St. Mary's Hospital (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) Act 1888
WHEREAS by a charter or letters patent of His Majesty King James the First dated the twenty-seventh day of May in the ninth year of his reign after reciting that there had long existed in the town of Newcastle in the Westgate an hospital called "the Hospital of Saint Mary the Virgin" the founder whereof did not certainly appear which hospital (in this Act referred to as "the hospital") consisted of one master and six poor brethren which master and brethren held divers lands and hereditaments ...