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    FACTS AND SCRAPS. 125

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    The Order Of The Hospitals Of Henry Viii...

    Your charge is also to _searche and enquire whether the women doe their dutiein washing * of the children ' s sheets and shirts , and

    keeping clean , and sweet those that are committed to their charge ; and also in the beddessheetscoverletsand apparaile ( with keeping

    cleane their wardes and , chambers , , ) m , ending of such , as shall be broken from time to time . And specially yow shall geve diligent heede

    that the saide washers and nurses of this howse be alwaies well ied and not Idleand that their linen be wholsomly and

    occup cleanely washed ; and the , same first received from the keepers be ( after the washing thereof ) quietly delivered unto them .

    Yow shall also once every quarter of the yeare examine the _inventorie , which shall be delivered unto yow , of the implements of this

    howse ; as of beddes , bolsters , matresses , blanquets , coverlets , sheetspalladsshirtshosenand such other—whether any of the

    same be , purloyned , , embezzeled , _, , spoiled , or otherwise consumed , and to make such lacke and faultsas by yow shall be espied , knoweri

    unto the almoners of this howse , for the tyme beinge , that they take order therein .

    may Yow shall also geve great charge unto all the nurses of every ¦ wardethat no childe be received by them before the name of the

    same child , be entered into the warde-booke , nor that any be delivered to nurse or otherwise , but that they be also entered , and to whom

    they are delivered , with the day and month when the same is done . Yow shall also neither reeeavenor deliver any thinge that is in

    the wardrop , unless yow cause the same to be written by them that are appointed thereto . And be suer to receave from the nurses in

    the country , when any children die , their apparaile . Yow shall take such order among the nurses or otherwise , that the

    hall be kept swete and cleane , and suffer non of the children to he there after their mealesexcept it be at service time , and when it

    , shall Yow please shall the twice governors or thrice to in appoint week them . arise in the niht and ggo

    as well into the sick warde , as also every into every other warde , and there se that the children be covered in the beddes , whereby they take no

    colde . And last of all if yow shall perceave , that if any officer or officers

    of this howse doe abuse themselves either in worde or deede , yow shall admonish the of the sameand not medle any further

    thereinneither to have governors to doe with officer , or officersother than appertaineth , to your own office and charg any e as aforesaid . ,

    Charge of the Nurses and Keepers of the Wardes * Your charge is faithfulland truely to serve in this howse , to obey

    the matron thereof . y Ye shall also flie and eschue all raylingskoldinge , swearing , and

    , drunkennes . Ye shall in your behaviour and doings be vertuous , loving , and

    dili _^ gent . .

    Facts And Scraps. 125

    FACTS AND SCRAPS . 125

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1860, page 125, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041860/page/53/