A PSALM of Thanksgiving, to be Sung by the Children of Christ-Hospital, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in Easter holidays, (according to ancient custom) at St. Marry Spittle, for their Founders and Benefactors, 1679.  
LEt us rejoice with cheerful voice, 
This Chorus is to be Sung by all the Children, and repeated after every Verse.  God's Goodness magnify,  
Who freely grants to all our wants most plentiful supply.  

VERSE I  
WE, 
Monday.  who were helpless; we, who in our soft & tender years  
Have known that woe, that hardship felt, which the most stout man fears  
Poor, in distress, bereft of Friends, with direful Hunger pined.  
And worse than all those Miseries, none to inform the Mind,  
Chorus.  
(Thanks to a Providence Divine,) we know no more of grief,  
Neither in Mind, nor Body starved; in both we find relief. Let us, etc.   

VERSE II.  
Who so in deeds of Charity the needy doth regard,  
Him firmly hath our God engaged to keep (O great reward!)  
Him in all dangers will defend; so bless him, that the more  
With liberal hand he doth disperse, the larger is his store.  
Is Sickness he will Cherish him, will ease him in his Pain,  
Who did so oft relieve the Sick, and Indigent sustain.   

VERSE III.  
O there's to Help, 
Tuesday.  to , and Feed, from Misery to raise,  
How truly great and noble ' 'tis? how worthy is the Praise?  
Base pleasure 'tis Mankind to hurt; it is the only joy  
Of Tyrants, who abuse their power, to ruin and destroy:  
In British Isles (thanks be to God) we generous Princes find;  
Who think that Royal Charity becomes a Kingly mind.   

VERSE IU.  
In Regions most remote from hence we I spread our Founder's Fame,  
And places yet unknown shall hear Our sovereign Charles' Name:  
Not to a Cloister or a Cell his Bounty can be tied;  
It will support and comfort us throughout the World so wide.  
Where e'er we come, in Gratitude, we'll make it still appear,  
Who 'twas that first did nourish us; and who doth Feed us there.   

VERSE V.  
THat some might guard us, 
Wednesd.  and in time of need assistance lend,  
Who might us from Oppression and Injury defend;  
After wise Counsel, who most fit to manage so great Trust,  
We were committed unto Men, both Liberal and Just.  
Such Government doth render soon our Happiness entire:  
When Wisdom, Wealth, and Honesty, in the same Men conspire.   

VERSE VI.  
For Trade and for Magnificence, London's Renown is known;  
Yet Faithfulness and Charity are Virtues she doth own:  
They do descend so low as us; nor is it a small share,  
Which we, amongst the rest, partake of this great City's care.  
God's Kindness unto us is great, we must him ever Praise;  
Who Princes did excite for us, and Benefactor raise,    

A true REPORT of the great number of poor Children, and other poor People, Maintained in the several HOSPITALS, under the pious Care of the LORD MAYOR, Commonalty, and Citizens of the City of LONDON, the year last passed.  

CHildren put forth Apprentices, 
Christ's Hospital.  and discharged out of Christ's-Hospital, the year last passed, 83. 10 whereof being Instructed in the Arts of Arithmetic and Navigation, were placed forth Apprentices to Commanders of Ships out of the Mathematical-School, in the said Hospital, Founded for the benefit of this Kingdom, by the Kings most Excellent Majesty— 83  
Children buried the year last passed— 9  
Children now remaining under the Care and Charge of the said Hospital, which are kept in the House, and divers places in London, and Suburbs thereof, and at Nurse in the Country. Five Hundred Fourscore and Seventeen— 597  
The Names of all which are Registered in the Books kept in the said Hospital, and are there to be seen from what Parishes they have been from time to time admitted.  
They being so many in number, and the Charges of keeping them so great, (and having sustained great Losses by the late lamentable and dreadful Fire,) it is hoped several good Christians will freely contribute towards the maintenance of the said Children: The certain Revenue of the said Hospital being little more than the Moiety of the necessary Charges thereof.  
THere have been Cured this year last passed in the Hospital of St. 
S. Bartholomew's Hospital.  Bartholomew, of Wounded, Sick, and Maimed Soldiers and Seamen, and other diseased Persons, from several parts of the Dominions of the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, and from Foreign Parts; many whereof have been Relieved with Monies, and other Necessaries at their departure, though (as it hath pleased God) the greatest part of the Revenues of the said Hospital was consumed by the late dreadful Fire— 1633  
Buried this year after much charges on them— 175  
Persons remaining under Cure in the said Hospital— 235  
THere have been Cured, 
S. Thomas Hospital.  presented and Discharged this year last passed, in the Hospital of St. Thomas in Southwark, of Wounded, Sick, and Maim I Seamen and Soldiers, and other diseased Persons, from the places adjcent, and from several parts of His Majesty's Dominions, and from other Foreign Parts; many whereof have been relieved with moneys and other Necessaries at their departure, though (as it hath pleased God) not only a principal part of their Revenue was consumed in the general and dreadful Conflagration in this City, 1666. but the best of their remaining Revenue was wholly burnt down in the great and dismal Fire in Southwark, which happened in May, 1676. wherein also the Site of this Hospital itself was very much damnified, being on Fire in some parts, although through God's wonderful Mercy, it was preserved from total destruction by the said Fire— 1588.  
Buried this year last passed after much Charge in the time of their Sickness— 264  
Remaining under Cure at the Charge of the said Hospital— 258  
REceived this last year into the Hospital of Bridewell, 
Bridewell Hospital.  Vagrants and other indigent and miserable People, many whereof had both clothing, and such other relief as their necessities required, being in great distress, and sent by Passes into their native Countries— 919  
Maintained in the said Hospital, and brought up in divers Arts and Trades, at the only Charge of the said Hospital. Apprentices, and others, notwithstanding it pleased God, the Hospital, and all the Houses within the Precinct thereof, (which was the greater part of its Revenue) were wholly consumed by the late dreadful Fire; besides the great Loss sustained in the remains of its Revenue by the terrible fire, which since happened in Wapping— 113  
THe Hospital of Bethlem is of great necessity for the keeping and curing Distracted Persons, 
Bethlem Hospital.  whose misery of all others is the more deplorable, because they do not apprehend the same, it disabling the Mind as well as the Body.  
Brought into the same Hospital the last year distracted Men and Women— 46  
Cured of their Lunacy, and discharged thence the said year— 39  
Now remaining there under Cure, and provided with Physic, Diet, and other Relief, at the Charge of the said Hospital— 88  
The Charge whereof is great, and the Revenue of the said Hospital so small as not to amount to one half part of the yearly Expenses thereof; And the Building of the Old Hospital of Bethlem, being Ruinous, and not capacious to receive and contain the great number of distracted Persons; for the admission of whom, daily applications are made to the Governors thereof.  
Upon a Christian and Charitable Consideration of the Premises, the Lord Mayor, aldermans, and Common Council of this City of London, did lately grant sufficient ground whereon to erect a more large and commodious House for the keeping and Curing the said Lunatics, and Distracted Persons: In the Building and Finishing whereof, the Governors of the said Hospital, have laid out and disbursed about Seventeen Thousand Pounds, whereby not only the whole Stock of the said Hospital is Expended, but the Governors thereof have been necessitated to take up several Thousands of Pounds for the Finishing the same, for which they pay Interest: And therefore the said Hospital is a very fit object of all good men's Charity, to do as God shall enable, them, towards the relief of the said poor Lunatics, and payment of their great Debts; There having been, and daily are, by the Blessing of God, and the Charge of the said Hospital, and the Care of those that are entrusted therewith, divers reduced to their former Senses.   
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LONDON, Printed by ANNE GODBID and JOHN PLAYFORD, 1679.