The same Noble Merchant and Citizen of Lon∣don, Sir Thomas Gresham (of whom we spoke before) that gave the Royal Exchange, and Built Alms-hou∣ses in Broadstreet, that gave considerable sums of Money to be distributed quarterly for ever to five Prisons and four Hospitals in and about this City, Built Gresham-College, and endowed it with the Revenue of the Royal Exchange, of which he gave one Moity to the Lord Mayor and Commonalty and their Successors, and the other Moity to the Right Worshipful Company of Mercers in trust, that the Lord Mayor and Aldermen should find in all time to come four able Persons to Read Divinity, Geo∣metry, Astronomy, and Musick, and to allow each of them, besides fair Lodgings, 50 l. a Year. And that the Company of Mercers should find three more able men, to Read Civil-Law, Physick, and Rhe∣torick, each of which to have also, besides fair Lodg∣ings, 50 l. a Year, which Lectures are to be Read every Day in the Week (except the Lords Day) in Term-time, in the Morning in Latine, and in the
The present state of London: or, Memorials comprehending a full and succinct account of the ancient and modern state thereof. By Tho. De-Laune, Gent
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- De Laune, Thomas, d. 1685.
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Afternoon the same in English, except the Musick Lecture, which is to be read only in English. There was also within these few Years a Mechanick Lecture for Natural Philosophy, instituted by a worthy Gentleman, Sir John Cutler, with a Salary for the Reader of 50 l. per annum, to be read at the time and place where the Royal Society shall meet.
Of the Charter-House, called Sutton's Hospital, where are 80 decay'd Gentlemen, Soldiers, and Merchants, with a Governor and Chaplain; 44 Scho∣lars, with a Master and Usher, plentifully maintained in Diet, Lodging, Cloaths, Physick, &c. living in a Collegiate manner, with much neatness and handsom∣ness, the 44 Scholars (when fit for the Universities) being to receive an Allowance of 20 l. a Year for eight Years after their Reception there, out of the Revenue of this Colledge. And such as are fit for Trades, a considerable Sum to bind them Apprenti∣ces; where there are also all meet Officers, as a Phy∣sician, Apothecary, Steward, Cooks, Butlers, &c. with competent Salaries; we have spoke largely already in the Section of Hospitals, to which we refer.