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A90450	Mr. Pepys to the President and Governours of Christ-Hospital upon the present state of the said hospital. To the Honour'd Sir John Moor, Kt. and President, and the rest of my honour'd friends, the governours of Christ-Hospital. : York-Buildings, Monday, Novem. 21. 1698.	Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703.; Moor, John, Sir.; Christ's Hospital (London, England). Board of Governours.	1698 (1698)	Wing P1451C; ESTC R187059	23,676	33

wasteful and Arbitrary Methods to be found in the Management of Our Expences wholly inconsistent both with the Orders and Ends of our Pious Benefactors 9ly That of this Debt of 35000 l. there rests no less than 19500 l. specially owing to the Royal Foundation and of that above 1300 l. unlay'd-out of the Sums annually received by Us of the King's Bounty out of the Exchequer for putting forth his Children to the Seas notwithstanding what you were the last Year misled to the asserting and imposing on the Lords of the Treasury upon that Subject to the contrary And this without any one End of the whole Institution answer'd or likely to be under our present Managements Or any one Year lately pass'd wherein our Printed Reports thereof will bear Examination any more than the present Year is likely to produce One Child of its whole Number either duely Sent Abroad or qualified for it as he ought to be While the Season too is so near at hand when Our Performances therein should intitle Us to another Year's Payment 10ly Lastly That besides this Debt of 35000 l. thus lying on Us We labour under a further Annual Charge amounting by the Medium of Our last Seven Years Expences to above 14600 l. per. Ann. And this without Ought in present View towards either Clearing the One or Supporting the Other but a Revenue We our selves publish'd but at Easter last in Print to be little more than a Moiety of our Necessary and Vnavoidable Charge Which deing so and for the better applying the same to the Oceasion for which you now call for it it remains only that I subjoyn thereto these Three Short Reflections 1st That before the Address which I presume will be of Course on this Occasion made to the Lord Mayor and City for their Concurrence to the Discharge of the present and Admission of another Treasurer it seems indispenceable on our Parts that they be throughly apprised of the contents of this Paper in order to their considering what may be expedient to be first done for their own needful Security therein And this the rather for that whatever they may think fit to do with respect to any other Article of ir I hold my self bound to tell you that the Interest which my self in particular bear in all that concerns the Mathematick Foundation with regard no less to the Glorious End of it in the Advancement of the Navigation of England than my own special Misfortune in contributing what I did to the unhappy Choice made by my Royal Masters its Founders of the Place they lodg'd the Trust of it in will oblige me as a standing Piece of Duty to the Crown to insist upon a strict Account to be given of so unexampl'd a Miscariage as that of this their Foundation not yet 25. Year-old yet every Penny of its Endowment already spent and the Support of it thrown upon and at this day wholly born out of the Common Stock of of our otherwise sufficiently wretched Orphans who have no relation to it While at the same time no single Instance is to be shewn of the End of its Institution answer'd within the whole time of our present Retrospection 2ly That if in this Paper ought appears whereto either the Treasurer or any other Member of this Society shall see reason to except and exhibiting the same to this Court shall have it communicated thence to me with their Approval I shall most readily from Your own Books and Registers expose to you the Grounds of what I have asserted herein as One who am not conscious though yet fallible of any one single Prevarication from or Aggravation of the Truth in what I have here offer'd You. 3ly Finally That as unhappy as by this my Draught of it the State of your House must necessarily be thought to be with respect to its Revenue Charge and Debt I cannot but in faithfulness thereto further tell you that it is yet the very best Side of the Prospect I have to give You of its Condition in the other Parts of my Report And that therefore I shall not dare to trust either my self or this Court with the immediate Exposing of it though Originally designed for You as deeming it on many Considerations more becoming me and more behoofeful to the Service of the House and its Poor that I rather deliver it into the Hands and submit it to the Disposal of Those who as standing primarily accountable for Our Managements to the King are intitled to our aceounting for the same first to Them I mean my Lord Mayor and the foremention'd Body of the City from whom alone or in their Failure from a Royal Visitation the same if ever must receive its Remedy I am Gentlemen Your most humble and faithful Servant S. Pepys The Summons to the forementioned Court at Christ-Hospital SIR YOur Worship is earnestly desired to be present at a Court to be holden in Christ-Hospital upon Friday next being the 25th of this instant November at 3 a Clock in the Afternoon precisely for the due considering two Printed Papers lately presented by Mr. Pepys to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen and to the Court held at this House the 21st instant Vpon the present state of Christ-Hospital William Parrey Clerk Christ-Hospital 24 Nov. 1698. To the Right Honourable Sir Francis Child Lord Mayor and the Court of Aldermen Accompanying Copies of the precedeing Papers York-Buildings Tuesday Dec. 6th 1698. My Lord and Gentlemen AS fully as I had determined against interrupting this Court or myself with the Interchange of more Papers I hold my self accountable to you for the Issue of your late Allowance of my communicating those I last sent you to the Gentlemen of Christ-Hospital Which I did to the procuring the Call of an Extraordinary Court for the Consideration of the same Duplicates of which Transaction with a Copy of the Summons it self provided thereto I think it for your Service to lay before you together with the Issue of the Whole which you may please to take as follows Viz. 1st The Number present at this Court of its near four Hundred Governours was Fifty six Which tho short of what I have known attending the Choice of a Beadle a Porter or such only Occasion was yet double the Appearance seen at Ordinary Courts 2ly As full nevertheless as it was no Part of the Work it was specially called for was either done or had any Entry made towards it the Papers themselves in the full three Hours of its sitting not having had so much as a Reading-Time allowed them nor any other assigned for the doing it 3ly The Matter mainly handled therein was that of their Treasurer's being required by this Court to Sign his Accounts and present them back thereto when Signed In which I had the good Fortune of offering these Gentlemen together with the forementioned Papers some Thoughts of mine upon the Deference due to You both from that and

to think of putting a speedy End to this Dispute that must otherwise prove distructive of the very Foundation we are concerned for Nor let what is here offer'd You lose any of its Force for the sake of him that offers it As being One too well acquainted with other Subjects more worthy his sacrificing so much of the little Residue of his Time and private Study to than this before us Were it not that he would be glad to convert some part of the Leasure God Almighty has been pleased to bless the Evening of his Life with to a Good so publickly meritorious as he takes This to be and is therefore grieved to find Marks of Hardship placed by you upon those of your Servants who can but be suspected of having given any Assistance towards it and that most of all on him from whom of the whole number of your Clerks I have received the least as you may shortly have occasion to see though from None of them more than by their Duty and special Order of Court they were obliged to nor yet All that when put together near so much in the moment of it as from the Treasurer himself and his Accountant now lying by me under their Hands But when the Management of Publick Charities shall become a Business of Mystery it will be time for Good men to think of being their own Almoners And I pray God it prove not our Misfortune to set the first Copy towards it there seeming nothing left within my Vein should this my last Attempt with both Bodies the Court of Aldermen I mean and This together fail but a Royal Visitation to prevent it With which I do with the deepest Respect take my final leave of this sort of Intercourse between you and me on this Occasion remaining Honour'd Gentlemen Your most faithful and obedient Servant S. Pepys A COPY of Mr. PEPYS's forementioned Representation sent to CHRIST-HOSPITAL near 12. Months since To the Honour'd Sir John Moor Kt. and President and the rest of my Honour'd Friends the Governours of CHRIST-HOSPITAL assembled in Court this 17. of Decem. 1697. York-Buildings Decem. 17th 1697. Gentlemen I Have receiv'd the Notice order'd me from your last Court of the 10th instant touching the Respit then put to your Election of a new Treasurer upon the Want as it would seem of my expected Report of the State of your House In answer whereto and that the Consequences if any of that Delay may not rest upon this suppos'd Failure of mine be pleas'd to be reminded of your being expresly advertis'd of the readiness of that Report by a Worthy Member of your Body at a very full Court upon the 28th of September last now near three Months since without the least intimation given me either then or since of your desiring it from me but rather the contrary to this day Nor durst I unask'd take upon me the exposing of it nor shall even now of more than may be useful to the special Purpose for which you now demand it relating to the Treasurer And I pray God the bringing even this all at once to a Publick Court may be follow'd with no inconvenience But You have requir'd it and I obey praying You to accept of what I have here with all respect to offer You thereon in these few and succinct Propositions 1st That by the first General Audit after your present Treasurer's Accession to his Office in 1683. for I think it enough on my part and no more than so on yours that I go so far back in my Retrospection he became charged with a Ballauce in Cash of 3300 l. 2ly That upon a strict Collating of the Nett Receipts of each Year from that time to the Close of the Year 1696 or according to the peculiar Stile of this House to Midsummer 1697. I find to have been Received and Expended of the Stock of the Poor within this House that Ballance included above 175000 l. 3ly That neither of this Sum nor of any Part of it nor of the State of your Revenue in general has there ever been any one Representation made to or Cognizance had of it by the Lord Mayor and Body Corporate of the City the Only Governors of the Hospital-Revenues though peculiarly Charg'd with an Accountableness for our Managements of the same to the best Benefit of the Poor But so much the contrary that I find not one Account thereof to have been ever reported even to Your selves from your Committee of Auditors much less controll'd approv'd and confirm'd by You in Court as all Acts of Committees especially in Fundamentals like this ought to be to this day 4ly That it doth not appear to me either from your Books or my best informations from your Clerks and Accomptants that any Share of the Controlling and Auditing-Part of your said Accounts is regularly Executed by a Quorum of that Committee duely summon'd thereto saving the last Act of it only I mean the Signing of it de bene esse after being ingross'd Which and that alone appears indeed to have a solemn Day and Entertainment assign'd for it at the Charge of the Hospital 5ly That in consequence of this and of the general Order of those your Accounts I have not found any one Year's so digested as that by it alone a sincere and strict Enquirer could be either fully or truly apprised of the General State of the House's Revenue or so as to be able though possibly true to satisfy himself in its being so 6ly That as one Evidence only of this last Truth You may be pleas'd with very little difficulty to inform Your Selves that in as ill a Condition as this House is on all hands known to be there is not any one Year as far as my strictest inspections can enlighten me wherein Your General Account thereof so audited has not declared You Masters both of a Remain of Cash and Ballance in Stock frequently to above 10. sometimes 11. and 12. and one Year with another to above 8000 l. all Debts provided for from the very first Entrance of this Gentleman upon his Treasurership to this Day 7ly That notwithstanding the 175000l received as before with the continu'd Representations of our being always thus amply in Stock We have at this day not only Complaints hourly shower'd on Us as well of our Wants at Home as the Distresses of our Nurses and Children Abroad but as far as your own Books may in any wise be rely'd-on stand indebted at this very hour to the Wills of our Dead and Appointments of our Living Benefactors and to others our Creditors beyond all We have in View towards discharging the same to the Value with the Interest upon both of above 35000l 8ly That as surprising as this may appear at its first Opening to this Court I am well convinc'd that it will not do so to any who shall apply themselves with the same Attention I have done to the noting and considering all those unnecessary unprecedented