The Exchequer receives this money, and gives out tallies according
to the prizes, when it is drawn, all payable at four years; and the
interest of this money for four years is struck in tallies
proportioned to the maintenance; which no parish would refuse that
subsisted them wholly before.

I make no question but that if such a hospital was erected within a
mile or two of the city, one great circumstance would happen, viz.,
that the common sort of people, who are very much addicted to
rambling in the fields, would make this house the customary walk, to
divert themselves with the objects to be seen there, and to make
what they call sport with the calamity of others, as is now
shamefully allowed in Bedlam.

To prevent this, and that the condition of such, which deserves
pity, not contempt, might not be the more exposed by this charity,
it should be ordered: that the steward of the house be in
commission of the peace within the precincts of the house only, and
authorised to punish by limited fines or otherwise any person that
shall offer any abuse to the poor alms-people, or shall offer to
make sport at their condition.

If any person at reading of this should be so impertinent as to ask
to what purpose I would appoint a chaplain in a hospital of fools, I
could answer him very well by saying, for the use of the other
persons, officers, and attendants in the house. But besides that,
pray, why not a chaplain for fools, as well as for knaves, since
both, though in a different manner, are incapable of reaping any
benefit by religion, unless by some invisible influence they are
made docile; and since the same secret power can restore these to