Note 70 — Chapter III

W. Rendle, Old Southwark, p. 138. The whipping-post or "Crosse" soon required repair, and stocks also were provided. We hear frequently of its being used. In 1567, John Martyn was sentenced to twenty-five stripes for robbing gardens and misusing a poor "innocent;" while in 1570, "Jane Thornton, one of the Systers," was sentenced to receive "xii strypes, well layd on." There are several cases also in which the hospital governors find masters for patients when they have been cured, or sometimes bind them apprentice. In one case they apprentice a boy who had been cured of a sore leg, and covenant that "yf hitt happen the sayd Legg Do brek outt agayn" the boy shall be cured "only of the chardg of the hospital." Occasionally there are details of the employment of the inmates. In 1569 a small sum is received from the Matron "for work done by the poore women and children," and in 1573 "a mocion is made that a handemyll to grind corne may be provyded to sett the pore to worke to kepe them from ydelnes." But the arrangements for employment are on a very small scale and seem only likely to concern patients, or perhaps the people in the casual ward. Others would be sent to Bridewell. These details are all derived from Mr Rendle's Old Southwark, where much more information, derived from old records of the hospital, has been printed.