Earl of Leicester's Hospital, Warwick Act 1813
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1813 c. ccxiii |
ANNO QUINQUAGESIMO TERTIO
GEORGII III. REGIS.
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Cap.
213.
An Act for altering the Rules, Statutes, and Ordi-
nances of the Hofpital of Robert Earl of
Leice/ler*
in Warwick; and for enabling the Mafter and
Brethren of the faid Hofpital to raife Money on the
Security of the Eftates thereof in order to provide
for the Reception of additional Brethren therein.
[20th July 1813.]
'HEREAS Robert Earl of Leicejkr, by a Deed under his Deed
of
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] Hand and Seal, bearing Date the Twenty-firft Day oiNovem. ^ting5!^
her, in the Twenty-eighth Year of the Reign of her late Majefty 0f xjthEliz.
Queen
Elizabeth,
reciting therein, that, by an A& of Parliament, made
and pafled in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of her faid Majefty, it
was ena&ed, that Robert Earl of
Leicejler,
his Heirs, Executors or
Affigns, mould have Power and Authority to erecT:, found and eftablifh,
an Hofpital within the Town of Warwick, or within the Town of
KeneU
worth,
at his or their Charge, for the Finding, Suftentation and Relief
of
poor needy and impotent People to have a Continuance for ever ; and that
the fame Hofpital mould be incorporated, and have a perpetual Succeffion
for ever, in Fa£t, Deed and
Name,
of fuch Head, Members and Numbers
of poor needy and impotent People as fliould be appointed, afligned, or
named by him the faid Earl,
his
Heirs,
Executors or Affigns, under his
or their Hand and Seals ;- and -that the fame Hofpital mould be called by
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fuch Name as the faid Earl, his Heirs, Executors, or Afligns IhouM
appoint: And that the faid Hofpital being fo incorporated and named,
mould, by the Name of the Incorporation
thereof,
have Power and
Authority to purchafe, 'lipid, and enjoy to them and their Succeffors for
ever, Manors, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, fituate within any
County within the Realm of
Ifngland,
fo that the fame fhould not exceed
the Yearly Value of Two hundred Pounds above all Charges and Re-
prizes, and fo that the fame or any Part thereof were not holden of the
Queen, her theirs and Succefiofs, immediately by Knight Service: And
that the faid Hofpital, being
fo
incorporated, fhould have Power, by the
Name of the Incorporation
thereof,
to fue and be fued in all Courts, aa
well Temporal as Spiritual: And that the faid Corporation mould have a
Common Seal, and fliould be ruled and governed, ordered, directed, and
vifited by fuch Perfon or Perfons as fhould befo nominated thereunto by
the faid Earl, his Heirs or Afligns, according to fuch Rules, Statutes and
Ordinances as mould be fet forth, made, devifed and eftabliflied by the
faid, Earl, or by his Heirs or Afligns, in Writing under Hand and
Deed
of sift Seal:. And alfo reciting in the faid Deed, that, fince the making the laid
Wov.
1585. ^£^
t|je
fojj
£ari
jja(i appointed
one
Houfe in the Town
ofWarvJck
for the
faid Hofpital, and had placed therein One Mafter,
videlicet,
Ralph
Griffin,
Profeffor of Divinity, and Twelve poor Brethren, who, ever fince the
making of the faid-Ad, had had there Abode and Relief there at the
Charges of the faid Earl; he the faid Earl did by that Deed and by
Authority of the faid Statute ordain one Hofpital within the faid Town
of
Warwick,
to have Continuance for ever, for the Finding, Su dentation
and Relief of poor needy and impotent Men, and efpecially of fuch a$
Ihould
be
thereafter wounded, maimed or hurt in the Wars in the Service
of her Majefty, her Heirs^qr Succeffors, which fh.ould.be called The
Hof-
•pltaVof
RoberVEart
of
"Leiceft'er
in
Warwick
j'andhe did erect., found and
eflablifh
the*
fame Hofpital to be.'and' co'nfifl of.One Mafter and Twelve
poW Brethren, tp have Continuance,for eyer:, And that his Intent therein
mighVtaite' K&ectj, and' the Lands and Hereditaments thereafter to be
granted-for the perpetual Suftematiori of the fame Hofpital might be the
better governed and
.Ordered,
the Jajd,
Ear} wi.Hed
and ojdained, by the faid
Deed"arid the 'Authority aforefaid, that
Thomas
Cartwrigbt, Bachelor of
Divinity,' mould be,' during his Life, Mafter of the faid Hofpital, unlefs
upon juft and lawfulCaufe he fliould be deprived or removed from the
fame',' or voluntarily fhould refign or leave the fame : And that from and
after the Death, Refignation, Deprivation or other lawful Removing of
the'
'fai<3'^homas'Cariwri^ht^fn'ch Perfon, and Perfons as by the faid Earl,
or by his Heir or Heirs after his.Death?] by Writing, or Writings under
their Hands' and'Seals,' fhould be nanied
,
and appointed Mafter of the
faid Hofpital, mould be Mafter of the fai^ Hofpital for ever: And if the
faid Earl, his Heir brHejfs, did not frorii Time.to .Time within Three
Months riext after' that
the
jVLsfteroftne.faid Hpfpital fhoulp! die, refign, be
deprived, or otherwife lawfully removed Jrom' the .faid,Mafterfhip, name
aridappoint one other Perfon to be Mgfter.of tbe.faid,Hqfpital,, then fuch
Perfon and Perfons,( as from
Time,
to Ti,me upon the Default and Defaults
of the faid Earl and His Heir arid Heirs in Form aforiefaid»i fhould be
appointed and preferred to be Mafter,of ,the, faid,Hofpital,by the Bifhop
oVWor'ceJler
for the Time, being, the .Recorder of the City, of
Coventry
fqr
the Time being, and the Recorder of the Town of
Warwick
for. the Time
being, or any Two of them, by. Writing under their Hands and
9 Seals,
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