[61] "More pity that the eagle should be mewid, while kites and buzzards prey at liberty" (Shakespeare). As hawks were caged while moulting or mewing (Fr. _mue_, from _mutare_), a mew or mews came to mean a place of confinement. "Stable so called from the royal stables in London, which were so named because built where the king's hawks were mewed or confined" (Webster). Wordsworth has "violets in their secret mews." An asylum might be correctly styled a "Lunatic Mews." [62] _Op. cit._, p. 139. [63] Act i. sc. 4. [64] "The Workes of Sir Thomas More," vol. ii. p. 901. Edit. London, 1557. [65] Malcolm's "Londinum Redivivum," 1803, vol. i. p. 351. [66] Charity Commissioners' Report, 1837, from which much valuable information has been derived. [67] See note on Bethlem, Appendix A. [68] "A contest had long subsisted between the Common Council of the City of London and the acting governors of all the royal hospitals, the former claiming a right to be admitted governors in virtue of the several royal charters. This dispute has been happily settled by a compromise which allows the admission of twelve of the Common Council to each hospital," by the Act of 1782 (Bowen's "Historical Account of Bethlem," 1783). [69] Charity Commissioners' Report, 1837, p. 390. [70] See Munk's "Roll of the Royal College of Physicians," vol. i. p. 177. [71] Edit. 1877, vol. v. p. 472. [72] Appointed apothecary to Bethlem, 1795. [73] "Natural History of Wiltshire," p. 93. [74] _London Gazette_, No. 1000. [75] This charter appears to grant more than the mere patronage of the hospital. [76] Evelyn's Diary, vol. ii. p. 119 (edit. 1850). [77] The houses in Charing Cross and Barking, while earlier than Bethlem as receiving the insane exclusively, were, of course, on a very small scale compared with the Moorfield Asylum. [78] Noorthouck's "A New History of London," 1773. [79] In fact, it was built on the plan of the Tuileries, which is said to have greatly incensed Louis XIV. [80] Not of brass, but of Portland stone. One of the figures was said to represent Oliver Cromwell's porter, who was a patient in the first Bedlam. In 1814 they were "restored" by Bacon (the younger). [81] Pennant's "London," edit. 1793, p. 267. [82] Smith, _op. cit._, p. 35. [83] Cf. Ireland's "Hogarth," vol. i. p. 64, for description of this plate. [84] Page 61. Written in 1703. [85] Malcolm, in his "Londinum Redivivum," 1803 (vol. i. p. 351), says, "The back part of the hospital, next London Wall, is too near the street. I have been much shocked at the screams and extravagances of the sufferers when passing there. This circumstance is to be deplored, but cannot now be remedied." [86] Proceedings of the Committee and Reports from Surveyors respecting the state of Bethlem Hospital in 1800 and 1804. London, 1805. [87] Charity Commissioners' Report, 1837. [88] Bethlem expended £606 in 1814 and 1816, in opposing the "Mad-house Regulation Bill."