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ashler, this sentence following to be written in great capital 
letters, viz. :—Pro. 28. Qui Dat Pauperi non Indigebit.” 
It would appear that further contracts were entered into with 
carpenters and bricklayers respectively. Probably the way of 
employing men by the time for the job did not prove satisfactory. 
The MS. book from which Finch’s letters are quoted by Garrow, 
entitled ‘‘The particular accounts of the Building of Trinitie 
Hospital alltogether with Graunt of Queen Elizabeth and other 
notes touching the same,’’ contains the particulars of these 
contracts. 
The Hospital took nearly four years to build, having been 
begun on January 17th, 1596, and finished September 29th, 
1599. Up to 29th September, 1602, when the school-house and 
master’s house were finished, the total cost of building was 
£2716 11s. 11d. 
The chapel, or oratory, was dedicated on Monday, July 9th, 
1599, by the Bishop of London. 
A hospital for the relief of certain maimed, poor, needy, or 
impotent people was then founded by John Whitgift by virtue 
of an Act of Parliament in the 39th Elizabeth (a.p. 1596) to be 
incorporated as the Hospital of the Holy Trinity in Croydon, 
and have continuance for ever. There was to be one warden, 
and, including him, poor persons not to exceed forty. 
In the manuscript volume at Lambeth, above mentioned, are 
the Statutes of Whitgift for the regulation of the Hospital. These 
are reproduced with the original spelling in pamphlet form, pub- 
lished by Hayward, of Croydon. [See Appendix.] These consist 
of twenty-one chapters, and thereby Whitgift no doubt believed 
that the future of his foundation was secured in every particular. 
The deed of foundation does not allude to the school, but the 
statutes provide that one of the forty poor persons shall be a 
master of a common schoole in the school-house attached. 
_ We may now review some of the internal history of the 
Hospital from its foundation. 
Wardens. 
From 1600 to 1898, when the present warden, Mr. Alfred 
Jones, was appointed, there have been, as shown by the records, 
forty-two wardens; but for the twenty-five years previous to 
Dr. Rose’s time the books have disappeared. 
The first warden was Walter Foster, appointed April 2nd, 1600. 
The second warden was Master Edward Burton, M.A. This 
was the only scholar amongst the wardens. Fourteen wardens 
signed to ‘‘ his mark” in lieu of name to everything, the school- 
master’s accounts included. 
There is one solitary instance (noted below) of a warden being 
dismissed for dishonesty, 
