Rules and qualifications to be observed in the admission of children into Christ-hospital this year, 1683/4 Christ's Hospital (London, England) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A92081 of text R42402 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing R2251D). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A92081 Wing R2251D ESTC R42402 36273497 ocm 36273497 150244 2240889535

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Rules and Qualifications , to be observed in the Admission of CHILDREN into CHRIST-HOSPITAL this Year , 1683/4.

I. THAT no Child be taken in , but such as are the Children of Freemen of this City .

II. That no Child be taken in , under the Age of Seven Years .

III. That no Children be taken in , but such as are Orphans , wanting either Father , or Mother , or both .

IV. That none be taken in that are Foundlings , or that are maintained at the Parish Charge .

V. That none be taken in that are Lame , Crooked , or Deformed , nor that have any Infectious Disease , as the Leprosie , Scald-head , Itch , Scab , or that have the Evil or Rupture .

VI. That none be admitted , but such as are without any probable means of being provided for other ways , nor without a due Certificate from the Minister , Church-wardens , and three or four of the principal Inhabitants of the Parish from whence such Children came , certifying of the Poverty and Inability of the Parent living , ( if any be living ) to maintain and provide for such Children , and the true Age of the said Child : And engaging to discharge the Hospital of them before or after the Age of Fifteen Years , if a Boy ; and before and after the Age of Fourteen Years , if a Girl ; which shall be left to the Governours pleasure to do , both by the Parent if any , and Minister and Churchwardens aforesaid ; so that it shall be wholly in the Power of the Hospital , to dispose of such Children , or to return them to the Parent or Parish , as aforesaid , as to the Hospital shall seem good .

VII . That no Children be taken in that hath a Brother or Sister admitted into the Charge of the Hospital .

Lastly , To the end , no Children may be admitted contrary to the rules abovesaid , when the General Court shall direct the taking in of any Children ; before such Children be admitted , they shall be presented to a Committee , consisting of the President , Treasurer , the Almoners , Renters , Scruitenors , and Auditors , and all other Governours to be Summoned at the first time , and so to Adjourn from time to time ; and that they or any Thirteen or more of them , whereof the President or Treasurer , for the time being , to be one , who shall strictly examin , touching the Age , Birth , and Quality of such Children , and of the Truth of such Certificate ; and when the Committee shall find cause , they shall forbid or suspend the taking in of any Child or Children presented , until they receive full satisfaction , that such Child or Children is duly qualified , according to the Rules above-mentioned .

That such Child or Children as shall be presented to be admitted , in pursuance of the Will of any Benefactor , shall be examined by the said Committee , who are to take care , that such Child or Children be qualified according to the Wills of the Donors or Benefactors , ( as near as may consist with such Wills ) agreeing to the Qualifications above .