Orders and ordinances for the better government of the Hospitall of Bartholomew the Lesse. With a prefatory note by W. Morrant Baker.

  • St. Bartholomew's Hospital (London, England)
Date:
1885
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Credit: Orders and ordinances for the better government of the Hospitall of Bartholomew the Lesse. With a prefatory note by W. Morrant Baker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    a narrow remedy cannot amend it: It is thought good to the Lord Mayor of this City of London, as chief Patron and Go- vernour of this Hofpitall, in the name of the City, to pub- lifh at this prefent the overfeers and orders by him appointed; and from time to time pra6lifed, and ufed by twelve of the Citizens moft ancient in theircourfes, asat large in the pro- cefs fhall appear, partly for theftayand redrefsof fuchflander, and partly for that it might be an open witnefs, and know- ledge unto all men, how things are adminiftered there, and by whom. Wherein if any man judge more to be fet forth in word, then in deed is followed, there be means to refolve him. But if there be not fo much fet forth as is expedient, (as what thing at the firft can attain to the top of perfe6lnefs ?) or that any man fpieth, ought in this order worthy to bee re- formed, he fhall not need to cry it at the Crofs, but fhall finde thofe at the Hofpitall, that both gladly will and may reform it. And where yet by fuch means occafion is found, as tofore was fignified, to withdraw mens charities, by reafon that it is thought but folly to beftow more reliefe where there is enough, for the number already: The City of their endlefs good will toward this moft neceffary fuccour of their poor brethren in Chrift, although at the firft they feemed bound to the precife number of an hundred, and no more, wifh all men to be moft affuredly perfwaded, that if by any means poffible they might, they defire to enlarge the benefit to a thoufand,as ordinary as at this day the hundred are. Finally, they wifh that all Almoifners and Houfes of Almoife, known either by the name of Hofpitall, or Savoy, might by thefe their doings, bee provoked to like endevour and benefit to the poor, that what one is not able alone to fuccour, the other might in fellowfhip fupply, at this time namely when the mifery of the poor moft bufily feemeth to awake. The Lord Jefus, kindle in us all, that faith that work- eth by love, that we may indeed put on Chrift our righteoufnefs before God, and not fuffer him to lye up in Preffe, that feeketh to be worn, to the glory of his Fa- ther, and ours, and to the Teftimony of our hope laid up in him. Amen. THE