Chappel daily at the accustomed time of Divine Service The like shall be observed by the Schoolmaster Usher and poor Scholars of the Foundation upon every Sunday Holy-day and Vigil in the Afternoon And that there be a Sermon every Sunday at Morning Prayer either by him the said Preacher or some other deputed by him The Master and Preacher shall have in care and charge to see that the whole Houshold and those of the School of the Age of Sixteen years and upwards shall receive the Blessed Sacrament yearly at the three Solemn Feasts of Christmas Easter and Whitsontide unless they be satisfied by some lawful excuse and just cause of their failing otherwise the party denying or delaying shall be liable to the Masters Chastisement and the Governours further Censure The Master and Preacher shall have Superintendancy over the Chappel Clerk Organist and Sexton to see if each of them carefully perform the Duties of his place the one in Reading of Divine Service at the hours accustomed assisting the Preacher at the Communion and burying the Dead The second in teaching the poor Scholars to Sing and playing on the Organs at set times of Divine Service The third in keeping the Chappel in a cleanly comely and decent manner and carefully performing all other Services belonging to such a place otherwise they and every of them shall be subject to the Masters Punishment Preachers since the Foundation 1. Mr. Harsnet 2. Mr. Parker 3. Mr. Ford. 4. Mr. Percivall Burrell 5. Mr. William Middleton 6. Mr. Daniel Toughtevil 7. Mr. Foxely 8. Mr. Clark 9. Mr. William Adderly 10. Mr. George Griffith 11. Dr. Timothy Thirscross 12. Mr. Patrick The Physician HE shall be qualified with the Degree of a Doctor in that Profession and shall have his yearly Fee of twenty pounds confirmed unto him he shall make choice of his Apothecary and not exceed the Sum of Twenty pounds a year for Physick Bills according to the Rate set down in our Establishment otherwise the Governours reserve the power to themselves to make choice of another that will accept of these Conditions or to determine whether they will have any Physician in Ordinary Fee or not Physicians ever since the Foundation 1. Mr. Thomas Barker 2. Dr. Barker his Son 3. Dr. Laurence Wright 4. Dr. Bates 5. Dr. Gabriel Beavoir 6. Dr. Castel 7. Dr. Walter Needham The Register and Solicitor HE shall be lodged and dieted in the Hospital a Man of good Conversation well practised in following Law Causes a good Penman ready diligent and faithful in all such Imployments as the Governours or Master shall put him upon His Imployment shall be to Summon all Assemblies to Register their Orders and Decrees in the Assembly Book to draw all Patents and Leases make them ready for the Common Seal and enroll them in the Book of Entries to draw all Leases for the Gvernours and wait upon them for the signing and dispatch to attend the Hospital Council and take their Direction upon any occasion of Law business and having the Masters Warrant to follow the same withall dexterity and diligence to call in Arrearages of Rents and make seizure or re-entry for default of payment by Warrant of the Governours to take all Petitions and present them to the Table to take Bond for the teaching well using and maintenance of poor Scholars made Apprentices and by the Masters order and direction to put in suit the Bonds forfeited either for Non-payment of Debts not performance of Covenants or for any other cause whatsoever and to prosecute and answer all Suits in Law whatsoever for and concerning the said House and Hospital He shall not directly nor indirectly contract for the preferring of poor men or Boyes into the Hospital nor with any of the Tenants for renewing their Leases such business shall immediately be preferred by Petition to the Governours only and then presented by him to the Table and if he be a Transgressor herein he shall forfeit his place He shall not cancel or deface any Orders concluded at an Assembly and signed by the Governours there present upon peril of loosing his place He shall not presume to receive or meddle with any monies accrewing due to the Hospital by way of Fine Rent or Debt however Registers ever since the Foundation 1. Mr. Thomas Heyward 2. Mr. Samuel Martyn 3. Mr. John Yeomans 4. Mr. Brent 5. Mr. Cresset afterwards Master 6. Mr. John Holland 7. Mr. William Taylour 8. Mr. William Massey 9. Mr. Spelman 10. Mr. Lightfoot The Receiver HE shall not enter into the Execution of his Office before he give good Security by ten several Bonds of two hundred pounds a piece wherein himself with two sufficient Sureties in every Bond shall stand bound to the Governours for the faithful executing his Place and discharging his Accompt he shall deliver out no monies but only to the Manciple for Diet unless he have order and warrant from the Master He shall according to such Letters of Attorney as are or shall be made in that behalf make publique demand of Rents due by the Hospital Tenants upon the dayes expressed in the Conditions of their Leases and shall take witness thereof that such further course may be taken for satisfaction as shall seem good to the Governours At Michaelmas every year when his Accompt shall be given up he shall have two hundred pounds imprested to him by the Master out of the Surplus remaining that year or out of the House Stock which imprest shall be for expence for Dyet and other Charges till Michaelmas Rent come in repaying the said mony into the Iron Chest of the Hospital Stock at or before the end of November then next coming Receivers ever since the Foundation 1. Mr. Smith 2. Mr. David Lewis 3. Mr. John Clark 4. Mr. Andrew Hill 5. Mr. Alexander Lawson 6. Sir John Payn. 7. Mr. Payn. The Manciple HE shall put in Bond of One hundred pounds with one sufficient Surety for discharging himself by a just and allowed Accompt of all such Sums of mony as the Receiver shall from time to time imprest unto him upon the Masters warrant for the Affairs of the Hospital He shall attend his Service in the Kitchin till all the Tables be served and taken away and then he shall take his Meals with the inferior Officers and Grooms at their accustomed Table and Rate established in these our Ordinances following He shall keep a Book of the weekly expence in Dyet carry it to the Auditors to be examined he shall within four days after the week is expired bring it to the Master to be perused and signed by him and whom else he will call He shall not disburse or lay out any Sum or Sums of mony for any Provisions for the Hospital save only the Provision of Dyet without the Masters warrant wherein also he shall not exceed the Rates set down in our Establishment ensuing nor shall he buy any such Provisions in the Market or elsewhere but with
of the Governours meet at an Assembly and the greater part of them present determine and give order for any thing propounded then that Assembly shall stand good and those Orders shall be in force otherwise not And also all Elections and Expulsions made at such a full Assembly shall stand good otherwise they shall be held unlawful and it shall be the Masters duty to disavow them till the Governours pleasure be further known the next Assembly All Grants Leases and Presentations and all Elections of all Officers mentioned in the Charter and likewise of the Register Receiver Auditor Chappel Clerk Organist and Manciple as also of all poor men and poor Scholars shall be in the power of the Governours only and they shall not elect above Eighteen poor Men or Eighteen poor Scholars at any one Assembly No Patent or Fee shall be granted for life to any Officer whatsoever but durante beneplacito No poor Man or poor Scholar shall be admitted but into the next place after him that is or shall be pre-elected and they shall not come one over the others head any powerful means or importunity to the contrary notwithstanding The Orders and Constitutions of every Assembly shall be ingrossed in the Assembly Book by the Register and signed by the Governours present at that Assembly within forty days All which Orders and Constitutions the Master Register and other Members Officers Ministers and Servants of the House whom it may concern shall observe and obey as they will answer the contrary at their peril Other Assemblies shall be accidentary upon the occasion of the Death or Resignation of a Governour Officer of the Foundation or Incumbent upon any Spiritual Living being of the Patronage of the Hospital to elect or present another in his place wherein it is provided that the Spiritual Livings be conferred upon persons capable and such as do or have done actual Service to the House or have been Members thereof before any others A Committee of five at the least shall be chosen for the whole year at the Assembly in December whereof any three the Master being one may proceed in any business left to the Committees And they shall yearly between Easter and Midsummer assisted with some learned Men make a Visitation of the School and certifie the Table at the Assembly following of the state thereof and which Scholars between the Age of Sixteen and Eighteen are fit to be preferred to the Universities and there maintained by the Hospital which not Those Scholars sent to the Universities if they continue there and follow their Studies shall be allowed each of them Sixteen pounds yearly Pension at the four usual Feasts by even and equal portions for Eight years But in case they discontinue sooner their Pension shall cease Provided always they shall not exceed the number of Four and twenty such Pensioners at any one time Such as are to be bound Apprentices shall have Sixteen pounds a piece in gift towards their setting out whereof four Marks shall be to apparel the Apprentice and twenty Marks to his Master which money both for Maintenance at the Universities and putting out to Trades shall be disbursed by the surviving Executor of the Founder during his life and after by such as the Governours shall appoint in that behalf Provided that the Tradesman shall first enter into Thirty pounds Bond to the Governours for good usage of the Apprentice and teaching him his Trade Such Scholars as the Governours at an Assembly shall appoint to Universities or Trades with the allowance before specified their Parents or nearest Friends that are able shall be sent unto to provide them of Places accordingly before Michaelmas-day then next following and if they shall fail therein upon lawful warning given them then those Scholars shall be dismissed and made uncapable of any allowance in or from the Hospital Concerning such Scholars whose Parents or Friends are unable the House shall provide places for them Lastly the said Committees shall take in their Consideration all business of importance referred unto them by the Governours at an Assembly As also all such things as the Master of the Hospital shall communicate unto them for their advice and assistance to digest and prepare them that they may be presented in writing to the Solicitor and propounded at the next meeting of the Governours The Master ELection shall be made of a Master that is a learned discreet and meet man according to the express words of the Foundation unmarried and aged above Forty years He shall neither have nor accept of any place of Preferment or Benefit either in Church or Commonwealth whereby he may be drawn from his Residence Care and Charge of the Hospital and if he do in such case he shall leave that place or be displaced if he refuse to leave it He shall have the Oeconomical Government of the House and Houshold during the Governours pleasure and to put upon any Officer a Mulct not exceeding the value of a week or fortnights Commons which shall be continued unless the Governours at the next Assembly shall see cause and give order to the contrary And also to fine any poor Brother at four shillings four pence or eight shillings eight pence upon any misdemeanour in his discretion deserving the same any further punishment he shall not inflict but upon continuance of their transgression and incorrigibility he shall inform the Governours at the next Assembly by them to be more severely and condignly chastised by way of Mulct Expulsion or otherwise as to their Wisdoms shall seem best and most just for the Offenders Correction and terrour of others All other inferiour Servants of the Houshold shall be put in or out at the discretion of the Master but he shall have this power in subordination to the Governours and his actions shall be alterable by their Censure and Revocation upon just Cause of Complaint He shall not increase or decrease any Diets Stipends Fees or Wages in the House or School under or above the Rates set down in our Establishment hereafter ensuing as he will answer the contrary upon pain of paying the Surcharge himself and incurring the Gevernours displeasure in case any allowance be shortned Masters of the House since the Foundation 1. John Hutton Clerk 2. Mr. Andrew Pern 3. Peter Hooker Clerk 4. Francis Beaumont Esquire 5. Sir Robert Dallington 6. George Gerard Esquire 7. Edward Gresset Esquire 8. Sir Ralph Sidenham 9. Martyn Clifford Esquire The Preacher HE shall be qualified both for his Learning and good Conversation of Life to be capable and fit for the place aged about Thirty years a Master of Arts of Seven years standing at the least and one that hath been a preaching Minister the space of four years or more The first and chiefest care and charge that we impose upon the Master and Him is for the Service of God that they and all the Officers poor Brothers Scholars and Servants of the Houshold frequent the
ready mony And if he shall disburse any thing contrary to these Orders it shall not be allowed him upon his Accompt Besides he shall be answerable for his Disobedience He shall take a true and perfect Inventory twice in every year of all the Goods Moveables and Utensils of and throughout the Hospital and give Accompt thereof to the Master that he may lay the imbezelling or loss to every Officer Groom or poor Brother to whom it was intrusted satisfying the House out of their Wages at his discretion and giving order for repairing and renewing such Stuff as shall be so lost or by long wearing become no more useful The poor Brothers THey shall not exceed the Number of Fourscore They shall not be holden qualified and capable of the place unless they be such as are within the Intention of the Kings Letters Patents of the Foundation namely Gentlemen by Descent and in Poverty Souldiers that have born Arms by Sea or Land Merchants decayed by Pyracy or Shipwrack or Servants in Houshold to the King and Queens Majesty and none of these to be under the Age of Fifty years at the time of their Admission and it shall be the Masters Charge to certifie the Table when they are propounded at an Assembly if he know any thing of any man standing in Election to the contrary He that hath been maimed in the Warrs either at Sea or Land and not in any fray or private quarrel being also a Subject of the Kings Dominions shall be capable of the place at Forty years Age or upwards But if he be not maimed though otherwise well deserving he shall not be capable of the place unless he be Fifty years old at the least Nor shall any be admitted whose Body is tainted with any Leprous Unclean or Infectious Disease None shall be admitted or elected that hath competent Means to sustain him and if at or after his admittance he shall be found to have an Estate in value worth two hundred pounds or coming in viis modiis to the value of Four and twenty pounds per Annum during his Life his place shall be void No poor Brother shall be admitted till the next Quarter day after his place is void and till he bring two pair of new Sheets with him or that the House provide them for him in Discharge whereof the Receiver shall deduct the price out of his Wages due the first two Quarters by even and equal portions and upon his accompt clear the House of that charge No poor Brother shall have leave to pass the Seas upon what pretence soever but by petition to the Governours and signed with six of their hands in which case and time of absence he shall only be allowed his Wages and have his place reserved for him other allowances for Commons he shall not have They shall not go into the Country to visit Friends or upon any other business without the Masters leave and that but for two Months at the farthest in which case and time of absence they shall be allowed two third parts of their Commons in mony but no part of their Wages shall be abated but if they go abroad either with leave or without and fall under Arrest or any other danger whereby their return is slayed in such case they shall have no means or allowance from the Hospital either for Commons or Wages only their place shall be reserved for them till the Governours pleasure be further known And moreover no Brother shall presume to pass the Out-gates of the Hospital in their Livery Gowns upon pain of paying a months Commons out of their Quarters wages They shall not undertake the following of other mens Causes and Suits nor procure the molestation trouble or expence of other the Kings Subjects by their suggestions or informations upon pain of paying what Mulct the Master by these our Ordinances can impose upon them and abiding the Governours further pleasure All other Duties to be performed after their Admission as daily frequenting the Chappel Reverent behaviour at Prayers civil fashion of feeding cleanly and decent Clothing neat and wholsom Lodging friendly and brotherly conversing and living together shall be referred to the Masters discretion to direct and to the power we have given him to Correct The School THE Scholars of the Foundation shall not exceed the Number of Forty nor shall any be admitted but such as the Schoolmaster shall find and approve to be well entred in Learning answerable to his Age at the time of his admittance The Schoolmaster shall be of Twenty seven years Age at the least a Master of Arts of good Reputation both for his Life and Learning in the Latin and Greek Tongues The Usher shall likewise be well qualified for his place having taken degree of Batchelor of Arts two years at least before his Election Aged twenty four years And if there be such in either University no discontinuers and that have formerly been Members of this Hospital they shall coeteris paribus be chosen before any others The Schoolmaster shall have charge to admit no poor Scholar without one new Sute of Apparel besides that he weares two new Shirts three new pair of Stockings three new pair of Shoos and Books for the Form he is to be in or mony to buy them and if he fail therein the charge of repairing the wants shall be discounted out of his own Wages He shall have Certificate by good proof from the place whence they come of the just Age of every Boy to be admitted and he shall admit none under the Age of Ten years and above Fourteen as he will answer the contrary He shall keep a Book of all such admissions as also of all Scholars sent to the University or Trade with a particular and punctual setting down the day and year of their coming in going out They shall keep the accustomed hours of six in Summer and Seven in Winter for their coming to School and Eight and Three in the Forenoon and Afternoon for their Collations and of Six in Summer and Winter if the time of Meals will permit for their leaving off not failing both Morning and Evening to begin and end their Studies with the Latin Prayers and Collects now used He shall read none but approved Authors Greek and Latin as are read in the best esteemed Free-Schools and to see those of the Upper Form furnished with Greek Testaments for their use in the Chappel Besides the Scholars weekly exercise they of the highest Form shall every Sunday set up in the great Hall four Greek and four Latin Verses a piece upon any part of the Second Lesson appointed for that day for the Master of the Hospital or any Stranger to view and examine As also two shall be weekly appointed for reading the Chapters and saying Grace at every Meal in both the Halls It shall be his care and the Ushers charge to teach the Scholars to Cipher and cast an Accompt especially those that
are less capable of Learning and sittest to be put to Trades He and the Usher shall be diligent in the daily attendance on their Charge and shall not Journey into the Country without the Masters leave Nor shall they take into their Tuition above Sixty other Scholars unless they entertain another under Usher out of their own Means and to be dyeted and lodged out of the Hospital Nor shall they receive for teaching those of the Foundation any Fee or Wages from their Friends They shall be careful and discreet to observe the Nature and Ingeny of their Scholars and accordingly instruct and correct them In Correction they shall be moderate in Instruction diligent Correcting according to the quality of the Fault in matter of Manners and according to the capacity of the Fault in matter of Learning All other Duties of their place they shall faithfully perform namely to see that the Scholars be of modest and mannerly behaviour well and decently clothed orderly and seasonably dyeted cleanly and wholesomly lodged And that the Matron Butler Taylor and Groom perform their duties to these purposes otherwise their Tutors to be censured by Us the Governours and their Servants to be punished by the Master of the Hospital Schoolmasters 1. Mr. Nicholas Grey 2. Mr. Robert Grey his Brother 3. Mr. William Middleton 4. Mr. Robert Brooks 5. Mr. Samuel Wilson 6. Mr. John Bonchee 7. Mr. Norris Wood. 8. Mr. Thomas Watson Vshers 1. Mr. Bagley 2. Mr. Robert Grey 3. Mr. Middleton 4. Mr Brooks 5. Mr. Anthony Andrews 6. Mr. John Byrch 7. Mr. Samuel Wilson 8. Mr. John Martyn 9. Mr. Norris Wood. 10. Mr. John Stephens 11. Mr. Edmund Sly 12. Mr. Thomas Watson 13. Mr. Rowland Buckeridge 14. Mr. Thomas Walker Officers of the Revenues Steward of Courts NO Steward of Courts shall take any greater Fee than Five shillings for his Copy and entring it into the Roll unless it express uses made over by Will in which Case his Fee shall be Ten Shillings All Stewards of Courts shall bring or send into the Charter-house within three months after the Court holden the Roll thereof fairly written in Parchment with the Fine set down in the Margent and signed with his own hand They shall also deliver the Tenant his Copy within forty days after the Court holden if the Tenant demand it and pay for it according to the Rate aforesaid Stewards 1. Mr. John Mocket 2. Mr. Joseph Ward 3. Mr. Abell Allen. This Office is now turned into the Manciple's Auditor HE Shall quarterly examine the Receivers Book of Receipts of the Revenues and Disbursments for the Hospital to see if the one agree with the Rental and the other be disbursed by the Masters warrant and upon proof by Examination under his hand of every particular the Book shall be signed by the Master He shall weekly examine the Manciple's Book of Disbursments for Dyets and what else he lays out to see if the one agree with the Establishment and the other be done by warrant and upon due Examination to approve them under his hand before they be signed by the Master Upon Balancing all Accompts of Receipts and Disbursment at the years end he shall draw the Declaration by us formerly enjoyed in these our Orders that at the Assembly in Decemb. a perfect and yearly view may be taken of the state of the Hospital Auditors 1. Mr. John Wotton 2. Mr. Henry Wotton 3. Mr. Henry Playford 4. Mr. Spour Bailiffs NO Bailiff shall be chosen of any Mannor or Mannors unless he dwell there or within five miles distance at the farthest All Bailiffs shall put in Bond of Two hundred pounds apiece with two Sureties for paying in the monies by them levied either for free Rents or Profits of Courts and they shall not meddle with the Receipt of any Farm-rents upon pain of forfeiting their Bond. All Bailiffs shall bring in all free and customary Rents within forty days after the Quarter day also all Profits and Perquisits of Courts within the said time of forty days after the day assigned by the Steward for payment thereof Leases UPon a Lease hereafter to be granted no Tenant shall have respit for payment of his Rent above Forty days after the Quarter-day wherein he ought to pay it by his Lease All Lease Rents shall be paid by Tenants at the Charter-house so shall all free and customary Rents with Profits and Perquisits of Courts be there likewise paid by the Bailiffs All Lessees shall be tied by Covenant to dwell upon their Farms and not to put them over but to Wife and Children without Licence procured by Petition at the Table and signed by the Major part of the Governours there present and no Licence shall be granted them but for the remainder of years limited by the former Lease and at the same Rent and enjoyning the under Tenants to dwell thereupon In every Lease hereafter to be granted of any of the Hospital Lands or Tenements in any Mannor where a Court Baron is used to be kept there shall be comprised in every such Lease a Covenant on the Lessees part To do suit of Court there and to be obedient to the Orders therein to be made touching or by reason of the Lands and Tenements No Lease shall be made till within Three years before the expiration of the old Lease unless it be upon surrender of the old Lease Nor shall it be granted for Lives or longer time than One and twenty years No Fine shall be taken upon letting or renewing any Lease but such an Improvement of Rent as shall seem best to the Governours and for the good of the Hospital Surveys THere shall be two Surveys made of all such Lands belonging to the Hospital as are not already surveyed and the same shall be faithfully transcribed into a Book expressing the yearly Rent now paid and the yearly value by Survey which Book shall be brought to the Table at every Asssembly that upon the expiring or renewing of Leases the Governours may increase or abate the Rents as to their Wisdoms shall seem best for the good of the Hospital An Establishment for the Dyets Liveries Stipends Wages and other Charges and Expences of the Hospital of King JAMES founded in Charter-house in the County of Middlesex at the humble Petition and only costs and charges of Thomas Sutton Esquire to be strictly observed and not any way exceeded viz. For weekly Dyet  l. s. d. EIght at the Master's Table allowed for Bread Beer Dyet and Detriments iiii   Fourscore at the Brothers Table allowed for Bread Beer Dyet and Detriments vii xiii iiii Forty two at the Scholars Table allowed for Bread Beer Dyet and Detriments vi xviii iii. ob Ten at the Manciples Table allowed for Bread Beer Dyet and Detrements  xliiii ii Two of the Kitchin and one Porter  xiii  Five Attendants for the Masters Table for Bread and Beer  v. x. For weakly Beavors  l. s. d. Eight
Sir James Altham one of the Barons of the Exchequer One piece of Plate of the value of Twenty pounds Item I give to my late wives kinsman Guy Godolphin the sum of Ten pounds Item I give to the Right Honourable my very good Lord the Earl of Suffolk the sum of Four hundred pounds All the rest of my Goods Chattels and Debts not before given and disposed I give and bequeath to my intended Hospital to be imployed and bestowed on and about the same according to the discretion of the Feoffees of my said Hospital or the greater part of them In witness hereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal the Twenty eighth day of the Month of November above written Thomas Sutton Memorandum That the same Testator did acknowledge this his Will written and contained in these Three and twenty leaves to be his last Will and Testament and that his Hand and Seal set thereunto is his own Hand and Seal and that he had heard it read and was acquainted with the Contents of it the said Twenty Eighth of November above written In presence of us John Law Leonard Houghton Alexander Longworth Thomas Hall The Mark of Richard Pearce The Mark of Thomas Johnson Primo Decembris 1611. idem recognitum per Testatorem coram Jo. Crooke Quarto Decembris 1611. recognit to be the Testators last Will. Before me Henry Thoresby A Codicil to be annexed to the last Will and Testament of Thomas Sutton Esquire made and declared the Day whereon he died being the Twelfth of December One thousand six hundred and eleven ITem he gave and bequeathed to Mr. Judge Crooke one of the Judges of the King's Bench at Westminster the Sum of Ten pounds And to Mr. Henry Thoresby one of the Masters of the Court of Chancery the like Sum of Ten pounds And to Mrs. Sutton of London Widow the Sum of Three pounds six shillings eight pence to make her a Ring Also he gave to Mr. Hutton Clerk and Vicar of Littlebury the Advowson or next Presentation to the Parsonage of Dunsby in the County of Lincoln Also he did then publish and declare before Mr. Flud Parson of Stoke-Newington in the County of Middlesex Robert Petit Alexander Longworth John Parsons and Thomas Johnson his Cook that he had made his Will and thereof had made and ordained Richard Sutton of London Esquire and John Law his Executors I thought good to make a Conclusion of all with some proper Devotions relating to those particular Occasions which concern the Fourscore pious and aged Gentlemen c. Not that I intend by any means to detract from the excellency and usefulness of the Prayers of the Church for these are only designed for private Offices at home and possibly by Gods assistance may be instrumental to the Improvement of their Thankfulness to God and their Preparation for their latter end Here likewise I thought it might be convenient to place several Orders which hang up in the lesser Hall of the Pensioners by which they are to square and regulate their Manners so that they might have in a narrow compass contained the several Instances of their publick and private Duty Lord now lettest thou thy Servant depart in peace according to thy word For mine eyes have seen thy Salvation which thou hast prepared before the face of all People To be a Light to lighten the Gentiles and to be the glory of thy people Israel Eccles 12. The years draw nigh when thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them while the Sun or the Light or the Moon or the Stars be not darkned nor the Clouds return after the rain In the day when the a The ribs keepers of the house shall tremble and the b The Legs strong men shall bow themselves and the c Teeth grinders cease because they are few and those that look out of the d Eyes windows be darkned Or ever the e Circulation of the Blood silver cord be loosed or the f Liver golden bowl be broken or the pitcher be broken at the fountain or the wheel at the cistern then shall the dust return to the earth as it was and the Spirit shall return to God who gave it Job 5.26 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age like as a shock of corn cometh in his season ORDERS made by the Governours of the Hospital of King JAMES founded in Charter-house by Thomas Sutton Esquire at several times since the beginning of the said Hospital and yet continuing in force and to be observed or known by the poor Men Pensioners and Brothers of the said Hospital for the time being as follow NO poor Man shall be admitted into the Hospital unless he shall appear to be clean and sound of body from any foul and infectious Disease Per Ordinem fact 10 Decemb. 1613 And to prevent that none be admitted that is infected with any infectious Disease It is Ordered that the Chirurgion of the Hospital for the time being shall view and search the Body of such a person if there be any cause of suspicion before he be admitted Per Ordinem 24 Februarii 1622. No poor Man that shall be a Member of the Hospital shall wear any long Hair or any Weapons within the said House or have any Weapons within their several Lodgings Per Ordinem 10 Decemb. 1613. Every poor Man of this Hospital that shall happen to fall so sick that he cannot come into the Hall to take his repast then he shall have his part in Diet in his Chamber or his weekly allowance in mony for it as the Master and the Steward in their discretions shall hold meet Per Ordinem 22 Decemb. 1615. The Master of the Hospital for the time being and every Officer poor Man and every Member of the same shall take their Diet in the Dining Halls appointed for that purpose and not in their Chambers unless it be in time of Sickness or upon some urgent occasion such as the Master shall allow of Provided that they do not then exceed the proportion of Diet that is set down and established Per Ordinem 21 Januarii 1618. No Officer Pensioner or Member of this Hospital shall send or carry away any Bread Beer or Meat from their Tables when they shall be at Dinner and Supper in the said Dining-Halls but if any Bread Beer or Meat shall happen to be left it shall be bestow'd on such poor men and women that shall from time to time be appointed and allowed to do service in the said Hospital or otherwise as the Master in his discretion shall hold fitting but not any of it to be sold for mony Per Ordinem 21 Januarii 1618. One of the poor Men of the Hospital in their several turns and the Master Cook of the said Hospital shall go weekly to the Market with the Steward or his Man to buy the Provision of Fish and Flesh for the Diet of the Hospital that choice may be made by
They shall not undertake the following of others mens Causes and Suits nor procure the molestation of trouble or expence of other the Kings Subjects by their suggestions or informations upon pain of paying what Mulct the Master by the Ordinances can impose upon them and abiding the Governours further Censure 21 Junii 1627. All other Duties to be performed after their Admission as daily frequenting the Chappel Reverent behaviour at Prayers Civil fashion of Feeding Cleanly and decent Cloathing Neat and wholsom Lodging Friendly and Brotherly Conversing and Living together shall be referred to the Masters discretion to direct and to the power given him to correct 21 Junii 1627. At an Assembly of the Governours 27 February 1656. It is Ordered That whensoever any Pensioner or poor Man of this Hospital shall with leave or without leave go into the Country and be absent from the Hospital or shall live in or about the City of London Westminster or elsewhere and shall not be Abiding Lodging and Resident at and in the Hospital he shall have no allowance at all in mony or otherwise for his Commons or Diet during any such time as he shall be absent from the Hospital And those that are now absent are at their perils to take notice of this Order and to return home to the Hospital by the Feast of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary now next ensuing Neither shall any Pensioner or poor Man that lodgeth in the Hospital and goeth abroad into the Town be suffered to be out of Commons nor be paid any mony for or in lieu of his Commons but shall take and eat his Commons in kind in the common Dining-Hall of the Hospital according to the Orders of the House and shall carry none of it away uneaten and what he cannot eat there shall be there left and given to the poor women that are appointed to do service in the Hospital And We the Governours do charge the Receiver not to pay any of them any mony or allowance contrary to the intent of this our Order upon pain not to be allowed the same upon his Accompt besides incurring our further Censure Provided always that if any of the said Pensioners shall be sent or go away out of the Hospital upon the Dismission of the House in the Sickness time in respect of the danger of the Plague then in such case during such time of Dismission and Absence he shall have his full Allowance in mony for Commons and Diet as hath been formerly given in such case There are divers other Orders made by the Governours concerning the poor Men and Brothers of this Hospital which are not so proper to be comprehended in this Table but are with these herein mentioned transcribed into a Book remaining in the Vestry whereunto any Pensioner or poor Man of this Hospital may at convenient times repair to see and read for his better knowledge and observation My House shall be called THE HOUSE OF PRAYER Mark 11. â— Spare the People 〈…〉 Let the Priests the Ministers of the Lord Weep between the 〈◊〉 and the Altar and let them say Spare thy People O LORD Ioel. 1.17 London Printed for Henry Bromâ—â— 1677. PRAYERS UPON Several Occasions Fitted for the PRIVATE DEVOTIONS OF THE Ancient Gentlemen IN THE CHARTER-HOVSE c Vpon their Admission into the House O Thou Lord of Hosts and God of Battels The great Preserver of Men I adore reverence and magnifie thy holy Name that after the skirmishes of a tedious and uneasie life I have the blessed Opportunity of retiring and making my peace with thee O God my Life has been a real warfare I have been exposed to the dangers of Night and the discoveries of Day to the fury of unkind Weather and the rage of Enemies but yet thou wast my defence and shield the support of my Soul and my great Deliverer Therefore blessed be the God of Heaven I will take the Cup of Salvation and praise thy glorious Name I will never cease to cry out Holy holy holy Lord God of Hosts Blessed be thy Name for ever and ever O Father who hast looked upon me in the times of hazard and sear mou'd and frame my mind into acknowledgment and thankfulness Thou who art absolute in thy Providence hast wonderfully raised means to succour and relieve thy Servant in danger may thy grace and goodness never forsake me but continue to be my loving God Helper and Saviour unto the worlds end How many are in â—onds and Distress when I am Free and provided for How many are in wars and necessity when I am in peace and encompas't with plenty Though I have justly deserved many years ago to have been cut off from the Land of the Living and by reason of my sins to have been sent early to the House of Mourning yet thou hast drawn out my life to a great length thy mercy has saved and protected me all the time of my Pilgrimage and now I remain as a signal Monument of thy loving kindness O grant that the remainder of my time may be spent in Thanksgiving and Repentance that all the days of my appointed time I may patiently wait until my change come Let my Admission into this Religious house be an Emblem of my Entrance into Heaven above that my Life may be a continual walking with Thee that the main tendency of my thoughts may be heaven-wards and my conversation there also Grant O Lord that my entring into this Society of Grey-hairs below may be an Earnest of my joyning with the Elders that are before thy Throne above That when I first put on these Garments of Charity I may resolve to endeavour that my Soul may be cloathed with humility and gratitude and the robes of Righteousness I am sensible O Lord of the weakness of my Body and the decays of Nature but our Souls are of another frame and complexion Therefore be pleased to quicken and revive my thoughts to awaken the powers faculties of my Soul that the feebleness of my Body may be recompenced with the strength of my mind that the declination of my outward man may be in order to the Ascension of my Soul into the Heaven of Heavens Not long since the sorrows of my heart were enlarged but now thou hast graciously brought me out of all my trouble I have nothing now to do in this place of Retirement but to live well and love thee from whom I receive my daily bread who art the Fountain of all I drink Therefore O my Soul praise that God who is so great a lover of the sons of men Thou hast not dealt so with every man neither have the wicked a desire to praise thee Thou hast plentifully prepared all things for me thy aged and infirm Servant so that I must confess I want nothing but thankfulness to Thee What Reward shall I give unto thee or what Sacrifice shall I pay for all thy benefits Now I am setled in this Religious