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A N 
 
 historical account 
 
 OF THE 
 
 royal hospita 
 
 FOR 
 
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 A T 
 
 GREENWICH. 
 
 M,DCC,LXXXIX. 
 
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 \ LONDON: 
 
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 NICOL PALL-MALL; T. CADELL, STRAND; J. WALTER, CHARING-CROSS 
 G. G. J. AND J. ROBINSON, P ATE R-NOST £ R-ROWj 
 
 and 
 
 AT THE CHAPEL OF THE HOSPITAL, 
 
 Cittercn at ^tattoner^atf. 
 
RIGHT HONORABLE THE LORDS AND OTHERS 
 COMMISSIONERS AND GOVERNORS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SEAMEN AT GREENWICH, 
 
 THE r OLLOWING HISTORICAL ACCOUNT, 
 
 COLLECTED BY PERMISSION 
 
 FROM ORIGINAL PAPERS AND RECORDS, 
 
 AND EMBELLISHED WITH ENGRAVINGS, 
 
 I S, 
 
 WITH THE GREATEST RESPECT 
 A.ND DEFERENCE, 
 
 INSCRIBED, BY 
 
 the authors, 
 
 JOHN COOKE, A.M. 7 
 JOHN MAULE, A. M.J C!la P ]a;n s- 
 
 Raja/ Hofpilalfor Seaman at Greenwich , 
 September 22d , 1789. 
 
V 
 
 Page 
 
 Copy of Original Grant of Ground by King William and 
 gueen Mary 
 
 Ditto of King Williams Firjl Commijm 
 
 Fabric 
 
 Revenue 
 
 Conjiitution 
 
 Fjlablijhment of In and Qut-Penfioners 
 
 Fainted Hall 
 
 Chapel 
 
 Council Room 
 
 Infirmary 
 
 School " 
 
 An Account of the Antient Royal Palace called Placentia 
 in Eaf -Greenwich 
 
 A Lift of the prefent Directors of the Hofpital, and alfo 
 of the Names of the Lord High Admirals, Firjl 
 Lords of the Admiralty, the Mafters and Gover- 
 nors, Captains, Lieutenants, (Sc. &c. from the 
 Infiitution to the prefent Vime 
 
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 INTRO- 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 HERE is nothing which reflects greater 
 honor upon human nature, than thofe Inftitu- 
 tions which owe their rife to motives of Benevo- 
 lence, and of fuch there are many and excellent 
 in their kinds, the glory and ornament of thefe 
 Kingdoms. But where we find attention to 
 the relief of private diftrefs, joined to the 
 mod effectual care of the public interefts, we 
 cannot help admiring the political wifdom of 
 fuch an Inftitution, whilft we are delighted with 
 the reflection that it is the fource of happinefs 
 to individuals. Inftitutions of this fort, how- 
 ever, requiring ability proportionable to the 
 beneficial effects which they are meant to pro- 
 duce, cannot be fupported unlefs cherifhed by 
 the ftreams of public Munificence, and the invi- 
 gorating rays of Royal Favor. 
 
 With regard to that which it is our purpofe to 
 trace from its Origin to its prefen t ftate of Splen- 
 
 dor,, 
 
 :>• : 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Vll 
 
 dor, every one who wifhes well to this Country 
 mu ft with pleafure remark, how much its Inte- 
 refts have been thought worthy the attention of 
 our Sovereigns, from the glorious Founders of it, 
 to the Prince who now’ fits upon the Throne, 
 whofe peculiar happinefs it is to promote and 
 encourage every undertaking which tends to the 
 Good of his People. 
 
 The Chara&er of piety and humanity which [a) 
 Hiftory has given to the Confort of William the 
 Third, appears to have been juftly founded ; 
 many effefts of her excellent difpofition remain- 
 ing to this day. The firft idea of that noble 
 Inftitution, of which we are now treating, is 
 with every appearance of juftice aferibed to (b) 
 her. It w’as impoftible' to find Objects who 
 deferved better of the Public, or in a fituation 
 more deplorable, than thofe whofe Strength had 
 been exhaufted, or who had been mutilated or 
 
 (a) See her chara&er as drawn by Mr. Boyer in his Hiftory of King 
 William and Queen Mary. 
 
 (b) “ And the laft great Projeft that her Thoughts were working 
 
 <c upon, with relation to a noble and royal Provifion for difabled Seamen at 
 <c Greenwich, was particularly defigned to be fo conftituted as to put them in a 
 “ probable way of ending their Days in the Fear of God. See Boyer’s above- 
 
 “ mentioned Hiftory. 
 
 difabled 
 
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 INTRODUCTIO N. 
 
 difabled in the fervice of their Country. For 
 want of a fafe harbour wherein they might 
 anchor, and an Afylum wherein they might 
 repofe, after the fatigues, hardfhips and dangers 
 which they had encountered, few only efcaped 
 from the accumulated diftreffes of poverty, 
 infirmity, and pain. To behold the Protedors 
 of 'a Nation which Ihe loved, cruelly abandoned 
 under fuch circumftances, excited her Royal 
 Compaffion; and one of the laff ads of her 
 exemplary Life was the propofal of anlnftitution, 
 which fhould provide for thofe unfortunate, but 
 highly deferving, Sufferers. 
 
 Kincr William, fenfible of its utility, readily 
 acceded to the wdlhes of his Royal Confort. 
 Before her demife, the following Grant was made 
 of a Houfe built by King Charles the Second, 
 with certain Lands in the Manor of Baft Green- 
 wich ; and it will appear that, after the irreparable 
 Lofs which the Country and the King fuftamed 
 by the Queen’s deceafe, this Inftitution was 
 honored by his Majefty’s fingular Protedion. 
 
 G'opy 
 
Copy of King William’s and Queen Mary’s Ori- 
 ginal Grant of King Charles the Second’s Pa- 
 lace at Haft -Greenwich^ and of the Ground 
 thereto belonging , for the Ufe of an Hofpitai \ 
 for the Relief of Seamen , their Widows and 
 Children . 
 
 W ILLIAM and MARY, by the Grace of God King 
 Sc Queene of England, Scotland, France Sc Ireland, De- 
 fenders of the Faith, See. to all to whome thefe Prefents 
 fhall come Greeting. Whereas it is our Royal Intent and ReeJtal of In- 
 
 ° _ tention to found 
 
 purpofe to ered and found an Hofpitai within our Mannor an Hofpitai for 
 of Eaft Greenwich in our County of Kent for the reliefe and 
 fupport of Seamen ferving on board the Shipps or Vellells 
 belonging to the Navy Royall of Us our Heires or Succeflors 
 or imploy’d in our or their Service at Sea who by reafon of 
 Age Wounds or other difabilities fhall be uncapable of further 
 Service at Sea and be unable to maintain themfelves And Ami for suftea- 
 
 tation of Wi- 
 
 for the Suftentation of the Widows and the Maintenance dows. Children, 
 
 and Relief of 
 
 and Education of the Children of Seamen happening to be Sea ™ cn > Re- 
 name or difabled in fuch Sea Service and Alfo for the further 
 reliefe and Encouragement of Seamen and Improvement of 
 Navigation. Now to the End our Royal Purpofe and In- 
 tention in the Premifes may the better take EfFed Know 
 yee that Wee of our efpecial Grace certain Knowledge and 
 
 B meere 
 
2 
 
 O RIG INAL GRANT. 
 
 meere Motion have givin and granted* and by thefe Prefents, 
 for us Our Heires and Succefiburs doe give and grant unto 
 our right trufty and right well-beloved Counfellor S r John 
 Somers Kn tr Keeper, of our great Seale of England^, our right 
 trufty and right entirely beloved Coulin & Counfellor Tho- 
 mas Duke of Leeds Prefident of our Privy Council our right 
 trufty and right well-beloved Coulin & Counfellor Tho s 
 Earle of Pembrooke and Montgomery Keeper of our Privy 
 Seale, our right trufty & right entirely beloved Coufin & 
 Counfellor Charles Duke of Shrewlbury one of our Prin- 
 eipall Secretaries of State, our right trufty and well-beloved 
 Counfellor Sidney Lord Godolphin firft Commiffioner of 
 ©ur Treafury, & our right, trufty and well-beloved Coun— 
 fdlors S r John Trenchard Kn l one of our Principall Secre- 
 taries of State and Edw d Rulfell Efq re - our firft Commiffioner 
 for executing the office of our High Admirall of England, 
 Admirall of our Navy Royal! and our Treasurer for the 
 fame, and our right trufty and well beloved S r Stephen Fox 
 Knight one of the Commiffioners of our Treafury, S r John 
 Lowtherof Whit haven Baronett one of the Commiffioners 
 for executing the Office of our high Admirall, S r W Afhurft 
 Knight Mayor of our City of London, S r Robert Clayton < 
 Knight, Sir Patience Ward Knight Sir John Moor Knight s 
 & Sir W m Pritchard Knight. 
 
 ct Ground in All that piece or parcell of Ground fituate lying and 
 within the parifo.of Eaft Greenwich in the faid. 
 
 •cfciption .f County of Kent and being parcell or. rented parcell of our 
 she Paicels. Manner of' Eaft Greenwich aforefaid containing in the 
 whole by Admeafurement eight Acres two roods and 32 
 Square perches be the fame more or leffe as the faid Ground 
 
 is now marke’d flaked or otherwife fet outt. In which. 
 
 admea- 
 
ORIGINAL GRANT. 
 
 admeafurem'- the Ground defigne’d for a way or paiTage to 
 lead thorow the premifes and herein aftermentioned to be 
 excepted is comprehended or reckoned Which faid piece oi 
 parcell of Ground is bounded with our Rivei of Thames 
 towards the North andcontaines by Admeafureirf- along by 
 the s d> River from the Tenement there late in the occupation 
 of Nicholas Smithy s or his Aflignes to the Eafl: End of the 
 Edifice called the veftry there fix hundred feventy three feet 
 of Aflize be the fame more or leife, and the s d< piece or 
 parcell of Ground abutts in part on the publique Way 
 leading from the Crane there to the Lane called the back 
 Lane towards the Eafl: and contained towards the faid 
 publique way three hundred fiftie eight feet of Aflize be the 
 fame more or lefle, and then returnes more Eaftward 72 feet 
 of Aflize litle more or lefle And then the s d * piece or parcell 
 of Ground abutts in other part towards the Eafl: upon the 
 s d - Lane called the Back Lane and containes by Admea- 
 furement ag ft - the s d - back Lane one hundred ninety nine feet 
 of Aflize litle more or lefle, And the s d - piece or parcell of 
 Ground from Eafl to Weft towards the South containes by 
 Admeafuretrf fix hundred fiftie eight feet of Aflize more 
 or lefle including the thicknefs of the Brick Walls on both 
 Tides and doth abutt towards the South upon part of the 
 ground of the old Tilt-yard and upon part of the Garden 
 called the Queen’s Garden the North Ends of the Ground 
 of the old Tilt yard and of the s d - Garden and ab c - halfe the 
 Edifice there now ufed for the fervice of our Ordinance 
 being comprehended within thefe dimenlions as part of the 
 Ground thereby intended to be pafled, And the faid piece 
 or parcell of Ground towards the Weft containes in length 
 from North to South by admeafurenT feaven hundred and 
 
 B z eighteen 
 
s 
 
 ORIGINAL GRANT. 
 
 In Truft, to be 
 Converted into 
 an Hofpital, 
 
 and when a 
 Corporation 
 ■ fhall be eftab- 
 Iiihcd, 
 
 to convey to fuch 
 Corporation, 
 fubje£t to fuch 
 other Rules, &c. 
 
 Tru flees may 
 reimburfe them- 
 felves their Ex- 
 ..pences. 
 
 Tors to the Intent neverthelefTe that the aforefaid Premifes 
 and every Part thereof fhall be converted 6c imployed unto 
 and for the Ufe 6c Service of fuch an Hofpitall as aforefaid, 
 and that as foon as the Buildings thereof fhall be finifhed 6c 
 that wee our Heires or SuccefTors fhall create and eftablifh a 
 Corporation or Body Politique for the Government of the 
 faid Hofpital and the revenues thereof that then the faid 
 S r John Somers Thomas Duke of Leeds Thomas Earle of 
 Pembrooke 6c Montgomery Charles Duke of Shrewfbury 
 Sidney Lord Godolphin S r John Trenchard E d RufTell 
 S r Stephen Fox S r John Lowther S r Wm Afhurft S r Rob 1 
 Clayton S r Patience Ward S r John Moor and S r W m 
 Pritchard and the Survivors and Survivor of them his 6c 
 their Heires and AfTignes doe and fhall by the Command or 
 Appointment of us our Heires or SuccefTors convey the s 4 
 Premifes and all their Eftate therein unto fuch Body Po- 
 litique 6c their SuccefTors for ever. To be fubjed: to fuch 
 orders Statutes Rules Conftitutions 6c Appointments as Wee 
 our Heires or SuccefTors by Letters Patents under the great 
 Seale of England fhall bepleafed to make or eftablifh for or 
 concerning the Foundation Rule 6c good Government of the 
 faid Hofpitall 6c the Revenues and Pofleflions of the fame 
 and to 6c for none other ufe Intent or Purpofe whatfoever. 
 Provided always and we doe hereby promife grant 6c declare 
 that the faid S r John Somers Thomas Duke of Leeds Thomas 
 Earle of Pembrooke and Montgomery Charles Duke of 
 Shrewfbury Sidney Lord Godolphin S r John^ Trenchard 
 Edward RufTel S r Stephen Fox S r John Lowther Sir William 
 Afhurft Sir Robert Clayton Sir Patience Ward Sir John 
 .Moor and Sir William Pritchard their Heires and Aftignes 
 fhall from Time to Time by or out of the Profitts of the 
 
 Premifes 
 
ORIGINAL GRANT. 
 
 Premifes be reimburfed all fuch Charges and Expences as 
 they or any of them ihall be neceffarily put to in the Exe- 
 cution of the Truft hereby repofed in them. And Laftly 
 our Will and Pleafure is and Wee do hereby for us our 
 Heires and Succeffors grant and declare that thefe our Letters 
 Patents & every Article Claufe Matter and Thing therein 
 contained £hall be good valid firme & effeftual in the Lawc« 
 according to the true Intent and meaning of the fame and 
 fhall be foe conftrued adjudged and taken in all our Courts 
 of. Record and elfewhere any Matter Caufe or Thing what- 
 foever to the contrary notwithftanding. In Witnefle 
 whereof wee have caufed thefe our Letters to be made 
 Patents Witnefle ourfelves at Weftminfter the five and 
 twentieth of Odober in the fixth year of oufc-Reigne by 
 Writt of privy Seale. 
 
8 
 
 Copy of King WILLIAM'S COMMISSION. 
 
 aCcrtta 0ars paten ue £nno mft. 
 
 GULIELMI tCrttt 
 
 the Third by the Grace of God, &c. 
 
 StrcJiole To our dearly beloved Brother in Law Prince George He- 
 .2« f S,w:«S ud reditary of Denmark The mod; Reverend Father in God 
 (a) Thomas Arch Bifhop of Canterbury Primate and Metropo- 
 litan of all England and the Arch Bidiop of Canterbury for 
 the Time being our Right Trudy and Wellbeloved Coun- 
 cellour Sir John Sommers Knight Keeper of our Great Beale 
 of England and our Chancellor of England Keeper and 
 Commidioners of our Great Seale for the Time being our 
 Right Trudy and Right Entirely Beloved Coufin and 
 Councellor Thomas Duke of Leeds Prefident of our Privy 
 Councill and the Prefident of our Privy Councill for the 
 Time being our Right Trudy and Right Wellbeloved Coufin 
 and Councellor Thomas Earle of Pembrook and Mont- 
 gomery Keeper of our Privy Seale and the Keeper of our 
 'Names of Com- Privy Seale for the Time being our Right Trudy and 
 Right Entirely Beloved Coufins and Councellors Henry 
 Duke of Norfolke Earl Marlhall of England William 
 Duke of Devonfhire Steward of our Houfehold Charles 
 Duke of Bolton Charles Duke of Shrewlbury one of our 
 Principal. Secretaries of State and William Duke of Bedford 
 •our Right Trudy and Entirely Beloved Coudns and Coun- 
 sellors John Marqueffe of Normanby and Charles Paulett 
 Efquire commonly called Marqueffe of Wincheder our Right 
 
 Trudy 
 
COMMISSION. 
 
 9 
 
 Trully and Wellbeloved Coulins and Councellors Robert ^amestfcoM. 
 Earle of Lindfey Great Chamberlaine >of England Charles 
 Earle of Dorfett and Middlefex Chamberlaine of our Houfe- 
 hold Aubrey Earle of Oxford John Earle of Bridgwater 
 ♦ Thomas Earle of Stamford John Earle of Bath Daniell 
 
 Earle of Nottingham Lawrence Earle of Rochefter Wil- 
 liam Earle of Portland Thomas Earle of Fauconberg 
 Charles Earle of Monmouth Ralph Earle of Mountague 
 Richard Earle of Scarborough Francis Earle of Bradford 
 Henry Earle of Romney Mailer of our Ordnance and the 
 Mailer of our Ordnance for the Time being Richard Earle 
 of Ranelagh in our Kingdome of Ireland Paymaller of our 
 Forces our Right Trully and Wellbeloved Coulin and 
 Councello r Charles Lord Durlley commonly called Vifcount 
 Durlley Son and Heire Apparent of our Right Trully and 
 Right Wellbeloved Coufin George Earle of Berkley The 
 Right Reverend Father in God Henry Bilhop of London 
 and the Bilhop of that See for the Time being our Right 
 Trully and Wellbeloved Councellors Robert Lord Lexing- 
 ton Charles Lord Cornwallis Sidney Lord Godolphin Firll 
 Commiffioner of our Treafury Henry Lord Capell Thomas 
 Lord Coningelhy in our Kingdome of Ireland Charles 
 Mountague Efquire one of the Commiffioners of our Trea- 
 fury Chancellor and Under Treafurer of our Exchequer and 
 the Chancellor and Under Treafurer of our Exchequer for 
 the Time being §ir John Trevor Knight Speaker of our 
 Houfe of Commons and Mailer of our Rolles and the 
 Mailer of our Rolles for the Time Time being Sir Robert e*l 
 Howard Knight Auditor of the Receipt of our Excheq; 
 
 Thomas Wharton Efquire Comptroller of our Houfehold 
 Sir John Trenchard Knight our Principall Secretary of 
 
 C State 
 
10 
 
 COMMISSION. 
 
 Namesof Corr.- 
 xniffianers. 
 
 Exi, 
 
 State and our Principall Secretary’s of State for the Time 
 being Sir John Holt Knight Cneife Judice affigned to hold 
 Pleas before us and the Cheif Judice to be affigned to- hold 
 Pleas before us for the Time being Sir John Lowther of 
 Lowther Baronett Sir Henry Goodrick Knight and Baronett 
 Leuitenant Generali of our Ordnance Edward Rufiell 
 Efquire Fird Commiffioner of our Admiralty Treafurer 
 of our Navy and Admirall of our Navy Royall Richard 
 Hampden and Hugh Bofcowen Eyuires our Trudy and. 
 Wellbeloved Sir Stephen Fox Knight one other, of the- 
 Commiflioners of our Treafury Sir William Trumball, 
 Knight one other of the Commiflioners of our Treafury. 
 John Smith Efquire one other of the Commiflioners of our 
 Treafury and-, the Treafurer of England Treafurer of our' 
 Exchequer and Commiflioners of our Treafury. for the 
 Time being Sir John Lowther of Whitehaven Baronett 
 Henry. Pteidman Efquire Robert Auden Efquire Sir Ro- 
 bert Rich. Knight and Baronett Sir George Rooke and Sir 
 John Floublon Knightes (which fix lad mencioned are 
 alfoe Commiflioners of our Admiralty) and the. High. Ad- 
 mirall of England or the Commiflioners Tor executing the> 
 Office of High Admirall of England for, the Time being 
 Our Right Trudy and Right Wellbeloved Coufins William 
 Earle of Graven Charles Bodvile* Earle of Radnor George? 
 Earle of Berkley and Arthur Earle of Torrington Our 
 Trudy and Wellbeloved Sir William Gregory Knight Sir 
 Giles Eyre Knight and Samuell Eyre Judices affigned to. 
 hold Pleas before us and the Judices to be affigned to hold 
 Pleas before us for the Time being Sir George Treby 
 Knight Cheife Judice of our Court of Common Pleas Sir 
 Edward Nevill Knight Sir Thomas Rokeby Knight and 
 
 Sir- 
 
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 COMMISSION. 
 
 Sir John Powell Knight Juftices of our Court of Common Names of Com* 
 
 i i • r t n . miffioners. 
 
 Pleas and the Cheife Juftice and Juftices of the fame Court 
 for the Time being Sir Nicholas Lechmere Knight Sir 
 John Turton Knight Sir John Powell Knight Barons and 
 George Bradbury Efquire Curfitor Baron of our Court of 
 Exchequer and the Cheife Baron Barons of the Coife and 
 Curfitor Baron of our Court of Exchequer for the Time 
 being The molt Revered Father in God John Arch Bifhop 
 of York Primate and Metropolitan of England and the 
 Arch Bifhop of Yorke for the Time being The Right Re- 
 verend Fathers in God Nathaniell Bifhop of Durefme Peter 
 Bifhop of Winchefter William Bifhop of Litchfield and 
 Coventry William Bifhop of Llandaffe Edward Bifhop of 
 St. Afaph Thomas Bifhop of Rochefter Thomas Bifhop 
 of Carlifle Jonathan Bifhop of Exon Thomas Bifhop of 
 St. Davides Gilbert Bifhop of Sarum Humphry Bifhop 
 of Bangor Edward Bifhop of Worcefter Simon Bifhop of 
 Ely Gilbert Biftiop of Hereford Nicholas Bifhop of Chefter 
 John Bifhop of Oxford John Bifhop of Norwich Richard 
 Bifhop of Peterborow Edward Bifhop of Gloucefter Robert 
 Bifhop of Chichefter Richard Bifhop of Bath and Welles 
 John Bifhop of Briftoll and James Bifhop of Lincolne and 
 the feverall Bifhops of the fame Sees for the Time being 
 Our Trufty and Wellbeloved Sir Edward Ward Knight our 
 Attorney . Generali Sir Thomas Trevor Knight our Sollicitor 
 Generali Samuell Travers Efquire Surveyor Generali of our 
 Landes Sir Chriftopher Wrenn Knight Surveyor Generali 
 of our Workes Our Trufty and Wellbeloved Sir Thomas 
 Lane Knight Mayor of our City of London and the 
 Mayor of the fame City for the Time being Sir Robert 
 Clayton Sir Patience Ward Sir John Moor Sir William 
 
 C 2 Pritchard 
 
g o m m r s s r o n; 
 
 to.: 
 
 “Co,- Pritchard Sir Robert Jeffery Sir Thomas Stamp Sir John 
 Fleet Sir William Afburfl Sir Jonathan Raymond Sir Peter 
 Daniel Sir Samuell Daflrwood Sir Thomas Kenfey Sir John 
 Parlous Sir Edward Clarke Sir Humphry Edwin Sir Francis 
 Child Sir Richard Levett Sir William Gore Sir Thomas 
 Cooke Sir James Houblon Sir Thomas Abney Sir William 
 Hedges Knightes • Thomas Darwin and Jofeph Smart 
 Efquires Aldermen of our City of London and all and 
 every the Aldermen of the fame City for the Time being 
 Our Truffy and Wellbeloved Edmund Bowyer of Camber- 
 well Efquire Michaell Godfrey Efquire Sir Leonard Robin- 
 fon Knight Chamberlaine of London Sir John Morden Sir 
 John Bankes Sir Joliah Child Sir Peter Vandeputt Sir Wil- 
 liam Ruffell Sir Jeremy Sambrooke Sir Gabrieli Robertes 
 Sir John Foche Sir Henry Furnes Sir William Scawen Sir 
 Jofeph Herne Knightes Sir Richard Onflow Baronett John 
 Lock Gilbert Heathcott and Arthur Shallett Efquires 
 Our Trufty and Wellbeloved Sir Richard Haddocke Sir 
 Cloudefley Shovell Knightes Edmund Dummer Charles 
 Sergifon Samuel Pett Thomas Willfhaw Dennis Liddall 
 Benjamin Time well Efquires Principall Officers of our 
 Navy and the Principall Officers in the Nature of Commif- 
 fioners of our Navy for the Time being and our Truffy and 
 Wellbeloved Sir Charles Hedges Knight Judge of our Su- 
 preme Court of Admiralty Henry Guy Efquire Thomas 
 Pavilion Efquire Thomas Wefterne Efquire Charles Dun- 
 « comb Efquire Peter Houblon Efquire Edmund Bolter 
 
 Efquire Thomas Firmin and William Lowndes Gentleman 
 Our Truffy and Well Beloved John Hill Efquire Maffer 
 and Affiff ant of Trinity Floufe of Deptford Strond Captain 
 Samuell Rutter Captain John Bowers Captain John Conaway 
 
 4 Captain 
 
commission; 
 
 S3 
 
 Captain Roger Paxton Captain John Benbow Sir Mathew 
 Andrews Captain John Nicholles Captain Ralph Sanderfon 
 Robert Lord Lucas Sir Henry Sheere Knight James Sotherne 
 Efquire Captain Robert Fifher Captain George Phenney 
 Captain Samuell Atkinfon Captain Henry Greenhill Captain 
 Henry Rifbe Captaine Balchazar St. Michell Captain 
 Humphrey Ayles Captain John Jacob Captain William 
 Cruft Captain William Gutteridge Captain John Haflewood 
 and the Matter and all and every the Wardens Afiiftantes 
 and Elder Brethren of Trinity Houfe of Deptford Strond 
 for the Time being Greeting {EftlfjetCa# wee are extremely 
 dettrous that the Trade Navigacion and Navall Strength 0 f^ii S Ream h 
 this our Realme of England (whereupon the Safety and 
 Flourifhing State thereof doth foe much depend) fhould by 
 all proper Meanes be promoted and advanced 
 
 wee are perfwaded that nothing will more effectually con- But nothing win 
 
 * O J more effedhially 
 
 tribute thereto then the endeavouring by due and fitting « ntiibutethere ": 
 
 0 J 0 to than Encou- - 
 
 Encouragementes to encreafe the Numbers of Englifh Seamen ra s emenJ: t0 
 
 0 0 Seamen. 
 
 as well for the Strengthening of our Navy Royall and better 
 performeing the Navall Services of us our Heires and Suc- 
 ceffors as for the fupplying and carrying on the Occacions 
 and Bufineffe of our Merchantes and other our Loving Sub- 
 jects interefted in Trade Commerce Fifhing Plantacion 
 Difcovery and other Affaires relating to Navigacion $n5i 
 
 the Seafaring Men of this Kingdome have for a J 1 ^ t J h t e h f s ea '" 
 long Time diftinguifht themfelves throughout the World by 
 their Induttry and Skillfullneffe in their proper Employmentes 
 and by their Courage and Conftancy manifttted in Engage- 
 mentes. and Flazardes for the Defence Honour of their Na- 
 tive Country nothing is more likely to continue this Nothing more 
 
 their Ancient Reputation and to invite greater Numbers oftinue. 
 
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 COMMISSION. 
 
 l^fan’dTvke our Subjedtes to betake themfelves to the Sea then the 
 niakeing fome competent Provifion that Seamen who by Age 
 '^ttpJovSn Woundes or other Accidentes fhall become difabled for 
 seamen, f urt h er Service at Sea and fhall not be in a Condicion to 
 mainetaine themfelves comfortably may not fall under Hard- 
 fliips and Miferies but may be fupported at the Publick 
 Charge that the Children of fuch Difabled Seamen 
 
 Ind'ckidmn. ^ Widowes and Children of fuch Seamen as 
 
 fhall happen to be Slain in Sea Service may in fome reafon- 
 able manner be provided for and Educated $ttt! 
 haveing frequently reflected on the Premilfes fince our Ac- 
 » S^Hof- ce ^ on to the Crowne W ee have determined with ourfelves 
 P i?ai. to ere( q an q e ft a blifh A Hofpitall for the Purpofes aforefaid 
 Slnft ftltSO 1 by Reafon of the Expenfive Warr in which we« 
 -have been and are at prefent engaged wee have not been 
 able to carry on the faid good and pious Purpofes to fuch 
 EfFedt as wee have defired Qct in Order to begin to put the 
 fame in Execucion Wee and our late moft deare Confort 
 Revifai of Grant the Queen jDtD by our Letters Patentes under the Great 
 
 of 25th October J 
 
 teesTnPce Truf ’ Seale 'England Searing Date the five and twentyeth Day 
 of October laft pad; Give and Grant unto you "the faid 
 Sir John Sommers Thomas Duke of Leedes Thomas Earle 
 of Pembroke and Montgomery Charles Duke of Shrewfbury 
 Sidney Lord Godolphin Sir John Trenchard Edward Ruffell 
 Sir Stephen Fox Sir John Lowther of Whitehaven Sir 
 William Afhurft Sir Robert Clayton Sir Patience Ward 
 Sir John Moore and Sir William Pritchard and to your 
 _£{ certain Lands Heires and Afiignes for ever All that Peice or Parcell of 
 Ground feituate lying and being within the Parifh of Eafi: 
 Greenwich in our County of Kent and being Parcell or 
 reputed Parcell of our Mannor of E aft Greenwich aforefakl 
 
 containing 
 
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 c O M M i s s r O N. 
 
 containing in the whole by Admeafurement Eight Acres^ 
 
 Twoe Roids and Thirty twoe Square Perches be the fame 
 more or leffie as the faid Ground is now marked. Raked or 
 otherwife fet out IN WHICH Admeafurement the Ground 
 defigned for a Way or Paffage to lead through the Premifles 
 and therein mentioned to be .excepted is comprehended and 
 reckoned WHICH faid Peice or Parcell of Ground is butted 
 and bounded as in the faid Letters Patentes is expreiled 
 ant! all that . Capi tall Meffuage lately built .or in building by 
 our Royall Uncle King Charles thefecond and fttll remaining 
 Unfinifhed : commonly called by. the Name of our Palace at . 
 Greenwich {landing upon the Pei.ce or Parcell of Ground * 
 aforefaid and feveral other Edifices and. Buildinges and other 
 Thinges in the faid Letters Patentes mencioned Except as . 
 therein is excepted 'SCO tl)C nC^CttfjElCffC That the 
 
 aforefaid Premifies and every Part thereof fhall be converted 7 ^ 1 °^ 
 and employed unto and for the . Ufe and Service of our Hof- 
 pitall for the Releife of Seamen theire.Widdows and Children Widows and" * 
 and Encouragement of Navigacion in fuch Manner as is 
 therein expreffed and. as by the Letters Patentes aforefaid. 
 (Relaciom being thereunto had) may more fully appeare 
 anti as wee are fully Tatisfyed . That the Eroding of fuch v 
 an HofpiCalLas aforefaid will be of great Benefit and Ad- 
 vantage to this our Kingdome 00 filfO takeing into our 
 Royall Confideracion that the conftituting and eftabhffiing^f^ Sta * 
 a Foundacion of that Nature; and the Frameing of Rules framecU 
 and Statutes for the. Governement thereof in fuch a Manner 
 as may beft anfwer what is thereby intended and defigned. 
 is a Matter of great Difficulty and fuch as does require 
 
 mature Deliberacion and Advice !&U0t0 t&0tEfOE0 
 That wee repofeing efpeciall Trufi and Confidence in your. 
 
 known . 
 
i6 
 
 Commiffioners 
 
 appointed. 
 
 Names of Com- 
 miffioners. 
 
 Exd. 
 
 % 
 
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 known Difcrecions Abilityes and Integrityes ©afte n0 mL 
 nated authorized and conftituted tJ0C by thefe Prefentes 
 nominate authorize and appoynt you the faid Prince George 
 Hereditary of Denmark Thomas Arch Biffiopp of Canter- 
 bury and the Arch Biffiopp of Canterbury for the Time 
 being Sir John Sommers and our Chancellor of England 
 Keeper and Commiffioners of our Great Seale for the Time 
 being Thomas Duke of Leedes and the Prefident of our 
 Privy Councill for the Time being Thomas Earl of Pern- 
 brook and Montgomery and the Keeper of our Privy Seale 
 for the Time being Henry Duke of Norfolke William 
 Duke of Devonfhire Charles Duke of Bolton Charles Duke 
 of Shrewffiury and William Duke of Bedford John Mar- 
 quefs of Normanby and Charles Paulett Efquire commonly 
 called Marqueffe of Winchetter Robert Earl of Lindfey 
 Charles Earl of Dorfett and Middlefex Aubery Earle of 
 Oxford John Earl of Bridgwater Thomas Earl of Stamford 
 John Earl of Bath Daniell Earl of Nottingham Lawrence 
 Earl of Rochetter William Earl of Portland Thomas Earl 
 of Fauconberg Charles Earl of Monmouth Ralph Earl of 
 Mountague Richard Earl of Scarborough Francis Earl of 
 Bradford Henry Earl of Romney and the Matter of our 
 Ordnance for the Time being Richard Earl of Ranelagh 
 Charles Lord Dudley commonly called Vifcount Durfley 
 Henry Bifhop of London and the Bifhop of that See for the 
 Time being Robert Lord Lexington Charles Lord Corn- 
 wallis Sidney Lord Godolphin Henry Lord Capell Thomas 
 Lord Coningefby Charles Mountague and the Chancellor 
 and Under Treafun? of our Exchequer for the Time being 
 Sir John Trevor and the Matter of our Rolles for the Time 
 being Sir Robert Howard Thomas Wharton Sir John 
 
 Trenchard 
 
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 1. renchard and our Principall Secretaries of State for the Commiffioners 
 Time being Sir John Holt and the Cheife Juftice to be af- 
 figned to hold Pleas before us for the Time being Sir John 
 Lowther of Lowther Sir Henry Goodrick Edward Ruflel! 
 
 Richard Hampden Hugh Bufcowen Sir Stephen Fox Sir 
 William Trumbull John Smith and the Treafurer of Eng-* 
 land Treafurer of our Exchequer and Commiffioners of our 
 Treafury for the Time being Sir John Lowther of White- 
 haven Henry Preiftman Robert Auflen Sir Robert Rich 
 Sir George Rooke and Sir John Houblon and the High Ad- 
 mirall of England or the Commiffioners for executing the 
 Office of High Admirall of England for the Time being 
 William Earle of Craven Charles Bodvile Earl of Radnor 
 George Earl of Berkley and Arthur Earl of Torrington Sir 
 William Gregory Sir Giles Eyre and Samuell Eyre and the 
 Juftices to be affigned to hold Pleas before us for the Time 
 being Sir George Treby Sir Edward Nevill Sir Thomas 
 Rokeby and Sir John Powell and the Cheife Juftice and 
 Juftices of the Court of Common Pleas for the Time being 
 Sir Nicholas Letchmere Sir John Turton Sir John Powell 
 and George Bradbury and the Cheife Baron Barons of the 
 Coife and Curfitor Baron of our Court of Exchequer for 
 the Time being John Arch Biffiop of York and the Arch 
 Biffiop of York for the Time being Nathaniel Biffiop of 
 Durefme Peter Biffiop of Winchefter William Biffiop of 
 Litchfield and Coventry William Biffiop of LandafFe Ed- 
 ward Biffiop of St. Afaph Thomas Biffiop of Rochefter 
 Thomas Biffiop of Carlifie Jonathan Biffiop of Exon Tho- 
 mas Biffiop of St. Davides Gilbert Biffiop of Sarum 
 Humphry Biffiop of Bangor Edward Biffiop of Worcefier 
 Simon Biffiop of Ely Gilbert Biffiop of Hereford Nicholas 
 
 ^ Biffiop 
 
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 Comm'uTioners 
 
 Names, 
 
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 Bifhop of Chefter John Bifhop of Oxford John B'ifhop of 
 Norwich, Richard Bi£hop of Peterborow Eivrardi Bifhop 
 of Glouceffer Robert Bifhop of Chichefter Richard Bifliop 
 of Bath and Wells John Bifliop of Briflod and James 
 Bifliop of Lincolne and the feverall Bifhops of the fame 
 Sees for the Time being Sir Edward Ward Sir Thomas 
 Trevor Samuell Travers Sir Chriflopher Wrer.n Sir Thomas 
 Lane and the Mayor of our City of London for the Time 
 being Sir Robert Clayton Sir Patience Ward Sir John 
 Moor Sir William Pritchard Sir Robert Jeffery Sir Thomas 
 Stamp Sir John Fleet Sir William Afhurft Sir Jonathan 
 Raymond Sir Peter Daniell Sir Samuell Dafhwood Sir 
 Thomas Kenfey Sir John Parfons Sir Edward Clarke Sir 
 Humphry Edwin Sir Francis Child Sir Richard Levett Sir 
 William Gore Sir Thomas Cooke Sir James Houblon Sir 
 Thomas Abney Sir William Hedges Thomas Darwin and 
 Jofeph Smart and all and every the Aldermen of the fame. 
 City for the Time being Edmund Bowyer Michael Godfrey 
 Sir Leonard Robinfon Sir John Morden Sir John Bankes 
 Sir Job ah Child Sir Peter Vandeputt Sir William Ruffell 
 Sir Jeremy Sambrooke Sir Gabriel Robertes Sir John Foche 
 Sir Henry Fumes Sir William Scawen Sir Jofeph Herne 
 Sir Richard Onflow Baronett John Lock Gilbert Heathcott 
 and Arthur Shallett Efquires Sir Richard Haddock Sir 
 Cloudefley Shovell Edmund Dummer Charles Sergifon 
 Samuell Pett Thomas Wilfhaw Dennis Liddall Benjamin 
 Timewell and the Principall Officers in the Nature of 
 Commiffioners of our Navy for the Time being Sir Charles 
 Hedges Henry Guy Thomas Papillon Thomas Wefferne 
 Charles Duncomb Peter Houblon Edmund Bolter Thomas 
 Firmin and William Lowndes John Hill Captaine Samuell 
 
 Rutter 
 
O M M I S S I O N. 
 
 
 Rutter (^L| n John Bowers Captain John Conaway Cap- £°™“ l(ru,,ie 
 tain Rc.o ( JB*axton Captain John Bendbow Sir Mathew 
 AndrewveJBC;>tain John Nicholles Captain Ralph Saun- 
 derfon FR<»ei Lord Lucas Sir Henry Shere James Sotherne 
 Captaim , I«brt Fiffier Captaine George Shenney Captain 
 Samuell Atkjfon Captain Henry Greenhill Captain Bal- 
 chazar £St. Schell Captain Humphry Ayles Captain John 
 Jacob <C?ap:aii William Cruft Captain William Gutteridge 
 Captaim JolmHazlewood and the Mafter and all and every 
 the W airdens Afhftantes and Elder Brethren of Trinity 
 Houfe oaf Detford Strond for the Time being to be our 
 Commirffiioner for the Purpofes herein after mencioned 
 8 nii to ttbc €10 That our Royall Purpofe and Intencion 
 herein rnnay tie better take Effedt Our Will and Pleafure is 
 AND wree do: hereby order diredl and appoint that you do 
 from T irme toTime meet together at fbme convenient Place Comm ' n ' Ionei ' s 
 
 r i -t~' • . ° to meet j 
 
 for the .Execicion of this our Commiffion that at 
 
 your fir ffc or ome other Subfequent Meeting or Meetinges 
 fo many of ycu as fhall be then prefent (of whom any one 0 f whom one 
 or more (of yor being of our Privy Councill and any one Or onbCommiflion- 
 moie of YOU the Commiffioners of our Treafury and any fury and of the 
 
 r . . • rr- r- ' Admiralty to be 
 
 one or rmore or you the Commimoners for executing the three. 
 
 Office oif our High Admirall of England for the Time 
 being to be three at the leaf!) doe confider of fuch proper to confider of 
 and fitt Methodes as you ffiall Judge moft expedient to be 
 obferved in executing the fame wee doe alfo by thefe^ 10 " 
 
 Prefents -authorize and impower you our faid Commiffioners 
 or any feaven or more of you (of whom any one or more of Commoner* 
 you our Privy Councellors and any one or more of you t h e orany7ofthen5 
 Commiffioners of our Treafury and any one or more of you 
 the Commiffioners for executing the Office of our High Ad- 
 
 D 2 mirall 
 
2 ®. 
 
 COMMISSION. 
 
 inirall ot England for the Time being to be three at the 
 to their Affift- l ea d:) to call to your Aid and Affifiance fuch Perfons as you 
 cution of the iliali think id 1 1 to affid; and advife you in the due and effeCtuall 
 Exec ii cion of this our Commiffion Idlltl out of your owne 
 
 And out of their _ T . . r . J 
 
 appo int U Suij *" ^ um ^ ei ( as often as you ffiall judge it expedient) to appoynt 
 Committees, and conditute fuch and foe many Sub Committees for the 
 better managing. and carrying on our faid Purpofe and In— 
 
 And jnveft them .... CJ -t 
 
 withFowers &c. tencion m this our Commiffion ^ttll-to inveft them with 
 fuch Powers as you ffiall think fitt to intruft them with pur- 
 iuant to the Powers hereby given to yourfelves StttU to 
 ,1nmTch eand revoake or make void, the fame and to revive and make anew 
 the faid Sub Committees fo often as you ffiall think needful]i 
 as aforefaid wee doe by thefe Prefents authorize and 
 
 require you our faid Commiffi oners or anyfeaven or more of 
 you (of whom any one or more of you our Privy Councilors, 
 and any one or more, of you the Commiffioners of our- 
 Treafury and any or more of you the Commiffioners for 
 SaSS executing the Office of our High Admiral! of England for-. 
 nL S a i r a V nd°other Time, being to be three at the lead;) calling to your A fi- 
 hder what Part fiftance our Surveyor Generali of our Workes and alfo fuch 
 win b e S unfi?for other Artiftes and Perfons- as you ffiall think fitt) to confider 
 p ‘ * what Part and how much of the Structures and Buildinges 
 now handing upon the Peices or Parcelles of Ground con,^ 
 tained in our Grant above mencioned will be.unfitt or not 
 ferviceable for the Hofpitall hereby intended to be ereCted and 
 prefent* tmc what manner fuch of the prefen t Structures as you ffiall 
 belt prepared for htt to. hand may bed; be altered fitted and prepared 
 
 f° r t ^ e Ufe. and.. Service o£ the faid Hofpitall in . order to 
 reprefen t the fame to us. with all convenient Speed 
 wee doe alfo authorize and require you our faid Commif- 
 fioneis or any feaven or more of you (of whom three or 
 
 more. 
 
COMMISSION. 
 
 more to be fuch as aforefaid) forthwith according to the bed 
 
 of your Judgmentes and Difcreccions to prepare one or T ? P re P are Mo -’ 
 
 J _ * * dels ofBuildin 0 s 
 
 more Modell or Modeltes of fuch Buildinges Workes Erec- t3 be ereaed » 
 cions and Conveniencies as you fhall think mod: fitt and' 
 proper to-be erefted and made in and upon the Premiffes by 
 us granted as aforefaid for the Ufe of the faid intended Hof- 
 pitall with fuch Schemes or Draughtes as may bed explaine with fuch 
 
 # & a _ Schema , and 
 
 the lame and with all convenient Speed to prelent fuch Modell Drafts asma y 
 
 1 *■ explain them. 
 
 or Modelles to- us for our Royal Apprcbacion SflttT wee 
 do further hereby authorize and impower you our faid Com- 
 midioners or any feaven or more of you (of whom three or 
 more to be fuch as aforefaid calling to your Affidance OUr -And with 
 
 0 ... . Afliftance of the* 
 
 Attorney or boliicitor Generali or any other of our Councill Attorney and 
 
 . ... r 1 . . Solicitor General 
 
 learned in the Raw for the Time being or fuch others as you 
 ib all think' meet) to confider of and prepare a Charter or t0 confer of 
 Charters of Foundacion of fuch ITofpitall &Utl ftlfd fuchSlS?" 
 Statutes Conditucions Orders and Ordinances as may be AnTa^o im- 
 proper for the Foundacion perpetual Management Order Rule far the perpetual 
 and good Governement of the fame and of the Poor People the poor People, . 
 Officers Servantesand others that diall be entertained in and*** 
 about the fame and for and concerning all other Matters 
 and Things relating thereto and to prefen t the fame to us for 
 our Royal 1 Confideracion OTljereC!# the greate and 
 
 earned defire which we have to fet about foe good and pious 
 a Work has engaged us to begin the fame at this Time althV 
 by reafon of the prefent Neceffity of our Affaires wee cannot 
 advance lex conffderable Summes for the begining and carry-, 
 ing on the faia Work as wee doe delire and intend and by 
 God’s Bleffing in Times of Peace diall be enabled to doe 
 Set neuertseiefle as a further Indance of our Princely 
 Zeale for advanceing the faid Deffgne wee have refolved and 
 
 determined < 
 
22 COMMISSION, 
 
 determined and doe hereby declare and make knowne that 
 from thenceforth wee will yearely caufe to be iffued and paid 
 out of our Treafure at and upon the Feaff of the Birth of 
 our Lord Chriff in every Yeare or at fuch other Time in 
 every Yeare as fhall be defired by our faid Commiffioners or 
 any feaven or more of them the fum of two thoufand 
 y!a°riy out^/the Poundes for and towards the edifying perfecting and endow- 
 ouio'Sng thc ild3 ing the faid Hofpitall 8ttU to that End wee doe hereby for 
 Commiffioners US OU1 Heires and Succeffors require the CommifTioner of our 
 
 of the T. reafury J T T J T 1 /" C T - ' 1 t • 
 
 to pay fame x reatury and Under 1 reaiurer or our Exchequer now being 
 
 Warrant. and the Treafurer of our Exchequer and Commiffioners of 
 the Treafury and Under Treafurer of the Exchequer of us 
 ixd. our pp e j res or Succeffors for the Time being witho« any 
 
 further or other Warrant to be had or obtained from us our 
 Heires or Succeffors in that Behalfe from Time to Time to 
 diredt their Warra.ntes or Orders for the Payment of the 
 faid Yearely Summe of two thoufand Poundes as aforefaid 
 out of fuch of our Treafure of us our Heires or Succeffors as 
 fhall not be appropriated to other Ufes to the faid Treafurer 
 for the faid Hofpitall hereby appointed or to fuch other 
 Treafurer or Treaiurers as fhall be appointed as herein after 
 is diredled at the faid Feaft of the Birth of our Lord Chriff 
 in every Yeare or at fuch other Times in every Yeare as fhall 
 be delired by our faid Commiffioners or any feaven or more 
 of them as aforefaid during the Continuance of this our 
 Commiffion &tttl having no Doubt but that great Numbers 
 of our goodSubjedtes will be difpofed to follow our Example 
 and will with great Chearfulneffe and Readineffe contribute to 
 the advanceing fo charitable a Dehgne which beiides the 
 Releife of fo many poor difabled and neceffitous Perfons 
 will prove of great Advantage to the Kingdome in the in- 
 
 creafing 
 
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 creating the Navigacion and Navall Strength thereof by en- 
 couraging fitt Perfons to betake themfelves to ^ea Service as 
 foon asourRoyall Intencions in the Premises (hall be made 
 knowne SUltl that their affi tiling us in the Building and 
 Endowing the faid Hofpitall will be moft highly acceptable 
 to us wee doe by thefe Prefentes authorize and impower you 
 our faid Comiflioners or any feaven or more of you 
 Wee doe by thefe Prefents Give and Grant to you or any 
 feaven or more of you full Power and Authority to take and ft r f pt ^ s s 0 u f b ' an): 
 receive from fuch of our good Subjects as fhall be pioufly ^° ney ’ Goods> 
 difpofed to contribute towards the eredting and endowing of 
 the faid Hofpitall All fuch voluntary Giftes or Subfcriptions 
 of or for any Summe or Summes of Money Goodes or 
 Chattelles or of any Etiate or Intereft in any Mannors 
 Landes Tenementes Rentes Hereditamentes or other Mat- ° r r 
 ters or Thinges whatfoever which any Perfon or Perfons & ^whiJhaJy 
 fhall be willing to give limitt appoint or beflowe for or w'lling to give 
 towardes the Building Furnifhing or Endowing of the Hof ing the Hofpit.il.. 
 pitall aforefaid And for cauting to be colledted and received 
 whatfoever fhall be given contributed bequeathed detigned 
 or appointed for that Ufe by the Handes of the Treafurer 
 that fhall be hereafter appointed to receive the fame 
 tO that our Intencion in the Premities may be 
 
 better known to our Loving Subjedtes wee doe require you 
 to caufe Publick Notificacion of thefe Prefentes or the 
 Tenor or Forme thereof to be made in fuch Places or by 
 fuch Wayes and Meanes as you fhall think moft conduceable 
 to the Furtherance of the faid Charity wee doe alfo 
 
 by thefe Prefentes authorize and impower you our Lid Com- 
 mitiioners or any feaven or more of you (of whom any one 
 or more of you our Privy Councellors and any one or more 
 
 of 
 
£ 4 
 
 May appoint 
 Deputies to take 
 Subferiptions, 
 
 and eftaUifli Or 
 der for charging 
 the T reafurer, 
 &c. 
 
 with the Monies 
 they ihall re- 
 ceive. 
 
 Upoti fufpicion 
 of fraud, & c. 
 
 may examine 
 Witneffes upon 
 Oath, 
 
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 of you the Commiffioners of our Treafury and any one or 
 more of you the Commiffioners for executing the Office of 
 our High Admirall of England for the Time being to be 
 three at the leaft) in cafe you ffiall find the fame to be 
 neceffiary for carrying on the Defigne and Intencion of this 
 our Commiffion by Inrtrumentes or Writinges under your 
 Handes and Seales to depute and fubftitute fuch Perfons as 
 you ihall think fitt to entruft to take fuch Subfcripcions as 
 aiorefaid and to collect or bring in the Moneys which ihall 
 be contributed bequeathed defigned or appointed for the 
 Ufes aforefaid to the Handes of the Treafurer or Receiver 
 Generali hereafter appointed and to difplace or difcharge 
 l'uch Subftitutes or Deputies or any of them and to appoint 
 others in the Place of them or any of them from Time to 
 Time as you ihall fee caufe Untl to fettle eftabliih and 
 appoynt fuch Cheques Comptrolles and Orders as you ihall 
 think neceifary or fafe for the full and due chargeing of the 
 Treafurerand Receiver Generali and alfo the faid Deputies 
 Subftitutes, and all and every other Perfon and Perfons what- 
 foever whoe ihall receive or be chargeable with any Moneys 
 or other Profittes for the faid Charitable Ufe or Purpofe to 
 anfwer pay or account for the fame SltS that our faid 
 Commiffioners or any feaven or more of you from Time to 
 Time as often as you or any feaven of you ihall fufpet or 
 doubt of any Concealment Praud or any Deceitfull or Indi- 
 rect Practice in reference to any Moneys or other Thinges 
 fubfcribed contributed given bequeathed or appointed to the 
 faid Ufe iliall and may enquire thereof by the Examinacion 
 of W itnefles upon Oath (which you have hereby Power to 
 adminifter) or by any other lawful Wayes and Meanes 
 whereby the Truth of the Matters in all fuch Cafes may 
 
 bell 
 
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 beft be know^e and to proceed thereupon with EfFeCt 
 our Pleafure is wee doe hereby require and command 
 That you our faid Commiffioners or any feaven or more of 
 you do from Time to Time certify to the Comiffioners of^^ t ^ the 
 our Treafury now being or to the Treafurer or Commiilioners £ r ]Jl e f s s °whhth fe 
 of our Treafury for the Time being the Names of the Per- Sums fubfcribed - 
 Tons Societies Bodies Politick or Corporate who jfh.aH fub- 
 fcribe or contribute give devife or appoint any Moneys or 
 any Reall Eftate or other Matters or Thinges towardes this 
 Charitable Defigne with the Summes of Money Goodes 
 Chattelles Eftate or other Thinges by them refpe&ively 
 contributed given limitted appointed or devifed t$)Z 
 a perpetuall Memoriall may be made of fuch Welldifpofed 
 Perfons whoe fhall become Benefactors as aforefaid and 
 whereby the Treafurer or Receiver Generali may be charged Exd. 
 with more Certainty in his Accomptes 0nU (ft KcgatU 
 wee doe confide very much in the Ability and Faithfulnefie 
 of ourTrufty and ^Vellbeloved John Evelyn Senior Efquire 
 Wee have nominated afiigned and appointed $ntl wee doe 
 hereby nominate afiigne and appoint him the faid John Jah n Evelyn 
 Evelyn Senior to be the Treafurer and Receiver Generali of E" tcd 
 all the Monies and other Profittes which fhall be fubfcribed 
 contributed given bequeathed devifed defigned or appointed 
 to or for the Building Furnifhing or Endowing of the faid 
 Hofpitall or for any Matter or Thing relateing thereunto 
 
 continue in that Truft during our Pleafure attfo in , • ™ 
 
 / _ during Pleafure. 
 
 Cafe of his Death or Removal! Wee doe hereby Give full Scath Tiie' 
 Power and Authority to you our faid Commiffioners or any moval> 
 feaven or more of you (whereof any one or more of you our 
 Privy Councellors and any one or more of you the Commif- 
 fioners of our Treafury and any or more of you the Commif- 
 fioners for executing the Office of High Admirall of England 
 
 E for 
 
G O M M 1 S' S I O N. 
 
 for the Time being to be three at the lead) from Time to 
 r^int’one Time to appoint one or more ntt Perfon or Perfons to the 
 ”n?^'bcT F reat faid Place or Trud of Treafurer and Receiver Generali 
 piaoe'or^move $ltlpfuch Perfon or Perfons from Time to Time to remove 
 or difplace as you fhall fee Caufe StuH our Will and Plea** 
 fUre is That the Treafurer or Receiver Generali for the Time 
 being fhall have full Power and Authority Slntt he is 
 hereby fully authorized from Time to Time upon the Re» 
 ? r r e R Trcu-° fGe T t or R^ceiptes of any Somme or Summes of Money or 
 Ac ' other Profittes for the Pur poles aforefaid or any of them to 
 give an Acquittance or Acquittances for the fame which 
 fhall be good and fufficient Difcharges to all Intentes and 
 Treafurer’ s Ac- Purpofes whatfover the faid Treafurer or Receiver 
 
 Generali’ for tile Time being* in his Receiptes Paymentes 
 Controul as. and Accomptes fhall be fubjedt to fucli Infpeccion Examb- 
 
 CommilTioners , 1 r r 
 
 ihau appoint, nsicion and Comp troll as you or any leaven or more or yon 
 (whefeof fitch- as are before appointed for a fpecial Quorum 
 to be three at the lead)'* fhall edab'lifh or appoint Slttfl wee 
 doe hereby for us our Heires and Succeffors ftridtly com- 
 mand enjoyne and require that none of the Moneys or other 
 Non. of the Thinges which fhall be given contributed devifed -bequeathed 
 
 pj liable to any defrgned or appointed as aforefaid fhall be diverted ilfued or 
 Secharit y . an applied or be in any wife applicable to any Ufe or Purpofe 
 wHatfoever other then to the Charitable Purpofes- before 
 mencioned or fome of them or to defray neceflary Charges 
 relating thereunto tO tl>0 that the Building and 
 
 Fitting of the faid Hofpitall may be carried on- with as 
 much Speed as is pofiible Wee doe by thefe Prefentes give full 
 Power and Authority to you our faid Commiffioners or any 
 feaven or more of you (of which any one or more of yon 
 our Privy Gouncellors and any one or more of you the 
 
 Gommiffibners- 
 
COMMISSION. 2? 
 
 Commiffioners of our Treafury and any one or more of you ^ 
 
 the Commiffioners for executing the Office of our High 
 
 Admiral 1 of England for the Time being to be three at the 
 
 bait) when and as foon after as wee (hall have approved the Building, 
 
 under our Signe Manuall your Report or Certificate in that 
 
 Behalfe to take downe and demolifh or caufe to be taken 
 
 downe and demoliihed foe much of the Buildinges and 
 
 Structures nowe ftandinge upon the Ground by us granted 
 
 as aforefaid as fhall be judged as aforefaid to be unfitt or 
 
 not ferviceable for the Ufe of the Hofpitall hereby intended 
 
 as alfoe to convert alter and fitt fuch of the prefent Structures ft and. 
 
 as fhall be appointed to ffcand as aforefaid in fuch manner as 
 
 fhall be appointed as aforefaid £ltttl from and after 
 
 fuch Time as wee fhall have approved and allowed of fuch 
 
 Modell or Modelles as you fhall have prefen ted as aforefaid 
 
 under our Signe Manuall or otherwife fhall have allowed or And aftef the 
 
 approved of any Modell Scheme or Defigne for building ^f^ c r ; v > d> 
 
 fitting or furnifhing the faid Hofpitall CO pUtt in hand BuSst 
 
 carry on and finifh with fuch convenient Speed as the Na- &c * 
 
 ture of the Thing and fuch Moneys as fhall be in the Handes 
 
 of the faid Treafurer or Receiver will admitt the Buildinges 
 
 and Stru&ures of the faid Hofpitall and of all the Offices 
 
 and Conveniencies belonging thereto and to furnifh the fame 
 
 accordingly 3!tt t f)C of which you are to purfue fuch Models, &c as 
 
 Modelles Orders and Direccions as fhall be approved or by Sign Manual. 
 
 appointed by us under our Signe Manuall as aforefaid 
 
 our Pleafure is That you fhall proceed in the faid Workes 
 
 in fuch Order and Method and by fuch Waies and Meanes 
 
 and according to fuch Rules and Orders as to you fhall 
 
 feem bell SittU that you fhall call to your Ayd and Affift- To c*n to tb* 
 
 ance fuch fkillfull Artiftes Officers and Workmen as you Artifts, 
 
 E 2 fhall 
 
a® ' C O M M I S S I O N. 
 
 thiklf aH anc ^ to a PP°^ nt to them fever ally their refpec- 
 
 tive Charge or Bufmeffie $Utf that you our faid Commif- 
 iioners or any feaven or more of you (whereof any one or 
 more of you our Privy Councellors and, one or more of you: 
 the Commiffioners of : our Treafury and anyone or more of 
 you the Commiffioners for executing the Office of our High 
 Admirall of England for the Time being to be three at the 
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 ment Allowances and Expenditure of the Moneys or Profits 
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 thles Officers and Workmen which ffiall be employed in the 
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 $ntl out of yourrowne Number and fuch other Perfons ofs u n b d com a n P int 
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 appoint conRituite and make fuch and fo many Sub Commit- 
 tees as you fhall think meet for the better manageing and 
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 ■ ters, 
 
 of this ufefull and neceflary Defigne and to put the fame in 
 Exccucion till the faid Hofpitall fhall be compleatly built 
 finished and furnifhed with all Thinges neceffary thereunto ti ii Hofpitai- 
 fuctfiet wee doe for us our Heires and Succeffors de- <ha11 be hmfhed ‘ 
 
 clare and grant to you our faid Commiffioners and every of^ 3rrim ’ i ^' ,ne ' 3 
 
 . ^ accountable for 
 
 you that you our faid Commifiioners and every of you fhall their own as*.- 
 be only accountable and anfwerable to us our Heires and 
 Succeffors for your owne refpedtive Receiptes Adtinges and. 
 
 Doinges and not for the Receiptes Adlinges or Doinges of 
 one another or of the Treafurer hereby appointed or to be 
 appointed JpCOUiUeH alttmjPg And our Pleafure is wee^^jy 
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 hereby appointed to be the Treafurer and P.eceiver Generali 
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 have receive retaine and keepe out of the Moneys that fliall 
 
 from 
 
3 ° 
 
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 Payable Quar- 
 terly. 
 
 from Time to Time be in his Handes by Virtue or Meanes 
 of his Receipt the Yearly Sallary or Allowance of Two hun- 
 dred Poundes of lawfull Englifh Money at the Four mod; 
 ufuall Feafts in the Yeare by equall Porcions to commence 
 from the Feaft of the Annunciacion of the BlefTed Virgin 
 Mary one thoufand fix hundred ninety five and to be from 
 Time to Time allowed upon his Accomptes Any Thing 
 herein contained to. the contrary notwithflanding thefe 
 
 «ur Letters Paten tes or the Entry Exemplification or Enroll- 
 ment thereof fhall be to you and every of you and all others 
 herein concerned a fufficient Warrant in this Behalfe 3itt 
 
 SjOftncfffc UllitllZttZ ourfelf at Weflm r the twelfth Day 
 of March. 
 
 P. Bre de Privato Sigillo 6c c. 
 
 OEMs tg a ttue Copy from tfje original 
 Becoro remaining lit tbe Cbapel of tlje 
 Bong bablng been ejeamfneiu 
 
 jfohn Kipling 
 
 FABRIC. 
 
3 * 
 
 FABRIC. 
 
 In purfuance of King William’s firft commifiion, 
 the Commiffioners met at Guildhall, London, on the 
 17th of May, 1695, and appointed, a Committee to view 
 the piece of ground granted by King William and Queen 
 Mary; which Committee reported that they were of opinion. 
 King Charles’s building then unfinished, might, if an addi- 
 tional- building Should be eredted on its weft fide, be ren- 
 dered capable of receiving conveniently between three and 
 four hundred Seamen (a). And at the fame time defired 
 that the Lords of the Treafury might be applied to for a 
 Committee of Enquiry to reftore and fecure the water- fp rings 
 and Conduits belonging to the ancient palace. 
 
 ( a ) Some perfons were of opinion at this time that it would be better to 
 take down the wing eredted by King Charles the Second as part of his intended 
 palace, and begin the Hofpital upon a. plan entirely new. The difputes on j 
 this fubjedt ran very high, and it is reported that it had been mentioned to 
 the Queen before her.Majefty’s demife, and that (he was much difpleafed with 
 the idea for fevcral reai'ons : . ill, That the expence of this palace was very 
 considerable, and the materials after it fhould- be deltroyed would not be 
 equal in value to a quarter of the fum it had coft origii ally. 2d, That it 
 was the work of Mr. Webb after the defign of that eminent architect, Inigo 
 Jones: and,. 3d,- That it was planned fo as to correfpond with the Park which 
 was laid out by Le Notre, a man of approved tafte; Several other places 
 had alfo been propofed for an hofpital for feamen. Among others, the Caille 
 at Winchefter, but the prefent fituation . of the hofpital was preferred, on 
 account of its being fo very conipicuous and in the very fight of London, to 
 and from which port the great number of fhips continually palling and repaying 
 would afford conflant entertainment to thofe who had retired from the bulinefs 
 «>f a. feafariag life. 
 
 King 
 
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 ■FABRIC. 
 
 King William’s fecond Commiflion having paffed the 
 ‘Great Seal in the month of September following, a general 
 meeting of the Commiffioners was foon after held at Guild- 
 hall, at which wereprefent 
 
 The Lord Major, 
 The Lord Keeper, 
 Mr. Stephen Fox, 
 Sir J. Lowther, 
 
 Sir Richard Onflow, 
 Sir Chriftopher Wren, 
 Mr. Prieftman, dec. 
 
 When a grand Committee was chofen, confiding of fixty 
 Perfons, to whom the immediate conduft of the Foundation 
 was intruded. This Committee fird met on the 23d of 
 December following, and proceeded to refolve itfelf into 
 three danding fub-Committees for the Fabric, the Revenue, 
 and the Conditution. Thofe for the Fabric were 
 
 Capt. Jonathan Andrews 
 Ant. Bowyer, Efq; 
 
 Wm. Bridgeman, Efq; 
 Capt. John Brumwell 
 Sir Robert Clayton 
 Dr. Salifbury Cade 
 Capt. Robert Dorrel 
 Wm. Draper, Efq; 
 Edmund Dummer, Efq; 
 Thomas Fermin, Efq; 
 
 Sir William Gore 
 Sir Thomas Grantham 
 Wm. Glanville, Sen. Efq,; 
 Capt. Wm. Gatteridge 
 Sir Richard Haddock 
 Sir Jofeph Herne 
 Sir Henry Johnfon 
 Dr. John Mapletoft 
 Capt. Ralph Sanderfon 
 Sir Chriftopher Wren 
 
 The Preparation of King Charles’s Building, and the 
 eredhon of an additional one as before mentioned being the 
 iirft concern, certain powers for that purpofe were given to 
 ihe Committee by the Co., miffioners at a general meeting, 
 
 when 
 
F A B R I C. 
 
 when a plan of the intended alterations, which is preferved 
 in the Record Room of the Hofpital, was approved ; and, 
 being afterwards prefented to King William, received his 
 .royal approbation alio. 
 
 Before the Committee proceeded further, they fixed upon 
 Mr. John Scarborough to be Clerk of the works, and Sir Chrif- 
 topher Wren, then the King’s furveyor general, generoufly 
 undertaking the conduct of this charitable work without any 
 reward, the foundations of the new bafs-building were laid in 
 form by the Committee on the 3d of June, 1696. 
 
 This building being nearly compleated in 1698, Sir 
 Chriflopher Wren fubmitted to the Committee a plan of a 
 great dining-hall for the ufe of the officers and men (now 
 called the Painted Hall) with an eflimate of the expence, 
 which meeting with the Committee’s approbation, they or- 
 dered the ground to be let out for the purpofe, and the work 
 was profecuted with fo much induflry, that the dome was 
 eredted, and the whole roofed in by the month of Augufl, 
 1703. 
 
 ' In 1698 they alfo began to lay the foundations of the 
 building, which anfwers to that of King Charles the Second, 
 and is called Queen Ann’s building ; which name was given 
 to it upon her Majefly’s acceffion to the throne. 
 
 In 1699 great part of the foundations of the Eafi Colon- 
 nade and of the Eafi Hall was laid. 
 
 F 
 
 In 
 
54 
 
 FABRIC, 
 
 In 1712 the north- well; brick pavilion of the bafs part of 
 King Charles’s building, was ordered to be taken down, and 
 rebuilt with ftone in fuch manner as fhould correfpond with 
 the noith-eaft pavilion of this building, . 
 
 In 1725 the railing of the weft front of Queen Ann’s 
 building was begun; and. 
 
 In 1728 the ftate of the ftru&ure was as follows, viz. 
 King Charles’s building was compleated, except the ftone 
 pavilion at the fouthern extremity of its bafs-building. 
 Queen Ann’s building, except the louth pavilion, had been 
 raifed and covered in. 
 
 The Colonades, with the porticos at their extremities 
 were compleated, and the whole of King William’s building, 
 which contained the hall and the weft and fouth dormi- 
 tories, was alfo .erected. 
 
 In 1752 Queen .Mary’s building, (b) in which is the Cha- 
 
 (b) On the 2d of January, 1779, a dreadful fire happened in the Hofpital, 
 which began in the north-eaft part of this building, and destroyed the chapel, 
 with its dome, and part of the colonade. The conflagration was fo rapid, 
 that in the courfe of a few hours, it not only confirmed the Chapel, &c. as 
 aforefaid ; but alfo many of the wards adjoining. 
 
 Every means that could be devifed was u fed to difeover whether this naif- 
 fortune was occafioned by-accident orxlefign; but after a molt Ariel and dili- 
 gent inveftigation by the Diredlors, aflifted by Sir John Fielding, which 
 lafted feveraldays, and the offer of a confiderable reward, nothing came out 
 that could lead to a difeovery. 
 
 An eftimate of the expence of repairing the damages was then prepared, 
 and orders were given for its being done with all polfible dil'patch, beginning 
 with the re-conflruclion of that part where the penfioners were lodged, which 
 contained upwards of five hundred men. 
 
 pel. 
 
3S 
 
 fabric. 
 
 pel, was finished, the rents and profits arifing from the Der- 
 wentwater eftate having, in the year 1735* hccn afiigned by 
 parliament for that purpofe. 
 
 In 1769 a plan was approved, and afterwards carried into 
 execution for rebuilding the fouth-weft brick pavilion of 
 the bafs part of King Charles’s building with ftone, to 
 correfpond with the fouth-eafi: pavilion of that building. 
 
 In 1778 the two fmall pavilions at the extremities of the 
 terrace were ere&ed and dedicated to their prefent Majelties. 
 
 Having thus traced the progrefs of this royal edifice from 
 its foundation to this time, it now remains to attempt fome 
 defcription of it in its prefent Rate. 
 
 GREENWICH HOSPITAL is fituated about five miles 
 from London-bridge, on the fouthern bank of the Thames. 
 It is elevated on a terrace about 865 feet in length towards 
 the river, and confifts of four diftindt piles of building, 
 diftinguifhed by the names of King Charles’s, Queen Ann’s, 
 King William’s, and Queen Mary’s. The interval between 
 the two moft northern buildings, viz. King Charles’s and 
 Queen Ann’s, forms the grand fquare, which is about 273 
 feet wide. 
 
 From the entrance at the north gate, the eye, paffing thro* 
 the grand fquare between the two colonades to the Queen’s 
 Houfe, is bounded by the Royal fcj Obfervatory ere&ed on 
 
 (*■) This obfervatory was begun to beere&edon the icth of Auguft, 1675, 
 by order of King Charles the Second. 
 
 F 2 
 
 an 
 
FABRIC, 
 
 3* 
 
 an eminence in the park the whole prefenting the moft 
 magnificent and beautiful coup d * ceil that can be imagined. 
 
 In the centre of the grand fquare ftands a beautiful ftatue 
 of his late Majefty. King George, the Second, executed by 
 the famous Ryfbrach; and carved out of a fingle block of 
 white marble which weighed eleven tons. This block was 
 taken from the French by Admiral Sir George Rooke, and 
 the ftatue prefen ted by Sir John Jennings, K* at that 
 time Mafter and Governor of the Hofpital, as a mark of his 
 refpedt and gratitude to his Royal Mafter. On the pedeftal ; 
 are. the following infcriptions by Mr. Stanyan* . 
 
 On the Eaft fide : 
 
 — — hie requies fenedlce 
 hie modus lajfo mar is & 'viarum, 
 militiccq-y 
 
 On the Weft : 5 
 
 . -fejj'os tuto placidiffima portu 
 
 % accipit . 
 
 On the North : 
 
 hie ames did pater atq> princeps 
 AND 
 
 Underneath the royal ftandard : 
 
 Imperium pelagi. 
 
 * Author of the Grecian Hiftory, Sec, 
 
 On 
 
fab r I c. 
 
 37 
 
 On the South : 
 
 Principi potentijjimo 
 Georgio n do 
 Britanniarum regi 
 Cujus aufpiciis & patrocimo 
 Augujlijjimum hoc hofpjtium 
 Ad fuble-vandos militantium 
 in clajje emeritorum 
 
 Labor es a regiis ipjius ante cejforibus 
 
 fundatum 
 
 AuSiius indies et fplendidius 
 exurgit . . 
 
 Johannes Jennings Eques 
 Ejufdem hofpitii prafeBus 
 Iconem hanc pro debitd fud 
 Erga principem reverentid 
 Et patriam char it ate 
 pofuit 
 
 Anno Domini 
 
 MDCCXXXV 
 
 We now proceed to give a particular defcription of each 
 of the four diftindt buildings before mentioned, all of which 
 are quadrangular, d he fir ft, called King Chanes s build- 
 ing, is on the weft fide of the great fquare; the eaftern part 
 of which was the refidence of Charles the Second, and 
 was ere&ed by Mr. Webb, after a defign of that celebrated 
 
 architect, Inigo Jones $ . it is. of Portland ftone, and rufti- 
 
 cated. 
 
F A B R I C. 
 
 rufticated. In the middle is a tetradyle portico of the 
 Corinthian order, crowned with its proper entablature, and 
 a pediment. At each end is a pavilion formed by four cor- 
 refponding piladers of the fame order with their entablature, 
 and furmounted by an attic order with a balludrade. 
 
 In the tympanum of the pediment is a piece of fculpture 
 confiding of two figures, the one, reprefenting Fortitude , 
 the other. Dominion of tbe Sea. 
 
 The north front, which is towards the river, prefents 
 the appearance of two fimilar pavilions, each having its 
 proper pediment fupported by a range of the fame Corin- 
 thian columns before-mentioned, and their entablature. 
 Over the portal, which joins thefe two pavilions, is an or- 
 nament of fefioons and flowers. In the .tympanum of the 
 eadern pediment which was part of the palace, is a piece 
 of fculpture reprefenting the figures of Mars and Fame f 
 and, in the frize, is the following infcription : 
 
 Carolus n Rex 
 
 A. REG XVI 
 
 The South front of this building correfponds with that of 
 the North, except the fculptures and infcription. The 
 weft front confifts of a brick building, called the ( dj bafs- 
 building. In the middle it has a pediment with carving, in 
 the tympanum, confiding of the national arms fupported 
 by two Genii, with marine trophies and other ornaments. 
 The carving of the pediment is allowed to be well executed 
 in alto relievo j it is 30 feet in length, and 7 feet 7 inches in 
 
 (d) This bafs-building is intended to be taken down and rebuilt in aftyle 
 fimilar to the reft. 
 
 height. 
 
FABRIC. 
 
 39 
 
 Height. On the other fide of the fquare towards the Eaft, 
 is Queen Ann’s Building, having its north, weft, and fouth 
 fronts ne rly fimilar to King Charles’s laft defcribed ; but the 
 fculptures in the pediments, as .well as in the weftern pedi- 
 ment of the north front of the laft-meationed building ftill 
 remain unfinhhed* 
 
 To the fouth ward of thefe are the other piles of 
 building, with a Doric Colonade adjoining to each. That 
 to the Weft is called King William’s, and that to the Eaft 
 Queen Mary’s. 
 
 King William’s building contains the great Hall, Veftibule, 
 and Dome, defigned and ereCted by Sir Chriftopher Wren. 
 The tambour of the dome is formed by a circle of columns 
 duplicated, of the compoftte order, with four projecting 
 groups of columns at the quoins. The attic above is a 
 circle without breaks covered with the dome,- and termi- 
 nated with, a turret. 
 
 The weft front of this building is of ( e) brick, and was 
 finished by Sir John Vanburgh, who was Surveyor of the 
 Hofpital. In the middle is a tetraftyle frontifpiece of 
 the doric order, the columns of v/hich are nearly ftx feet 
 in diameter, and proportionably high, with an entablature 
 and trygliphs over them, all of Portland ftone. At 
 each end of this front is a pavilion crowned with a cir- 
 cular pediment, and in that at the north end is a piece of 
 fculpture confifting of groups of Marine Trophies, and four 
 large heads embofled reprefenting the four winds 3 with a 
 fea lion and unicorn. 
 
 O This part of the building is intended to be cafcd with {lone. 
 
 The 
 
4 ° 
 
 FABRIC. 
 
 The north and fouth fronts of this building are of {lone ; 
 the windows of which are decorated with architraves and 
 imports rufticated, and the walls crowned with cornices. On 
 the eaft rtands Queen Mary’s building, in which is the chapel, 
 as beforemen tioned, with its veftibule; land a cupola corref- 
 ponding to the other. Thefe two buildings were named in 
 honor of the Royal Founders, and were intended to have been 
 alike; but in the latter, however, more regard has been paid 
 to convenience than to ornament, and the whole front of it 
 is of Portland rtone and in a plain ftyle 0 
 
 The Colonades adjoining to thefe buildings are 1 1 5 feet 
 afunder, and are compofed of upwards of 300 duplicated 
 Doric columns and pilafters of Portland rtone, 20 feet high, 
 with an entablature and ballurtrade. Each of them is 347 
 feet lcng, having a return pavilion at the end 70 feet long. 
 
 The Eaft and Wert entrances of the Hofpital are formed 
 by two rufticated piers, with iron gates, having the Porters 
 lodges adjoining,, On the ruftic piers (f) of the weft en- 
 trance are placed two large rtone globes, each fix feet in 
 diameter, one coeleftial, the other terreftrial. 
 
 |F On the former are inlaid with copper, in a very curious 
 manner, twenty four meridians, the equinoctial, ecliptic, 
 tropics, and polar circles ; and a great number of ftars of 
 the firft, fecond, and third magnitude, are reprefented ac- 
 
 (/) If thefe Piers and Globes were moved to the North Gate on the 
 Terrace adjoining the River (as hath been propofed) they would be feen to 
 rauft greater advantage than in their prefent lituation. 
 
 cording 
 
FABRIC. 
 
 cording to their relative portions. On the latter, the prin- 
 cipal circles are inlaid in the fame mapner, with the parallels 
 of latitude to every ten degrees in each hemifphere; the 
 outline of the land and fea is alfo defcribed, with the track 
 of Lord Anfon’s voyage round the earth in his Majefty’s 
 fhip Centurion. The globes are placed in an oblique peti- 
 tion, agreeable to the latitude of the place in which they 
 Rand, and were delineated by Mr. Richard Oliver, formerly 
 mathematical matter at the academy at Greenwich. 
 
 In different parts of this extenfive fabric, commodious 
 apartments are provided for the Governor and principal Offi- 
 cers, and wards are properly fitted up for the Penfioners and 
 Nurfes; who (together with the Officers families, inferior 
 officers and fervants, refident within the walls,) amount to 
 nearly 2500 perfons. 
 
 When we confider the beauty, iolidity, and magnificence 
 of this fuperb ftru&ure, and the excellent ufes to which it 
 is appropriated, it muff ever be contemplated with reverence 
 and admiration, as a work of national grandeur, and at the 
 fame time the noblefl monument of wifdom and benevolence. 
 
 The following Table ffiews the names of the wards con- 
 tained in each building, with the number of beds in each 
 ward. 
 
 G KING 
 
 * 
 
42 
 
 A B R 
 
 C. 
 
 KING CHARLES’ 
 building. 
 
 weft win? 
 
 w -ft 
 
 Monk , 
 
 Prince . 
 
 Reftoration I ea fl w j n g 
 Orford . \ 
 
 Coronation 7 
 Succefs . J 
 Neptune . 
 
 London 
 Royal Charles 
 Royal Efci'.pe an( ^ y'j 
 Greyhound - 
 Soldado . 
 
 N. rth Crown 
 South Crown 
 Pallifer . ft 
 
 v* 
 
 r 1 
 
 ( » 
 
 T « 
 
 
 Uh 
 
 6 
 
 0 
 
 E 
 
 c 
 
 *) 
 
 O 
 
 
 u 
 
 0 
 
 
 ”0 
 
 N 
 
 -n 
 
 
 1 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 
 
 *4 
 
 
 
 
 
 • 
 
 43 
 
 
 
 
 . 
 
 I i 
 
 
 
 
 . 
 
 i 2 
 
 
 
 
 . 
 
 12 
 
 
 
 
 • 
 
 37 
 
 
 
 
 # 
 
 
 18 
 
 
 
 • 
 
 
 1 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 35 
 
 26 
 
 5 ° 
 
 
 QJJ E E N ANN’s 
 BUILDING. 
 
 weft wing 
 
 eaft wing 
 
 ■weft 
 
 BUILDIN G. 
 
 Boyne . . . . • 
 
 Naftau 
 
 Affociation and Kent , 
 Hall . . . . 
 
 Royal William 
 Sandwich Hall . 
 Ramilies . . . 
 Barfleur .... 
 Union . weft wing . 
 Marlborough . . 
 
 Namur .... 
 Britannia . weft wing 
 
 
 Li 
 
 S-i 
 
 
 c 
 
 
 7 s 
 
 0 
 
 c 
 
 5 
 
 0. 
 
 
 
 fc, 
 
 
 
 ten 
 
 
 
 U 
 
 a 
 
 
 Id 
 
 
 
 0 
 
 m 
 
 N 
 
 
 
 
 48 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 59 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 62 
 
 
 
 
 • . 
 
 55 
 
 
 
 
 . . 
 
 21 
 
 
 
 
 . 
 
 • 
 
 
 5 ° 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 • 
 
 • 
 
 
 46 
 
 
 
 • . 
 
 . 
 
 
 5 6 
 
 
 . . 
 
 
 
 
 
 . . 
 
 • 
 
 
 46 
 
 
 Jennings" 
 
 Wager 
 Edinburgh 
 Barrington 
 Augufta 
 Hawke . 
 
 Weafel 
 Windfor- 
 Caftle . 
 
 Royal- 
 George . 
 Vanguard 
 Viftory . 
 
 Weft Norris 
 Prince of 
 301 Orange . 
 
 Prin cel’s of 
 Orange ! . . 
 
 Eaft Norris -f . 
 Louifa HalL . . 
 
 Torringtpn } . * 
 
 Cumber- [ . a 
 land 
 
 Royal Oak . 
 Shrewlbury -* . 
 Princefs 
 Amelia 
 Princefs 
 
 Carolina )-eaft 
 Hamilton 
 Princefs, 
 
 Mary 
 
 U i r 
 
 O 
 
 c 
 
 )*eaft 
 
 40 
 
 2 
 
 2 3 
 l 7 
 * 7 
 
 *5 
 
 15 
 
 Ui 
 
 10 
 26 
 
 S4 
 
 23 
 
 *7 
 
 *5 
 
 *5 
 
 *5 
 
 11 
 
 55 * 
 
 QUEEN MARY’# 
 BUILDING. 
 
 Sandwich . . . . 
 
 Hardy . . . . , 
 
 Council .... 
 Rodney .... 
 Royal Charlotte . 
 Prince of Wales . 
 
 Anfon 
 
 Duke ..... 
 Townfend . . . . 
 
 Queen . . . . . 
 
 King 
 
 New Ward . 
 
 Duke of York . . 
 
 21 1 
 82 
 
 437 
 
 L 
 
 o 
 
 E 
 
 T 3 
 
 Mr 
 
 76 
 
 *34 
 
 82 
 
 210 
 
 82 
 
 2 4 
 
 43 
 
 King Charles’s Building 
 King William’s ditto 
 Queen Ann’s ditto 
 Queen Mary’s ditto 
 
 No. of Beds. 
 . 3 °* 
 
 • 55 * 
 
 • 437 
 
 . 1092 
 
 Total 2381 
 
43 
 
 REVENUE. 
 
 His Majefly King William in his fpeech to Parliament 
 November 12th, 1694, faid, (a) “ He would be glad they A.D. 1694., 
 (t would take into their confideration the preparing fome 
 “ bill for the encouragement of feamen ; adding, that they 
 “ could not but be fenfible how much a law of this nature 
 “ would tend to the advancement of trade, and of the 
 u naval ftrength of the kingdom, which was the great in- 
 “ terefl of the public, and ought to be their principal care.” 
 
 His Majefly fhortly afterwards granted 2000/. per annum 1694.-5. 
 
 .. . . ioool. per Ann. 
 
 towards the carrying on, perfecting and endowing Of the granted by 
 Hofpital. And, incited by his gracious fpeech and encou- 
 couraged by his munificent example, many individuals, 
 confifting of the great officers of flate and others chiefly of 
 high rank, contributed alfo towards the profecution of fo 
 laudable an undertaking; as appears by the following copy 
 of the original Subfcription Roll in the poffeffion of the 
 Hofpital, the preamble of which was drawn up by a com- 
 mittee of the Commiffioners (confifling of the undermen- 
 tioned perfons) at a meeting at Guildhall on the 31/1 of 
 May, 1695. 
 
 [a). Journals of the Houfe of Commons. — Vol. nth. p. 171. 
 
 G 2 
 
 T/je 
 
44 - 
 
 RE VENUE.. 
 
 The Attorney General, Sir Thomas Travers < 
 
 The Solicitor General, John Hawles, Efq; 
 
 The Surveyor General, Samuel Travers, Efq;. 
 
 Sir Christopher Wren 
 Sir Robert Clayton 
 Sir Patience Ward 
 Sir John Fleet 
 Sir William Afhurft 
 Sir Humphry Edwin 
 Sir Francis Child 
 Sir William Gore 
 Anthony Bowyer, Efq;- 
 Captain R. Sanderfon 
 Mr. Thomas Fermin. 
 
 ii Whereas the King’s mod excellent Majefty being ear- 
 Sl neftly defirous to promote the Trade Navigation & naval; 
 " Strength of this Kingdom & to invite greater Numbers of 
 ** his Subjects to betake themfelves to the Sea hath deter- 
 u mined to ered & eftablifh an Hofpital for all fuch Englifh 
 “ Seamen & their Children as by Age Wounds or other 
 ** Accidents fhall be disabled from further Service at Sea &c 
 ** for the Widows & Children of fuch as happen to be 
 “ flain in Sea Service; In order whereunto his Majefly, & 
 f 4 our late gracious Sovereign the Queen’s Majefly of bldfed 
 ** Memory did by Letters Patents under the great Seal of 
 if England bearing Date the twenty fifth Day of Odober 
 “ One Thoufand fix hundred ninety four give & grant 
 4t unto feveral Truftees therein named their Heirs and A f- 
 44 figns for ever for the Ufe of the faid intended Hofpital a 
 ** Parcel of Ground in the Parifh. of Eaft Greenwich in 
 
 “ Kent 
 
45 
 
 REVENUE. 
 
 «« Kent with their royal Palace <of Greenwich thereon ereded 
 ** by King Charles the Second and feveral other Edifices 
 “ Buildings and other Things in the faid Grant particularly 
 tt mentioned : And whereas his Majefty by Letters Patents 
 «< bearing Date the 12th Day of March one Thoufand fix 
 ft hundred ninety four * hath nominated confiituted and 
 “ appointed Commiflioners for the better carrying on his 
 i( faid pious Intentions & therein is pleafed to declare that 
 « the prelent Neceffity of his Affairs not permitting him. 
 “ to advance fo confiderable Sums towards the faid Work as 
 « he defires y the Afliftance of his good Subjeds in it will be 
 “ moft highly acceptable to him, and therefore among many 
 « other Powers & Authorities to the faid Commiflioners 
 “ given & granted, his Majefty has authorized and im- 
 i< powered them to take receive and colled all fuch voluntary 
 «< Gifts or Subfcriptions of or for any Sums of Money 
 « Goods or Chattels and of or for any Eftate or Intereft 
 «< in any Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments as 
 *< any Perfon or Perfons fhall be willing to give limit ap- 
 “ point or bellow towards the building or endowing the 
 “ faid Hofpital Hi.s Majefty not doubting but that great 
 « Numbers of his well difpofed Subjeds will chearfully 
 « contribute towards this great and ufeful Defign of pro- 
 st moting Trade and Navigation and encouraging the Sea- 
 men of England who by their Skill & Induftry their 
 <* conftancy and courage in all Engagements & Hazards for 
 “ the Safety & Honor of their Country have from Time to 
 “ Time fignalized themfelves throughout the World We 
 therefore whofe Names are underwritten do each for him- 
 felf fu Sfcribe and give for the Ends and Purpofes aforefaid 
 45 as follows. 
 
 * 1694-5, 
 
 I fubfcribe 
 
R 
 
 E V E N U E. 
 
 
 I fubfcribe £.500 
 
 Tho Cantuar* 
 
 5 °° 
 
 J Somers C S 
 
 5°° 
 
 Leeds P 
 
 500 
 
 Pembrok CPS 
 
 5 00 
 
 Devonshire Ld. Steward of the FLoufhold 
 
 5 00 
 
 Shrewsbury Secretary of State 
 
 200 
 
 Romney Mafer of the Ordnance 
 
 3 00 
 
 Montague Mafer of the Wardrobe 
 
 5 °° 
 
 Dorfet Ld . Chamberlain 
 
 5 °° 
 
 Portland Groom of the Stole 
 
 200 
 
 Monmouth 
 
 200 
 
 Godolphin Privy Counfellor 
 
 100 
 
 Will m Trumbull K c Secretary of State 
 & P. Counfellor . 
 
 I GO 
 
 ~Cha s Montague, Efq Lord of the T rea~ 
 fury & P Counfellor . 
 
 IOO 
 
 J Smith Efq. Lord of the STreafury & 
 Privy Counfellor. 
 
 200 
 
 Fox K 1 Ld. of the Preafury 
 
 IOO 
 
 Ranelagh Paymafer of the Forces 
 
 IOO 
 
 J Trevor K 1 Mafer of the Rolls & p 
 Counfellor. 
 
 IOO 
 
 J Holt L d Chief fufice of En gland & 
 p Counfellor. 
 
 IOO 
 
 J Louther B t L d of the Admiralty & 
 
 
 privy Counfellor. 
 
 IOO 
 
 H Prieftman Efq Lord of the Admiralty 
 
 IOO 
 
 T Lane K f L d Mayor of London. 
 
 IOO 
 
 R Auften Efq L d of the Admiralty 
 
 IOO 
 
 Rob 1 Rich B c L d of the Admiralty 
 
 I fub. 
 
 * 
 
 * Dr. Thomas Tennifon. 
 
R 
 
 N U E. 
 
 47 
 
 I fubfcribe^T. ioo G Rooke K* Admiral of the Red , 1 / 0/* 
 
 Admiralty, 
 
 ioo Jn° Hublon Yd Alderman of London & 
 L d of Admiralty. 
 
 ioo Geo* Treby K* Chief fuf tee of the com : 
 Fleas . 
 
 50 H Goodricke K e Lieu 1 Gen. of Ordnance 
 & p Counfellor. 
 
 100 Patience Ward K f Alderman of London- 
 1 00 W m Afhurf^ K £ Alderman of D° 
 
 50 Tho s RokebyK* Judge of Kings Bench > 
 Marks • 
 
 100 Edw Ward Yd Chief Baron of Exchequer 
 £. o Job Powell K c jWg* 0/ C Pleas 
 50 Sam Eyre K c Judge of Kings Bench 
 W. Gregory K* Baron oj Exchequer 
 t;o John Powell Yd Baron of D° 
 
 40 Littleton Powys K* Baron of D 9 ' 
 ioo R, Onflow B c Privy Counfellor 
 40 N Lechmere K l Baron of the Exchequer 
 1 26 Richard Smith K l Baron of Exchequer > 
 40 . H Hatfell K £ Baron of D° 
 
 50 E d Nevill K c Judge oj' the com Pleas * 
 
 40 Jo Turton Yd Judge of the Kings Bench 
 40 Jo Blencowe K* Judge of the com Pleas 
 40 . H. Gould K l Judge of the K: Bench 
 40 R. Tracey Efq Baron of Court of Ex~- 
 ckequer 
 
 40 Tho. Barry Efq Baron of Exchequer 
 100 Tho. Trevor Yd L d Cheif Jujiiceof com 
 Pleas 
 
 I Tub— 
 
48 
 
 revenue. 
 
 A. D. 1695. 
 7 W. 3d, 
 
 A.’D. 1696. 
 -7 & 8 W.'sd. 
 
 9 
 
 A.D. 1698. 
 10 W. 3d. 
 
 A. D. 1699. 
 jo & u W. 3d, 
 
 I fubfcribe^f. 40 Ro. Price Efq Baron of "Exchequer 
 40 J. Smith Efq Baron of D 9 
 40 Ifaac Loader of Deptford 
 20 Th omas Plume D . D . Vicar of Greenwich 
 
 The fecond Commiffion of King William having patted 
 on the 25th of September, 1695, his Majefty, in his fpeech 
 to Parliament at the opening of the Seffion in November 
 following, faid, (h) “ that he had recommended to the laft 
 “ Parliament the forming fome good Bill for the encou- 
 “ ragement and increafe of Seamen, and that he hoped 
 “ they would not let this Seffion pafs without doing fome- 
 <£ thing in it.” 
 
 In confequence of his Majefty’s Speech, an A 61 of Par- 
 liament (called the Regifter Adt) patted this Seffion, by 
 which it was enadled, that lixpence per man per month ffiould 
 be paid out of the wages of all mariners to the ufe of the 
 Hofpital. And power was therein given to the Lord High 
 Admiral, or Commiffioners for executing that office, to ap- 
 point Commiffioners for receiving the faid duty. 
 
 fcj In 1698 his Majefty was pleafed to give to the Hof- 
 pital one acre, two roods, and twenty-five perches of ground, 
 lying contiguous thereto. 
 
 fdj In 1699, in confequence of an Addrefs from the 
 Houfe of Commons to his Majefty, the Hofpital received a 
 
 (b) Journal of the Houfe of Commons, Vol. nth. p. 339. 
 
 (r) Ditto, Vol. 13th. p. 54. 
 
 .(«♦) Ditto, Vol. 12th. p. 600, 
 
 considerable 
 
REVENUE 
 
 49 
 
 confiderable pecuniary afliftance, his Majefty having been 
 pleafed to give nineteen thoufand five hundred pounds, which 
 were fines laid by the Houfe of Peers on certain merchants. 
 
 fmugglers, as follows ; 
 
 £■ 
 
 John Gaudet - « 
 
 1,500 
 
 David Barrow - 
 
 500 
 
 Stephen Seignoret 
 
 - - 10,000 
 
 Nicholas Santini 
 
 - 1,500 
 
 Peter Diharce 
 
 1000 
 
 John Peirce 
 
 - - 1000 
 
 John Dumaitre - 
 
 - - 1000 
 
 » Baudevin - 
 
 - - 3000 
 
 
 £.19,500 
 
 And the fame year a Lottery was projected for the A. D. i699> 
 benefit of the Hofpital, which produced only fix hundred 1 ' 
 pounds. This Lottery was called the Charitable Adventure 
 ?.hd it was excepted by fpecial claufe out of a Bill for fup- 
 prefling of Lotteries, upon petition (e) of the Truftees, 
 afierting that they had demonfiirated to the Archbilhop of 
 Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor and others, that the Lot* 
 tery would raife 1 0,000/. per ann* for the benefit of the 
 Hofpital. 
 
 By an Ad palled in the 12th and 13th of King William, A. D. 1699. 
 it was declared and enaded, that it was and Ihould be lawful 12 & 13 W ' 
 
 (e) Journals of the Houfe of Commons— -V ol . 12, page 657. 
 
 H for 
 
REVENUE, 
 
 for his Majefty, his heirs and fucceffors to make any further 
 grant of grounds and lands, or edifices, lying near or adjoin- 
 ing to the Hofpital of Greenwich, as he or they fhoukk 
 fee neceffary, and think fit to give for the aforefaid ufe. . - 
 
 a, d. i;oo.. In 1700, the Earl of Pvomney affigned to nine of the 
 CommifiToners* in truft for the?* Elofpital his grant of the 
 Market, (f) with a Court of Piepoudre thereunto belong- 
 ing ; and; in the year following, the ground where the mar- 
 ket is now kept, and the Mews and other Edifices adjoin- 
 ing, were granted by the Crown to the Hofpital in per-- 
 petuity. v 
 
 a . d . 1701-2, (g) In 1 70 1 -2, his Majefty was pleafed to grant to > 
 
 3 * W ‘ 3 ’ J Samuel Travers, Efq. Surveyor General and others,- a ; 
 
 fmall piece of ground lying near the Hofpital, in truft for; 
 the faid Hofpital. 
 
 A. D. 1705. 
 4 A. c. .12. 
 
 In 1705, the Hofpital received a gift from Queen Ann*., 
 of the effects of Kid the Pirate, amounting to fix thoufandk 
 four hundred feventy-two pounds one fliilling. . 
 
 In 1707, Robert Ofbolfton, Efq. by will, devifecl 
 a. d, 1707. a large eftate to be equally divided between the- two chari- 
 -v ties of Greenwich Hofpital; and the Corporation of the 
 Governors of the Bounty of Queen Ann for the augmen- 
 tation of the Maintenance of the poor Clergy,. A‘ 
 moiety of which eftate. (after paying certain legacies and 
 
 (f) This market is to beheld weekly-on Wednefday and Saturday, 
 
 (£) Journals of the Houfe of Commons, Vol. 13. p. 700. 
 
 annuities- 
 
REVENUE. 
 
 annuities) accordingly became the property of the Hofpital, 
 and was valued at £.20,0100. The unexpired term of his 
 Grant of the North and !South Foreland Lighthoufes, was 
 a part of this benefaction : At the expiration of which term, 
 a further Grant of them was made by the Crown to the 
 Hofpital for ninety-nine years. 
 
 In the fame year. Prince George of Denmark, then Lord 
 High Admiral, by his warrant gave a piece of ground in 
 length 660 feet, and in breadth 132, lying on the Eafl 
 fide of Greenwich Park, to be ufed as a Burial-ground for 
 the Hofpital. And, 
 
 Anthony Bowyer, by Will dated November 3d, in the 
 fame year, gave the reverlion of a confiderable Eitate of 
 manors-, lands, and tenements to Greenwich Hofpital, after 
 the Eftate En taille male given to his brother Edmund Bow- 
 yer, Efq. and Sir William Bowyer, of Denham- Court, in 
 the County of Bucks. 
 
 In 1708, by an ACt of Queen Ann, as well as by feveral a.d. 17*1. 
 fubfequent ACts, the forfeited and unclaimed fhares of Prize 
 and Bounty Money have been given to the Hofpital j and by 
 an ACt of the 12th, and another of the 22d of his prefent A D I7?r 
 Majefty, authority is given to the Directors to caufe un- 12 G< 3 ' c,25< 
 claimed fhares to be refunded, in certain cafes therein men- A D l 7 82 - 
 
 22dG.3.c. 15. 
 
 tioned, for a limited time after they fhall have been paid 
 into the Hofpital. 
 
 In 1710, by an ACt of the 9th of Queen Ann, a duty a. d. i 7 ro. 
 
 9 • A c* jtz» S * & 
 
 was laid upon Coals and Culm, which was to be appro- & 5 g.?/' 
 priated to building fifty new Churches, and towards finifhing 
 
 H 2 the 
 
 f 
 
REVENUE, 
 
 S* 
 
 the building of Greenwich Hofpital and the Chapel, for 
 which purpofe f, 6 ooo per Ann . was granted out of the 
 laid duty, which was afterwards continued for a longer- 
 time by 5 Geo. i ft* 
 
 In 1714, the General Court of Commiffioners and Go- 
 vernors having granted an increafe of falary to the Chap- 
 lains of the Hofpital, their wages, with the* value of their 
 provifions and other allowances, as Chaplains of Woolwich- 
 and Deptford Dockyards, were directed to be paid to thr 
 Treafurer in aid of the Hofpital’s Revenues.. 
 
 In 1724, George the ill in his fpeech to Parliament,., 
 fi g'. exp relied himfelf to the Houfe of Commons in the follow- 
 
 ing manner fhj. “ There is one thing that I cannot 
 “ but mention to you as deferving your particular ccmlider- 
 “ ation : It is too manifefl that the funds edablilhed for 
 s< the finiihing the Works of Greenwich Hofpital, and 
 “ providing for a compleat number of Seamen there,, cannot 
 “ in time of peace be fufficient to anfwer the expences of 
 “ this great and neceffary work ; it is therefore very much 
 “ to be wifhed, that fome method could be found out to* 
 “ make a further provifion for a comfortable fupport to our 
 “ Seamen worn out in the fervice of their Country, and; 
 “ labouring under old Age and Infirmities,” 
 
 The Commons in their (?) Addrefs promifed the King “ to* 
 “ give every encouragement to Navigation, and to alfift him 
 A m t “in every thing that Ihould tend to the fecurity and gran- 
 
 11 G. i. 
 
 ( 1 ) Journals of the Houfe of Commons,— Vol. 20, p. 331. 
 
 (i) Ditto, Ditto, p. 335. 
 
 “ deur 
 
5.3 
 
 revenue. 
 
 ** deur of his Majefly and his Kingdoms.” But it does 
 not appear that any further provifion was made, ’till 
 
 In 1728, George the 2d in his fpeech (k) to the Houfe of 
 Commons after his acceflion, told them, “ That he thought 
 « himfelf obliged to recommend to them a Confideration 
 “ of the greateft Importance, and that he fhould look upon a^d. i 7 *j» 
 « it as a great happinefs, if at the beginning of his Reign 
 « he could fee the foundation laid of fo great and neceffary 
 “ a work, as the Increafe and Encouragement of our Sea- 
 “ men in generals that they might be invited, rather than 
 “ compelled by force and violence, to enter into the fervice 
 of their Country, as often as occafion fhould require. A 
 « confideration, he faid, worthy of the Reprefen tatives of a 
 “ People great and flour idling in trade and navigation. He 
 «« then recommended to them the cafe of Greenwich Hof- 
 « pital, that care might be taken, by fome addition to its- 
 « fund, to render comfortable and effectual that charitable 
 «< provifion,, for the fupportand maintenance of our Seamen, 
 
 6( worn out and become decrepit by Age and Infirmities,, in 
 the fervice of their Country.” 
 
 In confequence whereof, the Commons,, before the end of 
 the Seffion, refolved for the greater encouragement of the 
 Sea fervice, that ten thoufand pounds fhould be granted in 
 aid to the funds of the Hofpital, which fum continued to G , 2i ^ 2ti 
 be annually granted for many years afterwards., c - 9> 9 ' 
 
 In the fame year, the Commifii oners and Governors 
 having fettled falaries on the Captains and Lieutenants of 
 
 (yfj Journals of the Houfe of Commons, vol. 21, p. 22. 
 
 the* 
 
the Hofpital, the amount of their half-pay was directed to 
 be paid to the Treafurer, in aid of its Revenues. 
 
 And in that year, and for fome years afterwards, the Hof- 
 pital received a rent of about forty pounds a year, for fupply- 
 ingfeveral of the inhabitants of the Parifh of Greenwich with 
 water. This article of revenue has long fince ceafed, as 
 the Hofpital, on account of the encreafe of men on the 
 Ellablifhment, had occafion for all the water their fprings 
 could fupply. 
 
 In 1730, a final 1 piece of ground on the Eafl fide of 
 the Hofpital, clofe to the river, with a crane Handing 
 thereon, which had been referved by the Crown in the 
 original grant, was given by his Majefly to the Hof- 
 pital. 
 
 In the fame year, Mr. William Clapham of Eltham, 
 by Will dated July 6th, gave to the Hofpital an eflate, 
 confiding of certain wharfs and warehoufes on the Eafl 
 fide of London Bridge, after the death of William Skrine, 
 Efq. and his filler Elizabeth Crane, without iffue. 
 
 ( 1 ) In 1735, his Majefly fent a meffage to the Houfe 
 of Commons “ recommending to them, to make fome pro- 
 “ vifion for perfecting a work of fo much honor to this 
 “ kingdom ; and which had before received frequent marks 
 “ of the regard of that Houfe.” 
 
 Whereupon it was refolved in a Committee, ( m ) that the 
 
 ( l ) Journals of the Houfe of Commons.— Vol. 22, p. 432. 
 
 ( m ) Ditto, Ditto, 458. 
 
 Tents 
 
REV E N U E; 5.5 
 
 rents and profits of the forfeited (n) ti fates of the late Earl 
 of Derwentwater fhould be applied towards fin idling and 
 compleating the Hofpital ; and when that lhould be effected, 
 towards maintaining the Penfioners; and an Ad accord- 
 ingly palfed for that purpofe, and for applying, in like 
 manner, the money which had been received on account 
 of the faid eflates, and then remained in the Exchequer, a . d . 1735— 
 amounting to 7182/. iy, after paying the. intereft. and 
 arrears of the incumbrances then due and to Lord Vif- 
 count Gage 2000/. for his attention and trouble in difcover- 
 ing the fraudulent fale of this eftate, for which he received 
 the thanks of the Houfe o£ Commons, in 1732, 
 
 («). The Rental ofthefe Eftates was at this time about 6000/. per Annum, , 
 encumbered with a mortgage of nearly 29,000 /. and an annuity of 100/. the 
 whole of which incumbrances was difcharged by the Commiflioners in 
 
 J -749* 
 
 By an Adi of Parliament paffed in. the 22d of G.'2d, ,30.000/. was granted a*.G. 2, 
 for the relief of James Bartholomew Radcliffe, and the other children of 
 Charles Radcliffe, who was attainted for the Rebellion in 1715. 
 
 In 1775, the Commiiffoners and Governors of the Hofpital were incor- ^ ^ ^ 
 porated by Charter ; and by an Adi paffed fcon afterwards, all the above 
 mentioned eftates were veiled in the. faid Corporation for ever. . 
 
 In 1788, in conference of a petition from the Earl of Newburg, fon of 
 the above mentioned James Bartholomew Radcliffe, for the reftoration of the a6t!l G ' 3 «- 
 above eftate on certain conditions; an Adi paffed granting to his Lordlbip 
 and his heirs male a rent-charge of 2,500/.- per annum, to be paid by the 
 Treafurer of the Hofpital. 
 
56 
 
 REVENUE. 
 
 In addition to the Public Grants and Donations above* 
 mentioned ; the following is a Lift of Benefactions to the 
 Hofpital, from private Perfons, by Legacies or otherwife. 
 
 
 
 £■ 
 
 s. 
 
 d 0 
 
 Sir Jofiah Child, 
 
 
 3 °o 
 
 00 
 
 0 
 
 Capt. Robert Bitton, 
 
 - 
 
 20 
 
 00 
 
 0 
 
 Brooke Bridges, Efq. 
 
 - 
 
 35 ° 
 
 00 
 
 0 
 
 An unknown Hand in Malt Tickets, 
 
 1,000 
 
 9 
 
 8 
 
 Mrs. Thorold, 
 
 - 
 
 5 ° 
 
 00 
 
 0 
 
 Ralph Thurfby, Efq. 
 
 - 
 
 500 
 
 00 
 
 0 
 
 Thomas Blackmore, Efq. ■» 
 
 - 
 
 100 
 
 00 
 
 0 
 
 John De la Fontaine, Efq. 
 
 
 3 > 3 Sl 
 
 
 0 
 
 Benjamin Overton, Efq. « 
 
 - 
 
 3 °° 
 
 00 
 
 0 
 
 Sir James Bateman, 
 
 - 
 
 io 3 
 
 00 
 
 0 
 
 James Taylor, Efq. 
 
 - 
 
 102 
 
 1 1 
 
 5 
 
 Elizabeth Bridges, - — 
 
 - 
 
 100 
 
 00 
 
 0 
 
 Mr. Evelyn, - 
 
 - 
 
 2,000 
 
 00 
 
 0 
 
 Mr. William Raphe, 
 
 •- 
 
 25O 
 
 00 
 
 0 
 
 Mrs. Waldron of Greenwich, 
 
 
 5 °° 
 
 00 
 
 0 
 
 Mrs. Waters, Widow, 
 
 - 
 
 100 
 
 00 
 
 0 
 
 J. Crofby, Efq. - — 
 
 - 
 
 5 ° 
 
 00 
 
 0 
 
 Admiral Long, - - 
 
 
 100 
 
 00 
 
 0 
 
 Captain Sharman, - -» 
 
 - 
 
 100 
 
 00 
 
 0 
 
 
 
 
 oz . 
 
 dwts . 
 
 Edmund Dummer, Efq. a Monteth and other 
 
 | 102 
 
 : 1 
 
 Plate, containing 
 
 
 
 
 Captain William Sanderfon, Plate, 
 
 
 - 
 
 6 5 
 
 : 1 
 
 Mr. Nicholas Hawkfmore, Plate, 
 
 
 - 
 
 3 1 
 
 : 12 
 
 Mr. William Pate, and Mr. Abel Staney, Plate, 
 
 34 
 
 : *7 
 
 
 
 
 
 Dr. 
 
 i 
 
R E V E N U 
 
 E. 
 
 §7 
 
 Dr. Salifbury Cade, a large Tankard, &c. 
 
 Mr. James Thornhill, Plate, 
 
 Rev. Dr. John Mapletoft, a Communion 
 
 |9 6 : J 4 gilt* 
 
 14 : 4 
 
 Service, - - - - 
 
 Mrs. Clements, widow of Lieut. Governor 
 
 Clements, a Silver Tankard and Salver, 
 Hans Hendrick, a penfioner, a Chalice, 
 
 Captain Wm. Holden, a Silver Cup and! . 
 
 Cover, for the fervice of the Chapel, J 
 
 We fhall conclude this Chapter with giving an account 
 of the refpedtive fources from whence the whole Revenue 
 of the Hofpital is at prefent derived, and alfo the principal 
 articles of its expenditure. 
 
 1 ft. Sixpence per man per month for all feamen and ma- 
 rines belonging to his Majefty’s fhips, including thofe in 
 ordinary. 
 
 2d, Ditto for all feamen employed in the merchants* 
 fervice. 
 
 3d, The duties arifing from the North and South Fore- 
 land Lighthoufes. 
 
 4th, The half-pay of feveral of the officers of the Hof- 
 pital who are entitled thereto. 
 
 REVENUE . 
 
 £ 
 
 5*. 
 
5 $ 
 
 revenue. 
 
 5th, The wages, with the value of provifions and other 
 allowances, of the two Chaplains of Woolwich and Deptford 
 Dock-yards. 
 
 6th,. The rents and profits of the Derwent water eftates, 
 including lead mines. 
 
 7th, The rents of the market at Greenwich, and of the 
 houfes there and in London. 
 
 8th, Interefl of money invefted in the Public Funds. 
 
 9th, Fines for fifhing in the River Thames with unlawful 
 nets, and other offences. 
 
 1 oth, Forfeited and unclaimed fhares of prize and bounty 
 money. 
 
 EXPENDITURE. 
 
 1 ft, Cloathing, Victuals, NecefTaries of all kinds, and 
 weekly allowance of money to the Penfioners and Nurfes $ 
 together with falaries and allowances to the Officers and 
 Clerks, and wages and allowances to cooks, fcullery-men, 
 and other inferior officers and fervants. 
 
 2d, Ordinary works and repairs of the Hofpital, inclu- 
 ding the Infirmary, Boys School, Brewhouie, and other 
 buildings, and falaries to the officers* &c. in that depart- 
 ment. 
 
 3 dl y< 
 
59 
 
 REVENUE. 
 
 "3d, Contingent expences for Directors attendances. Law 
 charges, ftationary and various other ai tides, including the 
 Derwentwater eflate. 
 
 4th, Penfions to Out Penfioners including falaries to 
 clerks, and other expences incident to that fervice. 
 
 The following is a Form by which any Benefaction may be 
 legally bequeathed to the Hofpital. 
 
 J A. B. do hereby give and bequeath unto the CommiJJioners 
 and Governors of the Royal Hofpital jor S e amen at Greenwich 
 in tbe County of Kent, the Sum of to be 
 
 raifed and paid by and out of all my ready Money , Plate , Goods, 
 and perfonal E feels, which by Law I may, or can charge with 
 the Payment of the fame ( and not out of any Part of my Lands, 
 Tenements, or Hereditaments J upon Truft, and to the Intent 
 that they do apply the fame towards carrying on the charitable 
 defgns of the faid Hof pit aL 
 
 1 2 
 
 C O N- 
 
&9 
 
 CONSTITUTION. 
 
 A.D. 1703* ^ By Queen Ann’s Commiffion (a) dated 21ft day of July, 
 
 JolTa General I 7 ° 3 > f even Commiffioners were to compofe a General 
 Court * Court, whereof the Lord High Admiral, the Lord High 
 Treafurer, or any two Privy Counfellors were to be a 
 Quorum. 
 
 The Commiffioners were required and commanded to hold 
 General Courts quarterly General Courts, which General Courts might alfo 
 
 to be held! # 
 
 quarterly. be called at any time, by order or the Lord High Admiral, 
 officers to be They were alfo empowered and directed to recommend to the 
 
 recommended ■' . 
 
 by the General Lord High Admiral all Officers neceffary to be employed in 
 the Hofpital; and his Lordfhip was empowered to appoint 
 all fuch officers accordingly, except the- Governor and 
 Treafurer. 
 
 (a) This Commiffion was opened, and read at Windfor Caffcle Augufl: i ], 
 3703. Present, 
 
 His Royal Highnefs Prince George of Denmark, Lord High Admiral, 
 
 The Archbilhop of Canterbury. 
 
 Sir Nathan Wright, Knt. Lord Keeper. 
 
 Earl of Godolphin, Lord High Treafurer. 
 
 Thomas Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, Lord Prefident. 
 
 John Duke of Buckingham, Lord Privy Seal. 
 
 Earl of Nottingham Sir Thomas Littleton 
 
 Lord Granville Mr. Draper 
 
 Sir George Rooke Sir Chriftopher Wren 
 
 1 
 
 A {landing 
 
CONSTITUTION. 
 
 6 1 
 
 A Handing (b) Committee, ftyled the Directors of the 
 Hofpital, confifting of twenty-five perfons, were firft ap- Twenty-five ds. 
 
 ■* ° redtors appointed 
 
 pointed by this Commiflion, who were commanded to 
 meet once a fortnight at leaft, or oftener if necefiary, for 
 the affairs of the Hofpital. They were made accountable 
 for their proceedings to the quarterly General Courts ; and 
 in confideration of their trouble and attendance, fuch as 
 thought proper to demand it were to receive twenty {hillings 
 each out of the Hofpital’s revenue for every actual attend- 
 ance. 
 
 By this Commiflion, either the Lord High Admiral, or LorJHIghAd . 
 General Court, when aflembled, were empowered to fill upciurt°to°i n up l 
 vacancies in the Board of Directors. duS* 8 . 0 * ' 
 
 It was likewife ordered that the government of the Hof- 
 pital fhould be performed by the Governor, and fuch a Government of 
 Council of the officers, as the Lord High Admiral ffiould vernor and 
 
 r . . Council. 
 
 from time to time appoint. 
 
 ( b ) Names of the firft Directors: Charles Bertie, Efq; Sir Stephen Fox, 
 
 Sir Henry Shore, Sir Chriftopher Wren, Sir Jonathan Andrews, Sir Mat. 
 
 Andrews, Sir John Morden, Sir Thomas Grantham, Sir Francis Child, Sir 
 James Bateman, William Bridges, Efq; Thomas Coulfon, Efq; James 
 Craggs, Efq; Charles Godolphin, Efq; William Hewer, Efq; Robert Raworth, 
 
 Efq; John Evelyn, Efq; William Draper, Efq; Edmund Dummer, Efq; 
 
 John Vanburgh, Efq; Salifbury Cade, John Mapletoft, John Clements, 
 
 William Sanderfon, Efq; John Brum well, Efq; 
 
 Copy 
 
CONSTITUTION. 
 
 Councilap- 
 
 joiated. 
 
 Copy of the fir ft Warrant appointing a Council. 
 
 His Royal Highnefs Prince George of Denmark, & c. Lord 
 High Admiral of England, Ireland, &c. 
 
 To the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Captain, three 
 
 Lieutenants, Chaplains, Steward, and Surgeon, of her 
 
 Majefty’s Royal Hofpital at Greenwich. 
 
 « WHEREAS I think it fitting that fome perfons 
 “ Should be appointed to adt as Council for the better ma- 
 “ nagement of her Majefiy’s Royal Hofpital at Greenwich, 
 “ and repofing efpecial truft and confidence in the ability, 
 “ prudence, and circumfpedtion of you the faid Governor, 
 “ Lieutenant Governor, Captain, three Lieutenants, Chap- 
 “ lains, Phyfician, Steward and Surgeon ; I do therefore 
 « hereby diredt and require you, or any three or more of 
 (i you, of which the Governor, Lieutenant Goveinoi, or 
 “ Captain, to be always one; to hold confultations, as often 
 « as need Shall be, and you Shall think proper for the good 
 ** government of the aforefaid Hofpital; and to caufie to be 
 t( executed the orders and punishments prefcribed foi iuch 
 tc perfons as Shall be any ways disorderly therein ; and to 
 (< repreSent to me, as you Shall fee occafion, if any matter 
 <* offer for my further diredtions therein. 
 
 “ Given under my hand the 12 th of July, i7°5* 
 
 “ GEORGEP 
 
 ** By Command of his Royal Highnefs, 
 
 “ G. Clarke.’’ 
 
 Several 
 
CONSTITUTION. 
 
 Several other Warrants of the fame nature have fince 
 that time been granted by the Admiralty, as the increafe of 
 Officers, or other circumrtances have made it necefiary. 
 The prefent Council, appointed n March, 1774, confifts 
 of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, four Captains, 
 eight Lieutenants, two Chaplains, Phyfician, Secretary, 
 Auditor and Steward. 
 
 The Council is held regularly every Friday, afid oftener 
 if occafion requires ; when Delinquents are punifhed either 
 by muldt, wearing a yellow coat as a badge of difgiace, 
 fufpenfion, or expulfion, conformable to the Bye-laws for 
 the internal government of the Llolpital. 
 
 The powers with which the Commiffioners and Gover- 
 nors, Directors, and Council, are inverted, are fet forth in 
 the Charter , by which the Commiffioners and Governors 
 were incorporated, and of which the following is a Copy, 
 viz. 
 
 CHAR- 
 
CONSTITUTION. 
 
 Recital of Let- 
 ters Patent of 
 William and 
 Mary. 
 
 Recital of for- 
 mer Corn- 
 millions. 
 
 Powers in fuch 
 
 Commiffians 
 
 incompetent. 
 
 CHARTER. 
 
 George the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great 
 Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, 
 and fo forth. To all to whom thefe prefen ts fhall come, 
 greeting. WHEREAS their late Majefties King William 
 and Queen Mary did, by their Letters Patent, under the 
 Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the twenty fifth 
 day of OCtcber in the year of our Lord one thoufand fix 
 hundred and ninety- five, give and grant, to certain perfons 
 therein named, a certain piece of ground and a capital mef- 
 fuage within the parifh of Eaft Greenwich in the county of 
 Kent; together with certain edifices, buildings, and other 
 things in the faid Letters Patent mentioned ; to the intent 
 that the fame fhould be converted and employed unto and 
 for the ufe and fervice of an Hofpital for the relief of Sea- 
 men, their Widows, and Children; and an encouragement 
 of Navigation, as therein mentioned. AND WHEREAS 
 their late Majefties Queen Ann, King George the Firft, and 
 King George the Second, did grant to feveral perfons certain 
 Commiffions enabling them to ereCt and build an Hofpital 
 at Eaft Greenwich aforefaid for the purpofes aforefaid, and 
 alfo granted feveral powers for the management thereof ; 
 BUT forafmuch as it hath been found that fuch powers have 
 not been competent for the collecting, receiving, and apply- 
 ing the revenues, rents, profits, and emoluments given, ap- 
 propriated, and belonging, or which may hereafter be given, 
 appropriated or belong, to or to the ufe of the faid Hofpital, 
 
 and 
 
«s 
 
 CONSTITUTION. 
 
 and have alfo been found inefficient for other neceffary and 
 beneficial purpofes, whereby great inconveniencies and Ioffes 
 have happened to the faid Hofpital : To the end, therefore, 
 that fo good and neceffary a defign, undertaking, and work 
 may be rendered effectual, and carried into better execution, 
 for the encouragement of Navigation and benefit of the 
 Realm, KNOW YE, that We, of Our efpecial grace, cer- 
 tain knowledge, and mere motion, have willed, ordained, 
 conflituted, appointed, and eftablifhed, and, by thefe pre- 
 fents, for Us, Our heirs, and fucceffors, do will, ordain, 
 conflitute, appoint, and eflablifh, that Our mo fl dear brother 
 William Henry Duke of Gloucefler, Our moft dear brother commiffione« 
 Henry F rederick Duke of Cumberland, the Archbifhop of and Govemorc * 
 Canterbury now and for the time being, Our Chancellor of 
 Great Britain now and for the time being or Our Keeper of 
 our Great Seal for the Time being, the Archbifhop of York 
 now and for the time being, Our Prefident of our Privy 
 Council now and for the time being, Our Keeper of our 
 Privy Seal now and for the time being. Our Steward of our 
 Houfehold now and for the time being. Our Chamberlain 
 of our Houfehold now and for the time being, the Lords 
 and others of our Privy Council now and for the time being. 
 
 Our right trufly and right entirely beloved coufin and coun- 
 cilor Peregrine Duke of Ancafler and Keflevan Great Cham- 
 berlain of England and the Great Chamberlain of England 
 for the time being. Our right trufly and right well beloved 
 coufin and councilor Henry Earl of Suffolk and Berkfhire, 
 and Thomas Lord Vifcount Weymouth, and the right ho- 
 nourable Lord George Sackville Germain, Our Principal 
 Secretaries of State, and our Principal Secretaries of State 
 &r the time being, the Warden of our Cinque Ports now 
 
 K and 
 
66 
 
 CONSTITUTION. 
 
 and for the time being. Our Treafurerof our Houfehold now 
 and for the time being, Our Treafurer of our Navy now and 
 for the time being. Our Mailer General of our Ordnance 
 now and for the time being. Our Lieutenant General of our 
 Ordnance now and for the time being, the Speaker of the 
 Houfe of Commons now and for the time being. Our Chan- 
 cellor of our Exchequer now and for the time being, Our 
 Secretary at War now and for the time being. Our Mailer 
 of our Rolls now and for the time being. Our Commiffion- 
 ers for executing the office of High Admiral of Great Bri- 
 tain and Ireland now being, and our High Admiral or our 
 Commiffioners for executing the Office of High Admiral of 
 Great Britain and Ireland for the time being. Our Com- 
 miffioners of our Treafury now being, and Our High Trea- 
 furer or Commiffioners of our Treafury for the Time being. 
 Our Chief JuRice of our court of King’s Bench now and for 
 the time being. Our Chief Baron of our Court of Exche- 
 quer now and for the time being, Our Chief JuRice of our 
 Court of Common Pleas now and for the time being, Our 
 JuRices of our Court of King’s Bench now and for the time 
 being. Our Barons of our Court of Exchequer now and for 
 the time being. Our JuRices of our Court of Common Pleas 
 now and for the time being. Our Attorney and Sollicitor 
 General now and for the time being. Our Judge of our 
 Eligh Court of Admiralty now and for the time being, Our 
 Advocate of our High Court of Admiralty now and for the 
 time being. Our Secretary to our Commiffioners for exe- 
 cuting the office of our High Admiral of Great Britain and 
 Ireland now being, and our Secretary or Secretaries to our 
 High Admiral, or our Commiffioners for executing the 
 office of our High Admiral for the time being, Our Secre- 
 x , taries 
 
constitution. 
 
 67 
 
 taries to our Commiffioners of our Treafury now being, and 
 O ur Secretaries to our High Treafurer or Commiffioners of 
 our Treafury for the time being, the Flag Officers of our 
 Navy now and for the time being, Our Commiffioners of 
 our Navy now and for the time being, the Mafter and the 
 five fenior of the Elder Brethren of Trinity Houfe at Dept- 
 ford-ftrond now and for the time being, the Mayor and the 
 three fenior Aldermen of our City of London now and for 
 the time being, Our Governor, Deputy Governor, Treafurer 
 and Receiver General, Auditor, and other Directors of our 
 Royal Hofpital at Greenwich now and for the time being, 
 and the Surveyor- General of our Works now and for the ^ n e e cl b a 0 r jy p° ol V c 
 time being, ffialLfor ever hereafter be, by virtue of thefe and cor P oiate * 
 prefents, one body politic and corporate, in deed and in 
 name, by the name of The COMMISSIONERS AND Nam! - 
 GOVERNORS of the ROYAL HOSPITAL for SEA- 
 MEN at GREENWICH in the COUNTY of KENT; 
 and ffiall be Governors of the goods, revenues, rents, lands, 
 tenements, and hereditaments already given, granted, appro- 
 priated, or belonging, or which ffiall hereafter be given, 
 granted, appropriated, or belonging unto the faid Hofpital. 
 
 AND We do, by thefe prefents, for Us, Our heirs, and To have P e rpe - 
 fucceffors, declare and eftabliffi, that, by the fame name, SS* * "common 
 they and their fucceffors ffiall have perpetual fucceffion and* 1 * 1 ’ 
 a common feal for the ufe of the bufinefs and affairs of them 
 and their fucceffors, with full power to break, alter, *md Tr^and’mle 
 make new, their feal, from time to time, as to them ffiall MW theirfeal * 
 feem expedient ; and, by the fame name, they and their 
 fucceffors, from time to time, and at all times for ever 
 hereafter, ffiall be a body politic and corporate in deed and 
 in law, and be able and capable to have, take, purehafe, 
 
 K 2 acquire. 
 
6 % 
 
 Power to pur- 
 chafe eftates, &c. 
 
 and goods, con- 
 tributions, &£. 
 
 Power to fell, 
 demife, and ex- 
 change fiid 
 ellates, &c. 
 
 Commiflioners 
 and Governors 
 may fue and be 
 faed. 
 
 CON S T I T U T I O' m 
 
 acquire, receive, hold, keep,- poffefs, enjoy, and retain.. 
 AND /We do hereby,., for Us, our heirs and fucceffors, give 
 and grant full authority and free licence to them and their' 
 fucceffors by the name aforefaid,. notwithffanding any.ffa- 
 tute or ffatutes of mortmain, to have, take, purchafe, ac^ 
 quire, receive, hold, keep, poffefs, enjoy, . and retain, to and 1 , 
 for the ufe of. the faid Hofpital, all or any manors, meffuages, 
 lands, rents, tenements, liberties,, privileges* franch'ifes, 
 hereditaments, and poffeffions whatfoever, and of what' 
 kind,, nature, or quality whatfoever ; and moreover to take, 
 purchafe, acquire,, have, hold, enjoy, receive, poffefs, and- 
 retain., notwithffanding any fuch ff atute or ff atutes to the' 
 contrary, all. or any. goods, , chattels, charitable and other 
 contributions, gifts,, and, benefactions whatfoever; and alfo. 
 to fell, grant, demife, exchange, alien, or difpofe of the 
 fame manors, meffuages, lands, ^ ...rents, tenements, liberties^ 
 privileges, franchifes, hereditaments and poffeffions, goods, 
 chattels, contributions, gifts, and benefactions, or any of 
 them; and that,, by the fame name, they fhall and may be 
 «fble to fue and be fued, implead and be iinpleaded, aii-fwer 
 and be anfwered unto, in all or any court or courts of record* 
 and places of judicature within this kingdom, in all and 
 fingular pleas, actions, fuits, caufes, matters, and demands 
 whatfoever, of what kind, nature, or fort foever, in as large, 
 ample,, and beneficial manner and form as any other body 
 poljtic and corporate, or any other our liege fubjeCts, being 
 perfons able, and capable in law, may or can have, take* 
 purchafe, acquire, receive, hold, keep, poffefs, enjoy, retain, 
 ff^> grant, demife, exchange, alien, difpofe, fue, implead, 
 or anfwer, or to be fued, impleaded, and anfwered unto in 
 any manner whatfoever ; and fhall and may do and execute 
 
 all 
 
fig 
 
 CONSTITUTION. 
 
 all and lingular, other ma tters or things, by the name afbre- 
 faid, as to them Ih ill or may appertain to do by virtue of 
 thefe prefents or otherwiie. AND, to the end Our royal 
 purpofe and intention herein may the better take effed, Our 
 will and pleafure is, and We hereby dired, order, and .ap- 
 point, that the members of the faid Corporation, or fo many 
 of them as conveniently can, lhall, from time to ■ time, 
 meet, together at fome convenient place, and they, or any 
 feven or more. of them, lhall, and are hereby appointed to, 
 he a General Court, whereof Our High Admiral, for the tthoucMwi 
 time being, or any three of the Commiffioners for execut- 
 ing the Office of High Admiral, now- and for: the time.being, 
 
 Our High Treafurer for the time being, or any three Com- 
 miffioners of our T.reafury now and for the time being, or 
 any three or more of the Lords of Our Privy. Council, 
 herein before appointed Commiffioners and Governors, lhall 
 be a Quorum. And We do alfo by thefe prefents give and 
 grant unto the. faid. Corporation, or any feven or more of 
 them (whereof Our High Admiral for the time, being, or 
 Our Commiffioners for executing the office of High AdmL 
 ral* now and for the time being. Our High Treafurer for 
 the time being, or our Commiffioners of our Treafury now 
 and for the time being, the Lords of Our Privy Council, s 
 or any three or more of them, lhall be part) full power 
 and authority to proceed to finiffi the building of the faid 
 Hofpital, according to the fcheme and model already be- 
 gun, or that lhall hereafter be thought fitting to be carried Toftate^ac- 
 on • and alfo to date the accounts for works of the faid Hoi- payment,, and 
 pital now and . hereafter to be in hand ; to make payment, ^ oftheHof - 
 from time to time, of the fame, and to dired, manage, 
 tranfad, condud, and perfed all the bufinefs, affairs and 
 
 effeds, , 
 
70 
 
 CO N s T r T U T I o N. 
 
 effects, matters and things whatsoever relating to the build- 
 ing, carrying on, and finifhing the faid Hofpital, and the 
 
 Mo provide for , . r , , _ 1 
 
 feamen, either ren ts and revenues thereof ; and alio to provide for fuch Sea- 
 
 in or out of the j r i • 1 . d cl *“ 
 
 Hofpitai, their men, and fuch widows, and Ions of Seamen, bv oenfinnQ r»f 
 
 widows and Tons. ~ . _ , 7 J r Ui 
 
 provmons nTuing from the faid Hofpital, either in or out of 
 the faid Hofpital, in fuch manner and numbers, and under 
 fuch extent and limitations, as fhall be thought neceffary 
 c^nu expedient and mod conducive to the encouragement of 
 
 7„";-' sfeameni and alfo t0 exetute !ejfes for years, and make fuch 
 jaws, &c. bye-laws, rules, orders, and diredions for the better go- 
 
 vernment of the faid corporation, as they, or the major 
 part of them fo atfembled, fhall, from time to time, think 
 proper; which bye-laws, rules, orders, and direftions, not 
 being repugnant to the laws or ftatutes of this Our realm, 
 lhall be effectually obferved, performed, and kept. PRO- 
 & tobs ViDED neverthelels, and Our will is, that no fuch bye- 
 binding till con- laws, rules, orders, or directions, fo to be made, lhall be 
 w-d. binding, until the fame (hall have been confirmed by fome 
 Succeeding General Court; and that the fame method (hall 
 pealing fame, be, from time to time, obferved in the altering or repealing 
 any fuch bye-laws, rules, orders, and directions, after they 
 fhall have been fo confirmed. AND Our further will and 
 pleafure is, and We do hereby require the members of the 
 faid Corporation, or any feven or more of them (whereof 
 Our High Admiral for the time being, or our Commiffion- 
 ers for executing the office of High Admiral now and for 
 the time being, Our High Treasurer for the time being, or 
 our Commiffioners of our Treafury now and for the time 
 being, the Lords of Our Privy Council, or any three or 
 more of them, fhall be part) aforefaid, to meet and hold a 
 
 Ceneral Court 0 . 1 O . . , 
 
 to be held twice vj€nei at L.ourt twice in the year, or oftner (if our High 
 
 a year or oftr.er. ' ° 
 
 Admiral 
 
7i 
 
 CONSTITUTION. 
 
 Admiral for the time being, or our Commiffioners for exe- 
 cuting the office of High Admiral now and for the time 
 being, ftiall find it necefiary) to confult concerning the bufi- 
 nefs and affairs of 'the laid Hofpital, and the conduct and 
 management thereof; and that the Governor or Deputy- puty-Governor, 
 Governor, Treafurer and Receiver— General, and Auditor of Auditor to amn 
 the faid Hofpital, now and for the time being, do affift at at allMcetin -> 
 all General Courts and Meetings of the Directors of the 
 faid Hofpital hereafter mentioned. AND We do hereby 
 authorize and empower Our High Admiral for the time 
 being, or our Commiffioners for executing the Office 
 High Admiral now and for the time being, to appoint all 
 officers necefiary to be employed in and for the faid Hofpital j point others, 
 except the Governor, and Treafurer and Receiver General 
 thereof ; and to difplace, move, or fufpend any fuch officer 
 or officers for his or their mifbehaviour, and to -appoint any 
 other officer or officers in the room of him or them fo dis- 
 placed or removed. PROVIDED that all officers, to be 
 employed in the faid Hofpital, be Seafaring men, or fuch All officers of 
 
 * J . . the Hofpital to 
 
 who have loft their limbs, or been otherwife difabled, in befeafaring men, 
 
 the fea-fer vice. AND for that many of the members of 
 
 the faid corporation cannot conveniently meet, in order to 
 
 carry Our royal intentions in the premifes into execution, 
 
 and by reafon thereof many delays and inconveniencies may 
 
 enfue. We have thought fit, and do, by thefe prefents, 
 
 declare and appoint, that the Governor, Deputy- Governor, 
 
 Treafurer and Receiver- General, and Auditor of the faid Dire&ors of the • 
 Hofpital, now and for the time being, together with Sir H ° fpltal ‘ 
 
 John Major , Baronet, Timothy Brett , Efquire, Sir Merrik 
 Burrell , Baronet, Zachary Philip Fonnereau , Robert Petty 
 James Stuart , Efquires, Sir Piercy Brett , Knight, John 
 
 • ‘ C lev land, 
 
7-2 
 
 constitution. 
 
 Clevland, Peregrine Cuft s John Tauzia Savary, Thomas 
 Hicks , Efquires, Sir Peter Denis , Baronet, John Barker '» 
 George Marjl: , William Wells , William James, Efquires, 
 Cooke, Clerk, and Campbell, Thomas Palgrave, and 
 
 Joah Bates , Efquires, who are the prefent Directors of the 
 faid Royal Hofpital, ffiall be a landing Committee, and be 
 fliled the Dire&ors of the faid Hofpital. AND We do 
 hereby give full power and authority, and require and com- 
 mand the Directors of the faid Hofpital now and for the 
 2rt“ght°o n r Cea time or an y ^ ve or more of them, to meet once in 
 
 every fortnight at leald, or oftner if occafion fhould require, 
 to confult concerning the affairs of the faid Hofpital, and 
 Ho^ka? of£ t ^ iat t ^ e Secretary of the faid Hofpital, or his fufficient 
 Snd U them° at ' Deputy, do attend at fuch Meetings. AND Our will and 
 pleafure is, and We do hereby require and command the 
 Diredtors of the faid Hofpital, that at all fuch Meetings 
 fare STarr^on* 'they do take efpecial care of the carrying on the building of 
 the building. f a ffi Hofpital, purfuant to the model already begun, 
 
 or that fhall hereafter be thought fitting to be carried on, 
 and hate the account for works of the faid Hofpital. now 
 
 Toftatetheac- i r * 
 
 counts and make and hereafter to he in hand, make contracts for provifions 
 
 contracts. ^ r 
 
 and all neceffaries for the faid Hofpital, and put and place 
 out the fens of teamen, to be, from time to time, educated 
 To place out the the faid Hofpital, as apprentices, for any term not exceed- 
 fke S Vn« P «- n ing feven years, and do all other matters and things whatfo- 
 ceedmg 7 years. eyer relating thereto. AND We hereby give to the faid 
 
 Directors, or fuch five , or more of them, fo affenibled, all 
 General powers. nece ff ar y an fl fufficient powers for the purpofes aforefaid. 
 
 Dkeaor S n ?b°e f PROVIDED always, that all proceedings whatfoever, 
 iemi b com t Ge ' rating to the management of the affairs of the faid Hof- 
 pital, be laid before the General Court, to be held as herein 
 
 before 
 
7 J 
 
 CONSTITUTION, 
 
 before mentioned, and the fame are to be at all times fubjed 
 to their controul, to whom We do, by thefe prefents, give and fub j edt to 
 full power and authority to controul accordingly. AND 
 We do hereby order and dired, that the fum of ten (hillings 
 a man be paid to fuch of the Directors of the faid Hofpital, Directors (r..ch 
 as think reafonable to demand it, out of the revenues of the to be paid tea 
 faid Hofpital, by the hands of the Treafurer and Receiver for ever) 1 attend - 
 General thereof for the time being, for every adual attend- 
 ance at every Board of Directors, and every General Court, 
 fo holden as aforefaid. AND Our further will and pleafure 
 is, and We do hereby give full power and authority to Our 
 High Admiral for the time being, or our Commiffioners for 
 executing the office of High Admiral now and for the time Admiralty, or 
 being, or the members of the faid Corporation aflcmbled may Sup th? 
 in a General Court, to fill up the numbers of Directors to r“£. r °* Dl " 
 twenty-four, including the Governor, Deputy-Governor, 
 
 Treafurer and Receiver- General, and Auditor of the faid 
 Hofpital, upon every vaca ncy by death, refignation, or refu- 
 fal to a d, and to nominate fuch perfons as Our High Ad- 
 miral for the time being, or our Commiffioners for executing 
 the office of our High Admiral now and for the time be- 
 'ing, (hall think fit to be Directors in the room of fuch 
 perfon or perfons fo dying, refigning, or refufing to ad', as 
 aforefaid. AND Our further will and pleafure is, and We Governor, or any 
 do hereby exprefsly forbid the Governor, or any other Offi- the Direaors, 
 cers of the faid Hofpital, (other than the Diredors afore- contracts, See. 
 faid, or fuch as they (hall appoint) to be concerned in pur- 
 chafing or making any agreement for provifions, or any 
 other neceflaries, for the faid Hofpital; or to have any other 
 powers, except the well government' of the Houfe, and 
 even that (hall be performed by the Governor and fuch a Governor 
 
 L Council 
 
74 
 
 CONSTITUTION. 
 
 Council of the Officers of the faid Hofpital, as our High 
 Admiral for the time being, or our Commifiioners for execu- 
 ting the office of our High Admiral now and for the time 
 being, (hall from time to time appoint. AND we do hereby 
 JatTor ^ubTrip- authorize and empower the faid Corporation to take and 
 tions * receive from fuch of Our good fubjed'S as (hall he difpofed 
 
 to contribute towards ereding and endowing of the faid Hof- 
 pital, all fuch voluntary gifts or fubfcriptions of or for any 
 fum or fums of money, goods, or chattels, or of or for any 
 eftate or intereft in any manors, lands, tenements, rents, he- 
 reditaments, or other matters or things whatfoever, which 
 any perfon or perfons, bodies politic and corporate, fhall be 
 willing to give, limit, appoint, or beftow, for or towards the 
 building, finishing, or endowing the Hofpital aforefaid, and 
 for caufing to be colleded and received whatever fhall be gi- 
 ven, contributed, defigned, or appointed for that life, by the 
 hands of the Treafurer and Receiver General of the faid Hof- 
 Jvf f ac“uUun- for the time being. AND Our further will and pleafure is, 
 t-ta that the Treafurer and Receiver General now and for. the 
 
 time being fhall have full power and authority, from time to 
 time, upon the receipt or receipts of any fum or fums of mo- 
 ney, or other profits for the purpofes aforefaid,. or any of them, , 
 to give an acquittance or acquittances for the fame, which 
 fhall be good and fufficient difcharges to all intents and pur- 
 pofes whatfoever; and that the accounts of the Treafurer and 
 Treafurcr’s a c- Receiver-General of the faid Hofpital now and for the time 
 
 counts to be al- _ ( .. 
 
 lowed in the fame pgi no- fhall be examined, audited, adjufted, fubfcnbed, andal- 
 tofore, orin fuch lowed, in fuch and in the fame manner as the accounts of 
 
 other as Gene- 7 
 
 r rL‘?° urt ^the prefent Treafurer and Receiver-General of the faid 
 Hofpital, and his predeceffors, have been heretofore exa- 
 mined, audited, adjufted, fubfcribed, and allowed, or in 
 
 fuch 
 
CONSTITUTION. 
 
 75 
 
 fuch other manner as may, from time to time, be directed 
 by the members of the faid Corporation in General Court 
 affembled. PROVIDED always, and Our pleafure is, T reafurer may 
 that the T reafurer and Receiver-General of the faid Hof- hands a yearly 
 pital now and for the Time being, fh.aH and may retain and** 1 * 
 keep out of the moneys that lhall from time to time come 
 to or lie in his hands, as fuch T reafurer and Receiver Ge- 
 neral, the yearly falary or allowance of two hundred pounds 
 of lawful money of Great Britain, to be paid and retained and th e f ^e to 
 quarterly, at the four moft ufual feafts in the year, by even accouacs - 
 and equal portions, and to be, from time to time, allowed 
 in his accounts. AND We do hereby fully authorize and 
 empower the faid Corporation, at a General Court to be General court 
 held as aforefaid, from time to time, to appoint and chufe or more receiver 
 one or more fit perfon or perfons to be a collector or collec- 
 tors, receiver or receivers, of the rents, revenues, contribu- 
 tions, or other profits and emoluments given or belonging 
 unto, or that fliall at any time hereafter be given or belong- and may revoke 
 
 • appoint- 
 
 ing unto, the faid Hofpital, and to revoke and make void >^nts. 
 
 fuch appointments as often as they may fee caufe fo to do. Treafurer, and 
 AND Our will and pleafure is, that the T reafurer and Re- entrufted with 
 ceiver General of the faid Hofpital for the time being* and Srity. ° sue 
 all and every other officer and officers, collectors, receivers, 
 or agents whatfoerer, appointed or created, or hereafter to 
 be appointed or created, by Us, Our heirs, and fucceffors, 
 or appointed or to be appointed by the Lrod High Admiral, 
 or Commiffioners for executing the office of Lord High 
 Admiral as aforefaid, for the receipt or collection of the 
 rents, revenues, contributions, or other profits and emolu- 
 ments. as aforefaid, or any part thereof, or fliall be trufled 
 with the expenditure of any money for the ufe of the faid 
 
 L 2 Hofpital 
 
7 6 
 
 All former corn- 
 millions (repug.- 
 ii ant to this 
 Charter) void. 
 
 Charter, or the 
 inrollment valid 
 and effectual, &c« 
 
 io be fealed with- 
 cut line. &c. 
 
 Promife of fur- 
 ther powers. 
 
 CONSTITUTION. 
 
 Hofpital, fhall, within fuch time and times, as fhall be li- 
 mited by the laid Corporation, give and execute fuch fecurity 
 for the duly accounting for and paying all money that fhall 
 come to their or either of their hands refpeftively, on ac- 
 count for, or for the ufe of, or belonging to, the faid Hof- 
 pital, as fhall be thought fit and reafonable by the faid 
 Corporation, in General Court affembled, having regard 
 to the amount of the fum or fums of money that fhall be 
 ufually and commonly in their or either of their hands re- 
 fpeftively. AND We do, for Us, Our heirs, and fucceffors, 
 as much as in Us lies, determine, make void, revoke, annul 
 all and all manner of commiffions, charters, powers, and 
 authorities, at any time heretofore given or granted by Us 
 or any of Our progenitors, which any wife or in any kind 
 are inconfiftent with or repugnant to the grant, privileges, 
 poweis, or authorities hereby given or granted, or intended 
 to be given or granted, to the faid Corporation. AND We 
 do alfo, for Us, Our heirs and fucceffors, grant and declare 
 that thefe Our letters patent, or the inrollments or exem- 
 plifications thereof, fhall be, in and by all things, good, 
 fii m, valid, and effectual in the law, according to the true 
 intent .and meaning of the fame, and fhall be taken, con- 
 ftrued, and adjudged, in all Our courts or elfewhere, in the 
 moft favourable and beneficial fen fe, and for the beff advan- 
 tage of the faid Corporation, any non-recital, mif- recital, 
 omiffion, defeeff, imperfe&ion, matter, or thing whatfoever 
 notwithftanding. And that thefe prefents fhall be, in due 
 manner, made and fealed with the feal of Great Britain, 
 without fine or fee, great or fmall, to Us, in Our Hanape^ 
 or elfewhere, to Our ufe any ways to be rendered, paid* or 
 made. AND laffly, We hereby promife and declare, for 
 
 Us, 
 
CONSTITUTION. 
 
 77 
 
 Us, Our heirs and fucceifors, that We and They ihall and 
 will, at all times hereafter, give and grant to the faid Cor- 
 poration and their fucceifors, fuch other reafonable powers 
 and authorities as may be neceifiary for the better execution 
 of the premifes. IN WITNESS whereof We have caufed 
 thefe Our letters to be made patent. WITNESS Ourfelf 
 at Weilminiler, the fixth day of December, in the fixteenth 
 year of Our reign. 
 
 By Writ of Privy Seal, 
 
 W I L M O T. 
 
 N. B. By an Adi of the 16 Geo. 3. c. 24. all the eftates 
 held in truft for the benefit of the Hofpital, were veiled in 
 the Commiflioners and Governors incorporated by this 
 Charter, 
 
 ESTAB- 
 
ESTABLISHMENT. 
 
 7 $ 
 
 A. D. 1696. 
 f :i; 6c 8th W. 
 
 c. 2 1. 
 
 -Admiflions re- 
 gulated by the 
 Regifter Aft. 
 A. D. 1698. 
 
 8 & 9 W. c.23, 
 
 *Y the Regifter Ad of the 7th and 8 th of King William 
 the Third, it was direded that thofe Seamen who were 
 duly regiftered, and who by age, wounds, and other acci- 
 dents, were difabled for further fervice at fea, and could 
 not provide for themfelves, fhould, upon certificate thereof, 
 from the Captain, Mailer, &c. under his or their hands and 
 feal, unto the Governor of the Hofpital, be admitted into 
 the fame ; and that the Widows and Children of fuch as 
 fhould be flain, killed or drowned in the fervice, fhould 
 be received into the Hofpital; and that the faid Children 
 fhould be educated at the charges of the faid Hofpital, till 
 they were fit to be put out, or of ability to maintain them- 
 felves. And in the 9th of William the Third it was 
 enabled, that the preference of admifiion fhould be given to 
 fuch as had been the longefl regiftered. 
 
 But feveral doubts having arifen whether cuiy difabled 
 Seaman, otherwife than fuch as were exprefsly qualified 
 by thefe Ads, might be admitted and provided for in 
 the Hofpital ; an Ad pafted in the fecond year of Queen 
 Ann, entitled, <{ An Ad for the increafe of feamen,” 
 &c. whereby it was enaded, that any difabled Seamen, 
 their Wives and Children, and the Widows and Children 
 of Seamen flain, killed or drowned in the fea fervice, fhould 
 okKoS H igh be appointed and provided for in the Hofpital, as the Lord 
 Admiiai, High Admiral, or Commiflioners for executing the office 
 
 of Lord High Admiral, fhould think fit, or fee occafion. 
 
 By 
 
79 
 
 establishment. 
 
 By her Majefty’s fecond Commiffion, dated the 8 th A^.ya^ 
 day of April, 1704, it was directed, that for the future, ^befea-farbg- 
 all perfons to be recommended and admitted into the 
 Hofpital as Officers, or otherwife, ffiould be fea-faring men, 
 or firch as had loft their limbs, or had been otherwife 
 difabled in the fea-fervice. 
 
 By an Adt of Parliament parted in the 6th year of Queen a. d. 1707. 
 
 J 1 1 1 r J C Foreigners.. 
 
 Ann, it was enadled that foreigners who had terved for two 6a.c. 37.. 
 years in her Majefty’s ffiips of war, privateer, or merchant- 
 fhi, ftiould be inverted with the privileges granted to the 
 fubjedls of Great Britain. 
 
 By an Adi parted in the 10th year of her Reign, any feaman A>D> I7TO> 
 in the merchant-fervice who had been disabled in defend- ^ e e n r ; hantSea ' 
 ing or taking any fhip, as deemed qualified to be admitted ' 
 into the Hofpital.. 
 
 By the Adi for the more effedlual fuppreffing of piracy j a^d. i 7 i 4 . 
 naffed in the 8th year of George the Firft, any feaman 
 
 X . . , - Seamen maimed: 
 
 who was maimed in fight againft any pirate in the defence in engagements 
 
 . with Pirates. 
 
 of the King’s or merchant- fhips, or any other fhip or 
 vertel, was entitled, to admiffion and provifion in the Hof- 
 pital in preference to any other feaman difabled for fervice, 
 or from getting his livelihood merely by age. 
 
 Having fhewn what defeription. of perfons are qualified 
 by the Commiffions, and the above Adis of Parliament, 
 to be received into the Hofpital, we proceed to give an 
 account of their admiffion from the firft eftablifhment to 
 the prefen t time,. 
 
 On 
 
ESTABLISHMENT. 
 
 On the firlft of December, 1704, it having been repre- 
 sented to the Lord High Admiral by the Commiffioners, 
 that the Hofpitai was prepared for the reception of men, 
 his Royal Highnefs Prince George of Denmark, previous 
 to their adm.iffion, appointed the following officers by 
 warrant. 
 
 A Lieutenant Governor 
 A Captain 
 A Firh Lieutenant 
 A Second ditto 
 A Phyiician 
 A Surgeon 
 A Steward 
 A Cook 
 
 A Butler’s Mate 
 Four Nurfes. 
 
 And, in the month following he appointed 
 
 Two Chaplains, and 
 A Third Lieutenant. 
 
 In addition to the foregoing, the following Officers were 
 afterwards appointed, viz. 
 
 In 1708, the Firft Mailer and Governor 
 . 1736, a Second Captain 
 
 1738, a Fourth Lieutenant 
 1748. Fifth and Sixth Lieutenants 
 1 756, a Third Captain 
 
 1766, Seventh and Eight Lieutenants 
 
 1767, a Fourth Captain. 
 
 We 
 
ESTABLISHMENT, 
 
 We will now give an account of the admiflion of the 
 Penfioners, and their increafe from time to time as the 
 Hofpital was able to receive them ; obferving at the fame 
 time, that, from the firft eftablithnient of the Hofpital, 
 Marines, as well as Seamen, if proper obje&s, were admitted 
 without any diftin&ion. 
 
 PENS 
 
 / 0 
 
 N 
 
 E R 
 
 5 . 
 
 In January 
 
 - 
 
 I 7°5 
 
 - 
 
 42 
 
 From 1705 
 
 to 
 
 1708 
 
 - 
 
 258 
 
 HH 
 
 O 
 
 00 
 
 to 
 
 I 7°9 
 
 - 
 
 5 ° 
 
 1709 
 
 to 
 
 1728 
 
 - 
 
 100 
 
 1728 
 
 to 
 
 I 73 I 
 
 - 
 
 45 ° 
 
 *737 
 
 to 
 
 1738 
 
 - 
 
 100 
 
 00 
 
 rh 
 
 in. 
 
 Hi 
 
 to 
 
 J 75 J 
 
 m 
 
 3 00 
 
 * 75 2 
 
 to 
 
 1 755 
 
 - 
 
 250 
 
 From June to December 
 
 1763 
 
 - 
 
 170 
 
 From February 1 
 
 to April 
 
 1764 
 
 - 
 
 6 3 
 
 1769 
 
 to 
 
 1770 
 
 - 
 
 217 
 
 1772 
 
 to 
 
 1782 
 
 - 
 
 35 ° 
 
 
 
 
 Total 
 
 23 5 ° 
 
 M 
 
 Prtftnt 
 
8 * 
 
 ESTABLISHMENT. 
 
 Prefent EJlablifhment of Officers, See, 
 
 
 Salaries, 
 
 Clerks and Afllftant^ 
 
 
 £■ 
 
 
 A Mailer and Governor 
 
 IOOO 
 
 —I Clerk at 50/,. 
 
 A Lieutenant Governor 
 
 400 
 
 
 Four Captains, each 
 
 23a 
 
 
 Eight Lieutenants, each 
 
 115: 
 
 
 A Treafurer and Receiver 
 
 200 
 
 3* Clerks at 50/. 
 
 A Secretary 
 
 l6o 
 
 — 2 Clerks, 1 at 6 o 4 
 
 
 
 and 1 at 50/. 
 
 A11 Auditor 
 
 100 
 
 —1 Clerk at 50/. 
 
 Two Chaplains, each 
 
 1 3 °“ 
 
 A Phyfician, 1 os. per diet??, 
 
 182 ior. 
 
 A Steward 
 
 160- 
 
 • — 4' Clerks, r at do/. 
 
 
 
 and 3 at 40/. each. 
 
 A Surgeon 
 
 1 fo- 
 
 —-2- Affi Hants at 40/. 
 
 
 
 each, 1 fervant at* 
 30/. 
 
 A Clerk of the Checque 
 
 rdo 
 
 —•4 Clerks, 1- at 60/. 
 
 
 
 and 3 at 40/. each. 
 
 A Surveyor 
 
 200" 
 
 
 A Clerk of the Works, $s. 
 per day 
 
 9 1 S s 
 
 . 1 Clerk at 60/, 
 
 A Difpenfer 
 
 5 ° 
 
 - — 1 AffiHant at 30/, 
 
 Three Matrons*, each 
 
 - 40 
 
 
 A Schoolmafler 
 
 ■ 5 5 a 
 
 
 A Mailer Brewer 
 
 60 
 
 
 An Organill • 
 
 60 
 
 
 A Butler 
 
 2 5 
 
 — 2 Mates at 1 5/. each. 
 
 Two Cooks, each 
 
 3 ° 
 
 -—4 Mates, viz. 2 at 20/. 
 
 and 2 at 15/. 
 
 * One of them was appointed on account of Out-penfioners — and the ift 
 Clerk has 50/. more on the fame account. 
 
 A Scul- 
 
esta 
 
 blishment. *3 
 
 Salaries. Clerks and Affiftants. 
 
 £■ 
 
 A Sculleryman - - 20-2 Mates at 
 
 A Meffenger - - 3 ° 
 
 Two Porters, each - I 5 
 
 Barber - - " 12 
 
 The Governor and Treafurer are appointed by Patent, 
 the reft of the Officers by the Admiralty; except the Sur- 
 veyor and Clerk of the Works, who are appointed by the 
 General Court, the Schoolmafter and Melfenger by the 
 Board of Diredtors, and all the Clerks by their refpedive 
 Superiors. 
 
 The Officers are allowed a certain quantity of coals and 
 candles, and 14*/. per day in lieu of a table with which 
 they were originally accommodated ; and moll of the under 
 Officers are allowed provifions in the fame manner as the 
 Penfioners. 
 
 There are alfo five days fet apart for Feftivals, viz. 
 
 THE ROYAL FOUNDERS CORONATION. 
 
 THE KING’S BIRTH-DAY. 
 
 ACCESSION. 
 
 CORONATION. 
 
 THE QUEEN’S BIRTH DAY. 
 
 M 2 
 
 P E N- 
 
E S T A B L I S H M E N T. 
 
 20 G. 2* 
 
 PENSIONER S. 
 
 The number of Penfioners now maintained in the Hof- 
 pital is 2350 — every Boatfwain is allowed zs. 6 d, every 
 Mate is. 6 d y and every private Man is, per week for pocket 
 
 money. 
 
 ^CLOTHING. 
 
 A Blue Suit 
 A Hat 
 
 Three Pair of Blue Yarn Hofe. 
 Three Pair of Shoes 
 Four Shirts 
 
 "V 
 
 bln two Years. 
 
 [ 
 
 1 
 
 J 
 
 The Coats and Hats of the Boatfwains and Boatfwains- 
 Mates are diftinguifhed ; the former by a broad, and the 
 latter by a narrow, gold lace.. 
 
 The Penfioners arealfo allowed Neckcloths, Nightcaps, and : 
 all neceflaries for bedding, which are changed as worn out.. 
 
 Great Coats are allowed for the old and infirm, and 
 Watch-coats for thofe on guard. 
 
 * By an Aft of Parliament pafied in the 20 th year of George 2 d, it- 
 was enafted . , that per/ons taking to pawn clothes belonging to the Hofpital , or 
 changing the colour or marks thereof Jhould forfeit 5 /. upon conviftion before one 
 of his Majeff s Jufices of the Peace ; or be committed to pr if on for three 
 months : and that the Pcnftoner , or Nurfe , going of with the fame, Jhould be 
 committed for fix months. One moiety of this fttm is directed to be paid to the 
 informer , the other for the benefit of the Hofpital. 
 
 'TABLE 
 
ESTABLISH MENT. 
 
 3 5 
 
 TABLE of DIET . 
 
 Days. 
 
 Bread 
 Loaves 
 of 16 0%. j 
 | 
 
 Beer 
 
 Quarts 
 
 Beef 
 
 lb. 
 
 Mutton 
 
 lib. 
 
 Butter 
 
 lb. 
 
 Cheefe 
 
 lb. 
 
 Peafe 
 
 Pints. 
 
 Sunday 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 — 
 
 I 
 
 — 
 
 I 
 
 4 
 
 — 
 
 Monday 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 I 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 1 
 
 — 
 
 T uefday 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 — 
 
 I 
 
 — 
 
 1 
 
 — 
 
 Wednefd. 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 I 
 
 ~T~6 
 
 L 
 
 2. 
 
 I 
 
 Z 
 
 Thurfday 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 I 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 1 
 
 4 
 
 — 
 
 Friday 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 I 
 
 "fr 
 
 1 
 
 z 
 
 I 
 
 z 
 
 Saturday 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 I 
 
 • — 
 
 — 
 
 T 
 
 4 
 
 • — 
 
 Total per 1 
 Week \ 
 
 7 
 
 14 
 
 3 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 “TIT 
 
 I . 
 
 I 
 
 The Hofpital bake their own bread, and brew their own 
 beer, for which purpofes commodious buildings have been 
 eredted. 
 
 The Penfioners dine at 12 o’clock, when the Lieutenant 
 cn duty attends to fee that good order be preferved during 
 their meals. 
 
 N. B. The furplus of peafe-foup, being a confiderable quantity, is givea 
 away to the Penfioners families at the gates of the Hofpital. 
 
ESTABLISHMENT. 
 
 Perfons defirons of being admitted penfioners, apply at 
 the Admiralty Office, at leaft ten days before the day of 
 Examination,* where they receive letters directed to the 
 proper Officer at the Navy-office, for Certificates of their 
 time of fervice in the Navy, which Certificates are fent 
 no the Admiralty prior to the day of examination, when 
 the Candidates are feen by the Board (the Surgeon of the 
 Hofpital attending) and thofe who are found to be proper 
 obje&s are minuted to be fent to the Hofpital, and are fent 
 accordingly as vacancies happen; the greateil objects in 
 preference. 
 
 The number now employed is 147; they are appointed By 
 Warrant from the Admiralty, and muft all be Widows of Sea- 
 men ; and under the age of 45 years, at the time of admiffion. 
 
 Their allowances areas follows, viz. 
 
 Wages, each, per annum, 81 . 
 
 A grey ferge gown and petticoat, yearly. 
 
 Provifions 
 
 The Nurfes are required to take out Certificates of their 
 
 to the Admiralty on the .day ,of examination. 
 
 About 14,000 Penfioners, and 600 Nurfes have been ad- 
 mitted into the Hofpital from its firfl eftabliffiment to the 
 prefent time. 
 
 N U R S E S. 
 
 Bedding 
 
 hufband’s fervice in the Navy in the fame mode as the Pen- 
 fioners; and to produce Certificates of their age and marriage 
 
establishment. 
 
 The 'Eftablijhment of Out-Penf oners. 
 
 On the ift. day of February, 1763, the Commiffioners 
 and Governors, at an extraordinary General Court, took 
 into their confideration the ftate of the revenue and ex- 
 pence of the Hofpital, and the difficulties and diftreffes to ■ 
 which great numbers of Seamen, worn out and become 
 decrepit in the King’s fervice in confequence of the war, 
 muft unavoidably be expofed, unlefs fome provffion could b^ 
 made for their fu^prt during the remainder of their lives, 
 and the Court beifig of opinion that they had no authoiity 
 from Parliament to appropriate any part of the revenue 
 towards making provifion for thofe who could not be- 
 accommodated within the Hofpital; it was reiolved una- 
 nimoufly to make immediate application to Parliament for 
 leave to bring in a Bill to empower the Commiffioneis 
 and ■■Governors* (after defraying the neceffary expen ces or 
 the Hofpital) to provide for fuch of the above-mentioned 
 Seamen as could not be received into it; and a Bill for- 
 this purpofe being prefented by the late Mr. Grenville, re~ J 
 ceived the Royal alien t on the 31ft of March, 1763. 
 
 * The funds of the Hofpital are not applicable to the payment of Out- 
 Fenfioners, when the revenue is not more than fufficient for its proper eftab- 
 lifhment; and, in that cafe, Parliament has (on application) voted fpecifk 
 fu ms for that purpofe. 
 
 them 
 
83 
 
 E S; T A B L I S H M E N T . 
 
 In confequence of which 1400 Out-Penfioners were ap- 
 pointed at 7/., per Ann. eacii ; whofe numbers gradually 
 decreafed in confequence of death, or admhhon into 
 the Hofpital, til] the year 1782, when 500 additional 
 ones were appointed, and in the year followin' as 
 many more ; the In-Penfioners who were defirous of 
 it, were allowed to retire upon the Out - Penfion, 
 if they thought proper and there appeared to be no 
 objection . 
 
 Perfons defirous of becoming Out- Penfioners, ap- 
 ply at the Admiralty Office in the fame manner as the 
 others above-mentioned, and, when appointed, take their 
 Warrants to the Treafurefs Office at the Hofpital, where 
 a ticket is delivered to them, by which they are em- 
 powered to leceive their penfion by quarterly payments, 
 either at that place, or if, at a great didance, from the 
 Colwctois of the Cufioms or Excile, in confequence of 
 Certificates figned and tranfmitted by the Treafnrer, and 
 attcfled by the Steward, or Clerk of the Checque. 
 
 About 2650 Out-Penfioners have been admitted from 
 the palling of the above-mentioned Adt to the prelent 
 time. 
 
 N. B. By fie above-mentioned Aft “ All ajji n- 
 £( ments > bargains , ja 's, orders, contracts, ' agreements , or 
 “ Jec unties whatjbever, which Jhall be green or made by 
 “ any Out-Perijioner , jot ■, upon , or in rejpecl of, any Jum or 
 juna oj money, to become due on any Out-B enjion granted 
 
establishment. 
 
 u 
 
 e( by the Commifiioners or Governors of the Hofpital , fall be ab~* 
 <e folutely null and void to all intents and purpofes 
 
 Alfo, “ the perfonatmg or falfely a fuming the name and 
 “ char after of an Out-Penfioner of Greenwich Hofpital hi 
 “ order to receive the Out-Penfion t or procuring any other to 
 “ do the fame } is made felony without benefit of Clergy 
 
 n THE 
 
 
THE 
 
 PAINTED-HALL. 
 
 mafferly manner, was undertaken by Sir James Thornhill, 
 in 1 708. 
 
 with it’s proper points duly bearing. And in the covings, 
 in chiaro ofcuro, the Four Winds with their different 
 attributes. 
 
 Over each of the three doors are compartments, in chiaro 
 ofcuro, (fupported by boys fuppofed to be the fons of poor 
 
 Seamen) containing the names of the feveral Benefactors 
 to the Hofpital ; and above, in a niche, is the figure of 
 
 Charity. 
 
 In this veRibule is the model of an antique Ship, pre- 
 fented by the late Lord Anfon ; the Original, which is of 
 marble and was found in the Villa Matter in the 16th cen- 
 tuary, now hands before the Church -of S ta< Maria in 
 Rome, hence called S ta> Maria in Navicella. 
 
 From this veftibule a large flight of Reps leads into the 
 Saloon, or grand Hall, which is about 106 feet long, 
 56 wide, and 50 high ; ornamented with a range of Co- 
 
 painting of this flail, which is executed in a 
 
 In the cupola of the veftibule is reprefented a Compafs 
 
 rinthian 
 
P A I N T E D 
 
 PI A L L. 
 
 91 
 
 rinthian pilafters {landing on a Bafement, and fupporting a 
 rich Entablature above. Between them, on the South-fide, 
 are the windows, two rows in height, the jambs of which 
 are ornamented with rofes impanelled. On the North-fide 
 are recedes anfwering to the windows, in which are painted, 
 in chiaro ofcuro, the following allegorical figures, viz. Hof- 
 pit alii as , Magnanimitas , Liberalitas, Mifertcordia , Gencroft-as, 
 Bonitas , Benig?iitas y Humamtas. 
 
 In the frize around the Hall is the following in- 
 fc rip t ion : 
 
 Pietas augujia ut habit ent fecure et publice alantur qui pub - 
 licce fcuritati invigilarunt regia Grenovoci Maria aufpiciis 
 fublevandis nautis deftinata regnantibus Gulielmo & Maria 
 
 MDCXCIV. 
 
 Over the great arch, at the weft end, are the Britifh 
 Arms fupported by Mars and Minerva, which are very 
 finely fculptured. 
 
 On the Cieling are the portraits of King William and 
 Queen Mary, the Royal Founders, furrounded by the 
 Cardinal Virtues, &c. and with the emblematical repre- 
 fentation of the Four Seafons of the Year y this Cieling 
 is very well defcribed by Sir Richard Steel in his Lover - y 
 of which the following is a Copy : 
 
 “ In the middle of the Cieling is a very large Oval frame 
 “ painted and carved in imitation of gold, with a great 
 “ thicknefs rifing in theinfide to throw up the figures to the 
 
 N 2 “ greater 
 
9 * 
 
 P A I N T E D 
 
 HALL, 
 
 “ greater height; the Oval is fattened to a great Suttite adorned 
 “ with rofes in imitation of copper. The whole is fup- 
 “ ported by eight gigantic figures of Slaves four on each fide, 
 “ as though they were carved in ttone; between the figures, 
 “ thrown in heaps into a covering are all manner of Maritime 
 “ Trophies in Metzo -relievo ; as Anchors, Cables, Rudders, 
 “ Matts, Sails, Blocks, Capitals, Sea-guns, Sea-carriages, 
 “ Boats, Pinnaces, Oais, Stretchers, Colours, Enfigns, Pen- 
 
 nants. Drums, Trumpets, Bombs, Mortars, Small-arms, 
 ** Granades, Powder-barrels, Fire-arrows, Grapling-irons, 
 ct Crofs-ttaves, Quadrants, Compafies, &c. all in ttone-colours, 
 “ to give the greater beauty to the rett of the cieling, which 
 “ is more fignificant. 
 
 “ About the Oval in the infide are placed the twelve figns 
 “ of the Zodiac ; the fix northern figns, as Aries, Taurus, 
 “ Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, are placed on the north fide 
 “ of the Oval; and the fix fouthern figns, as Libra, Scorpio, 
 “ Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pifces, are to the fouth, 
 *' with three of them in a groupe, which compofe one quarter 
 “ of the year; the Signs have their attitudes,* and their drape- 
 “ ries are varied and adapted to the feafons they pofiefs, as 
 
 * Aries is of a turbulent afpect with little winds and rains hovering about 
 him, his drapery of a blewifh green, fhadowed with dark ruffet to denote the 
 changeablenefs of the weather. April , or Taurus , is more mild ; May, or Ge- 
 mini, in blue ; “June, a calm red ; July, more reddifh, and as he leans upon 
 his Lyon veils a little from the Sun. Virgo almoft naked, and flying from the 
 heat of the Sun ; Libra in deep red ; Scorpio veils himfelf from the fcorqhing 
 Sun in a flame colour mantle ; Sagittarius in red, lefs hot ; December or Capri- 
 corn, blewifh ; Aquarius in a waterifh green ; Pifces in blue. Over Aries , 
 Taurus, Gemini prefides Flora ; over Cancer, Leo , Virgo prefides Ceres ; over 
 Libra , Scorpio, Sagittarius , Bacchus ; and over Capricorn , Aquarius , Pifces , 
 Hyems hovering over a brazen pot of fire, 
 
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 PAINTED - HALL, 93 
 
 the cool, the blue, and the tender green to the Spring, the 
 yellow to the Summer, and the red and flame colour to 
 the Dog-days and Autumnal feafon, the white and cold to 
 the Winter ; likewife the fruits and the flowers of every 
 feafon as theyfucceed each other. 
 
 In the middle of the oval are reprefented King William 
 and Queen Mary fitting on a Throne under a great pavi- 
 lion, or purple canopy, attended by the four cardinal virtues,, 
 as Prudence, Temperance, Fortitude, and Juftice. 
 
 “ Over the Queen’s head is Concord, with the Fafces, 
 at her feet two doves, denoting mutual concord and inno- 
 cent agreement, with Cupid holding the King’s Sceptre 
 while he is prefen ting Peace with the Lamb and Olive 
 Branch, and Liberty expreffed by the Athenian cap to Eu- 
 rope, who laying her Crowns at his feet receives them 
 with an air of repefCt and gratitude. The King tramples- 
 Tyranny under his feet, which is expreft by a French per- 
 fonage with his leaden Crown falling off, his chains, yoke 
 and iron fword broken to pieces. Cardinal’s cap, triple 
 crowned mitres, &c. tumbling down. Juft beneath is 
 Time bringing Truth to light, near which is a figure of 
 Architecture holding a large drawing of part of the Hof- 
 pital with the Cupola, and pointing up to the Royal Foun- 
 ders, attended by the little Genii of her art. Beneath her 
 is Wifdom and Heroic Virtue, reprefented by Pallas and 
 Hercules, deftroying Ambition, Envy, Covetoufnefs, De- 
 traction, Calumny, with other vices, which feem to fall to 
 to the earth, the place of their more natural abode. 
 
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94 
 
 F A I N T E D - H A L L. 
 
 44 Over the Royal pavilion is fhewn at a great height 
 4 4 Apollo in his golden chariot, drawn by four white horfes 
 44 attended by the Horae, and morning dews falling before 
 44 him, going his courfe through the twelve figns of the 
 <4 Zodiac \ and from him the whole plafond or cieling is en- 
 64 liehthened. 
 
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 44 Each end of the Cieling is raifed in perfpedtive, with a 
 44 balluflrade and eliptic arches, fupported by groupes of hone 
 “ figures, which form a gallery of the whole breadth of the 
 44 Hall ; in the middle of which gallery (as though on the 
 “ flock) going into the upper Hall, is feen in perfpedive the 
 44 Tafferil of the Blenheim man of war, with all her galleries, 
 44 port-holes open, &c. to one fide of which is a figure of Vic- 
 44 tory flying with fpoils taken from the enemy, and putting 
 44 them aboard the Englifh man of war. Before the fhip is 
 44 a figure reprefenting the City of London, with the arms, 
 44 fword and cap of maintenance, fupported by Thame and 
 44 Ifis, with other fmall rivers offering up their treafures to 
 44 her. The river Tine pouring forth lacks of coals. In 
 44 the gallery on each tide the fhip are the Arts and Sciences 
 44 that relate to Navigation with the great Archimedes, many 
 44 old philofophers confulting the compafs, &c. 
 
 44 At the other end, as you return out of the Hall, is a 
 44 gallery in the fame manner, in the middle of which is the 
 44 Hern of a beautiful galley filled with Spanifh trophies* 
 44 Under which is the Humber with his pigs of lead. The 
 44 Severn with the Avon falling into her, with other leffer 
 44 rivers. In the North end of the gallery is the famous Ticho 
 44 Brahe, that noble Danifh Knight, and great ornament of 
 
 44 his 
 
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pain t e d 
 
 H A E L. 
 
 95 
 
 « his profeffion and human nature. Near him is Copernicus 
 <£ with his Pythagorean fyflem in his hand ; next to him is 
 <{ an old mathematician holding a large table, and on it aie 
 <e defer ibed two principal figures, ol the incomparable Sn 
 « Ifaac Newton, on which many extraordinary things in that 
 « art are built. On the other end of the gallery, to the fouth, 
 « is our learned Mr. Flamftead, Reg. Aflron. Profeff. with 
 « his ingenious difciple, Mr Thomas Wefton. In Mr. 
 iC Flam (lead’s hand is a large ici oil or pape,, on wnich is 
 (( drawn the great Eclipie or the Sun th.-t \viil happen in 
 
 « Aoril— -1715 5 near him is an old man with a pen- 
 
 < ( dulum counting the ieconds or dime, as Mi. Mam (lead 
 « makes his obfervations with his great mural arch and 
 “ tube on the defeent of the moon on the Severn, which at 
 “ certain times form fuch a roll of the tides as the failors 
 <£ corruptly call the Higre, inftead oi the Eager, and is veiy 
 ££ dangerous to all (hips in its way. This is alfo expreffed by 
 ££ rivers tumbling down by tne moon s innuence into the 
 < £ Severn. In this gallery are more Arts and Sciences relating 
 
 ££ to Navigation. 
 
 ££ All the great rivers, at each end of the Hall, have their 
 i( nroper produdt of fi(h iffuingout of their vafes. 
 
 <£ In the four great angles of the Cieling, which are over 
 <£ the arches of the galleries, are the four elements, as Fire, 
 < £ Air, Earth, and Water, reprefented by Jupiter, Juno, 
 ££ Cybele, and Neptune, with their leffer Deities accompa- 
 ££ nying, as Vulcan, Iris, the Fauni, Amphitrite, with ail 
 t£ their proper attitudes, &c. 
 
 “At 
 
PAINTED-HALL. 
 
 ?6 
 
 <f At one end of the great Oval is a large figure of Fame 
 4 4 defcending, riding on the winds, and founding forth the 
 “ praifes of the Royal Pair. 
 
 “ All the fides of the Hall are adorned with fluted Pi- 
 “ laflers, Trophies of fhells, Corals, Pearls ; the jambs of the 
 “ windows ornamented with rofes impanneled, or the opus 
 
 reticulamium, heightened with green gold. 
 
 “ The whole raifes in the fpedtator themofl: lively images 
 
 of Glory and Victory, and cannot be beheld without much 
 “ paffion and emotion.” 
 
 From this Saloon you afcend,by another flight of Reps, into 
 the upper Hall, the Cieling and Sides of which are adorned 
 with different paintings. In the centre of the cieling is 
 reprefented Queen Ann and Prince George of Denmark 
 accompanied with various emblematical figures. 
 
 In the four corners are the Arms of England, Scotland, 
 France, and Ireland, between which are the four quarters 
 of the world, Europe, Afia, Africa and America, with the 
 emblems and productions of each. 
 
 On the left hand fide as you enter is a painting in imita- 
 tion of Baffo Relievo reprefenting the landing of the Prince 
 of Orange, afterwards King William. On the right hand 
 over the chimney is the landing of King George the Firfl: at 
 Greenwich, 
 
 At the further end of this Hall are painted the por- 
 traits of King George the Firfl; and his Family, with 
 many emblematical figures ; amongfl: which the Painter 
 (Sir James Thornhill) has alfo introduced his own por- 
 trait. 
 
 On 
 
 
PAINTED 
 
 H A L L. 
 
 97 
 
 On the right and left of the entrance are allegorical 
 paintings reprefen ting The Public Weal , and Public Safety . 
 
 The whole of this celebrated work was not completed 
 till 1727, and coft 6,685/. being after the rate of 3/. 
 per yard for the Ceiling and 1/. per yard for the Sides, 
 agreeable to a refolution of the Directors, after confulting 
 the following eminent Painters, viz. Yandervelt, Cooper, 
 Richardfon, Sykes, and Degard, who reported the perfor- 
 mance to be equal to any of the like kind in England, and 
 fuperior in number of figures and ornaments. 
 
 When Sir James had finished the Ceiling and Sides of the 
 great Salomon in 1717, he delivered in a Memorial to the Di- 
 rectors, Rating the prices which were given for paintings of 
 the like kind at the Banqueting-Houfe, Whitehall, the 
 Duke of Montague’s, the Palaces of Windfor and Hamp- 
 ton-Court, Bulftrode-Chapel, and other works at the Duke 
 of Portland’s, and at the Earl of Burlington’s, which is 
 too curious to be omitted, and the following copy of it 
 is therefore inferted : 
 
 To the Right Honourable the Commifioners for building the 
 Royal Hofpital at Greenwich . 
 
 The Memorial of James Tjhornhill, Hiflory-Painter, 
 Sheweth, 
 
 That, in purluance of an order of the 10th Inft. 
 fignified to me by Mr. Corbet that I fhould make a 
 demand and valuation of the Painting done by me at the 
 faid Hofpital, I have made dil igent enquiry into the prices 
 of Hiftory Painting in this kingdom, and find, that when 
 
 O money 
 
PAINTED - WALL. 
 
 money was at much greater value, greater prices were given,, 
 and beg leave to inflance in one, not prefuming to a parallel. 
 Sir Peter Paul Rubens had 4,0.0 o/. for the ceiling of the 
 Banqueting- Houfe, at Whitehall, which is little more tham 
 400 yards of work, fo was near 10/. a yard.. 
 
 The late Duke of Montague paid Mons r - RofTo for his 
 Salloon 2,000/. and kept an extraordinary table for him, 
 his friends and fervants, for two years, whilfl the work was 
 doing, at an expence computed at 50 ol. per Ann . ; which 
 is near 450 yards, amounting to about 7/. per yard, ceiling 
 and fides.- 
 
 Sign r> Varrio was- paid for the whole Palaces- of Windfor: 
 and Hampton Gourt, ceilings,, fides, flairs, and back-flairs, 
 8 j. per foot, which is 3/. 12 s. per yard, exclufive of gild- 
 ing, had wine daily allowed him, lodgings in the Palaces y.. 
 and, when his eye-fight failed him, a peniion of zoo>l. per Ann . 
 and allowance of wine for- his life. 
 
 Sig n Rizzi had of the prefent Duke of Portland 
 
 1000. 
 
 for 3 Rooms - 
 For the little Chapel at Bulflrode 
 Of the Lord Burlington for his flaircafe 
 
 600 
 
 Sign r * Pellegrini of the Duke of Portland for 
 
 work at his houfe 
 
 And for a fmall picture over a chimney 
 Of the Earl of Burlington for the fides of 
 
 . 5 ° 
 
 his hall 
 
 All 
 
99 
 
 PAINTED-HALL. 
 
 All which prices are by meafure, more than Sign* 
 Varrio’s ; and I was lately paid for a Ceiling at Hampton 
 Court, upon a reference from the Right Honourable the 
 Lords Commifiioners of his Majefty's Treafury to the 
 Honourable Board of Works, 3/. 15s. per yard, including 
 gilding. And, although thefe painters were foreigners, yet 
 fince the feveral ingenious Gentlemen painters and artifts, 
 to whom your Honours have been pleafed to lefei this 
 for a parallel to be drawn, have not thought this inferior 
 in performance, and more full of work, I have no reafon 
 to apprehend any difcouragement rrom youi Honours, but 
 that you will be pleafed to allow me as good a price as any 
 of thefe modern painters, efpecially fince I have fpent fix 
 years of the prime of my life therein ; and* tho I have in 
 that time done feveral fmall works, yet they have chiefly 
 ferved to enable me by experience and money t® carry on 
 this great one, which muff oiherwife neceifarily have re- 
 quired a confiderable impreft for which a large inteieft 
 would have been paid* 
 
 And alfo hope that this being an Hofpital will make no 
 difference, fince Royal Hofpitals are as well embellifhed as 
 Palaces, and with as much expence. Thereiore humbly 
 fubmit myfelf to your Honours juftice herein, and am. 
 
 Your Honours 
 
 24th Augujl , 
 1717. 
 
 Moft faithful, and 
 
 Obedient humble Servant, 
 
 JAMES THORNHILL. 
 O 2 CHAPEL. 
 
IOO 
 
 CHAPEL. 
 
 1 HE interior part and roof of the former Chapel, which 
 was executed under the direction of Mr. Ripley the Surveyor 
 being deftroyed by fire on the 2d of January, 1779, has 
 been reftored in the moft beautiful and elegant Ryle of Gre- 
 cian Architecture from defigns of the late Surveyor, James 
 Stuart, Efq. the celebrated publiffier of the Antiquities of 
 Athens, and under the fuperintendance of Mr. William 
 Newton, Clerk of the works. 
 
 Immediately before the Entrance of the Chapel is an OCtan- 
 ^ulai vefiibule in which are four niches containing the ftatues 
 of Faith, Hope, Charity, and Meeknefs, worked from defigns 
 made by Weft ; from which veftibule you afcend, by a flight 
 of 14 ^ e P s > to the Chapel; which is 1 1 1 feet long and 52 
 broad, and capable of conveniently accommodating 1000 
 Penfioners, Nurfes, and Boys, exclufive of pews for the Di- 
 rectors, and for the feveral Officers, under officers, &c. Over 
 the Portal or great Door of the Chapel is this infcription, in 
 letters of gold: 
 
 Let them give thanks , whom the Lord hath redeemed \ and 
 delivered from the hand of the enemy." Pf. 107. 
 
 The portal confifts of an Architrave, Frize, and Cornice 
 of ftatuary marble, the jambs of which are twelve feet high 
 in one piece, and enriched with excellent fculpture. The 
 
 Frize 
 
101 
 
 CHAP EL. 
 
 Frize is the work of Bacon, and confifls of the figures cf two 
 Angels with feftoons fupporting tthe facred Writings, in the 
 leaves of which is the following infcription : 
 
 “ The Law was given by Mofes ; 
 
 <( But Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ. 
 
 The great folding doors are of mahogany highly enriched, 
 and the whole Compofition, of this Portal is not, at this timer 
 tc be paralleled in this, or, perhaps, in any other countiy. 
 
 Within this entrance is a Portico of fix fluted marble 
 columns fifteen feet high. The capitals and bafes are Ionic, 
 after Greek models. The Columns fupport the organ gallery, 
 and are crowned with an entablature and balluflrade 
 enriched with fuitable ornaments. 
 
 On the Tablet in the front of the gallery is a Baflb-relievo 
 reprefenting the figures of Angels founding the Harp $ 
 on the pedeftals, on each fide, are ornaments confiding of 
 Trumpets and other inftruments of mufic ; and, on the tablet 
 between, is the following infcription in letters of gold : 
 
 u Praife him with the found of the trumpet : 
 
 “Praife him with fringed infruments and organs'* Pf. 150. 
 
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102 
 
 C H 
 
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 In this gallery is a very fine Organ, made by Mr. Samuel 
 Green. 
 
 On each fide of the Organ Gallery are four grand Co- 
 lumns ; their fhafts of Scagliola in imitation of Sienna 
 marble, by Richter, and their Capitals and Bafes of Statuary 
 marble; At the oppofite end of the Chapel are four others 
 of the fame fort, which fupportthe arched Ceiling and Roof. 
 Thefe Columns are of the Corinthian order, and, wifhAheir 
 Pedeflals, are 28 feet high. 
 
 On the fides of the Chapel, between the upper and lower 
 range of windows, are the two galleries, in which are pews 
 for the Officers and their Families : thofe of the Governor and 
 Lieutenant Governor, which are oppofite each other, are dif- 
 tinguiffied by ornaments confifling of the Naval Crown, and 
 other fuitable Infignia. Underneath thefe galleries, and the 
 Cantilivers which fupport them, are ranges of fluted Pilaflers. 
 The Cantilivers are decorated with antique foliage; the En- 
 tablature over the Pilaflers with Marine Ornaments ; the 
 interval between them with Fefloons, &c. and the Pedeflals 
 of the Balluflrade in the front of the Galleries with Tridents 
 and Wreaths. The tablets in the middle of each Balluflrade 
 contain the Hofpital’s arms, and the Frize below is carved 
 with foliage in the Greek mode. Over the lower range of 
 Windows are Paintings, in chiaro ofcuro, reprefenting fome of 
 the principal events in the life of our Saviour, which are 
 accompanied with ornaments of Candelabra and Fefloons. 
 
 Above 
 
CHAPEL.' I0 3 
 
 Above the Galleries is a richly-carved Hone Fafcia, on 
 which Hands a range of Pilafters of the Compofite mode, 
 their fhafts being of Scagliola, correfponding with thofe of 
 the eight great columns, and, jointly with them, appearing 
 to fupport the Epirtylium which furrounds the whole 
 Chapel. This Epirtylium is enriched with Angels bearing 
 feftoons of Oak-leaves, Dolphins, Shells, and other appli- 
 cable ornaments. From this rifes the curved Ceiling which 
 is divided into Compartments and enriched with foliage, 
 golochi, &c. in the antique rtyle. Between the upper 
 pilafters are recedes in which are painted, in chiaro-oicuro, 
 the Aportles and Evangelirts. 
 
 At each end of the Galleries are concave recedes, the 
 coves of which are ornamented with Coffers and Flowers 
 carved in Hone:, in thefe recedes are the doors of entrance 
 
 * ‘•r 
 
 to the Galleries, decorated with enriched P Harters and En- 
 tablatures, and a group of ornaments, confirting of the 
 Naval Crown, wreaths of Laurel and Tridents. Above 
 the doors are circular recedes, containing paintings, in 
 chiaro-ofcuro, of the Prophets Ifaiah, Jeremiah, Moles,, 
 and David*. 
 
 The Communion Table is a femi-oval dab of rtatuiry 
 marble near eight feet long. The afcent to it is by three 
 Heps of black marble, on W'hich is dxed an ornamental 
 railing reprefenting fertoons of Ears of Corn, , and Vine 
 foliage. This Table is fupported by fix Cherubin Handing 
 ©n a white marble Hep of the fame dimen dons. 
 
 Above 
 
 7TTuTrnn\MT 
 
104 
 
 C H APE L, 
 
 Above is a Painting, by Weft, in a fuperb carved and 
 gilt frame, reprefenting the Prefer vat ion of St. Paul from 
 fhipwreck on the If and of Melit a. 
 
 This picture is 25 feet high and 14 wide, and confifts 
 of three principal groups. The fird, which is at the 
 lower part, reprefents the Mariners and Prifoners bring- 
 ing on fhore the various articles which have been pre- 
 ferved from the wreck ; Near thefe is an elegant figure, 
 fuppofed to be a Roman Lady of didin&ion, clafping with 
 affection an Urn containing the adies of her deceafed 
 hufband who had fallen in the wars of Judea. Before 
 her is an aged, infirm Man } who, being unable to affift 
 himfelf, is carried in the arms of two robuft young men. 
 
 In the middle part of the piece is the principal group, 
 confiding of St. Paul fhaking into the fire the Viper that 
 had faflened on his hand, the Brethren who accompanied 
 him, his friend the Centurion, and a band of Roman Sol- 
 diers with their proper infignia. 
 
 The figures above thefe, on the fummit of the rocks, 
 form the third group ; and confifl of the hofpitable Iflanders 
 lowering down fuel and other neceffaries for the relief of 
 the Sufferers. 
 
 The Sea and wrecked Ship, (which at this point of time 
 are confidered as an epifode) appear in the back-ground, and 
 combine to exhibit a fcene that cannot fail of having a 
 proper effedt on the minds of Sea-faring men, and of 
 imprefling them with a due fenfe of their pad prefer- 
 
 vation. 
 

 CHAPEL. 
 
 I0 5 
 
 vation, and their prefent comfortable fituation and fup- 
 port in this glorious Afylum for naval misfortune and 
 naval worth. 
 
 On either fide the arch which terminates the top of this 
 picture, are Angels of ftatuary marble as large as life, by 
 Bacon ; one bearing the Crofs, the other the emblems of 
 the Eucharift. This excellent combination of the works 
 of art is terminated above in the fegment between the 
 great cornice and ceiling by a painting of the Afcenfion, 
 defigned by Weft, and executed by Rebecca, in chiaro 
 ofcuro ; forming the laft of the feries of paintings of the life 
 of our Saviour which furround the Chapel. 
 
 The middle of the aile, and the fpace round the 
 altar and organ gallery, are paved with black . and white 
 marble in golochi, frets, and other ornaments; having, in 
 the centre, an Anchor and Seaman’s Compafs. 
 
 The Pulpit is on a circular plan, fupported by fix fluted 
 columns of Lime-tree, with an Entablature above richly 
 carved and of the fame material. In the fix Inter-columns 
 are the following alto-relievos, taken from the Ads of 
 the Apoftles, executed after defigns by Weft. 
 
 The Converfionof St. Paul, Ads, chap. ix. 
 
 Cornelius’s Vifion, x. 
 
 Peter releafed from Prifon by the Angel, xii. 
 
 Elymas ftruck blind, xiii. 
 
 St. Paul preaching at Athens, and converting Dio- 
 
 ny fius the Areopagite, 
 Paul pleading before Felix, 
 
 xxiv. 
 
 XVII. 
 
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 C H 
 
 The Reader’s Defk is formed on a fquare plan, with 
 columns at the four comers, and the Entablature over 
 them fimilar to thofe of the Pulpit; in the four Inter- 
 columns are alfo alto relievos of the Prophets, copied after 
 defigns by the fame artifL 
 
 Daniel. 
 
 Micah. 
 
 Zachariah. 
 
 Malachi. 
 
 The following paintings, in chiaro-ofcuro relative to 
 our Saviour, are placed over the lower windows. 
 
 The firfl four of the feries, painted by De Bruy n, are 
 at the Eaft end of the South-lide of the Chapel, and 
 reprefent 
 
 The Nativity. 
 
 The Angel appearing to the Shepherds,, . 
 
 The Magi worshiping. 
 
 The Flight into Egypt** 
 
 The four, which follow on the fame fide, are by Catton 
 And reprefent 
 
 St. John baptizing. 
 
 Calling of St. Peter and St. Andrew, 
 
 Our Saviour preaching from a Ship to the People on 
 Shore. 
 
 The Stilling of the Temped:. 
 
 The 
 
CHAPEL. 
 
 The four, at the Weft-end of the Norili-fide, are by 
 Milburne and reprefent 
 
 Our Saviour walking on the Sea, and faving Peter 
 from finking. 
 
 The Blind Man cured by a Touch. 
 
 Lazarus raifed from the Dead. 
 
 The Transfiguration. 
 
 The next four on the fame fide are by Rebecca and 
 reprefent 
 
 The Lord’s Supper. 
 
 Our Saviour carried before Pilate. 
 
 The Crucifixion. 
 
 The Refurredtion. 
 
 The Apoftles and Evangelifts in the recefles between 
 the upper windows, and the four Prophets in the circles 
 above the Gallery-doors are by the laft-men tioned Artift, 
 after defigns of Mr. Weft. 
 
 The Principal Artificers who were employed in rebuild- 
 ing the Chapel were : 
 
 Mr. John Deval, Mafon. 
 
 Mr. Richard Lawrence, Carver. 
 
 Mr. Samuel Wyatt, Carpenter. 
 
 Mr. James Arrow, Joiner. 
 
 Mr, John Pap worth, Plaifterer. 
 
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 N. B. The four ftatues in the veftibule of the Chapel — the medallions or 
 alto-relievos in the Pulpit and Reading-delk — the pannel of Cherubims 
 ■with the Harp, and the two pannels of the Hofpital Arms in front of the 
 Galleries — the Cherubims fupporting the Communion-table — all the Pil after 
 Capitals, &c. are of artificial ftone, executed at C 0 A D E ’s Ornamental 
 Stone Manufactory, near Weftminfter-bridge. 
 
ioS 
 
 COUNCIL-ROOM. 
 
 ADJOINING to the Governor’s Apartment in King 
 Charles’ Building is a Room fo called, where the Directors 
 occafionally meet on the affairs of the Hofpital; and a Council 
 is held every Friday, (or oftnerif neceffary,) by the Officers in- 
 truded with the internal Government of the Pensioners, &c. 
 
 In this Room are Several paintings. 
 
 At the upper-end is a whole-length Portrait of King 
 George the Second in his Robes, by Schakleton, the bequeft 
 of a former Governor, Admiral Townfend. 
 
 On each fide of it are two half-lengths, one of K. William, 
 the other of Queen Mary, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, the gift of 
 the late Sir John Van Hattem, Knight, of Dinton Hall, Bucks. 
 
 At the lower- end is a whole-length Portrait, by Gainfbo- 
 rough, of the prefent Earl of Sandwich, the gift of Sir Hugh 
 Pallifer, Bart, the prefent Governor. 
 
 On the right is a half-length Portrait, by Sir Peter Lely, 
 of Edward the ftrfl Earl of Sandwich, who was killed in 
 the engagement in Solfcay in 1 672, the gift of the prefent Earl. 
 
 On the left is a half-length of Lord Vifcount Torrington, 
 by Davifon. 
 
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 Over 
 
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 ROOM. 
 
 109 
 
 Over the Chimney is a whole-length Portrait of Robert 
 Ofbolilon, Efq. (whofe munificent benefaction has already 
 been noticed) copied from an original in the pofleffion of 
 Lord Aylmer, a former Governor, at the expence of the Hof- 
 pital, by Degard. 
 
 On the right hand of the chimney is a whole-length Por- 
 trait of Lord Vifcount Torrington, by Davifon, in 1734. 
 
 On the left a ditto, by Richardfon, of Admiral Sir John 
 Jennings, a former Governor. 
 
 Near the window at the upper end of the room is a three 
 quarters Oval of Captain Clements, a former Lieutenant Go- 
 vernor, by Greenhill, pupil of Sir Peter Lely, the gift of the 
 Captain’s Widow. 
 
 At the lower-end the Head of a venerable old Man,, Lid 
 to have been the fir ft Penfioner who was admitted into the 
 Hofpital. 
 
 In the Pannel oppofite the Chimney is a Spring-Clock, by 
 Holmes, ornamented with the Signs of the Zodiac, beautifully 
 carved and gilt, from a defign of the late Mr. Stuart, when 
 Surveyor of the Hofpital, 
 
 Under feveral of the above Pictures are fome of Sir James 
 Thornhill’s original fketches, for the Paintings in the Great 
 Hall, prefented by the faid Mr. Stuart, and Mr, Cox of Bad- 
 bey, Northamptonfhire. 
 
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 Anti-Chamber to the Council-Room. 
 
 Near the Door is a Month Equation Clock with a double 
 Pendulum, by Quire; And, in different parts of the Room, 
 the following Paintings, viz. 
 
 Two large Sea Pieces, given by Philip Harman, Efq; re- 
 preferring the Naval exploits of his Ancedor, Captain Tho- 
 mas Harman, in the Reign of King Charles II ; One, at the 
 upper-end of the Room, being an engagement between the 
 Tyger Frigate commanded by Captain Harman and eight 
 Dutch Privateers, in oppofition to which he conducted a large 
 Fleet of Colliers into the River Thames, without the lofs of 
 one, when there was the greated want of Coals in London ; 
 The other, over the Door at the lower-end, being an engage- 
 ment between the fame Captain, in the fame Frigate and a 
 Dutch Man of War, in the Bay of Bulls ; in which the latter 
 was taken and towed into the Harbour of Cadiz, in fight of 
 a Squadron of Dutch fhips riding there. 
 
 In other parts of the Room are fix fmall Pictures repre- 
 lenting the Lofs of the Luxemburgh Galley, commanded 
 by William Kellaway (which was burnt in the year 1727, 
 on her p adage from Jamaica to London) and the fubfequent 
 didreffes of part of her crew; the gift of Mr. Parker, Ex- 
 ecutor to Captain Maplefden, late Lieutenant-Govarnor of 
 the Hofpital. As the circumftances of this difader are in- 
 tending and extraodinary, we are induced to give the fol- 
 lowing fhort account as related by Captain Boys himfelf, 
 late Lieutenant-Governor of the Hofpital, who was fecond 
 
 Mate of the fhip at that time. 
 
 “ On 
 
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 hi 
 
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 “ On the 23d day of May, 1727, we failed from Ja- 
 “ maica, and on Sunday the 25th day of June were in 
 “ the latitude of 41% 45' N. and in the longitude of 20°, 
 
 “ 30' E. from Crooked Ifand, when the galley was per- 
 “ ceived to be on fire in the Lazaretto. It was occafioned 
 “ by the fatal curiofity of two black boys, who, willing 
 “ to know whether fome liquor fpilt on the deck was 
 “rum, or water, put the candle to it, which rofe into 
 “ a flame, and immediately communicated itfelf to the 
 “ barrel from whence the liquor had leaked. It had 
 “ burned fome time before it was perceived, as the boys 
 “were too much intimidated to difcover it themfelves.. 
 “ Having tried all poflible means to extinguith the fire in 
 “vain, we hoified out the yaul, which was foon filled 
 “ with 23 men and boys, who had jumped into her with s. 
 “ the greatefl: eagernefs. The wind now blowing very 
 “ frefh, and fhe running 7 knots and a half by the log, , 
 “ we expeded every moment to perifh, as fhe was loaded 
 “within a ftreak and, a half of her gunnel. We had 
 “ not a morfel of victuals, nor a drop of liquor • no mail,, 
 “ no fail, no compafs to direct our courfe, and above a ;. 
 “ hundred leagues from any land. We left 16 men in 
 “ the fiaip, who all perifhed in her : they endeavoured to 
 “ hoifl: out the long-boat, but, before they could effed 
 “ it, the flames reaching the powder-room, the blew up, 
 
 “ and we faw her no more. A little before this we could 
 “ diftinguifh the Firfi: Mate, and the Captain’s Cook 
 “ in the mizen-top, every moment expeding the fate 
 “ that awaited them. Having thus been eye-witnefies 
 “ of the miferable fate of our companions, we expeded 
 “ every moment to perifh by the waves, or, if not by 
 5 ‘ them,, , 
 
j r-2 
 
 C O U N C I L 
 
 ROOM. 
 
 44 them, by hunger and third:. On the two firR days it 
 44 blew and rained much, but the weather coming fair on 
 44 the third day, viz. the 28th, as kind providence had 
 44 hitherto wonderfully preferved us, we began to contrive 
 44 means how to make a fail, which we did in the follow- 
 “ ing manner : we took to pieces three mens’ frocks and 
 “ a flair t, and with a fail-needle and twine, which we 
 “foun d in one of the black boy’s pockets, we made drift 
 “ to few them together, which anfwered tolerably well. 
 “ Finding, in the fea, a fmall Rick, we woulded it to a 
 ** piece of a broken blade of an oar that we had in the 
 “ boat, and made a yard of it, which we hoiRed on an 
 44 oar with our garters for halyards and fheets, &c. A 
 44 thimble, which the fore-fliect of the boat ufed to be 
 44 reeved through, ferved at the end 01 the oar or maR to 
 44 reeve the halyards. Knowing, from our obfervations, that 
 44 Newfoundland bore about North, we Reered as well 
 44 as we could to the northward. W e judged of our couiie, 
 44 by taking notice of the Sun and of the time of the 
 44 day by the Captain’s watch. In the night, when we 
 44 could fee the North-Rar, or any of the Great Bear, we 
 44 formed the knowledge of our courfe by them. We 
 44 were in great hopes of feeing fome flnip, or other, to 
 44 take us up. The 4^ or 5 ^ night a man, Thomas 
 44 Craniford, and the boy that unhappily fet the drip on 
 44 fire, died, and, in the afternoon the next day, three more 
 44 men, all raving mad, crying out milerably lor water. 
 44 The weather now proved fo foggy, that it deprived us 
 44 almoR all day of the fight of the Sun, and of the 
 44 Moon and Stars by night. We ufed frequently to holloo 
 44 as loud as we coud, in hopes of being heard by fome 
 
 44 drip. 
 
COUNCIL. ROOM. n 3 
 
 <e fhip. In the day-time our deluded fancies often imagined 
 ft fliips fo plain to us, that we have hollooed out to them 
 “ a long time before we have been undeceived ; and, in the 
 “ night, by the fame delufion we thought we heard men 
 “ talk, bells ring, dogs bark, cocks crow, &c. and have 
 “ condemned the phantoms of our imagination (believing 
 “ all to be real £hips, men, &c.) for not anfwering and 
 “ taking us up. The 7th day we were reduced to 12 in 
 “ number, by death. The next night, the wind, being about 
 “ E. N. E, blew very hard, and the fea running high, 
 
 “ we fcudded right before it with our fmall fail about 
 €t 4 down, expecting every moment to be fwallowed up by 
 “ the waves. July the 5th, Mr. Guifhnet died, and on 
 “ the 6th died Mr. Steward, (fon of Dr. Steward, of Spa- 
 “ nifh-Town, in Jamaica) and his fervant, both paflengers. 
 
 (t In the afternoon we found a dead duck which looked 
 “ green, and not fweet ; we eat it however very heartily, 
 
 “ (not without thanks to the Almighty) and it is impoffible 
 €t for any body, except in the like unhappy circumftances, 
 
 “ to imagine how pleafant it was to our tafte at that time, 
 
 “ which, at another, would have been offenfive both to our 
 “ tafte and fmell. On the 7th day of July, at one in the after- 
 “ noon, we faw land about fix leagues off. At 4 o’clock another 
 “ man died, whom we threw overboard to lighten the 
 “ boat. Our number was then reduced to feven. We 
 had often taken thick fog banks for land, which as often 
 “ had given us great joy and hopes that vaniihed with 
 * c them at the fame time 5 but when we really faw the land, 
 
 4t it appeared fo different from what we had fo often taken 
 t( for it, that we wondered how we could be fo miftaken, 
 
 “ and 
 
1 1 4 COUNCIL-ROOM. 
 
 “ and.’tis abfolutely impodible for any man, not in ou r circum- 
 “ Ranees, to form an idea of the joy and pleafure it gave us 
 “ when we were convinced of its reality. It gave us drength 
 “ to row, which we had not for four days before, and mud: 
 “ infallibly mod of us, if not all, have perifhed that very 
 te night, if we had not got on diore. Our Luis exulted 
 “ with joy and praifes to our Almighty Preferver. About 
 “ 6 o’clock we faw feveral fhallops fifhing, which we 
 “ Leered for. Having a fine gale of wind right on fhore,, 
 <e we went with fails and oars, about three or four knots : 
 “ when we came fo near that we thought one of the 
 “ fhallops could hear us (being juft under fail and' going in 
 “ with their fifh) we hollooed as loud a^ we could j at length 
 “ they heard us, and lowered their fail. When we ap- 
 proached pretty near them, they hoifled it in again, and 
 “ were going away from us $ but we made fo difmal and 
 “ melancholy a noife, that they brought to and took us in 
 “ tow. They told us our afpedts were fo dreadful, that 
 “ they were frightened at us. They gave us fome bread 
 “ and water $ we chewed the bread fmall with our teeth, 
 <f and then by mixing water with it, got it down with 
 4< difficulty. 
 
 “ During our voyage in the boat, our mouths had been 
 (( fo dry for want of moifture for feveral days, that we 
 were obliged to wafh them with fait water every two 
 “ or three hours to prevent our lips glewing fad together. 
 “ We always drank our own water, and all the people 
 “ drank fait water, except the Captain, Surgeon, and my- 
 “ felf. In foggy weather the fail having imbibed fome 
 “ moidure, we ufed to wring it into a pewter bafon which 
 3 “ we 
 
C O U N CIL-RO-OM! 
 
 “ we found in the boat. Having wrung it as dry as we 
 “ could, we fucked it all over, and ufed to lick one another's 
 “ clothes with our tongues. At length we were obliged 
 “ by inexpreffible hunger and third; to eat part of the 
 " bodies of fix men, ,and drink the blood of four j for we 
 “ h ad not fince we came from the fhip faved, only one^ 
 time, about half a pint, and, at another, about a wine 
 “ glafs full of water, each man in our hats. A little food 
 “ fufficing us, and finding the fleffi very difagreeable, we 
 “ confined ourfelves to the hearts only. Finding ourfelves 
 “ now perifhing with third:, we were reduced to the me- 
 “ lancholy, diftrefsful, horrid aft of cutting the throats of 
 “ our Companions, an hour, or two, after they were dead, 
 “ to pmcure their blood, which we caught in a pewter 
 bafon, each man producing about a quart. But let it 
 ei be remembered in our defence, that without the affid:- 
 S£ ance this blood afforded to nature, it was not poffible 
 “ that we could have furvived to this time. At about 
 “ 8 o’clock at night we got on fhore at Old St. Lawrence 
 “ Harbour in Newfoundland, where we were kindly re- 
 “ ceived by Captain Lecrafs of Guernfey, or Jerfey, 
 “ then Admiral of the Harbour. We were cautioned to 
 “ eat and drink but little at firfi, which we obferved as 
 “ well as the infirmity of human nature, fo nearly ftarving, 
 “ wou l d allow - We could deep but little, the tranfports’ 
 “ of our joy being too great to admit of it. Our Captain, 
 who had been fpeechlefs 36 hours, died about ^ o’clock 
 “ the next morning, and was buried with all the Honors 
 “ that could be conferred upon him at that place. The 
 “ names of thofe perfons who were burnt in the fhip, 
 
 “ who were ftarved in the boat, and who lived to get on 
 “ fhore, are as follow, viz. 
 
 CLz 
 
 " Ralph 
 
C Q U N C I L 
 
 R O O M, 
 
 116 
 
 Ralph Kell a way, HI Mate 
 lx’aac Holroide, 3d Mate.. 
 Jerald Hedge, Gunner. 
 James Crook, Cooper. 
 John John fon, 1 
 Wiliam Coats, f Seamen . 
 William Day, 1 
 James Amhrofe>J 
 
 Seamen ; 
 
 Burnt in the Ship . 
 
 Charles James, J 
 Francis Mitto, J 
 Tho s - Hina, Quarter Mailer, 
 Edward Thicker, ] 3eamen- 
 Evander M. Avy, J 
 Sharper, 
 
 Jemmy, [-'Black Boys*. 
 
 CofTea,. 
 
 Starved in the Boat ... 
 
 Thomas Steward, Paffenger.. 
 Mr. Stewards, Servant. 
 William Piggs, Paffenger. 
 
 John Horn, 
 
 John Eaft, 
 
 Henry White, 
 Tho 8, Croniford, 
 Simon Emar, 
 
 -Seamen. 
 
 J: 
 
 William Walker > 
 John Simenton, 
 William James, 
 Tho s Nicholfon, 
 
 Y 
 
 ► Seamen... 
 
 Henry Gaiiihnett, Clerk. 
 Caufoiy Y 
 
 Hamofe, j-Black Bo.ys a .. 
 
 Merry Winkle, J, 
 
 Lived to get on Shore. 
 
 William Kellaway, Captain. William Gibbs, Caipenter 0 ~ 
 William Boys, ad Mate. Robert Kellaway, a Boy. 
 
 Thomas Scrimfour, Surgeon. George Mould, Seaman. 
 William Batten, Boatfwain. 
 
 “ The boat in which we got to Newfoundland, distance 
 « 100 leagues, was only 16 feet long, 5 feet 3 inches bioad, 
 ** and two feet 3 inches deep. It was buiit for the Lux- 
 « burgh Galley, by Mr. Bradley, of Deal.” 
 
 N. B. Lieut. Governor Boys was accuflomed to pafs an- 
 nually in prayer and falling the number of days the Blip’s, 
 crew were in diflrefs as above-mentioned ; in commemo- 
 ration of his wonderful deliverance. 
 
 infirmary. 
 
'^^Irlu'hzfL '$ejxA/ r 22 ^ !j $£) bj Hzt ^MJ^ 'jaivYL ^ adze, aurui J'O'hn, isMjuu/l&. Jij. ^Mo. 
 
INFIRMARY* 
 
 |N 1763 it was fubmitted to the General Court b 7 
 the Dire&ors whether it would not be advile- ble to build 
 an Infirmary without the Wails of the. Ploipital;, in 
 order that more Penfioners might be added to the. 
 eftablifliment, and the fick taken care of with greater 
 convenience and more comfort to themfelyes.. 
 
 A work fo necefiary was immediately concluded upon;, 
 and a Building ordered to be eredted for that purpofe ; 
 which was defigned by Mr. Stuart the late Surveyor, 
 and completed under the direction, of Mr. Robinfon them 
 Clerk of the Works. 
 
 It is a quadrangular brick Building 198 feet in lengthy, 
 and 175 feet in breadth; and divided into two principal 
 parts, one for the Patients under the care of the Phy- 
 fician, and the other for thofe whofe Cafes require the 
 attendance of a Surgeon,. 
 
 Each part is two Rories in height, containing a double 
 row of rooms being altogether in number 64, calculated, 
 to hold 256 Patients ; each room has a Chimney - place, 
 with an aperture near the Ceiling for the purpofe of venti-r- 
 lation,, and, will accommodate four Patients, 
 
 In 
 
INFIRMARY. 
 
 In the fore-part of this Building, which confifts of the 
 Phyfician’s divifion, is the Hall ; oppofite to it, in the 
 back part which belongs to the Surgeon, is the Kitchen ; 
 and, in the upper ftory, is a fmall Chapel, where prayers 
 are read by the Chaplains, twice a week, for the benefit of 
 the Patients. 
 
 In the four angles and other parts of the building, are 
 the Difpenfary and Surgery and apartments for the Phyfi- 
 cian ; for the Surgeon and Difpenfer, with their refpe&ive 
 AfMants ; and for the Matron ; and adjacent, within the 
 w T alls, are hot and cold Baths, 
 
 As nothing has been omitted which was judged necef- 
 fary to render this building convenient and comfortable 
 to the Patients, fo all pofiible care is taken that the Diet 
 (a fcheme of which is annexed) is adapted to their parti- 
 cular Cafes ; the Drugs and Medicines are bought of 
 the Apothecaries Company in order that they may be 
 the befl of their kinds ; and, when it is neceffary for any 
 of the Patients to go to Bath, or the falt-water, or, in 
 Cafes of Infanity, to Bethlem or other places of confine- 
 ment, they are immediately fent thither; the Hofpital 
 paying all necefiary expences. 
 
 TABLE 
 
infirmary. 
 
 il 9 
 
 TABLE of DIET. 
 
 Days. 
 
 Bread. 
 
 lb. 
 
 Beer. 
 
 Quarts 
 
 Veal. 
 
 lb. 
 
 Mutt n 
 
 lb. 
 
 Beef. 
 
 lb. 
 
 Milk. 
 
 Quarts 
 
 Butter 
 
 lb. 
 
 Eggs. 
 
 No. 
 
 Sugar. 
 
 lb. 
 
 Rice. 
 
 lb. 
 
 Sunday 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 3 
 
 4- 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 Monday 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 ~6~ 
 
 2 
 
 1 
 
 — 
 
 T uefday 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 — 
 
 3 
 4 ■ 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 Wednefd. 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 I 
 
 ~6~ 
 
 2 
 
 f 
 
 “S' 
 
 — 
 
 Thurfday 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 3 
 
 4 . 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 Friday 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 I 
 
 r 
 
 ~6" 
 
 2 
 
 1 
 
 ~ 6 " 
 
 I 
 
 z 
 
 Saturday 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 — 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 Total per 
 Week 5 
 
 7 
 
 7 
 
 
 ii 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 1 
 
 X 
 
 6 
 
 I 
 
 X 
 
 I 
 
 z 
 
 N. B. Water-gruel for breakfaft and milk-pottage for 
 fupper on meat days 3 panada for breakfad: and rice-milk 
 for fupper on banyan days. Wine, alfes milk, &c. are 
 fupplied according to the demands of the Phyfician and 
 Surgeon. 
 
 
120 
 
 1 N F I R M ARY. 
 
 The following TABLE ihews the Number of Peru 
 lioners who died in the laft twelve Years. 
 
 
 d 
 
 Feb. 
 
 Mar. 
 
 April 
 
 May 
 
 Tune 
 > J 
 
 3 
 
 > 
 
 -tii 
 
 3 
 
 <C 
 
 Sept. 
 
 O 
 
 Nov. 
 
 Dec. 
 
 Total. 
 
 1777 
 
 18 
 
 13 
 
 15 
 
 1 3 
 
 11 
 
 18 
 
 11 
 
 *5 
 
 1 9 
 
 16 
 
 21 
 
 15 
 
 185 
 
 1778 
 
 18 
 
 11 
 
 11 
 
 22 
 
 16 
 
 *9 
 
 11 
 
 19 
 
 16 
 
 16 
 
 21 
 
 14 
 
 194 
 
 *139 
 
 19 
 
 .18 
 
 2 5 
 
 22 
 
 16 
 
 J 3 
 
 16 
 
 J S 
 
 J 9 
 
 *9 
 
 15 
 
 18 
 
 215 
 
 1780 
 
 3 ° 
 
 19 
 
 1 7 
 
 21 
 
 *5 
 
 *7 
 
 
 13 
 
 J 7 
 
 25 
 
 15 
 
 20 
 
 224 
 
 3781 
 
 H 
 
 i 5 
 
 16 
 
 18 
 
 22 
 
 1 1 
 
 *5 
 
 18 
 
 16 
 
 23 
 
 15 
 
 23 
 
 206 
 
 1782 
 
 16 
 
 19 
 
 *5 
 
 21 
 
 24 
 
 3 i 
 
 18 
 
 16 
 
 16 
 
 16 
 
 J 7 
 
 19 
 
 228 
 
 1783 
 
 18 
 
 1 S 
 
 1 7 
 
 14 
 
 12 
 
 r 7 
 
 *3 
 
 *5 
 
 16 
 
 J 7 
 
 
 *9 
 
 188 
 
 1784 
 
 17 
 
 25 
 
 21 
 
 25 
 
 22 
 
 14 
 
 *3 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 J 7 
 
 186 
 
 1785 
 
 20 
 
 16 
 
 H 
 
 16 
 
 14 
 
 18 
 
 21 
 
 J 9 
 
 15 
 
 15 
 
 10 
 
 *7 
 
 195 
 
 1786 
 
 1 1 
 
 20 
 
 20 
 
 12 
 
 13 
 
 20 
 
 
 18 
 
 15 
 
 7 
 
 24 
 
 8 
 
 176 
 
 1787 
 
 36 
 
 14 
 
 12 
 
 20 
 
 11 
 
 16 
 
 14' 
 
 1 1 
 
 14 
 
 16 
 
 27 
 
 21 
 
 212 
 
 1788 
 
 f 3 
 
 J 5 
 
 22 
 
 20 
 
 13 
 
 1 1 
 
 l6 ! 
 
 15 
 
 15 
 
 14 
 
 1 2 
 
 25 
 
 191 
 
 Total 12301200 
 
 205 224 
 
 189 
 
 205 
 
 if! 
 
 180 
 
 GO 
 
 194 
 
 202 
 
 216 
 
 2400 
 
 N. B. By this Table it appears that a number exceed- 
 ing the whole of the prefent complement, viz. 2350, has 
 been buried in the above-mentioned period. 
 
 SCHOOL 
 
s 
 
 c 
 
 H O O L. 
 
 m 
 
 AGREEABLE to the tenor of King William's Com- 
 million, and the Regifter A£t, which diredt fome Provifion 
 to be made for the Maintenance and Education of the 7 & * W; 
 Sons of Seamen, it was ordered by the Governor and Council., 
 in the year 1715, that 10 Boys fhould be inttrudted in Read- 
 ing, Writing, and Navigation, by Mr. Wefton, Mathematical 
 Matter in the Town of Greenwich ; and put out Appren- 
 tices to Matters of fhips or others. 
 
 In 1719, Rules were fettled by the Diredlors, and after- 
 wards confirmed by a General Court, for the admittion, 
 maintenance, and education of Seamens Sons. 
 
 In 1731, their number amounted to 60 and has from time 
 to time been further augmented to 150, (the prefent com- 
 plement) as the increafing ttate of the funds appropriated for 
 them has admitted of it. 
 
 This Eftablifhment is folely under the management of 
 the Directors, who in rotation nominate the boys for ad- 
 miflion ; prior to which it mutt be made appear, by proper 
 Certificates, that they are 
 
 Sons of Seamen. 
 
 Between eleven and thirteen years of age. 
 
 Objects of Charity. 
 
 Of found body and mind, and able to read. 
 
 R 
 
 And 
 
SCHOOL. 
 
 Ard their Parents or Friends mud give fecurity that they 
 fhall be at the Directors difpofal, and to indemnify the 
 Hofpital for the value of their clothes &c. if they fhould 
 run away with them. 
 
 The Boys are lodged, clothed, and maintained, at the ex- 
 pence of the Hofpital, for three years. 
 
 Five Nurfes are appointed to keep them clean, to- take 
 care of their clothes, to make their- beds, attend at their 
 meals, &c. And a Guardian and four A Aidants, are ap- 
 pointed to fuperintend them when out of School. 
 
 They are intruded in the principles of Religion by the 
 Chaplains, and in Writing, Arithmetic and Navigation by 
 a School Matter appointed for that purpofe ; who alfo in- 
 ftrudts thofe in Drawing who fhew a genius for it., 
 
 Each Boy, on his admiflion, is fupplied with a Bible and 
 Common Prayer Book, and with all neceffary Books and In- 
 ftruments for his indru&ion, which he is allowed to take 
 with him when he is bound out. 
 
 All the Boys attend the Directors, once a year to be 
 viewed, when they bring fpecimens of their feveral perfor- 
 mances 3 and three of them who produce the bed Drawings- 
 after nature, done by themfelves, are allowed the follow- 
 ing premiums, according to their refpedhve degrees of 
 merit, viz. 
 
 A. Hadley’s, 
 
S C H O 
 
 O 
 
 1j. 8 2f 
 
 A Hadley’s Quadrant, ift Prize. 
 
 A Cafe of Mathematical Inflruments, 2d Ditto. 
 
 Robertfon’s Treatife on Navigation, 3 d Ditto. 
 
 They are bound out for feven years, to the fea-fervice 
 only, for the better improvement of their talents, and that 
 they may become able Seamen and good Artifts. 
 
 In 1783, it was recommended by the Directors to the 
 General Court, to build a School, and Dormitory, for the 
 Boys, without the walls of the Hofpital, that they might be 
 better accommodated, and the rooms which they occupied in 
 the Hofpital converted to Wards for the reception of more 
 Penfioners, whenever it might be found necefiary to take in 
 an additional number. 
 
 Accordingly a Building, defigned by Mr. Stuart, the late 
 Surveyor, was eredted near the Hofpital, under the fuper- 
 intendance of Mi-. Newton, Clerk of the Works. 
 
 Th is Building is 146 feet in length, and 42 in breadth, 
 exclulive of its Tufcun Colonade intended for a play- place 
 and fhelter for the boys in bad weather, which is 180 feet 
 long, and 20 feet broad. 
 
 In this Building is a School-Room 100 feet long, and 25 
 broad, capable of containing 200 Boys j in the two ftories 
 above are Dormitories of the fame fize, fitted up with Ham- 
 mocks for the Boys to fleep in. Adjoining are Rooms for 
 
 R 2 the 
 
/ 
 
 31 *8 S C H O O L. 
 
 the Guardian, Nurfes, and other neceflary attendants ; 
 and, at a fmall diftance, a good Houfe for the School- 
 mafter. 
 
 This excellent Charity, which is calculated for the double 
 purpofe of providing for the fons of poor Seamen and ma- 
 king them ufeful to their country, by training them up to & 
 Seafaring life, has been, and is folely fupported by money 
 arifi ng from the following incidental funds, viz. 
 
 Shewing the Painted Hall, Chapd, and other parts of the 
 Hofpital. 
 
 Muldts, abfences, Cheques, See. of Penfioners, and 
 Nurfes. 
 
 Profits on Provifions purchafedof the Penfioners, * 
 
 Sale of old Houfhold ftores. 
 
 Unclaimed property of deceafed Penfioners and Nurfes* 
 
 Interefi: of Money in the Stocks, being favings from the 
 above-mentioned funds. 
 
 The Clothingof the Boys, as well Linen as Woollen, is oF 
 the fame quality as that of the Penfioners, and they are new- 
 clothed as often as the Directors think fit •, and when bound 
 out, are fupplied with two complete fuits, and other 
 necefiaries. 
 
 * By this excellent plan, thofe who find it more convenient for their familes 
 t ohave money in lieu of their provifions, are prevented from expofing them 
 to fale elfewhere ; and though the Hofpital derives a profit, are allowed full 
 as much if not more than they can otherwife make of them. 
 
 They 
 
I2 9 
 
 SCHOOL. 
 
 They eat altogether at a Table provided for them within 
 the Hofpital j and the following is a fcheme of their diet 
 for every day in the week, viz. 
 
 Days. 
 
 Bread. 
 
 cz. 
 
 Beer. 
 
 Quarts 
 
 1 
 
 Beef. 
 
 lb. 
 
 Mutt n 
 
 lb. 
 
 Rice 
 
 Milk. 
 
 Pint. 
 
 Plumb 
 
 Pudd*> 
 
 lb. 
 
 Pea fe 
 Soup. 
 
 Pint. 
 
 Butter 
 
 oz. 
 
 Cheefe 
 
 oz. 
 
 Sunday 
 
 H 
 
 I 
 
 
 I 
 
 2. 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 Monday 
 
 H 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 Tuefday 
 
 H 
 
 I 
 
 — 
 
 k 
 
 X. 
 
 
 
 ' • 
 
 
 2. 
 
 Wednefd. 
 
 H 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 4 . 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 Thurfday 
 
 r 4 
 
 I 
 
 1 
 
 x 
 
 
 
 — 
 
 
 — 
 
 2 
 
 Friday 
 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 Saturday 
 
 H 
 
 I 
 
 
 i 
 
 
 
 
 — 
 
 2 
 
 Total per 1 
 Week . ] 
 
 98 
 
 7 
 
 \ 
 
 1? 
 
 I 
 
 i 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 H 
 
 Broth is allowed on each Meat day. 
 
 About 2,650 Boys have been admitted from the firft 
 Eflabliihment to the prefent time* 
 
 After 
 
After the foregoing account of the prefent fate of 
 the f pot whereon fever al of our former Mo - 
 narchs have refided \ it may not be unacceptable 
 to our Readers to fee a Defcription and V iew of 
 the old Palace , which , by the Pavour of the 
 Antiquarian Society , we are enabled to annex . 
 
» 3 > 
 
 ' * 
 
 AN ACCOUNT OF THE 
 
 Ancient ROYAL PALACE of PLACENTIA, 
 
 1 N 
 
 -EAST - GREENWICH. 
 
 G REENWICH.or Grenewick, vicks viridans , called, 
 in ancient Deeds and other Writings, Eaft- Grenwick,. 
 in order to diftinguifh it from Deptford, which was here- 
 tofore called. Weft- Green wick, probably from its Situation 
 on the verdant Banks of the Thames. 
 
 Before we mention the Palace, it may not be improper to' 
 give fome Account of the Lands on which it was ere died . 
 They, together with Lewiiham, Woolwich, and other 
 Appendages, were given to the Church of St. Peter, in 
 Ghent, by Elftrude, Niece to King Edgar, and Wife to- 
 Baldwin, Earl of Flanders, for the Health of her Soul, 
 and the Souls of her Hufband and his two Sons, Arnulf 
 and Adenulf. 
 
 Dunftan, Archbiftiop of Canterbury, who had been Ab-- 
 bot of St. Peter’s, at Ghent, is faid to have prevailed upon- 
 King Edgar to renew and confirm the aforefaid Grant by' 
 his Charter, dated 964. The fame Grant was renewed 
 by Edward the Confeftor, William the Conqueror,. Henry' 
 I, II, and King John. Pope Eugenius and his Succeftbr Alex,-; 
 
 anderr 
 
1 
 
 I3t ROYAL PALACE 
 
 ander confirmed thefe Royal Grants j but a Difpute arifing 
 between the Abbot and Convent of Ghent, and the Bifhop 
 of Rochefter, concerning the Churches of Eaft Greenwich 
 and Lewifham, the fame Claim was by Pope Clement 
 referred to Baldwin, A.rchbifhop of Canterbury, whereupon 
 thofe Churches were appropriated to the Abbey of Ghent, 
 Anno 1218, which Sentence was confirmed by Richard, 
 Bifhop of Rochefter, Anno 1239. 
 
 By Domefday Book it appears, that, foon after the Con- 
 queft, the Manor of Greenwich, as Parcel of the Pofieflions 
 of the Bifhop of Lifieux, paid Service to Odo, Bifhop of 
 Bayeux, and Earl of Kent. 
 
 King Edward I, by Letters Patent, bearing Date at 
 Weftminfter, the 5th of May, Anno Regni 3 0 , granted a 
 Licence to the Abbot and Convent of St. Peter’s at Ghent, 
 to fell the faid Manors of Lewifham and Greenwich, with 
 their Apurtenances, to Walter, Bifhop of Rochefter, to be 
 held by him and his Succefiors of the King of England, and 
 his Heirs in cafite . 
 
 The Alien Priories being, by Parliament, given to King 
 Henry V, in the Second Year of his Reign a , this Prince, 
 the Year after, granted the Manors of Lewifham and 
 Greenwich, &c. formerly belonging to the Abbey of St. 
 Peters at Ghent, to his new eredted Carthufian Abbey of 
 Sheene, 
 
 a Rot. Pari. a° 2 do Hen. V. n. 19. 
 
 The 
 
OF PLACENTIA. 
 
 The Palace, of which a View s is engraven, from a 
 Drawing in the Potteflion of Dr. Ducarel, was begun by 
 Humphrey, Duke of Gloucetter, in the Reign of Henry VI, 
 who alfo granted his Royal Licence to the Duke and 
 Alienora his Wife, to inclofe the Park, and afterwards to 
 build a Tower or Cattle, which was finished by Henry the 
 Seventh. The Duke is faid to have given the Name of 
 Placentia to this Palace and Dittridt, on Account of their 
 agreeable Situations ; but Stow atterts that this Name was 
 given by Henry the Seventh. King Edward IV, enlarged 
 the Edifice; and in the 5th Year of his Reign, granted it 
 to Elizabeth, his then Queen b . Henry VII, added a Brick 
 Front towards the Water-fide, and built a Houfe adjoining 
 to the Palace, probably the low Building, which is at the 
 Eaft End thereof for the Reception of certain Obfervant 
 Fryers, who came to Greenwich about the latter End of 
 the Reign of K. Edward the Fourth, from whom they 
 had obtained a Chauntry there, together with a fmall 
 Chapel of the Holy Crofs. This Houfe, together with 
 the Manors of Lewilham and Eatt Greenwich, being con- 
 veyed, and allured, to King Henry VIII, his Heirs, and 
 Succeflors, in the Twenty-fecond Year of his Reign c ; he 
 fpared no Cott to render it a fplendid and magnificent Pa- 
 lace. Queen Elizabeth made feveral Additions to thefe 
 Buildings ; another Front towards the Gardens was built 
 by Queen Ann, Wife of K. James I, who alfo laid the 
 Foundation of the Houfe, next the Park* where the Go- 
 vernor of the Hofpital afterwards refided, which Houfe was 
 
 b Pat. 5 Ed W IV. p. I. m. 15. e Rot. Clauf, 22 Hen. VIII. m. 13, 
 
 S 
 
 finifhed 
 
*ijo ROYAL PALACE 
 
 fmifhed and adorned in a fuperb Manner by Henrietta Ma- 
 ria, Queen to King Charles the Firft. 
 
 In this fair Palace, in which the Kings and Queens of 
 England heretofore have taken fo great a Delight, were 
 born many Royal Perfons $ amongft others, Henry VIII, 
 and his brother Edmund, and Edw. VI, Queen Mary, 
 and her Sifter Queen Elizabeth, and feveral Children of K. 
 James I. Here alio died that mo ft amiable and ever lamented 
 Sovereign Edward VI. 
 
 Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, founded an Hof- 
 pital here, by the Thames, and enlarged and beautified the 
 Edifice, which was then called the Caftle, being a more 
 eminent Part of the King’s Old Palace ; from whence was 
 a moft delightful Profpecft towards the River. 
 
 An Ordinance 11 of Parliament pafifed July 16, 1649, for 
 the Sale of the Crown Lands, in which was a Claufe, 
 providing, that the fame fhould not extend, inter alia , to 
 the Manor of Eaft Greenwich, nor to the Houfe, Park, 
 Caftle, or any Buildings thereunto belonging : in Confe- 
 quence whereof they were permitted to remain in the Hands 
 of the State. 
 
 The Necefiities of the Commonwealth, fome time after, 
 requiring Monies to be railed for defraying the Expences- 
 of the Navy ; the Houfe of Commons, on the 27th of 
 November, 1652, took that Matter into Confideration,- 
 
 * Scobel’s Afts, 
 
 and 
 
OF PLACENTIA. 
 
 and came to the following Refolution :> viz. That Green- 
 wich Houfe, Park, and Lands, fhould be immediately fold 
 for ready Money 2 . On the fixth of December { following 
 they ordered Surveyors to be fworn for the due Valuation of 
 the Premises, in like manner as had been prefcribed for 
 furveying other Eflates of the late King, Queen, and Prince ; 
 and on the 31ft Day of the fame Month, the Houfe pafled 
 an Ordinance for carrying the Survey and Sale into Exe- 
 cution. The Survey was accordingly taken, and Particulars 
 made out for the Sale of the Hoby Stables, and fome 
 trifling Parts of the Royal Garden and Palace g , but no 
 further Proceedings appear to have been had at that 
 Time. 
 
 In the Tear 1654, the h Sub- Committee, for the Revenue, 
 finding that the Houfe and Park of Eafl: Greenwich, to- 
 gether, with Hampton-Court Houfe and Park, Somerfet 
 Houfe, &c. and other the King’s Palaces, had been fur- 
 veyed, and the Buildings valued at 25,9691. 6s. 6d. but that 
 the fame then remained unfold, after folemn Debates, de- 
 clared, as their Opinion, that they tire fit Places for the 
 Accommodation of the Lord Protestor, therefore not to be 
 valued at any grofs Sum, yet, that they might be allowed 
 toward the Revenue as they are returned in the Survey, at 
 the Rent of 1254I. 13s. 4d. 
 
 * 
 
 'Journals of the Houfe of Commons, Vol. VII. p. 222. 
 
 'Ibid. 
 
 E Records in the Augmentation Office. 
 
 h Report of the Sub-Committee of Parliament for the Revenue, Anno 1654. 
 MS. in the Poffeffion of Lord Godolphin. 
 
 S 2 
 
 King 
 
*135 ROYAL PALACE, &c. 
 
 King Charles the Second, finding the Old Palace greatly de- 
 cayed by Time, and the Want of neceflary Reparations during 
 the Ufurpation, foon after his Return to England, began to 
 eredt a New Palace in this Place y but it being left unfimfhed' 
 at his Death,, remained in that Condition until King Wil- 
 liam III. and Queen Mary, by Letters Patent, bearing Date 
 the 25th of October, in the Sixth Year, of their Reign, 
 granted to Sir John Sommers, then Keeper of the Great 
 Seal, and divers others, a Piece or Parcel of Ground, Part 
 of the Manor of Greenwich,, containing Eight Acres, Two 
 Roods, and Thirty- two fquare Perches, and which, as 
 defcribed in thofe Letters Patent, is bounded by the River 
 Thames on the North, and contained, by Admeafurement, 
 along the River, from a Houfe in the Occupation of Ni- 
 cholas Smythys, to the Raft End of the Edifice called 
 the Veftry, Six Hundred Seventy- three Feet, abutting in 
 Part, Eaft, on the. public Way, leading from the Crane to 
 the Back Lane, South on the Old Tilt-Yard and the 
 Queens Garden, and Weft on the Fryer’s Road and 
 other Lands belonging to the Crown, together with the 
 Capital Mefluage, then lately in building by King Charles 
 the Second, and flill remaining unfinifhed, commonly called 
 by the Name of the Palace at Greenwich, and there Hand- 
 ing upon Part of the aforefaid Ground : To hold, forever, 
 as of the Manor of Eaft Greenwich, in free and common 
 Socage, by Fealty only, to the Intent that the Premifies 
 fhould be converted (as they have accordingly been) into an 
 Hofpital for Seamen. 
 
 A LIST 
 
A LIST of the prefent DIRECTORS of the 
 HOSPITAL . 
 
 *33 
 
 Sir Hugh Pallifer, Bart. 
 
 James Fergufon, Efq. 
 
 Sir Alexander Hood, K. B. 
 
 Right Honourable William Eden. 
 Timothy Brett, Efq. 
 
 John Cleyland, Efq. 
 
 John Tauzia Savary, Efq. 
 
 George Marfh,, Efq. 
 
 William Wells, Efq. 
 
 Reverend John Cooke.. 
 
 John Campbell, Efq.. 
 
 Joah Bates, Efq. 
 
 Sir Richard Bickerton, Bart. 
 William Allen, Efq. 
 
 Martin Fonnereau, Efq., 
 
 Jofiah Hardy,, Efq. 
 
 William Palmer, Efq. 
 
 William Thornton Aftell, Efq. 
 George Rogers, Efq. 
 
 Richard Hulfe, Efq. 
 
 Chriftopher Mafon, Efq. 
 
 Richard Preflon, Efq. 
 
 John Yenn, Efq. 
 
 William Bellingham, Efq. 
 
 A LIST 
 
A LIST of the Lords High Admirals, and Firil Lords of 
 the Admiralty, and alfo of the Mailers and Governors, 
 Lieutenant-Governors, Captains, Lieutenants, and other 
 Civil and Military Officers of the Hofpital, from the Influ 
 tution to the prefent Time . 
 
 LORDS HIGH ADMIRALS and FIRST 
 LORDS of the ADMIRALT V. 
 
 In 
 
 1694, Edward RuiTel, Efqj 
 
 1697, Edward RuiTel, Earl of Orford 
 
 1699, John Egerton, Earl of Bridgwater 
 
 1701, Thomas Herbert, Earl of Pembroke 
 
 1702, His Royal Highnefs Prince George of Denmark, 
 Lord High Admiral 
 
 1708, Thomas Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, 
 Lord High Admiral 
 
 1709, Edward RuiTel, Earl of Orford 
 
 1710, Sir John Leake, Knt. 
 
 1712, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Stafford 
 1714, Edward RuiTel, Earl of Orford 
 17 1 7, James Berkeley, Earl of Berkeley 
 1727, George Byng, Vifcount Torrington 
 1 733, Sir Charles Wager, Knt. 
 
 1742, Daniel Earl of Winchelfea and Nottingham 
 1744, John Duke of Bedford 
 1748, John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich 
 1751, George Lord Anfon 
 
 1756, Richard Earl Temple 
 
 1757, Daniel Earl of Winchelfea and Nottingham 
 
 1757, George 
 
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 LORDS HIGH ADMIRALS . 
 
 In 1 757,- George Lord Anfon 
 
 1762, George Montagu Dunk, Earl of Halifax 
 
 , Right Hon. George Grenville 
 
 1763, J°^ n Montagu, Earl of Sandwich 
 
 , John Percival, Earl of Egmont 
 
 1766, Sir Charles Saunders, K. B. 
 
 • , Sir Edward Hawke, K. B. 
 
 I 77 I , John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich.. 
 
 1782, Auguftus Vifcount Keppel 
 
 1783, Richard Vifcount Howe 
 
 , Auguftus Vifcount Keppel 
 
 • , Richard Vifcount Howe 
 
 178&, J°hn Pitt, Earl of Chatham, 
 
 MASTERS and ' GOVERNORS. 
 
 fn 1708, Sir William Gifford, Knt. 
 
 1:714, Mathew Aylmer,. Efq. 
 
 1720., Sir John Jennings, Knt. 
 
 1744, Sir John Balchen, Knt. 
 
 .1746, Right Hon.. Lord Archibald Hamilton 
 1754, Ifaac Townfend, Efq. 
 
 1765, Sir George Bridges Rodney, Bart., 
 
 1771, Francis Holbourn, Efq. * 
 
 ' ■ ■■, Sir Charles Hardy, Knt. 
 
 1780, Sir Hugh Pallifer, Bart. 
 
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 L IE UTE NANT- GOVERNORS. 
 
 In 1704, Captain John Clements 
 
 I 7°5» 
 
 Robert Robinfon 
 
 2 7 I 8 , 
 
 Thomas Clealby 
 
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 — Jofeph Soanes, 
 
 *737> 
 
 Teudor Trevor 
 
 1740, — 
 
 Charles Smith 
 
 I 75°> 
 
 Francis Danfays 
 
 *754> 
 
 James Lloyd 
 
 1761, — 
 
 — — William Boys 
 
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 Thomas Baillie 
 
 1 77 8 > 
 
 Jarvis Maplefden 
 
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 Broderick Hartwell 
 
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 r-. 
 
 — James Fergufon 
 
 CAPTAINS.' 
 
 In 1704, Robert Robinfon 
 1705, Benjamin Holkins 
 1712, Thomas Monk 
 1714, Thomas Clealby 
 
 1717, Edmund Clark 
 
 1718, Thomas Smith 
 — , John Smith 
 1722, William Faulkner 
 1725, Charles Chamberlain 
 1728, Baron Wylde 
 
 , Charles Smith 
 
 1736, Teudor 
 
*37 
 
 la 1736, Teudor Trevor 
 1737, Robert Mann 
 1740, Edward Gregory 
 1743, Thomas Lawrence 
 1745, Francis Danfays 
 1747, James Lloyd 
 1750, Peter Ofborne 
 
 1 75 3, Cotton Dent 
 
 1754, James Rycaut 
 — Juftinian Nutt 
 
 1758, Elliot Smith 
 
 1759, Richard Clements 
 1761, Thomas Baillie 
 1767, James Hobbs 
 
 1769, Henry Marfh 
 
 1770, Jarvis Maplefden 
 1772, Thomas Allwright 
 
 1774, Francis Lynn 
 
 1775, J ames Cook 
 *776* J ar *ies Chads 
 
 1779, George Robinfon Walters 
 1781, John Gore 
 
 LIEUTENANTS . 
 
 In 1704, Pierce Welch 
 — , John Conftable 
 1705, Edward Smith 
 1709, Thomas Grimftone 
 
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 1724, Heary 
 
In 1724, Henry Power 
 1728, John Lambert 
 1736, William Carr 
 1739, Alexander Barclay 
 1743, Ifaac Power 
 1745, Henry Olborn 
 i-747> John Bray 
 1748, Alexander Gordon 
 
 , Henry Moyle 
 
 1749,. Charles Stuterville 
 175 o y> George Grant 
 1754^. James Cummings 
 1759, Charles Beflon 
 1766^ Robert Kerr 
 , William Lefebvre- 
 
 1772, Jpfeph Neville 
 
 1773, Henry Smith 
 1774V, William Anfel 
 1778, Anthony Fortyc 
 1780, George Spearing 
 
 1782, William Lurcock 
 
 1783, Henry Mafters 
 1786^ William Hunter 
 1787, Patrick Stuart 
 
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 TREASURERS. 
 
 In 1695, John Evelyn 
 1704, William Draper 
 17 Galfredus Walpole 
 47 2r, Philip Cavendifh 
 a 736, Hercules Baker 
 1745, James Gunman 
 1754, Charles Saunders 
 1766, Alexander Hood 
 
 SECRETAR tE & 
 
 In 1695, William Vanburgh 
 1716, Thomas Corbett 
 1736, William Corbett 
 1751, John Corbett 
 1 753, Daines Barrington 
 1756, Philip Stephens 
 1759, John Milnes 
 1762, John Ibbetfon 
 
 AUDITORS . 
 
 In 1707, Sidney Godolphin 
 17 33, James Hunter 
 1741, Charles Clarke 
 
 T 2 1742* Heneage 
 
In 1742? HeneageLegge 
 1747, Swinfen Jervis 
 1757, Richard Hufley 
 
 1770, Edward Thurlow 
 
 1771, William Eden 
 
 CHAPLAINS . 
 
 In 1705, Philip Stubbs 
 
 , Robert Barry 
 
 1716, Thomas Pocock 
 1738, Nicolas Tindal 
 1745, David Campbell 
 
 1772, John Cooke 
 
 1 773, John Maule 
 
 PHTSICIANS 
 
 In 1704, Salilbury Cade, 
 
 17 1 3, William Maundy 
 
 1714, William Oliver 
 1716, Richard Morton. 
 
 1730, Peter Jouneau 
 
 — , Stephen Hall 
 
 1731, David Cockburn 
 1762, Montague Bacon 
 1766, James HoiTack 
 
14 * 
 
 STEWARDS. 
 
 In 1704, Jofeph Gafcoigne 
 1717, William Bell 
 1761, John Ellis 
 1772, John Izard 
 1774, John Godby 
 
 SURGEONS. 
 
 In 1704, James Chriftie 
 1714, Ifaac Rider 
 1754, Charles Allen 
 
 1763, Henry Tom 
 
 1764, John Holden 
 
 1765, Benjamin Denham 
 
 1766, William Taylor 
 
 CLERKS of the CHE $JJ E. 
 
 In 1718, Edward Smith 
 17 36, John Maule 
 1776* Stephen John Maule 
 
 DISPENSERS. 
 
 In 1744* Henry Blakey 
 1 757, John Pocock 
 
 S UR - 
 
SURFETORS. 
 
 14* 
 
 •«* 
 
 In 1696, Sir Chriftopher Wren, Knt. 
 
 1716, Sir John Vanbrugh, Knt. 
 
 1726, Colin Campbell 
 1729, Thomas Ripley 
 175 8, James Stuart 
 1788, Sir Robert Taylor, Knt. 
 
 >■■■■ - , John Yenn 
 
 CLERKS of WORKS . 
 
 In 1696, John Scarborough 
 
 — , Henry Symmons 
 
 1698, Nicholas Hawkefmore 
 1705, John James 
 1746, William Robinfon 
 1775, Robert Mylne 
 1782, William Newton 
 
 THE END. 
 
 errata. 
 
 Page 1 01, Hne 18, for between, xziHmiallu 
 
 In the Lift of Directors, for Richard . , read Robert Prejlon , Eup