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<HEAD><HI>Die Sabbathi,</HI> 16 <HI>Novemb.</HI> 1644. <HI>An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, for the freeing and di&s;|charging of all Rents and Revenues (belonging to the Ho&s;pitalls of Saint <HI>Bartholomew, Bridewell,</HI> Saint <HI>Thomas,</HI> and <HI>Bethlem)</HI> from any A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ments, Taxes and charges what&s;oever.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_WHereas the Lords and Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, have been given to un|der&s;tand, from the Major, and Comminalty, and Citizens of <HI>London,</HI> Governour of the Po&s;&s;e&s;sions, Revenues and Goods of the Ho&s;pitalls of Saint <HI>Bartholomew, Bridewell,</HI> Saint <HI>Thomas,</HI> and <HI>Bethlem;</HI> That the Rents and Revenues belonging to the &s;aid Ho&s;pitalls re&s;pectively, are not &s;ufficient to keep and maintain the poor Peo|ple, properly appointed to be kept in the &s;aid Ho&s;pitalls, in ordinary times, without the help and &s;upply of Legacies and Gifts of Charitable per&s;ons, which &s;ince the&s;e pre&s;ent Trou|bles are much decrea&s;ed, and very &s;mall; And that the Rents of divers of the &s;aid Lands in remote countries where the Armies are, or have been, are lo&s;t, and divers Tenants of other of the &s;aid Lands, in and neer <HI>London,</HI> alledge that they are &s;o far impoveri&s;hed, that they are not able to pay their Rents in the&s;e dead and trouble&s;ome Times, neither do pay any Rent at all to the &s;aid Ho&s;pitalls; And that the Rents of divers Hou&s;es belonging to the &s;aid Ho&s;pi|talls being out of Lea&s;e, and &s;tanding empty, are wholly lo&s;t; And that many Tenants of the Lands belonging to the &s;aid Ho&s;pitalls, withhold and deduct &s;everall &s;ums of Money out of their Rents, for &s;everall Taxes and Rates upon divers Ordinances of Parliament; Whereby the &s;aid Ho&s;pitalls are become much indebted, and want Moneys to buy nece&s;&s;ary provi&s;ion for the Poor therein: And that neverthele&s;&s;e, great numbers of &s;ick, wounded, and other Souldiers have for the time of above Twenty moneths pa&s;t, been con&s;tantly kept in the &s;aid Ho&s;pitalls, at very great and extraordinary Charges, e&s;pecially for their Cure and Dyet:</P>
<P>The &s;aid Lords and Commons taking the Premi&s;&s;es into their con&s;ideration, think fit, and Ordain, and be it Ordained, That all the Rents and Revenues belonging to the &s;aid Ho&s;pi|talls re&s;pectively (being to be received and disbur&s;ed for the immediate u&s;e, and relief of the Poor in the &s;ame Ho&s;pitalls) &s;hall be freed and di&s;charged of and from all A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ments, Taxes and Charges what&s;oever, a&s;well already made or charged, and not paid, as hereafter to be made or charged by vertue of any Ordinance of Parliament.</P>
<P>And it is hereby further Ordained, That it &s;hall not be lawfull for any of the &s;aid Tenants to withhold and deduct out of their Rents any &s;um of Money, which is or &s;hall be rated by vertue of any Ordinance of Parliament, upon his and their Hou&s;es and Lands, belonging to the &s;aid Ho&s;pitalls re&s;pectively, which in re&s;pect of the Rents of every &s;uch Hou&s;e and Lands, the Landlords ought to pay; And every &s;uch Tenant is hereby required to make payment of his full Rent, that is or &s;hall hereafter be due unto the &s;aid &s;everall Ho&s;pitalls, Any Ordinance to the contrary notwith&s;tanding.</P>
<P>And all A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors, Collectors, and others whom this may concern, are hereby required to take notice of this Ordinance; Provided that the Tenants who enjoy good and con&s;iderable Bargains in their Lea&s;es from the &s;aid Ho&s;pitalls re&s;pectively, do claim and enjoy no free|dom, exemption or advantage by this Ordinance.</P>
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<ITEM><HI>Joh: Brown,</HI> Cleric. Parliamentorum.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>H: El&s;ynge,</HI> Cler. Parl. D. Com.</ITEM>
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