A sermon preached before the governors of the Radcliffe Infirmary at St. Mary's Church in Oxford on Wednesday, July 3, 1771 / by the Right Reverend Robert Lord Bishop of Oxford ... ; to which is annexed an account of the establishment of the infirmary.

  • Lowth, Robert, 1710-1787.
Date:
1771
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Credit: A sermon preached before the governors of the Radcliffe Infirmary at St. Mary's Church in Oxford on Wednesday, July 3, 1771 / by the Right Reverend Robert Lord Bishop of Oxford ... ; to which is annexed an account of the establishment of the infirmary. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    And when the property of the Land had been, by due courfe of Law, fufficiently afcertained and fecured to this charity, the Trudees proceeded to contrad with Mr. Leadbeter for the ereding of a fpacious Stone¬ building with proper Offices, very decent in appear¬ ance, moll; convenient for ufe, and fubdantial in refped of Workmanfhip ; which, by order of the prefent Trudees, (The Right Honourable George Henry Earl of Litchfield, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Bart. Sir William Ba- got, Bart, and William Drake, Efqj) and at the ex- penle of the Trud, amounting in the whole to many thoufand pounds, was compleatly furnidred. In confequence of a publick Invitation, the Zeal of the Nobility, Gentry and Clergy, and of the Univer- fity and City, was found to keep pace with that great- nels of fpirit, which at fird projeded the undertaking. A Subfcription being fet on foot, a large fum of money was cheerfully paid j fo that upon the 18th of Odlober 1770 the faid Building was folemnly appropriated to the charitable purpofe of a General Infirmary. — A Prefident and Officers were appointed, and Rules eda- blidied for the good Government thereof. And, as the making due provifion for adminidring the aids of Religious Indrudion and Comfort to the Sick hath ever, among ferious men, been confidered as edential to a well regulated Infirmary, the TJniverfity of Oxford was pleafed generoudy to take that charge upon itfelf. Bedde a very liberal contribution, into which the Members of it had already entred, for the general fervices and fupport of the Infirmary, they, by a fecond