their Pension shall cease Provided always they shall not exceed the number of Four and twenty such Pensioners at any one time Such as are to be bound Apprentices shall have Sixteen pounds a piece in gift towards their setting out whereof four Marks shall be to apparel the Apprentice and twenty Marks to his Master which money both for Maintenance at the Universities and putting out to Trades shall be disbursed by the surviving Executor of the Founder during his life and after by such as the Governours shall appoint in that behalf Provided that the Tradesman shall first enter into Thirty pounds Bond to the Governours for good usage of the Apprentice and teaching him his Trade Such Scholars as the Governours at an Assembly shall appoint to Universities or Trades with the allowance before specified their Parents or nearest Friends that are able shall be sent unto to provide them of Places accordingly before Michaelmas-day then next following and if they shall fail therein upon lawful warning given them then those Scholars shall be dismissed and made uncapable of any allowance in or from the Hospital Concerning such Scholars whose Parents or Friends are unable the House shall provide places for them Lastly the said Committees shall take in their Consideration all business of importance referred unto them by the Governours at an Assembly As also all such things as the Master of the Hospital shall communicate unto them for their advice and assistance to digest and prepare them that they may be presented in writing to the Solicitor and propounded at the next meeting of the Governours The Master ELection shall be made of a Master that is a learned discreet and meet man according to the express words of the Foundation unmarried and aged above Forty years He shall neither have nor accept of any place of Preferment or Benefit either in Church or Commonwealth whereby he may be drawn from his Residence Care and Charge of the Hospital and if he do in such case he shall leave that place or be displaced if he refuse to leave it He shall have the Oeconomical Government of the House and Houshold during the Governours pleasure and to put upon any Officer a Mulct not exceeding the value of a week or fortnights Commons which shall be continued unless the Governours at the next Assembly shall see cause and give order to the contrary And also to fine any poor Brother at four shillings four pence or eight shillings eight pence upon any misdemeanour in his discretion deserving the same any further punishment he shall not inflict but upon continuance of their transgression and incorrigibility he shall inform the Governours at the next Assembly by them to be more severely and condignly chastised by way of Mulct Expulsion or otherwise as to their Wisdoms shall seem best and most just for the Offenders Correction and terrour of others All other inferiour Servants of the Houshold shall be put in or out at the discretion of the Master but he shall have this power in subordination to the Governours and his actions shall be alterable by their Censure and Revocation upon just Cause of Complaint He shall not increase or decrease any Diets Stipends Fees or Wages in the House or School under or above the Rates set down in our Establishment hereafter ensuing as he will answer the contrary upon pain of paying the Surcharge himself and incurring the Gevernours displeasure in case any allowance be shortned Masters of the House since the Foundation 1. John Hutton Clerk 2. Mr. Andrew Pern 3. Peter Hooker Clerk 4. Francis Beaumont Esquire 5. Sir Robert Dallington 6. George Gerard Esquire 7. Edward Gresset Esquire 8. Sir Ralph Sidenham 9. Martyn Clifford Esquire The Preacher HE shall be qualified both for his Learning and good Conversation of Life to be capable and fit for the place aged about Thirty years a Master of Arts of Seven years standing at the least and one that hath been a preaching Minister the space of four years or more The first and chiefest care and charge that we impose upon the Master and Him is for the Service of God that they and all the Officers poor Brothers Scholars and Servants of the Houshold frequent the
are less capable of Learning and sittest to be put to Trades He and the Usher shall be diligent in the daily attendance on their Charge and shall not Journey into the Country without the Masters leave Nor shall they take into their Tuition above Sixty other Scholars unless they entertain another under Usher out of their own Means and to be dyeted and lodged out of the Hospital Nor shall they receive for teaching those of the Foundation any Fee or Wages from their Friends They shall be careful and discreet to observe the Nature and Ingeny of their Scholars and accordingly instruct and correct them In Correction they shall be moderate in Instruction diligent Correcting according to the quality of the Fault in matter of Manners and according to the capacity of the Fault in matter of Learning All other Duties of their place they shall faithfully perform namely to see that the Scholars be of modest and mannerly behaviour well and decently clothed orderly and seasonably dyeted cleanly and wholesomly lodged And that the Matron Butler Taylor and Groom perform their duties to these purposes otherwise their Tutors to be censured by Us the Governours and their Servants to be punished by the Master of the Hospital Schoolmasters 1. Mr. Nicholas Grey 2. Mr. Robert Grey his Brother 3. Mr. William Middleton 4. Mr. Robert Brooks 5. Mr. Samuel Wilson 6. Mr. John Bonchee 7. Mr. Norris Wood. 8. Mr. Thomas Watson Vshers 1. Mr. Bagley 2. Mr. Robert Grey 3. Mr. Middleton 4. Mr Brooks 5. Mr. Anthony Andrews 6. Mr. John Byrch 7. Mr. Samuel Wilson 8. Mr. John Martyn 9. Mr. Norris Wood. 10. Mr. John Stephens 11. Mr. Edmund Sly 12. Mr. Thomas Watson 13. Mr. Rowland Buckeridge 14. Mr. Thomas Walker Officers of the Revenues Steward of Courts NO Steward of Courts shall take any greater Fee than Five shillings for his Copy and entring it into the Roll unless it express uses made over by Will in which Case his Fee shall be Ten Shillings All Stewards of Courts shall bring or send into the Charter-house within three months after the Court holden the Roll thereof fairly written in Parchment with the Fine set down in the Margent and signed with his own hand They shall also deliver the Tenant his Copy within forty days after the Court holden if the Tenant demand it and pay for it according to the Rate aforesaid Stewards 1. Mr. John Mocket 2. Mr. Joseph Ward 3. Mr. Abell Allen. This Office is now turned into the Manciple's Auditor HE Shall quarterly examine the Receivers Book of Receipts of the Revenues and Disbursments for the Hospital to see if the one agree with the Rental and the other be disbursed by the Masters warrant and upon proof by Examination under his hand of every particular the Book shall be signed by the Master He shall weekly examine the Manciple's Book of Disbursments for Dyets and what else he lays out to see if the one agree with the Establishment and the other be done by warrant and upon due Examination to approve them under his hand before they be signed by the Master Upon Balancing all Accompts of Receipts and Disbursment at the years end he shall draw the Declaration by us formerly enjoyed in these our Orders that at the Assembly in Decemb. a perfect and yearly view may be taken of the state of the Hospital Auditors 1. Mr. John Wotton 2. Mr. Henry Wotton 3. Mr. Henry Playford 4. Mr. Spour Bailiffs NO Bailiff shall be chosen of any Mannor or Mannors unless he dwell there or within five miles distance at the farthest All Bailiffs shall put in Bond of Two hundred pounds apiece with two Sureties for paying in the monies by them levied either for free Rents or Profits of Courts and they shall not meddle with the Receipt of any Farm-rents upon pain of forfeiting their Bond. All Bailiffs shall bring in all free and customary Rents within forty days after the Quarter day also all Profits and Perquisits of Courts within the said time of forty days after the day assigned by the Steward for payment thereof Leases UPon a Lease hereafter to be granted no Tenant shall have respit for payment of his Rent above Forty days after the Quarter-day wherein he ought to pay it by his Lease All Lease Rents shall be paid by Tenants at the Charter-house so shall all free and customary Rents with Profits and Perquisits of Courts be there likewise paid by the Bailiffs All Lessees shall be tied by Covenant to dwell upon their Farms and not to put them over but to Wife and Children without Licence procured by Petition at the Table and signed by the Major part of the Governours there present and no Licence shall be granted them but for the remainder of years limited by the former Lease and at the same Rent and enjoyning the under Tenants to dwell thereupon In every Lease hereafter to be granted of any of the Hospital Lands or Tenements in any Mannor where a Court Baron is used to be kept there shall be comprised in every such Lease a Covenant on the Lessees part To do suit of Court there and to be obedient to the Orders therein to be made touching or by reason of the Lands and Tenements No Lease shall be made till within Three years before the expiration of the old Lease unless it be upon surrender of the old Lease Nor shall it be granted for Lives or longer time than One and twenty years No Fine shall be taken upon letting or renewing any Lease but such an Improvement of Rent as shall seem best to the Governours and for the good of the Hospital Surveys THere shall be two Surveys made of all such Lands belonging to the Hospital as are not already surveyed and the same shall be faithfully transcribed into a Book expressing the yearly Rent now paid and the yearly value by Survey which Book shall be brought to the Table at every Asssembly that upon the expiring or renewing of Leases the Governours may increase or abate the Rents as to their Wisdoms shall seem best for the good of the Hospital An Establishment for the Dyets Liveries Stipends Wages and other Charges and Expences 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 to be strictly observed and not any way exceeded viz. For weekly Dyet  l. s. d. EIght at the Master's Table allowed for Bread Beer Dyet and Detriments iiii   Fourscore at the Brothers Table allowed for Bread Beer Dyet and Detriments vii xiii iiii Forty two at the Scholars Table allowed for Bread Beer Dyet and Detriments vi xviii iii. ob Ten at the Manciples Table allowed for Bread Beer Dyet and Detrements  xliiii ii Two of the Kitchin and one Porter  xiii  Five Attendants for the Masters Table for Bread and Beer  v. x. For weakly Beavors  l. s. d. Eight
it is the best way to be early in making application especially for the place of a young Lad Three or four years is but a reasonable time before hand for else ordinarily they will hardly have the benefit of their Warrant which some impute to the unkindness of the Officers For the Governours at an Assembly make a List and nominate their Lad each of them who being approved of is certain to come in though the place should fall after his Governours Death and till the former Nomination and Warrant be served no other can have any claim or vertue The Number now in the House maintained and kept is above 188 Persons besides the 29 Scholars at the Universities and the standing Council to the House which at present are Sir William Jones his Majesty's Attorney General and Mr. Dolben of the Temple have a retaining Fee from the House and several other persons who are mentioned in the first Establishment At the Admission of every Member it is required that they be sober in mind and healthful in body which later information is to be given by the Chriurgion with the Approbation of the Physician by an Order Decemb. 10. 1613. What a mighty benefit this Donation has proved to many hundreds in the space of Threescore and six years is almost incredible for no Estate of the like Revenue has done near so much good in all Europe For some Persons who have been Members of great and considerable Families have been glad to take Relief in this when their own wealthy Relations esteemed them as a burthen I have already given you an Account of the Ancient concerns of the House and now I intend to conclude with a fresh account of the Alterations of Salaries and increase of Revenues by the great wisdom and care of the Right Honourable the Governours As for the particular Orders by which the Ancient Men are to be regulated they are conveniently placed before their Devotions I find an Account of the Lands Mannors and Revenues of the Charter-house set down Alphabetically by Master Fuller but so confusedly by reason of mistakes of Farms for Mannors that I chose rather to set them exactly down as I found them in the Rental at the Charter-house made Anno Dom. 1673. 1. THe Estate about the Charterhouse viz. in the Lane and the Yard before the House and the Backside of the Wilderness called now Sutton's Street These are let out to several Tenants but the Annual Rent of them all amounts to l. s. d. 202 00 00 2. Some Lands at Hackney in the County of Middlesex which bring in per Annum 025 00 00 3. At Southminster in Essex the Lease-hold Rents of the same Mannor per Annum 921 03 04 The Free and Customary Rents of the said Mannor per Annum 038 08 3 ob 4. Cold Norton in Essex Lease-hold Rents 160 00 00 Free and Customary 017 06 09 5. Great Stanbridge in Essex Lease-hold Rents 113 06 08 Free and Customary 012 04 02 6. Little Hallingbury in Essex Lease-hold Rents 267 13 04 Free and Customary 010 16 2 ob 7. Castle-Camps in Cambridge Lease hold 652 14 08 Free and Customary 032 09 3. q. 8. Balsham Mannor in Cambridge Lease-hold 200 00 00 Free and Customary 041 19 5 ob q. 9. Buslingthorpe in Lincolnshire Lease-hold 305 10 00 10. Dunsby in Lincolnshire Farm Rents 408 18 08 11. Elcomb Mannor and Park in Wiltshire containing all these Farms which Mr. Fuller sets down for Mannors 1. Chilton 2. Black-grove 3. Missunden 4. Salthorpe 5. Wescott 6. Uffcott c. The Lease-holds whereof amount to 1063 13 04 Free and Customary 020 15 8 ob These are all the Mannors Lands and Revenues which were setled by the Founder himself upon his Hospital But the Purchases since have been Considerable 1. Thurston and the Marsh in Cold Norton in Essex which brings in per Annum l. s. d. 018 00 00 2. Elmestead Park in Essex Lease-hold 060 00 00 3. Fryans and Jackletts in Essex 60 00 00 4. Little Wigborow in Essex Farm Rents 200 00 00 Free and Customary 005 05 04 5. Higney Grange and Isle in Hungtingtonshire 220 00 00 6. Fulstow-Marsh-Chappel and Tetney in Linc. 50 00 00 7. Hartland in Devonshire 36 00 00 Small Tithes 25 00 00 8. West-black loft Saddlethorpe Yokfleet and Bellasis in Yorkshire 070 00 00 Free-hold 011 03 0 ob 9. Bockleton in Shropshire 060 00 00 10. Thickwood in Wiltshire 078 06 04 Another Rent 003 69 01 The Ancient Revenue comes to 4493 19 10 ob The new Purchased Lands to 0897 13 9 ob Both together amount to 5391 13 08 Although the House lost near 8000 l. in Beaumont's and Heyward's time in the years 1623 and 1624 and was robbed of 1600 l. in the year 1649. and was set behind hand in Mr. Gerard's time when he was Master yet during these Wars as well as formerly there have been considerable Additions since the year 1614. First of all 24 Boys were allowed at the University 20 pounds per Annum a piece out of Lands purchased by the good Providence of Sir Richard Sutton one of the Founders faithful Executors Secondly Five Scholars added since to the number of the University Youths who are now 29 by the good care and providence of Mr. Gresset And Four Scholars more added to the first Foundation of 40 maintained in the House The Masters Salary has been raised from 50 l. per Annum to a 100 l. and lately increased to 200 l. The Preachers from 40 l. per Annum to a 100 l. The Schoolmasters from 30 l. to a 100 marks The Readers from 20 l. to 30 l. per Annum The Gardiners place is also considerably encreast And the Apprentices have their 20 l. doubled For now the Lands amount to as before mentioned in the Rental l. s. d. 5391 13 08 A very fair Estate for a private man to get and to bestow to such Excellent Purposes whose praise ought to be celebrated in all Ages Thus we may observe how just and regular Affairs stand in this House that the Revenues are no way embezel'd 'T is true not many years since a lamentable sire happened which occasioned the taking out the famous 1000 l. so long kept prisoner in the Chest but yet in time it is to be hoped it may be gathered up and return to its old habitation and in truth it lay there to be a reserve for extraordinary Emergencies So neither is the Estate diverted to any other use than what the Founder design'd viz. decay'd Souldiers and English Gentlemen and others who formerly have been well educated These have every one a handsome and convenient Apartment Likewise it is laid out on the maintenance of decay'd Gentlemens Children who have a Chamber to two of them wholsom dyet admirable conveniences and all accommodations imaginable so that they are no burthen at all to their Parents after their first years admission into the House I have nothing now to say
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
Sir James Altham one of the Barons of the Exchequer One piece of Plate of the value of Twenty pounds Item I give to my late wives kinsman Guy Godolphin the sum of Ten pounds Item I give to the Right Honourable my very good Lord the Earl of Suffolk the sum of Four hundred pounds All the rest of my Goods Chattels and Debts not before given and disposed I give and bequeath to my intended Hospital to be imployed and bestowed on and about the same according to the discretion of the Feoffees of my said Hospital or the greater part of them In witness hereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal the Twenty eighth day of the Month of November above written Thomas Sutton Memorandum That the same Testator did acknowledge this his Will written and contained in these Three and twenty leaves to be his last Will and Testament and that his Hand and Seal set thereunto is his own Hand and Seal and that he had heard it read and was acquainted with the Contents of it the said Twenty Eighth of November above written In presence of us John Law Leonard Houghton Alexander Longworth Thomas Hall The Mark of Richard Pearce The Mark of Thomas Johnson Primo Decembris 1611. idem recognitum per Testatorem coram Jo. Crooke Quarto Decembris 1611. recognit to be the Testators last Will. Before me Henry Thoresby A Codicil to be annexed to the last Will and Testament of Thomas Sutton Esquire made and declared the Day whereon he died being the Twelfth of December One thousand six hundred and eleven ITem he gave and bequeathed to Mr. Judge Crooke one of the Judges of the King's Bench at Westminster the Sum of Ten pounds And to Mr. Henry Thoresby one of the Masters of the Court of Chancery the like Sum of Ten pounds And to Mrs. Sutton of London Widow the Sum of Three pounds six shillings eight pence to make her a Ring Also he gave to Mr. Hutton Clerk and Vicar of Littlebury the Advowson or next Presentation to the Parsonage of Dunsby in the County of Lincoln Also he did then publish and declare before Mr. Flud Parson of Stoke-Newington in the County of Middlesex Robert Petit Alexander Longworth John Parsons and Thomas Johnson his Cook that he had made his Will and thereof had made and ordained Richard Sutton of London Esquire and John Law his Executors I thought good to make a Conclusion of all with some proper Devotions relating to those particular Occasions which concern the Fourscore pious and aged Gentlemen c. Not that I intend by any means to detract from the excellency and usefulness of the Prayers of the Church for these are only designed for private Offices at home and possibly by Gods assistance may be instrumental to the Improvement of their Thankfulness to God and their Preparation for their latter end Here likewise I thought it might be convenient to place several Orders which hang up in the lesser Hall of the Pensioners by which they are to square and regulate their Manners so that they might have in a narrow compass contained the several Instances of their publick and private Duty Lord now lettest thou thy Servant depart in peace according to thy word For mine eyes have seen thy Salvation which thou hast prepared before the face of all People To be a Light to lighten the Gentiles and to be the glory of thy people Israel Eccles 12. The years draw nigh when thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them while the Sun or the Light or the Moon or the Stars be not darkned nor the Clouds return after the rain In the day when the a The ribs keepers of the house shall tremble and the b The Legs strong men shall bow themselves and the c Teeth grinders cease because they are few and those that look out of the d Eyes windows be darkned Or ever the e Circulation of the Blood silver cord be loosed or the f Liver golden bowl be broken or the pitcher be broken at the fountain or the wheel at the cistern then shall the dust return to the earth as it was and the Spirit shall return to God who gave it Job 5.26 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age like as a shock of corn cometh in his season ORDERS made by the Governours of the Hospital of King JAMES founded in Charter-house by Thomas Sutton Esquire at several times since the beginning of the said Hospital and yet continuing in force and to be observed or known by the poor Men Pensioners and Brothers of the said Hospital for the time being as follow NO poor Man shall be admitted into the Hospital unless he shall appear to be clean and sound of body from any foul and infectious Disease Per Ordinem fact 10 Decemb. 1613 And to prevent that none be admitted that is infected with any infectious Disease It is Ordered that the Chirurgion of the Hospital for the time being shall view and search the Body of such a person if there be any cause of suspicion before he be admitted Per Ordinem 24 Februarii 1622. No poor Man that shall be a Member of the Hospital shall wear any long Hair or any Weapons within the said House or have any Weapons within their several Lodgings Per Ordinem 10 Decemb. 1613. Every poor Man of this Hospital that shall happen to fall so sick that he cannot come into the Hall to take his repast then he shall have his part in Diet in his Chamber or his weekly allowance in mony for it as the Master and the Steward in their discretions shall hold meet Per Ordinem 22 Decemb. 1615. The Master of the Hospital for the time being and every Officer poor Man and every Member of the same shall take their Diet in the Dining Halls appointed for that purpose and not in their Chambers unless it be in time of Sickness or upon some urgent occasion such as the Master shall allow of Provided that they do not then exceed the proportion of Diet that is set down and established Per Ordinem 21 Januarii 1618. No Officer Pensioner or Member of this Hospital shall send or carry away any Bread Beer or Meat from their Tables when they shall be at Dinner and Supper in the said Dining-Halls but if any Bread Beer or Meat shall happen to be left it shall be bestow'd on such poor men and women that shall from time to time be appointed and allowed to do service in the said Hospital or otherwise as the Master in his discretion shall hold fitting but not any of it to be sold for mony Per Ordinem 21 Januarii 1618. One of the poor Men of the Hospital in their several turns and the Master Cook of the said Hospital shall go weekly to the Market with the Steward or his Man to buy the Provision of Fish and Flesh for the Diet of the Hospital that choice may be made by