Note 71 — Chapter III
Reading edition
The general rules relating to the holding of general Courts and to the election of governors, the duties of the officers and the charges to be given to both officers and governors were printed in 1557, together with the particular regulations for the governors of Christ's. An original copy is in the British Museum, entitled, "The Order of the Hospitalls of K. Henry the viiith and K. Edward the vith,
viz. { S. Bartholomew's,
Christ's,
Bridewell,
S. Thomas,
By the Maior, Cominaltie and Citizens of London, Governors of the Possessions, Revenues and Goods of the sayd Hospitals. 1557." The orders provide that sixty-six governors should be appointed, fourteen of whom were to be aldermen and the rest "grave commoners." Of the fourteen aldermen, six were to be "Graye clokes" and two of these were to be Governors general of all the hospitals.