[65] T. Bowen, Extracts from the Records and Court Books of Bridewell, p. 2. Appendix.
[66] Memoranda of the Royal Hospitals, Appendix, pp. 52 and 59.
[67] A copy of the original pamphlet is in the British Museum. Eight hundred persons had been healed "in the meane season" during the past five years. The list of expenses is interesting because of the light it casts upon the cost of living in 1552. The diet of the hundred patients is calculated at 2d. the day; each sister was allowed for her board sixteen pence a week, while the matron obtained eighteen pence.
[68] "Account of Expenses incurred by the City in erecting and maintaining St Thomas's Hospital." Harleian MSS. No. 604, p. 176, printed in Supplement to Memoranda of Royal Hospitals, p. 32.
[69] The allowance paid for the children was tenpence a week.
[70] W. Rendle, Old Southwark, p. 138. The whipping-post or "Crosse" soon required repair, and stocks also were provided. We hear frequently of its being used. In 1567, John Martyn was sentenced to twenty-five stripes for robbing gardens and misusing a poor "innocent;" while in 1570, "Jane Thornton, one of the Systers," was sentenced to receive "xii strypes, well layd on." There are several cases also in which the hospital governors find masters for patients when they have been cured, or sometimes bind them apprentice. In one case they apprentice a boy who had been cured of a sore leg, and covenant that "yf hitt happen the sayd Legg Do brek outt agayn" the boy shall be cured "only of the chardg of the hospital." Occasionally there are details of the employment of the inmates. In 1569 a small sum is received from the Matron "for work done by the poore women and children," and in 1573 "a mocion is made that a handemyll to grind corne may be provyded to sett the pore to worke to kepe them from ydelnes." But the arrangements for employment are on a very small scale and seem only likely to concern patients, or perhaps the people in the casual ward. Others would be sent to Bridewell. These details are all derived from Mr Rendle's Old Southwark, where much more information, derived from old records of the hospital, has been printed.
[71] The general rules relating to the holding of general Courts and to the election of governors, the duties of the officers and the charges to be given to both officers and governors were printed in 1557, together with the particular regulations for the governors of Christ's. An original copy is in the British Museum, entitled, "The Order of the Hospitalls of K. Henry the viiith and K. Edward the vith,
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| Christ's, | ||
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| S. Thomas, |
By the Maior, Cominaltie and Citizens of London, Governors of the Possessions, Revenues and Goods of the sayd Hospitals. 1557." The orders provide that sixty-six governors should be appointed, fourteen of whom were to be aldermen and the rest "grave commoners." Of the fourteen aldermen, six were to be "Graye clokes" and two of these were to be Governors general of all the hospitals.
[72] T. Bowen, Extracts from the Records and Court Books of Bridewell, Appendix, II. p. 8 seq.