[Printed act.] Anno Regni Georgii III. Regis. Cap. LXXVII. An Act [concerning the hospitals of 'Christ, Bridewell, and Saint Thomas the Apostle [...] "The House of the Poor," in West Smithfield, [...] and of the House and Hospital called Bethlehem'].

11pp., foolscap 8vo. Stitched and unbound. Aged and worn, with closted vertical 5cm cut from bottom through all six leaves. The full drophead title reads: 'CAP. LXXVII. | An Act to render valid and effectual certain Articles of Agreement between the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, Governors of the Possessions, Revenues, and Goods of the Hospitals of Edward King of England the Sixth, of Christ, Bridewell, and Saint Thomas the Apostle, and of the Hospitals of Henry the Eighth, King of England, called "The House of the Poor," in West Smithfield, near London, and of the House and Hospital called Bethlehem, and the Presidents, Treasurers, and Acting Governors of the said several Hospitals.' Bearing a number of underlinings and marginal annotations in a nineteenth-century hand, presumably by a member of the solicitors 'Clayton, Cookson & Wainewright', whose name is written on the blank last page, together with '22 Geo. 3. c. 77'. The involvement of the solicitors may result from 1860s legal action over the moving of St Thomas's Hospital from Southwark to Lambeth. Excessively scarce: no copy on COPAC.