| Description | On preliminary pages, not numbered: list of inmates nominated on the Hervart, Dufour, and St Hippolyte benefactions, 1738-1739.
p. 1: General duties of the Management Committee (Commissaires de Quartier).
pp. 2-13: Memoranda for each month, of dates and regular duties of the Committee. Later additions have been made, in other hands. Duties, besides those relating to finance, include supervision of domestic details such as linen, furniture, cleaning, fuel, and the regular inspection of the Hospital.
p. 14: Detailed instructions on purchase of materials for clothing and bedding, with estimated quantities and cost.
p. 17: List of members of the quarterly Management Committee, with dates, 1718-1720.
pp. 18-19: 'Serment de Naturalisation' (form of oath of allegiance to King George, and adherence to the Protestant faith).
p. 21: List of Directors nominating to Seignoret bequest apprenticeships, 1733-1747.
At end, reversed, not paginated:
i) Précis of the Royal Patent to the Hospital, 24 July 1718 (9 pages).
ii) (after blank pages) List of the original Directors, with additions up to January 1737/8. Notes are added of deaths, sometimes dated, with a few other notes.
The remainder of the book is blank. |