APPENDIX.

Translation of the CHARTER of King EDWARD THE SIXTH of Foundation of the Hospitals of CHRIST, BRIDEWELL, and ST. THOMAS THE APOSTLE.

EDWARD the Sixth, by the grace of God, of England, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and in Earth of the Church of England and of Ireland Supreme Head. To all to whom the present Letters shall come, greeting. Whereas We, pitying the miserable estate of the poor fatherless decrepit aged sick infirm and impotent persons languishing under various kinds of diseases; and also of our special grace thoroughly considering the honest pious endeavours of our most humble and obedient subjects the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of our City of London, who by all ways and methods diligently study for the good provision of the poor and of every sort of them, and that by such reason and care neither children yet being in their infancy shall lack good education and instruction, nor when they shall obtain riper years shall be destitute of honest callings and occupations, whereby they may honestly exercise themselves in some good faculty and science for the advantage and utility of the commonwealth; nor that the sick or diseased, when they shall be recovered and restored to health,

may remain idle and lazy vagabonds of the state, but that they in like manner may be placed and compelled to labour and honest and wholesome employments: Know ye, that We, as well for the considerations aforesaid as of our special grace and of our certain knowledge and meer motion, desiring not only the progress amplification and increase of so honest and noble a work, but also condescending in our name and by our royal authority to take upon ourself the patronage of this most excellent and most holy foundation, now lately established, have given and granted, and by these presents do give and grant, to the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of our City of London, All that our manor capital messuage and tenement and our mansionhouse called Bridewell other Bridewell Place, with all and singular its rights members and appurtenances, situate lying and being in the parish of Saint Brigid in Fleet-street, London, and all and singular houses edifices lands tenements rents reversions and services chambers curtilages gardens void grounds places spaces ways easements profits and commodities whatsoever to the said house called Bridewell Place in any wise howsoever belonging or appertaining, or as being parts members or parcels of the same heretofore had known used or demised; and all those our messuages tenements cellars sollars houses edifices and hereditaments whatsoever, situate lying and being in the parish of Saint Sepulcre without Newgate, London, to the late royal hospital called the Savoy, in the parish of Saint Clement Danes without the bars of the New Temple London, now dissolved, formerly belonging and appertaining, and being parcel of the possessions thereof; and also all the messuages tenements cottages cellars sollars houses edifices and our hereditaments whatsoever, situate lying and being in the parish of Saint Michael at Corn, London, to the said late hospital formerly belonging and appertaining, and being parcel of the possessions thereof; and also all that messuage and tenement, and all our houses edifices shops cellars sollars and hereditaments whatsoever, with their appurtenances, situate lying and being in the Old Change, in the parish of Saint Augustine, London, to the

said late hospital formerly belonging and appertaining, and being parcel of the possessions thereof; and also all those our five messuages and tenements, with the appurtenances, in the parish of All Saints Honey-lane next Cheap, London, to the said late hospital formerly belonging and appertaining, and being parcel of the possessions thereof; and also all those our messuages and tenements, with the appurtenances, lying in the parish of Saint Anthony, called Saint Anklyn's parish, in Budge row, London, to the said late hospital formerly belonging and appertaining, and late being parcel of the possessions thereof; and also our messuage and tenement, with the appurtenances, lying in Pankerith-street in the parish of Saint Bennets Sherehog, London, and to the said late hospital formerly belonging and appertaining, and late being parcel of the possessions thereof; and also all those our messuages and tenements, with the appurtenances, in the parish of Saint Bennett, London, to the said hospital formerly belonging and appertaining, and being parcel of the possessions thereof; and also all those our messuages and tenements, with the appurtenances, in the parish of Saint Andrew Undershaft, London, to the said hospital formerly belonging and appertaining, and late being parcel of the possessions thereof; and also all other our messuages cottages tofts tenements shops cellars sollars rents reversions services and hereditaments whatsoever, with their appurtenances, situate lying and being in the parish of Saint Sepulchre without Newgate, London, to the said late hospital formerly belonging and appertaining; and all the messuages lands tenements rents reversions services and other hereditaments whatsoever, with their appurtenances, in the city of London and the suburbs of the same, which were parcel of the possessions and revenues of the said late hospital; and all our lordship and manor called Shoreditch Place otherwise Ingibrow-hold, with all its rights members and appurtenances, in Hackney and elsewhere in our county of Middlesex, to the said late hospital formerly belonging and appertaining, and late being parcel of the possessions thereof; and also all those our lands meadows pastures and he

reditaments whatsoever, called Robbyes, in our said county of Middlesex, now or late in the tenure or occupation of Edmund Lyeez, to the said late hospital formerly belonging and apper taining, and being parcel of the possessions thereof; and also all those our lands meadows feedings pastures and hereditaments whatsoever, called Goldbetters, with the appurtenances, lying and being in Enfield in our said county of Middlesex, now or late in the tenure or occupation of Catherine Alychell, and to the said late hospital formerly belonging and appertaining, and late being parcel of the possessions thereof; and also all our lordship and manor called Oxenford in Colkerington in our said county of Middlesex, with all its rights members liberties and appurtenances, to the said late hospital formerly belonging and appertaining, and being parcel of the possessions thereof; and also all those our lordships and manors of Denge Hillions Albethly and Gerons, with their rights members liberties and appurtenances, in our county of Essex; and also our messuage and tenement called the Newhouse; and all our lands meadows feedings pastures commons rents reversions services and hereditaments whatsoever, with their appurtenances, called or known by the name or names of Tarlfees and Stewards; and all other our lands tenements meadows feedings pastures rents reversions services and hereditaments whatsoever, in Great Perington otherwise Parndon, in our said county of Essex, to the said late hospital formerly belonging and appertaining, and late being parcel of the possessions thereof; and also all that our lordship and manor of Lynsters otherwise called Langleys, with all its rights members and appurtenances, in our county of Hertford, to the said hospital formerly belonging and appertaining, and late being parcel of the possessions thereof; and also all those our lordships and manors of Denham Durdent and Maskworth, with all their rights members and appurtenances, in our county of Buckingham, and to the said late hospital formerly belonging and appertaining, and late being parcel of the possession thereof; and also all that our manor and our tenements of Topcliff in Melryth, and of Melbourn Royston Feversham

and Great Eversden, with the appurtenances, in our county of Cambridge, with all their rights members liberties and appurtenances, to the said late hospital formerly belonging and appertaining, and late being parcel of the possessions thereof; and also all that our lordship and manor of Netherall in Hinton, with all its rights members liberties and appurtenances, in our şaid county of Cambridge, and to the said late hospital formerly belonging and appertaining, and being parcel of the possessions thereof; and all that our lordship and manor of Burdlyns in Comberton in our said county of Cambridge, with all its rights members and appurtenances, now or late in the tenure or occupation of John Ranger, and to the said late hospital formerly belonging and appertaining, and being parcel of the possessions thereof; and also all that our lordship and manor of Allens, and all our lands meadows feedings pastures and hereditaments whatsoever, called Maners, with their rights members and appurtenances, in Feversham and elsewhere in our said county of Cambridge, now or late in the tenure or occupation of William Wise, and to the said late hospital formerly belonging and appertaining, and being parcel of the possessions thereof; and also all those our messuages lands tenements meadows feedings pastures commons and hereditaments whatsoever, with the appurtenances, now or late in the tenure or occupation of the said William Wise, situate lying and being in Fulborne in our said county of Cambridge, to the said late hospital formerly belonging and appertaining, and being parcel of the possessions thereof; and also all that our lordship and manor of Astinleigh otherwise Hastinleigh and Aldeloss, with all its rights members liberties and appurtenances, and all our messuages lands tenements meadows feedings pastures and hereditaments whatsoever, with the appurtenances in Hastingleigh and Aldeloss aforesaid in our county of Kent, now or late in the tenure or occupation of Edward Grey, to the said late hospital formerly belonging or appertaining, and being parcel of the possessions thereof; and also all that our lordship and manor of Crofton, with all its rights members and appurtenances, in our said county of Kent, to the said late hospital