Establishment for admitting, maintaining and educating poor boys ... and for binding them out apprentices to the sea-service. Established at a General Court.

  • Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich
Date:
[1732]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Establishment for admitting, maintaining and educating poor boys ... and for binding them out apprentices to the sea-service. Established at a General Court. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or whofe Fathers were flam, the Sea Service ; of which they are to produce proper Teftimonials, to the Satisfaction of the Board of Directors. III. No Boys fhall be admitted under Eleven, or above Thirteen Years of Age j to be proved by Cer¬ tificate of the Minifter of the Parifh where the Boy was baptized, or by fuch other reafonable Proof as fhall be latisfaCtory to the Board of DireCtors ; nor fhall any be continued in the Hofpital longer than Three Years. kill’d, or drown’d in IV. No Boys fhall be admitted who are in an ill State of Health, or Blind, Crooked or Lame 5 or und'er any fort of Incapacity of Body or Mind to anfwer the End of this Charity ; and in order to prevent Impofition herein, the Phyfician and Surgeon fhall carefully examine them, and certify their Condition- under their Hands. V. 'CK 1 4 No Boys fhall be admitted, who cannot Read. IV.