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<DIV1 TYPE="Psalm">
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<HEAD>A PSALM of Thank&s;giving, to be Sung by the Children of Chri&s;t-Ho&s;pital, on Monday, Tue&s;day, and
Wedne&s;day in Ea&s;ter Holy-days, (according to ancient cu&s;tom) at St. Mary Spittle, for their Founders and Benefactors, 1679.</HEAD>
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LEt us rejoyce with chearful voice,<NOTE PLACE="marg">This <HI>Chorus</HI> is to be Sung by all the Children, and repeated after e|very <HI>Ver&s;e.</HI></NOTE> God's Goodne&s;s magnifie,</L>
<L>Who freely grants to all our wants mo&s;t plentiful &s;upply.<GAP DESC="music"></L>
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<HEAD>VERSE I.</HEAD>
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_WE,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Monday.</NOTE> who were helple&s;s; we, who in our &s;oft &amp; tender years</L>
<L>Have known that woe, that hard&s;hip felt, w^c^h the mo&s;t &s;tout man fears</L>
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Poor, in di&s;tre&s;s, bereft of Friends, with direful Hunger pin'd.</L>
<L>And wor&s;e than all tho&s;e Mi&s;eries, none to inform the Mind,</L>
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<HI>Chorus.</HI></L>
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(Thanks to a Providence Divine,) we know no more of grief,</L>
<L>Neither in Mind, nor Body &s;tarv'd; in both we find relief. Let us, <HI>&amp;c.</HI>
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<HEAD>VERSE II.</HEAD>
<L>Who &s;o in deeds of Charity the needy doth regard,</L>
<L>Him firmly hath our God ingag'd to keep (O great reward!)</L>
<L>Him in all dangers will defend; &s;o ble&s;s him, that the more</L>
<L>With lib'ral hand he doth di&s;per&s;e, the larger is his &s;tore.</L>
<L>Is Sickne&s;s he will Cheri&s;h him, will ea&s;e him in his Pain,</L>
<L>Who did &s;o oft relieve the Sick, and Indigent &s;u&s;tain.</L>
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<HEAD>VERSE III.</HEAD>
<L>O Thers to Help,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Tue&s;day.</NOTE> to Cloath, and Feed, from Mi&s;ery to rai&s;e,</L>
<L>How truly great and noble 'tis? how worthy is the Prai&s;e?</L>
<L>Ba&s;e plea&s;ure 'tis Mankind to hurt; it is the only joy</L>
<L>Of Tyrants, who abu&s;e their power, to ruin and de&s;troy:</L>
<L>In <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> I&s;les (thanks be to God) we gen'rous Princes find;</L>
<L>Who think that Royal Charity becomes a Kingly mind.</L>
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<HEAD>VERSE IV.</HEAD>
<L>In Regions mo&s;t remote from hence wee I &s;pread our Founders Fame,</L>
<L>And places yet unknown &s;hall hear Our Sov'raign <HI>Charles</HI>'s Name:</L>
<L>Not to a Cloy&s;ter or a Cell his Bounty can be ty'd;</L>
<L>It will &s;upport and comfort us throughout the World &s;o wide.</L>
<L>Where e're we come, in Gratitude, wee'l make it &s;till appear,</L>
<L>Who 'twas that fir&s;t did nouri&s;h us; and who doth Feed us there.</L>
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<HEAD>VERSE V.</HEAD>
<L>THat &s;ome might guard us,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Wedne&s;d.</NOTE> and in time of need a&s;&s;i&s;tance lend,</L>
<L>Who might us from Oppre&s;&s;ion and Injury defend;</L>
<L>After wi&s;e Coun&s;el, who mo&s;t fit to manage &s;o great Tru&s;t,</L>
<L>We were committed unto Men, both Liberal and Ju&s;t.</L>
<L>Such Government doth render &s;oon our Happine&s;s intire:</L>
<L>When Wi&s;dom, Wealth, and Hone&s;ty, in the &s;ame Men con&s;pire.</L>
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<HEAD>VERSE VI.</HEAD>
<L>For Trade and for Magnificence, <HI>London</HI>'s Renown is known;</L>
<L>Yet Faithfulne&s;s and Charity are Virtues &s;he doth own:</L>
<L>They do de&s;cend &s;o low as us; nor is it a &s;mall &s;hare,</L>
<L>Which we, among&s;t the re&s;t, partake of this great Cities care.</L>
<L>God's Kindne&s;s unto us is great, we mu&s;t him ever Prai&s;e;</L>
<L>Who Princes did excite for us, and Benefactor rai&s;e,</L>
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<HEAD>A true REPORT of the great number of poor Children, and other poor People, Maintained in the &s;everal HOSPITALS,
under the pious Care of the LORD MAYOR, Commonalty, and Citizens of the City of LONDON, the year la&s;t pa&s;t.</HEAD>
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<ITEM>CHildren put forth Apprentices,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chri&s;t's Ho&s;pital.</NOTE> and di&s;charged out of <HI>Chri&s;t's-Ho&s;pital,</HI>
the year la&s;t pa&s;t, 83. 10 whereof being In&s;tructed in
the Arts of <HI>Arithmetick</HI> and <HI>Navigation,</HI> were placed forth
Apprentices to Commanders of Ships out of the <HI>Mathematical-School,</HI>
in the &s;aid <HI>Ho&s;pital,</HI> Founded for the benefit of this
Kingdom, by the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty&mdash;83</ITEM>
<ITEM>Children buried the year la&s;t pa&s;t&mdash;9</ITEM>
<ITEM>Children now remaining under the Care and Charge of the &s;aid
Ho&s;pital, which are kept in the Hou&s;e, and divers places in <HI>London,</HI>
and Suburbs thereof, and at Nur&s;e in the Country. Five Hundred
Four&s;core and Seventeen&mdash;597</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Names of all which are Regi&s;tred in the Books kept in the &s;aid Ho&s;pital, and
are there to be &s;een from what Pari&s;hes they have been from time to time admitted.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They being &s;o many in number, and the Charges of keeping them &s;o great, (and
having &s;u&s;tained great Lo&s;&s;es by the late lamentable and dreadful Fire,) it is hoped
&s;everal good Chri&s;tians will freely contribute towards the maintenance of the &s;aid
Children: The certain Revenue of the &s;aid Ho&s;pital being little more than the
Moiety of the nece&s;&s;ary Charges thereof.</ITEM>
<ITEM>THere have been Cured this year la&s;t pa&s;t in the <HI>Ho&s;pital</HI> of St.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>S.</HI> Bartho|lomew'<HI>s</HI> Ho&s;pital.</NOTE> <HI>Bar|tholomew,</HI>
of Wounded, Sick, and Maimed Souldiers and Sea|men,
and other di&s;ea&s;ed Per&s;ons, from &s;everal parts of the Dominions
of the Kings Mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, and from Foreign Parts; many
whereof have been Relieved with Monies, and other Nece&s;&s;aries at their
departure, though (as it hath plea&s;ed God) the greate&s;t part of the
Revenues of the &s;aid <HI>Ho&s;pital</HI> was con&s;umed by the late dreadful Fire&mdash;1633</ITEM>
<ITEM>Buried this year after much charges on them&mdash;175</ITEM>
<ITEM>Per&s;ons remaining under Cure in the &s;aid Ho&s;pital&mdash;235</ITEM>
<ITEM>THere have been Cured,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>S.</HI> Thomas Ho&s;pital.</NOTE> pre&s;ented and Di&s;charged this year la&s;t pa&s;t, in
the <HI>Ho&s;pital</HI> of St. <HI>Thomas</HI> in <HI>Southwark,</HI> of Wounded, Sick, and
Maime I Sea-men and Souldiers, and other di&s;ea&s;ed Per&s;ons, from the places
adjcent, and from &s;everal parts of His Maje&s;ties Dominions, and from
other Foreign Parts; many whereof have been relieved with Monies and
other Nece&s;&s;aries at their departure, though (as it hath plea&s;ed God) not only
a principal part of their Revenue was con&s;umed in the general and dread|ful
Conflagration in this City, 1666. but the be&s;t of their remaining Reve|nue
was wholly burnt down in the great and di&s;mal Fire in <HI>Southwark,</HI> which
happened in <HI>May,</HI> 1676. wherein al&s;o the Site of this Ho&s;pital it &s;elf was very
much damnified, being on Fire in &s;ome parts, although through Gods won|derful
Mercy, it was pre&s;erved from total de&s;truction by the &s;aid Fire&mdash;1588</ITEM>
<ITEM>Buried this year la&s;t pa&s;t after much Charge in the time of their Sickne&s;s&mdash;264</ITEM>
<ITEM>Remaining under Cure at the Charge of the &s;aid Ho&s;pital&mdash;258</ITEM>
<ITEM>REceived this la&s;t year into the <HI>Ho&s;pital</HI> of <HI>Bridewel,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Bridewel Ho&s;pital.</NOTE> Vagrants and
other indigent and mi&s;erable People, many whereof had both
cloathing, and &s;uch other relief as their nece&s;&s;ities required, being in great
di&s;tre&s;s, and &s;ent by Pa&s;&s;es into their native Countries&mdash;919</ITEM>
<ITEM>Maintained in the &s;aid Ho&s;pital, and brought up in divers Arts and
Trades, at the only Charge of the &s;aid Ho&s;pital. Apprentices, and others,
notwith&s;tanding it plea&s;ed God, the Ho&s;pital, and all the Hou&s;es within the
Precinct thereof, (which was the greater part of its Revenue) were wholly
con&s;umed by the late dreadful Fire; be&s;ides the great Lo&s;s &s;u&s;tained in the
remains of its Revenue by the terrible fire, which &s;ince happened in <HI>Wapping</HI>&mdash;113</ITEM>
<ITEM>THe Ho&s;pital of <HI>Bethlem</HI> is of great nece&s;&s;ity for the keeping and curing
Di&s;tracted Per&s;ons,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Bethlem Ho&s;pital.</NOTE> who&s;e mi&s;ery of all others is the more deplorable,
becau&s;e they do not apprehend the &s;ame, it di&s;abling the Mind as well as the Body.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Brought into the &s;ame Ho&s;pital the la&s;t year di&s;tracted Men and Women&mdash;46</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cured of their Lunacy, and di&s;charged thence the &s;aid year&mdash;39</ITEM>
<ITEM>Now remaining there under Cure, and provided with Phy&s;ick, Dyet, and
other Relief, at the Charge of the &s;aid Ho&s;pital&mdash;88</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Charge whereof is great, and the Revenue of the &s;aid Ho&s;pital &s;o &s;mall as
not to amount to one half part of the yearly Expences thereof; And the Building
of the Old Ho&s;pital of <HI>Bethlem,</HI> being Ruinous, and not capacious to receive and
contain the great number of di&s;tracted Per&s;ons; for the admi&s;&s;ion of whom,
daily applications are made to the Governours thereof.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Upon a Chri&s;tian and Charitable Con&s;ideration of the Premi&s;es, the Lord
Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of this City of <HI>London,</HI> did lately grant
&s;ufficient ground whereon to erect a more large and commodious Hou&s;e for the
keeping and Curing the &s;aid Lunaticks, and Di&s;tracted Per&s;ons: In the Building
and Fini&s;hing whereof, the Governours of the &s;aid Ho&s;pital, have laid out and
disbur&s;ed about Seventeen Thou&s;and Pounds, whereby not only the whole Stock of
the &s;aid Ho&s;pital is Expended, but the Governours thereof have been nece&s;&s;itated
to take up &s;everal Thou&s;ands of Pounds for the Fini<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">hing the &s;ame, for which they
pay Intere&s;t: And therefore the &s;aid Ho&s;pital is a very fit object of all good mens
Charity, to do as God &s;hall enable, them, towards the relief of the &s;aid poor Luna|ticks,
and payment of their great Debts; There having been, and daily are, by the
Ble&s;&s;ing of God, and the Charge of the &s;aid Ho&s;pital, and the Care of tho&s;e that
are intru&s;ted therewith, divers reduced to their former Sen&s;es.</ITEM>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by ANNE GODBID and JOHN PLAYFORD, 1679.</P>
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