The supplication made to His Majesty King Edward the Sixth, for obtaining the House of Bridewell : and a copy of the deed of settlement, made by His Majesty King Edward the Sixth, on the Hospitals of Christ, Bridewell, and St. Thomas.

  • Bridewell Royal Hospital
Date:
1807
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The supplication made to His Majesty King Edward the Sixth, for obtaining the House of Bridewell : and a copy of the deed of settlement, made by His Majesty King Edward the Sixth, on the Hospitals of Christ, Bridewell, and St. Thomas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    All tenths and first fruits is discharged by the King’s grant. Citizens, and their successors, by his Highness in form aforesaid, as also the aforesaid lands, manors, personages, lands, tenements, possessions, heredi- taments,andotherthepremiseswhichthesaidMayor and Commonalty, and Citizens, or their successors, by reason of the said licence, or otherwise shall have hereafter by gift, grant, demise, bargain, or sale of any other person or persons, to the use and intent aforesaid, shall be clearly acquitted and discharged against the King’s Highness, his heirs and successors for ever, of all tenths and first fruits, and of all and singular sum and sums of money, for and in the name of tenth, or yearly tenth part, or for or in the name of first fruits of the said manors, lands, tenements, and other the premises afore limited and appointed to be given and granted by the King’s Highness to the said Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens, or to their successors, or which the said Mayor and Com¬ monalty and Citizens, or their successors, shall hereafter have or obtain by gift, grant, demise, bargain, sale, or otherwise, of any other person or persons, by virtue of the said licence, in form aforesaid, and to the purposes aforesaid, the act of parliament made and provided in the 26th year of the reign of the late King, of famous memory, King Henry the eighth, for andconcerning the pay¬ ments of tenths and first fruits to be due to the King’s Highness, of spiritual or ecclesiastical bene¬ fices, dignities, and promotions, or any other thing, act, law or statute tothe contrary, notwithstanding