Thomas Guy Connection

Thomas Guy Connection. 

Thomas Guy 1644-1724, founder of Christ’s and Guy’s Hospital and MP for Tamworth from 1695 to 1705 had an aunt, Johanna Blood who was William Secundus’  Mother-in-law. He made a considerable amount of money partly from publishing but mainly from successful speculation, especially as a participant in the South Sea Bubble where he sold shares between April and June 1720 that he had purchased for £54,000 for £234,000. See also Tamworth Heritage Trust site here.

A detailed family tree of Thomas Guy's family, mainly derived from his will is linked here as "Detailed Family Tree of Thos Guy.xlsx".

In this Will, the entire text of which is below, Thomas Guy required Christ's Hospital to provide education for four of his descendants each year.

 Linked here is the response received to an enquiry made in 1981 as to whether such free education was still available - it wasn't and isn't as the Charity Commissioners changed the criteria many years ago as described in this letter. (Otherwise the owner of this site could have applied for his 4 children to be educated free there - which he wouldn't have done since he is passionately against private education!)

Thomas Guy's Will also included a large number of legacies mostly to first cousins and their children which included William Tertius Harding and his sister Anne (if living at the time of Thomas Guy's death) of £1,000 each - the equivalent in 2014 money of very approximately, £200,000. 

As well as endowing Christ's Hospital and St Thomas's and alms houses in Tamworth, he contributed a considerable amount to Guy's Hospital which was about to be completed at the time of his death. Linked here is an article "The First Matron of Guy's Hospital ..."

TRANSCRIPT OF TRANSCRIPT OF THOMAS GUY’S WILL

(Intended to be identical to text on internet except for paragraph numbering which has been added and changed in some paragraph breaks. Latin at end, not edited)

1. In the Name of GOD, Amen. I THOMAS GUY, of the Parish of St. Mary Woolnoth in London, Esquire, being of sound and disposing mind and memory, considering the uncertainty of life, do make this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following; that if to say. First, I commit my Soul to Almighty God, in hopes, through his mercy, and the merits of my Saviour Jesus Christ, to enjoy eternal rest; and my body I commit to the earth, to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executors, herein after named: and, as for such temporal estate as it hath pleased God to bless me with, I give and dispose thereof as followeth. 

2. Imprimis, I will that all my debts and funeral charges be first paid and discharged. 

3. Item, I give and devise unto my cousin George Orton, son of my cousin Mary Orton deceased, his heirs and assigns forever, to his and their use, all those my messuares, lands, tenements, and hereditaments in Tamworth and Wiggington, in the County of Stafford, or elsewhere, which I purchased of Archdale Palmer and Anne his wife. 

4. Item, I give, devise, and bequeath, unto my cousin John Voughton grandson of my uncle John Voughton, all that messuage, burgage, or tenement, lands and hereditaments in Tamworth and Wiggington, in. the  county of Stafford, or elsewhere which I purchased of his father John Voughton, to hold unto my said cousin John Voughton, his heirs and assigns forever, to his and their use, 

5. Item, All the rest and residue of my lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and real estate whatsoever in the counties of Stafford, Warwick, and Derby, or any of them, other than and except the Aims Houses and Library, with their appurtenances herein-after mentioned and devised; I give and devise unto, and between Elizabeth Hurt, and John Hurt, the grandchildren of my late sister Anne Varnam, their heirs and assigns forever, to hold as tenants in common, and not as joint- tenants. 

6. Item, I give and bequeath to Thomas Hurt, one of the grandchildren of my late sister Anne Varnam, during his natural life, one annuity, or yearly sum of one hundred and sixty pounds, which, with forty pounds per annum I am already bound to pay, makes up two hundred pounds per annum, to be paid by equal quarterly payments, and to commence from my decease. 

7. Item, I give unto my cousin John Voughton, son and heir of my said uncle John Voughton deceased, during his natural life, one annuity or yearly sum of thirty pounds, to be paid by equal half-yearly payments, to commence from the end of three calendar months next after my decease, over and above the sum of twenty pounds per annum, which I am obliged to pay him by my bond; and also, I do forgive and remit unto him all monies that he doth or shall owe me at the time of my decease, as heir or executor of his said late father, or otherwise howsoever. 

8. Item, I give and bequeath unto Thomas Voughton, Humphry Voughton, and Martha Voughton, children of my said cousin John Voughton, one thousand pounds a-piece, interest or share in the capital stock, erected in lieu of debentures, made forth for the debt due to the army, by an Act of Parliament passed in the fourth year of the Reign of His Majesty King GEORGE, and attended with annuities, after the rate of four pounds per centum per annum. 

9. Item, I give and bequeath unto my cousin John Weetman, the father, in the county of Stafford, yeoman, son of my aunt Weetman, during his natural life, one annuity, or yearly sum of fifty pounds sterling, to be paid by equal half-yearly payments, to commence from the time of my decease.

10. Item, I give and bequeath unto Benedicta, William, Mary, Eleanor, Elizabeth, Sarah, and John, children of my said cousin John Weetman, one thousand pounds a-piece, interest, or share in the said stock, erected in lieu of debentures, as aforesaid. 

11. Item, I give and bequeath to my cousin Anne Woodcock, daughter of my said aunt Weetman, during her natural life, one annuity, or yearly sum of fifty pounds sterling, to be paid by equal half-yearly payments, to commence from my decease.

12. Item, I give unto John Moor, William Moor, Thomas Moor, Josias Moor, and Abigail Woodcock, children of my said cousin Anne Woodcock, one thousand pounds a-piece, interest, or share in the said stock, erected in lieu of debentures, as aforesaid. 

13. Item, I give and bequeath unto William, John, Thomas, Clement, Mary, Anne, and Joseph, the children of Thomas Weetman deceased, six hundred pounds a-piece, interest, or share in the said stock, erected in lieu of debentures, as aforesaid. 

14. Item, I give and bequeath unto Mary, Elizabeth, and Thomas Blood, children of Thomas Blood deceased, one of the sons of my aunt Blood, one thousand pounds a-piece, interest, or share of the said stock, erected in lieu of debentures, as aforesaid. 

15. Item, I give and bequeath unto John, Thomas, Benjamin, and Samuel Mously, children of my cousin Elizabeth Shepard deceased, by her former husband, one thousand pounds a-piece, interest, or share in the said stock, erected in lieu of debentures, as aforesaid. 

16. Item, I give and bequeath unto Richard, John, and William Hudson, the children of John Hudson lighterman, deceased, and grand children to my aunt Hudson deceased, one thousand pounds a-piece, interest, or share in the said stock, erected in lieu of debentures, as aforesaid. 

17. Item, I give unto the widow of the said John Hudson deceased, during her natural life, one annuity of ten pounds sterling, to be paid her by equal half-yearly payments, and to commence from my decease. 

18. Item, I give and bequeath to Mary Hill, one other of the children of the said John Hudson, one annuity or yearly sum of twenty pounds sterling, to be paid by equal half-yearly payments, during her natural life; and to James, Charles, and Sarah Hill, children of the said Mary Hill, children of the said Mary Hill, I give and bequeath three hundred pounds a-piece, interest, or share in the said stock, erected in lieu of debentures, as aforesaid. 

19. Item, I give and bequeath unto my cousin John Blood yeoman, living in or near Tamworth, son of my aunt Johanna Blood, during his natural life, one annuity, or yearly sum of fifty pounds sterling, to be paid by equal half-yearly payments, to commence from my decease. 

20. Item, I give unto Sarah, Robert, Richard, Anne, John, and Johanna Blood, children of the said John Blood, one thousand pounds a-piece, interest, or share in the said stock, erected in lieu of debentures, as aforesaid. 

21. Item, I give and bequeath unto the widow of Thomas Voughton deceased, son of my uncle John Voughton, one annuity, or yearly sum of ten pounds, to be paid during her natural life, by equal half-yearly payments, to commence from my decease.

 22. Item, I give and bequeath unto the children of the said Thomas Voughton, viz. John, Timothy, Abigail, Mary, George, Sarah, Jonathan, Anne, and Benjamin, one thousand pounds a-piece, interest, or share in the said stock, erected in lieu of debentures, as aforesaid. 

23. Item, I give and bequeath unto the children of my cousin Mary Orton deceased, viz. Anne, Mary, Sarah, and Elizabeth Orton, one thousand pounds a-piece, interest, or share in the said stock, erected in lieu of debentures, as aforesaid. 

24. Item, I give and bequeath unto John Cheatly, and Mary Cheatley, the children of Mary Cheatly deceased, who was daughter of my aunt Weetman, one thousand pounds a-piece, interest, or share in the said stock, erected in lieu of debentures, as aforesaid. 

25. Item, To William Cheatly, husband of the said Mary Cheatly deceased, I give and bequeath, during his natural life, one annuity, or yearly sum of ten pounds sterling, to be paid him by equal half-yearly payments, and to commence from my decease. 

26. Item, I give and bequeath unto Benedicta Cheatly, another daughter of my aforesaid aunt Weetman and now wife of John Cheatly, near Tamworth in the aforesaid county of Stafford yeoman, during her natural life, one annuity or yearly sum of fifty pounds sterling, to be paid her by equal half-yearly payments, to commence from my decease. 

27. Item, I give unto the children of the said Benedicta Cheatly, viz. Lettice, Dorothy, Anne, John, William, and Mary Cheatly, one thousand pounds a-piece, interest, or share in the said stock, erected in lieu of debentures, as aforesaid. 

28. Item, I give unto my cousin Joseph Blood, in or near Tamworth aforesaid, clothier, one other of the sons of the said aunt Blood, one thousand pounds, interest, or share in the said stock, erected in lieu of debentures, as aforesaid. 

29. Item, I give and bequeath unto the children of Anne Harding deceased, who was daughter of my said aunt Blood, viz. Anne and William, one thousand pounds a-piece, interest, or share in the said stock, erected in lieu of debentures, as aforesaid. 

30. Item, I give to Mary Alcock, wife of Arthur Alcock clothier, another daughter of my said aunt Blood, during her natural life, one annuity, or yearly sum of fifty pounds sterling, to be paid by equal half- yearly payments, to commence from my decease. 

31. Item, I give and bequeath unto Johanna, Anne, and Sarah, the children of the said Mary Alcock, one thousand pounds a-piece, interest, or share in the said stock, erected in lieu of debentures, as aforesaid. 

32. Item, I give and bequeath unto Johanna Mitchell, wife of Benjamin Mitchell, one other of the daughters of my aforesaid aunt Blood, during her natural life, one annuity or yearly sum of fifty pounds sterling, to be paid by equal half-yearly payments, to commence from my decease. 

33. Item, I give unto her son Joseph Mitchell, and to her daughters Elizabeth and Mary Mitchell, one thousand pounds a-piece, interest or share in the said stock, erected in lieu of debentures, as aforesaid.

34. Item, I give and bequeath unto Joseph Osborn, son of my aunt Osborn, during his natural life, one annuity or yearly sum of fifty pounds sterling, to be paid by equal half- yearly payments, to commence from my decease.

35. Item, I give unto Sarah and Anne, daughters of the said Joseph Osborn, one thousand pounds a-piece, interest, or share in the said stock, erected in lieu of debentures, as aforesaid. 

36. Item, I give unto the two children, who are now living, of Elizabeth, another daughter of the said Joseph Osborn, five hundred pounds a-piece, interest, or share in the said stock, erected in lieu of debentures, as aforesaid. 

37. Item, I give and bequeath unto John Wood currier, and Thomas Wood hardwareman, both of Birmingham, and grandchildren of Christopher Wood, two hundred arid fifty pounds a-piece, interest, or share in the said stock, erected in lieu of debentures, as aforesaid.

38. Item, I give and bequeath to Anne Cawn widow, and late wife of Robert Cawn deceased, during her natural life, one annuity or yearly sum of twenty pounds sterling, to be paid her by equal half-yearly payments, to commence from my decease.

39. Item, I give and bequeath to William Cawn tallow-chandler, son of the said Anne Cawn, two hundred and fifty pounds, interest, or share in the said stock, erected in lieu of debentures, as aforesaid. 

40. Item, I give and bequeath unto Sarah Coleman, Elizabeth Silvester widow, Anne Shaw widow, Martha Lawson now wife of Lawson, and Margaret Alcock, children of Thomas Alcock, late of Tamworth clothier, deceased, two hundred and fifty pounds a-piece, interest, or share in the said stock, erected in lieu of debentures, as aforesaid. 

41. Item, To Mary Alcock, one other of the children of the said Thomas Alcock, I give and bequeath one annuity, or yearly sum of twenty pounds sterling, to be paid her by equal half-yearly payments, during her natural life, and to commence from my decease. 

42. Item, I give and bequeath to each of the children of Jane Bayley deceased, and of Mary Styleman deceased, daughters of my late uncle Henry Voughton, five hundred pounds a-piece, interest, or share in the said stock, erected in lieu of debentures, as aforesaid. 

43. Item, I give and bequeath unto Margaret Guy, and Samuel Guy, the children of Samuel Guy, late of Egham in the County of Surrey, deceased, five hundred pounds a- piece, interest, or share in the said stock, erected in lieu of debentures as aforesaid. 

44. Item, I give and bequeath unto Anne Jenkyns, daughter of Thomas Hudson deceased, one annuity, or yearly sum of one hundred pounds sterling, to be paid her by half- yearly payments, during her natural life, and to commence from my decease. 

45. Item, To the widow of Thomas Hudson deceased, I give one annuity or yearly sum of ten pounds sterling, to be paid her by equal half-yearly payments, during her natural life, and to commence from my decease. 

46. Item, I give and bequeath unto John Morling, son of Elizabeth Morling, late of Oakingham widow, deceased, five hundred pounds interest, or share in the said stock, erected in lieu of debentures, as aforesaid.

47. Item, I give and bequeath to Jane Whittaker widow, and one of the daughters of my late aunt Hudson, during her natural life, one annuity, or yearly sum of fifty pounds sterling, to be paid her by equal half- yearly payments, to commence from my decease. 

48. Item, I give and bequeath unto Anne Rowney, daughter to the afore said Anne Cawn, during her natural life, one annuity, or yearly sum of twenty pounds, to be paid her by equal half-yearly payments, to commence from my decease. 

49. Item, I give and bequeath unto Thomas Batman clothier, son of Joseph Batman deceased, one hundred and fifty pounds, interest, or share in the said stock, erected in lieu of debentures, as aforesaid. 

50. And my will is, and I do hereby direct and appoint, that the said several annuities, or yearly sums hereby before bequeathed, be paid from time to time by my Executors herein after named, or by the Corporation herein after mentioned and intended, when the same shall be obtained and take effect, or their Treasurer for the time being, out of the residue of my estate herein after devised, or the interest, dividends, rents, or other profits thereof, during the several lives for which they are made respectively payable, as aforesaid. 

51. And as for and concerning as well the said several annuities for life, as the several shares in the said stock, erected as aforesaid, in this my Will given to the said Anne Woodcock, Mary Hill, Benedicta Cheatly wife of John Cheatly, Mary Alcock wife of Arthur Alcock, Johanna wife of Benjamin Mitchell, Anne Rowny, Martha Lawson, Margaret Guy, and Anne Jenkyns; I do hereby order, that the said annuities, and stock so given to them respectively as aforesaid, shall be paid or assigned to their own proper hands, or order, respectively, and for their own separate use and benefit, whether sole or covert; and that their respective receipts alone shall be sufficient discharges for the same, notwithstanding their or any of their covertures.

52. And my mind and will is, That the said several sums or parcels of stock, herein before bequeathed to my several legatees above named, who at my decease shall be under age, and unmarried, shall not be paid or payable, or transferred or to be transferred by my said Executors, or the said intended Corporation, until they shall arrive respectively, the men to the age of twenty-one years, and the women to such age of twenty-one years or their day of marriage, and which of them shall first happen; and that during such the infancy or single state of my said legatees respectively, my will is, that my Executors herein after named, or the said herein after mentioned and intended Corporation, or their Treasurer for the time being, allow for the maintenance and education of my said several legatees, the interest, dividends, and produce of the stock to them respectively given, and also shall allow out of the respective legacies or stock of such as shall want to be put forth apprentices, such sums of money as my said Executors, or the said intended Corporation, or their Treasurer, shall think fit; which said several allowances and sums of money shall be paid to the fathers, mothers, guardians or masters of such legatees respectively, and their receipts respectively shall be sufficient discharges for the same. 

53. And my mind and will is, that the several legacies, share or shares of stock, or so much thereof as shall not have been applied to the uses last above mentioned, of such of my above mentioned legatees as shall depart this life before they shall arrive respectively to their age of twenty-one years, or be married as aforesaid, shall from and after, and in case of their decease as afore said, go to, and be deemed part of the residuary part of my estate herein after devised, and shall by my said Executors be applied or assigned to and for such uses, intents, and purposes, as are in this my last Will directed and appointed, in respect of the said residuary part of my estate. 

54. Item, I give and bequeath unto Charles Joye, John Kenrick, and John Lade, Esquires; Mr. Thomas Dance, Mr. John Sprint, and Mr. John Osborn, the sum of one thousand pounds sterling, upon this special trust and confidence, that they or the survivors or survivor of them shall within twelve months after my decease, or sooner, if it may be, dispose and disburse the same, for the releasing and discharging of poor prisoners for debt, out of any prisons within the city of London, or counties of Middlesex and Surrey, not exceeding the sum of five pounds for the discharge of any one person. 

55. Item, I give to the President and Governors of Christ' s Hospital, in London, and their Successors forever, one annuity, or yearly sum of four hundred pounds, to be paid by my said Executors, till such intended Corporation shall be obtained and take effect; and then by such intended Corporation, or their Treasurer for the time being: provided nevertheless and upon this condition that my said Executors, and such intended Corporation and their Successors, shall have liberty, from time to time, to nominate and put into Christ's Hospital aforesaid, yearly and every year for ever, at Easter, or within six months after, such four poor children, boys or girls, whether orphans or otherwise, or the children of freemen of the city of London, or unfreemen, not less than seven, or more than ten years of condition, that age,  as my said Executors, or the said intended Corporation, and their successors, shall think fit, with preference to my relations, as often as any such shall offer themselves; who shall be received into the said Hospital, and have the maintenance and education thereof, and be continued therein in like manner as other children are maintained and educated in the said Hospital. And my Will is, that in case, and as often as the said President and Governors of Christ- Church Hospital, shall neglect or refuse to take in and maintain the said number of boys and girls to them nominated and qualified as aforesaid, it shall be lawful to my said Executors, and the said intended Corporation, and they are hereby directed and desired to apply the said annual sum of four hundred pounds to the education and maintenance of such four poor children as aforesaid, in such other school or place, and in such other manner as they shall think fit.

56. And whereas the Masters, Keepers, Wardens, and Commonalty, of the art or mystery of Stationers of the city of London, are, in and by one bond or obligation, under their Common Seal, bearing date on or about the third day of February, anno dom. 1717 become bound un to the Governors of the Hospital of St. Thomas the Apostle in Southwark, in the county of Surry, in the penal sum of five thousand five hundred pounds, conditioned for the payment of one hundred and twenty-five pounds, by them and their successors forever, by half-yearly payments, free from all manner of deductions whatsoever, in manner following, viz. To me the said Thomas Guy, during my natural life, and from and after my decease to such person and persons, uses, intents, and purposes, as I, by my last Will and Testament in writing, or any other writings under my Hand and Seal, subscribed in the presence of three or more credible witnesses, should declare, limit, and appoint, as in and by the said obligation and condition, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear:

57. Now I give and devise unto John Cheatly and John Blood yeomen; Joseph Blood and Arthur Alcock clothiers; Thomas Orton yeoman; John Radford, Robert Blood, and the said John Osborn, citizen, and stationer of London, all that my Aims-House or building, containing sixteen rooms, fourteen of which said rooms are now used and employed for the habitation of fourteen poor men and women, and the other two rooms being laid together, are used for a Library, with the House- of-Office, Gardens, and Appurtenances thereto belonging, situate, lying, and being partly in Gumgate street and partly in Schoolhouse Lane in Tamworth, in the county of Warwick, to hold to them the said John Cheatly, John Blood, Joseph Blood, Arthur Alcock, Thomas Orton, John Radford, Robert Blood, and John Osborn, their heirs and assigns forever, in trust, nevertheless, and to and for the uses, intents, and purposes herein after mentioned; that is to say, that my said trustees, and the survivors of them, and such others as shall succeed and be chosen in their room or place, by virtue of the clauses hereinafter in that behalf mentioned, or the major part of them, shall and do, from time to time, admit and place in the said rooms, Fourteen poor Persons, men or women, inhabitants of the towns, Glascoate, Bole-hall- Street, Ammington, Wiggington, and Hoppus, or any of them; my poor relations being first to be admitted, in case any such shall offer themselves, whom they shall think proper objects of such charity; and as often as any of them shall die, to place others in their stead. And in case any such of the said poor persons shall misbehave themselves, my said trustees for the time being, or the major part of them, shall, from time to time, displace such, and put others in their stead, as they shall think fit. And that the two rooms, above mentioned, to be used for a Library, shall continue to be so used; or for such other uses, for the better accommodation of the persons that shall dwell in the said Fourteen Rooms, as the said trustees for the time being, or the major part of them, shall think fit. And my mind and will is, that when and so often as any of the said trustees shall happen to die, the survivors of them shall choose in another person to succeed and be a trustee; who shall act with them, in all respects, as if he had been particularly named with the other trustees in this my Will. And to prevent the legal interest of the said last mentioned premises from going to the heir of a surviving trustee, it is my mind and will, that as often as my present or future trustees, in whom the legal estates of the same premises shall rest, shall be by death reduced to Two; that such Two, or the Survivor of them, shall forthwith convey the same premises to such other trustees and their heirs, upon the trust aforesaid, as my then acting trustees or the major part of them shall think fit or direct. 

58. And I do hereby order, limit, declare, and appoint, that the said yearly sum of one hundred and twenty-five pounds, be paid by the Masters and Keepers, or Wardens and Commonalty of Stationers above mentioned, and their successors, by half-yearly payments, at the feast day of Saint John the Baptist, and the Birth of our Lord God, in every year for ever, to my said Executors, until such intended Corporation, as aforesaid, shall be obtained and take effect ; and then to such intended Corporation, and their successors; to the intent that my said Executors, or the said intended Corporation, and their successors, do and may thereout pay the sum of one hundred and fifteen pounds per annum, part thereof, by like half-yearly payments unto the said John Cheatly, John Blood, Joseph Blood, Arthur Alcock, Thomas Orton, John Radford, Robert Blood, and John Osborn, and the survivors of them, and such as shall succeed them, as aforesaid forever, in trust, and to and for the uses, intents, and purposes, herein after mentioned; that is to say, in respect of eighty pounds per annum, part of the said yearly sum of one hundred and fifteen pounds, upon trust, and to the intent that they do, and shall pay thereout, unto each of the said fourteen poor people, and such others as shall from time to time be chosen in their stead, the sum of two shillings per week, for their maintenance ; and what shall be remaining of the said eighty pounds per annum, over and above such weekly payments, shall be expended and applied by my said trustees, for reparation of the said Almshouses and premises; and for such other uses relating thereto as my said trustees, or the major part of them, shall from time to time think fit and appoint. And for and in respect of the sum of thirty-five pounds, remainder of the said yearly sum of one hundred and fifteen pounds, upon trust, and to the intent that my said last mentioned trustees, and such as shall succeed them, as aforesaid, forever, shall and do apply the same to the putting out children apprentice, nursing, or such like charitable deed, of four, six, or eight such poor persons of the family of the Voughtons, or Woods, or proceeding there from, as they shall think fit. And if none, or not sufficient of such can be found, then of such other person or persons, as they shall find to be proper objects of charity. 

59. And for and in respect of ten pounds per annum, the remainder of the said sum of one hundred and twenty-five pounds per annum, afore mentioned, my Will is, that my said Executors, and such intended Corporation, and their successors, shall, and do pay the same, from time to time, by like half-yearly payments, forever, unto Joseph Hughes of Oakingham, in the county of Berks, gentleman, Abraham Qhitty citizen and cooper of London, Josias Chitty citizen and grocer of London, Joseph Chitty of Lon don, merchant, and the said John Osborn, and such others as shall from time to time be elected and chosen in their room and stead, as any of them die, in like manner as is above mentioned concerning the trust of the aforesaid Almshouse, forever, in trust, that they apply the same to the putting out or children apprentice, nursing, or such like charitable deeds, of two or more such poor persons, of the family of the Guys, or proceeding therefrom, as they shall think fit: and if no such can be found, then of such other Person or persons as they shall find to be proper objects of charity.

60.  Item, I give and bequeath unto Charles Joye, John Lade, John Kenrick, Esquires; Mr. John Darby, Mr. Thomas Dance, Mr. John Sprint, and Mr. John Osborn, the sum of one thousand pounds sterling; two hundred pounds, part of which shall be paid unto them, or to such person or persons as they or the major part of them shall appoint, by writing under their hands, at the end of three months next after my decease, and so from time to time, at the end of every three months, until the said sum of one thousand pounds be fully paid, in trust, that they, the survivors or survivor of them, shall, and do, from time to time, distribute the same for the relief and maintenance of such poor people, being housekeepers, as in their judgment shall be thought convenient; and my mind and will is, that my said last mentioned trustees shall not be accountable to my Executors for the same, and shall be allowed their charges in the execution of the same trust, out of the monies to be paid to them, from time to time as aforesaid. 

61. Item, I give to the said John Osborn stationer, the sum of one hundred pounds, desiring him to assist my Executors in the execution of this my Will.

62. Item, I give to Anne Gorton, servant of Mr. Osborn, the sum of fifty pounds, if she be living in the house with me at the time of my decease. 

63. Item, To my said herein after named Executors for mourning, I give and bequeath the sum of twenty guineas a-piece. 

64. All the rest and residue of my estate, whatsoever, and wheresoever, both real and personal, after the payment of my debts, legacies, and funeral charges, as aforesaid, and subject to the payment of the said several annuities and yearly sums, herein before bequeathed; I give, bequeath, and devise unto Sir Gregory Page Baronet, Charles Joye Esquire, Treasurer of the present Hospital of Saint Thomas, William Clayton of Marden in the county of Surrey, Esquire; Mr. Thomas Hollis senior, John Kenrick and John Lade Esquires, and Governors of the present Hospital of Saint Thomas ; Doctor Richard Mead, Moses Raper Esquire, and Mr. John Sprint, Governors likewise of the same present Hospital, their heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, respectively upon the trust, and for such uses, intents, and purposes, as are herein after, by this my Will, directed and appointed: and I do hereby likewise, ordain, constitute, and appoint the said Sir Gregory Page Baronet, Charles Joye and William Clayton Esquires, Mr. Thomas Hollis Senior, John Kenrick and John Lade Esquires, Doctor Richard Mead, Moses Raper Esquire, and Mr. John Sprint, Executors of this my said last Will, on Trust, as aforesaid. 

65. And my mind and will is, that until such incorporation, by letters patent, or Act of Parliament, as herein after directed, can be obtained and take effect, they my said Executors and last mentioned Trustees, their heirs, executors, administrators and Assigns; and afterwards such Corporation shall and do, out of the Residuum of my Estate, or the rents, interest, or other profits thereof, carry on, erect, finish, and fit up the two new Squares of Building in Southwark, by me some time since began and intended for an Hospital, for the reception of such sick Persons as are herein after mentioned; and such other erections, offices, and Buildings, as shall, in the opinion of my said Executors and Trustees, be for that purpose further necessary; and also provide and furnish the same with beds and all other conveniencies for the reception of, and receive and entertain therein, four hundred poor persons or upwards, labouring under any distempers, infirmities or disorders thought capable of relief by Physic or Surgery; but who by reason of the small hopes there may be of their cure, or the length of time which for that purpose may be required or thought necessary, are or may be adjudged or called Incurable, and as such, not proper objects to be received into or continued in the present Hospital of St. Thomas, or other Hospitals, in and by which no provision has been made for distempers deemed or called Incurable: of whom my mind is, that they receive and entertain Lunaticks, adjudged or called, as aforesaid, Incurable, not exceeding Twenty in number at one time ; such poor persons to be chosen and appointed by my said Executors and Trustees out of such patients and persons who shall be discharged out of the Hospital of St. Thomas, or Bethlehem, or other Hospitals, on account of the small hopes of their cure, or the great length of time for that purpose required or thought necessary, and on such or any other account, adjudged and called Incurable, and not fit to be continued in the said Hospital of St. Thomas, or Bethlehem, or other Hospitals, or such other poor sick persons, or Lunaticks, as, under such or the like circumstances, shall apply to my said Executors and Trustees for relief, at the discretion and pleasure of my said Executors and Trustees to whom I submit the several species or kinds of sick persons deemed or called Incurables, who shall be admitted into the said intended Hospital; and that my said Executors and Trustees shall and do provide suitable and proper diet, Physic, and all other necessaries for the maintenance, relief, or cure of such sick persons, during their lives, or for so long time as my said Executors and Trustees shall think fit to continue them under their care in the said intended Hospital. 

66. And my Will is, that such poor received into and entertained in the said intended Hospital shall be subject at all times, to my said Executors and Trustees and to such rules and orders as they think fit to make for their behaviour in the said intended Hospital; and liable to be expelled from thence, and removed at the pleasure of my said Executors and Trustees, and other like sick persons admitted and entertained in their room.

67. And my mind and will further is, that if my said Executors and Trustees shall not find cause, or shall on any account whatsoever, not think fit to keep all or great part of the beds or wards in the said intended Hospital filled and supplied with sick persons deemed or called Incurable, as aforesaid; it shall and may be lawful for them, to cause any number of the said beds or wards to be filled and made use of, in like manner, and with like patients, as the beds in the Hospital of Saint Thomas are ordinarily used: for all which patients so to be received and taken in, from time to time, into the said intended Hospital, as incurable or otherwise, my mind and will is, that my said Executors and Trustees should provide in all things, as near as may be, according to the course, customs and usage of late years prevailing and practised in the said present Hospital of St. Thomas. 

68. And my mind and will further is, and for the better and more regular disposition and management of the affairs and business of the said intended Hospital, and for perpetuating the Charity hereby intended, and the provision for the same, I do hereby order and appoint, and earnestly desire and intreat my said Executors and Trustees, forthwith after my decease, by humble application to His Majesty, or to the Legislature, to endeavour to obtain Letters Patent under the Great Seal, or an Act of Parliament, incorporating them, my said Executors and last named Trustees, together with Mr. Benjamin Brain senior, Mr. Thomas Clarke, William Cole Esquire, Doctor Thomas Crow, Doctor Francis Fauquier, Mr. Joshua Gee, Mr. Matthew Howard, Doctor Edward Hulse, Mr. Samuel Lesingham, Mr. Henry Lovell, Mr. Samuel Monck, Mr. Joseph Paice senior, Mr. Daniel Powle, Mr. Thomas Stiles senior; and also Robert Atwood, Robert Bristow, Jonathan Blackwell, Esquires ; Mr. James Brooke, Deputy Richard Chauncy, Richard Chiswell Esquire, Deputy John Carhonnel, William Dawson, and Richard Du Cane, Esquires ; Sir Peter Eaton Knight, Sir Nathaniel Gould Knight ; Thomas Gearing and Peter Godfrey Esquires ; Mr. John Gunston, Mr Nathaniel Garland, - Edmund Halsey Esquire, Mr. Henry Hankey, Mr. Thomas Hucks, Mr. William King, .Mr. James Lamhe, Mr. James Lever, Mr. Percival Lewis, Captain Daniel Lock; John London, and Thomas Maylin Junior, Esquires ; Nathaniel Micklethwaite Esquire ; Mr. Samuel Mayo, Mr. Thomas Martin, Mr. Francis Moult, Mr. Josiah Nicholson, . Mr. Nathaniel Newnham, Jeremiah Sambrooke Esquire ; Mr. Samuel 1 Sheqfe, John Smith Esquire ; Sir John Tash Knight, Peter Theobalds Esquire; Mr. James Townsend of Cheapside; the said Gentlemen being all now Governors of the said present Hospital of Saint Thomas ; or so many of the said Gentlemen, as shall be living at the Time of procuring such intended Corporation, or Act of Parliament, to be named and appointed; and in manner there in directed, to be from time to time, forever,  hereafter successively, into such respective offices elected and admitted, by such name or names, as to His Majesty or the Legislature shall seem proper, and by such name or names, to have perpetual succession, with power to have and to use a separate and distinct Common Seal, for the necessary affairs of the said intended Corporation, and with power by such name or names as aforesaid, to have, hold, take, enjoy, alien, transfer, and dispose of the said hereby before devised residuary part of my Estate; and there with, or with any part thereof, to purchase, take, and enjoy Messuages, Lands, Tenements, Fee-farm Rents, or other Estates of Inheritance, for perpetuity, or otherwise, and to the value of the said residuary part of my Estate, or to such further or other yearly value, as to his said Majesty or the Legislature shall seem convenient, and with power and capacity in law, to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, by such name or names, as aforesaid, in any Court or Courts of Record, and elsewhere, and with such other powers, privileges, and capacities in law, as to His Majesty or the Legislature shall seem meet to be granted. 

69. And my Will is, and I further desire my said Executors, and last named Trustees, by such humble application as afore said, to His Majesty or the Legislature, to endeavour to obtain and procure, that by such Letters Patent or Act of Parliament, as aforesaid, a Committee be appointed of Twenty- one of the Members of such intended Corporation, for the more constant and ordinary management and application of the said residuary part of my Estate, and of the Charity hereby intended; to which Committee, or to such number of them, as shall be thought convenient, when convened and assembled, by and with the President and Treasurer of the said intended Corporation, or one of them, my will and desire is, that my said Executors and Trustees, by such Letters Patent or Act of Parliament, as afore said, endeavour to have granted, and appointed, such powers as may enable them in the most effectual manner to manage, settle, and apply the said residuary part of my Estate, and the rents, interests, dividends, or other profits or produce thereof, to such uses as by this my last Will are directed and appointed; and that by such Letters Patent or Act of Parliament, it may be provided, that Seven of the said Committee of Twenty-one, or One-third part thereof, at the least, may yearly and every year go out of, and be excluded their respective places as members of the said Committee, by the appointment of a general Court or assembly of the Members of the said intended Corporation, to be assembled and convened by the President or Treasurer of such intended Corporation yearly and every year, at a time or times in such Letters Patent or Act of Parliament to be appointed: And that for that purpose, at such General Court or Assembly, as aforesaid, Fourteen of the Members of the said Committee for the year next preceding such General Court or assembly be first elected and chosen Members of the said Committee for the year next ensuing; and Seven other persons out of Fourteen of the Members of the said intended Corporation, who were not Members of the said Committee for the year then next preceding, to be first nominated by the said Committee for the year then next preceding, be, by and at such General Court and assembly, as aforesaid, elected and appointed Members of the said Committee for the year then next ensuing such Election. And that in and by such Letters Patent, or Act of Parliament, it be further provided and appointed, that the management and accounts of the said Committee of Twenty- one be from time to time subject to the approbation or disallowance of a General Court or assembly of the Members or Governors of such intended Corporation, to be from time to time convened and summoned by proper and convenient notice by the President or Treasurer of such intended Corporation for the Time being. 

70. And my mind and will further is, and I desire my said Executors, by like humble application, as aforesaid, to endeavour to procure and obtain, that by such Letters Patent or Act of Parliament as aforesaid, the said Sir Gregory Page Baronet be appointed the first President of the said intended Corporation; and the said Charles Joye Esquire, the first Treasurer thereof ; and the said William Clayton Esquire, Mr. Thomas Hollis senior, John Kenrick and John Lade Esquires, Doctor Richard Mead, Moses Raper Esquire, and Mr. John Sprint, and the said Mr. Benjamin Brain senior, Mr. Thomas Clarke, William Cole Esquire, Doctor Thomas Crow, Doctor Francis Fauquier, Mr. Joshua Gee, Mr. Matthew Howard, Doctor Edward Hulse, Mr. Samuel Lesingham, Mr. Henry Lovell, Mr. Samuel Monck, Mr. Joseph Paice, Mr. Daniel Powle, and Mr. Thomas Stiles, be appointed the first members of the said herein before mentioned and intended Committee, for the more constant and ordinary management of the said residuary part of my Estate, and Charity hereby intended; or, in case of the death of any of the said Gentlemen last above named, or their refusal to accept of the respective Trusts hereby intended, as President, Treasurer, or Members of the said Committee, then such other fit and able persons to be named and appointed by my said Executors, to be President, Treasurer, or Members of the said Committee, making up the said number of Twenty-one. And that, by such Letters Patent, or Act of Parliament, as aforesaid, it be provided and granted, that the future elections of the President and Treasurer of the said intended Corporation, and also the election of the Physicians and Surgeons, and of the Register, or Clerk and Solicitor, and of the Chaplain, to be employed in and about the Charity hereby intended, be referred to, and reserved for the Members and Governors of the said intended Corporation, or the major part of them, in General Court assembled as aforesaid; as also their removal, displacing, and filling up; and that the Offices of Apothecary, Steward, Matron, Cook, Sisters, and all other Officers, to be employed in and about the said intended Hospital and Charity, be referred to the election of the said intended Committee, and their Successors, and by them, and at their pleasure, to be altered, and the respective Officers to be removed, displaced, supplied, and filled up. 

71. And my mind and will further is, that as soon as such intended Corporation can be obtained and take effect, my said Executors do forth with pay, assign, transfer, and in due form of law convey and make over all the said residuary part of my Estate, herein before devised to them, or so much thereof as shall not have been applied and expended in and about the execution of this my Will, to and for the uses thereby directed and appointed, subject to the payment of the several annuities herein before devised to the said here by intended Corporation and their Successors, upon the Trusts, and to be by them applied from time to time, to and for such uses, in tents, and purposes, as are, in and by this my Will, for that purpose directed and appointed. 

72. And my mind and will further is, that the said President, Treasurer, Committee, and Governors intended to be incorporated, and when incorporated as aforesaid, do, as soon as the same can be done conveniently, lay out the surplus of the said residuary part of my personal Estate, or so much thereof as shall not be expended in building, furnishing, and fitting up the said two new Squares of Building, or other the necessary charges and disbursements for the purposes aforesaid, in the purchase of Messuages, Lands, Ground Rents, Fee-Farm Rents, or other estates of inheritance, or the reversions thereof in Fee Simple, to the intent that the yearly or other rents and profits of such purchases, together with the rents and profits of the said residuary part of my real Estate, be from time to time applied to, and become a perpetual provision for the maintenance and cure of such poor sick persons as are to be received into, and entertained in the said intended Hospital, and for defraying and answering all other the constant necessary charges and expences in and about the same; and that until the said residuary part of my personal Estate shall be laid out in purchases, as aforesaid, the interest, dividends, and other incomes or profits thereof, be from time to time applied to such purposes as are before appointed for the application of the rents and profits of such purchases, as afore said. And my mind and will further is, that if it shall appear to the said President, Treasurer, and Governors, to be incorporated as aforesaid, that the yearly, and other rents and profits of the said residuary part of my real Estate, and of the Lands, Messuages, or other Estates, to be purchased as aforesaid, shall be more than sufficient to provide for, and answer the maintenance and cure of such poor sick persons, as are hereby directed to be received into and entertained in the said two new squares of Building, and other, necessary charges and expences upon or about the said intended Hospital, it shall be lawful for the said President, Treasurer, and Governors, incorporated as aforesaid, in General Court to be assembled and convened, as aforesaid, or the major part of them, to lay out, expend, and apply, or direct and empower the said Committee to lay out, expend, and apply such surplus of the rents and profits of the said residuary part of my real Estate, and of other the Messuages, Lands, and other Estates to be purchased, as aforesaid, to and for the relief of such other poor sick persons, or such other proper objects of compassion, as from time to time to the said President, Treasurer, and Governors incorporated, as aforesaid, shall appear most worthy and deserving of pity and relief, or for such other public and charitable uses and purposes, as they shall think convenient. 

73. And I do hereby revoke, and annul, and declare to be null and void, all, and every other Will and Wills by me, at any time or times heretofore made, declaring this to be my only last Will and Testament ; in witness whereof, I have to the same contained in Seventeen Sheets of Paper, and to one other part thereof contained in Eleven Sheets of Paper, set my Hand and Seal, viz. my Hand at the bottom of the said several Sheets of Paper, and to the last of the said Seventeen and Eleven Sheets respectively my Hand and Seal, and my Seal to the place where the said Seventeen and Eleven Sheets are severally connected together, on this Fourth Day of September, Anno Domini 1724 ; and in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George, over Great Britain,  King, Defender of the Faith, 

 THOMAS GUY. 

Sealed, published, and declared by the above-named Testator to be his Last Will and Testament, in the Presence of us, who witnessed the same in the said Testator's Presence, John Oldfield, John Adlam, William Pepys, Samuel Adlam. 

ProTrobatum fuit hujusmodi Testamentum Thomae Guy predict' quarto Die Mensis Januarii, Anno Domini Millesimo Septingentesimo Vicesimo Quarto, Jur'tis Caroli Joye Arm Joh' Lade Arm' Sf John Kenrick Arm' tri- bus Executor' in eod' Test' nominat' de bene Sf jidel' idem exequendo, coram Venerab' Vvro Gin" Phipps, Surro' Venerab' Sf Egregii Viri Joh' Bet- tesworth, Legum Doct' Curice Pre- rogat' Cantuar' Magistr' Custod' sive Commis' Jurat' Sf reservata Pote- state similem com'nem faciendi Do mino Gregor' Page Baronetto, Gul' Clayton Arm' Thomae Hollis Seniori, Richardo Mead in Medicinis Doctori, Mosi Raper Arm' Sf Joh' Sprint, coe» teris Executoribus in dicto Testamento nominatis, cum venerint, seu eorum aliquis venerit, Sf eandempetitur.

FINIS.