The history and survey of London - from its foundation to the present time (1756) (14590827097)

Identifier: historysurveyofl02mait (find matches)
Title: The history and survey of London : from its foundation to the present time
Year: 1756 (1750s)
Authors: Maitland, William, 1693?-1757 Entick, John, 1703?-1773, ed
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Publisher: London : T. Osborne and J. Shipton
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library



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no Perfon, fubfcribing lefs thantwo Guineas a Year, be permitted to recommendmore than two In-Patients in the Year. VIII. And that, when there is not Room forall the Patients recommended at one Time to bereceived into the Hofpital, thole are taken inwhofe Admiffion the Board are of Opinion willmoft effectually anfwer the End of the Charity :And the reft, if proper Objects, are admittedOut-Patients, till there is Room for them in theHofpital. N. B. That moft confumptive and afthmatickCafes are more capable of Relief, as Out-Pa-tients, than as In-Patients. An Account of the Patients for the Tear 1753. Patients difcharged from St. Georges Hofpital,fince its firft Receiving of Patients on the firft ofJanuary 1733, to the 27th of December 1752,fixty thoufand one hundred and eighty-eight. Patients in the Houfe the 27th of December1732, two hundred and feventy-three. Out-Patients on the Books at the fame Time,fix hundred and forty-five. In all, fixty-one thoufand one hundred and fix. Gibfons
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Bopk VI. ^HISTORY of LONDON. 13° 5 Coop.Corep Gibfons Alms-houfe. Nicholas Gibfon, Efq-, fome Time Sheriff of thisCity, erected this Alms-houfe and School,(and not, according to Stow, by Avice, his Wife)at Ratcliff, in the Year 1537, for the Receptionof fourteen poor Widows, feven whereof to be ofStepney Parifb, and the other feven of the Com-pany of Coopers ; for the Support of which, andto the Ufe of his Will, on the 23d of September,Anno 1540, he conveyed his whole Eftate to Avice,his Wife; which fhe, by the Name of Knivct,(being then Wife to Sir Andrew Knivet) furren-dered, with all the Lands thereunto belonging,on the 20th of February, Anno 1553, in Truft to the Company of Coopers. The Penfioners to havetwenty-fix Shillings and eight Pence per Annumeach ; the Schoolmafter, a Salary of ten Pounds ;and an Ufher, fix Pounds thirteen Shillings andfour Pence. But the Eftate wherewith this Foun-dation is endowed, being vaftly improved, theCompany have of late increafed the Penfions tof