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curious instances of the way in which the accounts kept by 
Rose, and audited by himself, were falsified. 
The late warden, Mr. Lipscomb, was very pertinacious in 
picking out information from the ledger books. In 1885 I heard 
him read a paper on the Hospital before the Surrey Archeological 
Society. I have since had the MS. lent me by the present war- 
“eg and have looked up some of these entries in the ledger 
ooks. 
For the notes about the wardens and visitations I am indebted 
to Mr. Alfred Jones, as, indeed, I am also for kindly and always 
ready help in inspecting and photographing the many objects of 
interest in the Hospital. 
APPENDIX. 
StatutsEs, &e. 
CAP. I. 
Of the nwmber of those that are to be mainteyned in or by 
the Hospitall. 
First, I do ordeine, that the number of the bretheren and sisteres 
of the saide Hospitall shallbe ever thirtie at the least, and so many 
more, under xt in all, as the revenues of the saide Hospitall, : 
may beare; . . . of the which number of bretheren, one shall teache a 
common schoole in Croydon in the schoolehouse there by me builded, 
and performe such other duties as is appointed unto him in these 
ordinaunces and status. 
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CAP. II. 
That women may be placed in the Hospitall. 
I ordeine, that the saide Hospitall may have women placed in it, 
aswell as men; they the saide women. being poore, and qualifide in 
like manner, forme, and degree, as is hereafter expressed in the 
statutes touchinge the seconde and third degree of those who are to be 
placed: Provided nevertheless, that at no time above one half parte 
of the whole number (not accounting in this behalf the wardein nor 
the schoole-maister) shall consiste of women only: Provided also, 
that the poore widowes of longeste continewance in Croydon and 
Lambethe, beinge quallifide accordinge to the ordinaunce, shalbe 
preffered before all others. 
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CAP. IV. 
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I ordeine and appointe, that the poore brother appointed to be the 
schoolmaster shall be a parson well qualifide for that function, that is 
to saye, an honest man, learnede in the Greeke and Lattin tongues, a 
good versifiere in bothe the foresayde languages, and able to write 
