London and Its Environs Described, vol. 3 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round ItAnonymous
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London and Its Environs Described, vol. 3 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round It
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London (England) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; London (England) -- Gazetteers -- Early works to 1800
Chaplain 80 0 0
Two Physicians, 40_l._ each 80 0 0
Apothecary 80 0 0
Apothecary’s two servants 78 0 0
Surgeryman 30 0 0
Butler, with his horse 67 2 8
Cook and her servant 32 0 0
Porter 35 0 0
Beadle 30 0 0
Matron 50 0 0
Eleven sisters, 25_l._ each 275 0
0
Eight nurses, 16_l._ each 128 0
0
Twelve watch-women, 10_l._ 8_s._ 124 16
each 0
One brother belonging to the 35 0 0
lunatics
One sister belonging to the 25 0 0
lunatics
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Sum total, 1349 18
8
These officers and servants are chosen by the sixty Governors, who
have carried on this noble charity in such a manner as to restore ease
and health to many thousands of their fellow subjects.
Besides which the out-patients who receive medicines gratis,
frequently amount to about 1600 in a year.
Before we conclude this article, it may be proper to mention some
other particulars relating to Mr. Guy, in order to do justice to the
character of that great benefactor to the public, by which the reader
will see the little foundation there is for the general opinion of his
being remarkable for nothing more than his parsimony and avarice. He
was a patron of liberty and of the rights of his fellow subjects,
which, to his great honour, he strenuously asserted in several
parliaments, whereof he was a member for the borough of Tamworth in
Staffordshire, the place of his birth. To this town he was a general
benefactor; and early in his life he not only contributed towards the
relief of private families in distress, but erected an almshouse, with
a library, in that borough, for the reception of fourteen poor men and
women, to whom he allowed a certain pension during his life, and at
his death he bequeathed the annual sum of 125_l._ towards their future
support, and for putting out children apprentices, &c.
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