An Act to provide for the removal of Bethlem Hospital to the Monks Orchard Estate at Addington in Surrey and Beckenham and West Wickham in Kent and for the disposal of the existing hospital premises and convalescent home and the vesting of the said hospital premises or part thereof in the London County Council as an open space and for other purposes. (Bethlem Hospital Act, 1926)
WHEREAS by a Charter or Letters Patent of His late Majesty King Henry the Eighth bearing date the thirteenth day of January in the thirty-eighth year of the reign of His said Majesty the custody order and government of the house and hospital then called Bethlem and situate without and near to Bishopsgate of the city of London and of all manors lands tenements possessions revenues and hereditaments whatsoever to the same house and hospital belonging and appertaining were given and granted to t...