Holy Jesus Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: providing for better support and regulation and confirming dispositions of property, and other provisions Act 1846

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1846 c. 39
Year1846
ANNO XONO & DEC1MO
VICTORLE REGINJE.
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39.
An Act for the better Support and better Regulation
of "The Hospital of the Holy Jesus, founded in
the Manors in the Town and County of
Newcastle-
upon-
Tyne, at the Costs and Charges of the Mayor
and Burgesses of the Town of Newcastle-upon'
Tyne in the County of the Town of Newcastle-
upon-Tyne aforesaid," and for confirming Sales
and other Dispositions made of Estates formerly
Part of the Possessions of the said Hospital; and
for other Purposes. [26th August 1846.]
THEREAS on or about the Twenty-third Day of August
I One thousand eight hundred and thirty-six Sir John Camp-
bell
Knight, His late Majesty's Attorney General, and the
Master, Brethren, and Sisters of the Hospital of the Holy Jesus,
founded in the
Manors
in the Town and County of
Newcastle-upon,'
Tyne, at the Costs and Charges of the Mayor and Burgesses of the
Town of Newcastle-upon- Tyne, filed their Information and Bill in the
High Court of Chancery against the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses
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of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and John Clayton their Town Clerk, and
the said Information and Bill was on or about the Twenty-fourth Day
of April One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven amended, and
the same, when so amended, stated, amongst other things, that from
the Time whereof the Memory of Man was not to the contrary until
the Twenty-eighth Day of
December
One thousand eight hundred and
thirty-five the Corporation of the Town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in
the County of the Town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne aforesaid was con-
stituted by the Freemen or free Burgesses of trie said Town, and that
the said Corporation was from Time whereof the Memory of Man was
not to the contrary until the Thirtieth Day of August in the Thirty-
first Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth called or
known by divers Names of Incorporation, and was from thence until the
said Twenty-eighth Day of December One thousand eight hundred
and thirty-five called or known by the Name of the Mayor and Bur-
gesses of the Town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the County of the
Town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and that the Government of the said
Corporation was, by Letters Patent of His Majesty King James the
First, bearing Date the Twenty-first Day of March in the Second
Year of His Reign, vested in a Council called the Common Council,
consisting of the Mayor for the Time being, Ten Aldermen, the
Sheriff of the said Town, and Twenty-four Common Councilmen, and
that such Council had the Power of acting and did act in all Matters
relating to the said Corporation, and its Business and Affairs, for the
said Corporation at large, and that in or previously to the Year One
thousand six hundred and eighty-two the said Mayor and Burgesses
erected and founded certain Buildings and Edifices upon a Parcel of
Ground in the said Town in a certain Place there called the Manors,
to be an Hospital for the finding, Sustentation, and Relief of the poor
and impotent People, being Freemen and Freemen's Widows and
Sons and Daughters of Freemen of the Town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
aforesaid, and that for the Purpose of establishing the said Hospital,
to have Continuance for ever, and in pursuance of the Provisions of a
certain Act of Parliament passed in the Thirty-ninth Year of the
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c.
5.
Reign of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, intituled An Act for erecting
of Hospitals or Abiding and Working Houses for the Poor, and which
Act was made perpetual by a certain other Act passed in the Twenty-
first Year of the Reign of His Majesty King James the First, the said
Mayor and Burgesses of the Town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne did, in or
about the Month of March One thousand six hundred and eighty-
three, duly execute under their Common Seal a certain Indenture
bearing Date the Twenty-sixth Day of the Month of March, and
made between Nicholas Fenwick, the then Mayor, and the Burgesses
of the said Town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, of the one Part, and
Thomas Lewcn Merchant, and Thirty-nine other Persons, therein
named, of the other Part, whereby, after reciting the Foundation of
the said Hospital, it was witnessed, that the said Mayor and Burgesses
did found, erect, and establish the said Hospital for an Hospital of
poor and impotent People, to have Continuance for ever, and did
limit, assign, and appoint that the said Hospital, and the poor and
impotent Persons by that Deed placed therein, namely, the said several
Persons in the said Deed named as Parties thereto of the Second
Part, to the Number of Forty, being already placed in the said Hos-
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pital, should for ever thereafter be incorporated by the Name of "The
Master, Brethren, and Sisters of the Hospital of the Holy Jesus,
founded in the Manors in the Town and County of
Newcastle-upon-
Tyne aforesaid, at the Costs and Charges of the said Mayor and Bur-
gesses of the Town of
Newcastle-upon-
Tyne in the County of the
Town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne aforesaid," and that by the said Name
they should have full Power and Authority, and lawful Capacity and
Ability, to purchase, take, hold, receive, and enjoy to them and their
Successors for ever, as well Goods and Chattels as Manors, Lands,
Tenements, and Hereditaments, being Freehold, and to sue and be
sued* implead and be impleaded, answer and be answerable unto, in
all Manner of Courts and Places within the Realm, and the said
Mayor and Burgesses did thereby appoint that the said Master,
Brethren, and Sisters of the said Hospital should have a Common
Seal, therein described ; and it was thereby provided, thatit should be
lawful for the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the said
Town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne for the Time being, upon Death or
removing of the said Master, or any of the said Brethren or Sisters, or
in case of any Vacancy of the said Master and Brethren and Sisters, to
place one other in the Room or Stead of him or her that should die
or be so removed; and the said Mayor and Burgesses did thereby
further appoint that the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of
the said Town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne for the Time being should for
ever thereafter be Visitors of the said Hospital, and further, that the
said Master, Brethren, and Sisters of the said Hospital should be ruled,
governed, ordered, and directed according to the Rules, Statutes, and
Ordinances as should be set forth, made, devised, and established by
the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the said Town of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, by Writing under their Common Seal; and
the said amended Information and Bill also stated, that under and by
virtue of the said Deed the said Master, Brethren, and Sisters of the
said Hospital became and had ever since been a Corporation by the
said Name of "The Master, Brethren, and Sisters of the Hospital of
the Holy Jesus, founded in the Manors of the Town and County of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, at the Costs and Charges of the Mayor and
Burgesses of the Town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the County of the
Town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne aforesaid," and that upon the Founda-
tion and Incorporation of the said Hospital, and for some Time after-
wards, the said Mayor and Burgesses of Newcastle-upon-Tyne did,
for the Purpose of endowing and providing for the Maintenance and
Sustenance
thereof,
purchase divers Messuages, Lands, Tenements,
and Hereditaments, and cause the same to be conveyed to and settled
upon the said Hospital, and that accordingly, on or about the Day
after the Day of the Execution of the last-mentioned Indenture, a
certain other Indenture of Bargain and Sale, bearing Date the Twenty-
seventh Day of the said Month of March One thousand six hundred
and eighty-three, was duly made and executed by and between Sir
Ralph Carr Knight of the First Part, the :;aid Mayor and Burgesses
of the Second Part, and the said Thomas Lewin, Master, and the
Brethren and Sisters of the said Hospital, of the Third Part, and
thereby the said Sir Ralph Carr, in consideration of the Sum of
Seven hundred Pounds to him paid by the said Mayor and Burgesses,
Founders of the said Hospital, and at the Charge of the Endowment
thereof,

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