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A Hospital is a political and administrative institution of official records first formed in the 17th Century as part of the reestablishment of rules of international law and diplomacy originally as neutral ground or territory free from hostilities for the resolution of differences and later (by the mid 18th Century) for the management and administration of records for the health, welfare and treatment of registered seamen and other residents.

The word Hospital is a 17th Century created word, claimed of much older antiquity derived from two (2) Latin words hospes / hospites meaning “neutral ground or territory, free from hostilities for the close quarter meeting of enemies, strangers or foreigners to resolve differences” and – alis meaning “the quality of”.  Contrary to false etymology, the Latin word hospes (itself from hos (this, these) and pes (foot, sheet, quarters) describes an ancient tradition from Roman times to the 15th Century CE of leaders or emissaries of enemies meeting on neutral ground under a sheet or tent to discuss terms of ceasefire and end of hostilities. The claim that the word was first used in reference to places of healing and respite by an order of Roman Death Cult knights of the same name in the 12th Century is an absurdity and falsity. The true etymology of Hospital from the end of the 17th Century is “a place possessing the quality of neutral territory, free from hostilities for the close quarter meeting of enemies, strangers or foreigners to resolve differences”.

The emergence of the concept of a “Hospital” being a “neutral place” for resolving differences emerged by the second half of the 17th Century as a potential political tool in reestablishing the fabric of some acceptable international conventions and laws of diplomacy following several devastating wars across Europe including but not limited to the Thirty Years War (1618-1648), Franco - Spanish War (1635-1659), Second Franco - Spanish War (1667-68), Franco - Dutch War (1672-1678) :

(i) Contrary to deliberately false history, by the late 16th Century the rise of royal and strategic assassinations - primarily blamed on Jesuits – saw a collapse of centuries of international conventions and laws of diplomacy whereby the immunity of ambassadors and emissaries ceased to be honored and even the systems for arranging truce through hospes – meeting on neutral territory to resolve conflict – largely collapsed. As a consequence, the 17th Century saw some of the most bloody, constant and costly conflicts across Europe for centuries; and

(ii) The first hospital was commissioned in November 1670 by King Louis XIV of France (1643 -1715) and completed at Grenelle in Paris by 1676 as the largest construction of its time with fifteen (15) courtyards and over nine hundred (900) rooms, the largest being the Église du Dôme (finished in 1679) as a scale version of St Peter’s Basilica in Rome. King Louis invented the idea of having the Hospital guarded by a residence of the oldest and most loyal military personnel to prove and eliminate any possible concern of hidden assassination – hence the idea of “residents”. However the first Hospital in history was not publicly used in any major diplomatic function or peace treaty until 1763 with the famous Peace Treaty of Paris which made Great Britain the ius patronatus of the Roman Death Cult and the most important Catholic vassal by claiming the powers of the Papal Bulls of commerce granted to Spain and Portugal. The Hospital was a central place of peace treaties again in 1814 at the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars; and

(iii) While King Louis XIV commissioned the first Hospital in history, the first “functional Hospital” in history was the Binnehof (literally “highest court”) at The Hague where a peace treaty was signed in September 1697 to end the Nine Years War (1688 - 97) between France and rebels of Ireland and Scotland versus Dutch Republic, England, Roman Death Cult, Spain, Sweden and Piedmont - Savoy. The claim that the treaty was signed at Ryswick is a deliberate fraud to hide the function origin and history of the Hague; and

(iv) The first “Hospital” commissioned on English soil was in early 1660 following the formation of the Royal Society as part of the restoration of Parliament and the defeat of the last of the forces of Cromwell. Through Sir Stephen Fox, the Royal Society sold the tenancy of Chelsea College by January 27th 1660 to King Charles II for £1300 and an annual rent of £5000 per annum. Around June 1st 1660, the first Peace Treaty between the Royal Society and Charles II was signed at the “Chelsea Hospital”. A second Peace Treaty and Charter were signed on 15th July 1662 at which King Charles II duly ceded his sovereign mace to the Royal Society as the superior party. A third Peace Treaty was signed at the Chelsea Hospital on 23rd April 1663 with the King now recognized as the “founder” of the Royal Society. Following the death of King Charles II in 1685, Sir Christopher Wren was commissioned to design a grand chapel for the Hospital which was completed by 1691. In 2002, Queen Elizabeth II recognized the primacy of the Hospital by granting Chelsea Hospital her sovereign mace; and

(v) The first Hospital “purpose built” for the resolution of conflict “upon the high seas” was Greenwich Hospital, also known as Maritime Greenwich from 1694 upon the restoration of the Palace of Placentia (also known as the Palace of Good Birth) on the River Thames as the former birth place of both Queen Mary I (Tudor) in 1516 and Queen Elizabeth I in 1533. The site was also the place for the famous Peace Treaty between Scotland and England on July 1st 1543 which was the first time the Crowns of England and Scotland were briefly united. The site became the famous location for the peace treaty between Portugal and Spain and England in 1668 (later ratified in Madrid and Lisbon) recognizing the House of Braganza as “legitimate” rulers of Portugal. The Hospital also became the place of peace treaty in 1670 with Spain establishing peace terms for the Americas. The palace was finally demolished from 1694 and new buildings erected by Sir Christopher Wren. The Hospital was formally first recognized in statute from 1696 by 7 & 8 W. 3. c. 21 as the “increase and registry of seamen”; and

(vi) The palace of Versailles was made an official annex to the first Hospital in history at Grenelle in Paris from 1805 and the Hall of Mirrors was officially blessed as possessing the powers of a chapel by Pope Pius VII. In 1919, the Hall of Mirrors as a sacred chapel of a Hospital served as the setting of the signing of the peace treaty ending World War I.