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King Edward VI granting his Royal Charter to Bridewell Hospital. Engraving by G. Vertue, 1750, after a painting by G. Scrots.
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King Edward VI granting his Royal Charter to Bridewell Hospital. Engraving by G. Vertue, 1750, after a painting by G. Scrots.

G. Scrots · 1750

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Lettering: Omnibus muneris virtutis divitis Edoardi Sexti Angliae &c. Regius Dominij sui Bridewell dicti Civibus suis Londinensibus pro Hospitalibus in usum pauperium & ejusdem civitatis Donatio [Greek] Basilikē. [Roman] To the Right Worshipfull Wm. Boon Esq. Alderman President. The Worshipfull Robt. Alsop Esqr. Alderman, Treasurer Joseph Ayliff Esq Auditor-General. and to the Honble and Worshipfull the rest of the Governors of the Hospitals of Bridewell and Bethlem this plate is most humbly inscribed by their obedient servant G. Vertue

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