History and description of the public charities in the town of Frome.

  • Frome
Date:
1833
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: History and description of the public charities in the town of Frome. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    paid to the churchwardens of the Frome school aforesaid for the time being; and then one moiety of the aforesaid closes and premises should be and remain to and for the use of the said James Wickham, his heirs and assigns, for ever; and the other moiety should be and remain to and for the use of the said Jane Hippie, her heirs and assigns, for ever. By an indenture, dated l^h November, 1745, two closes of meadow or pasture ground, commonly called Cole Mixon, containing nine acres, more or less, situate in Nunney, were conveyed by Joan Pickfatt and Jane Hippie to the minister and churchwardens of Frome, for the remainder of a term of 1000 years, commencing the 19th April, 1731, upon trust, that all the rents and profits of the said premises should, after the death of the said Jane Hippie, be disposed of by them amongst the poor women belonging to the almshouse of Frome upon Whit Monday, yearly, by equal shares and proportions; and by a memorandum indorsed upon the last-mentioned instrument, confining the benefit of the above gift to the 14 poor women belonging to Frome almshouse. In the year 1748, application was made to the court of Chancery, by the vicar and several of the parishioners of Frome, praying that the said charities might be established, and the lands belonging to them respectively secured, and that such rules and orders might be prescribed for the good order and government thereof, as the Court might think fit. By the final decree of the Lord Chancellor, dated in the year 1751, a scheme, approved of by the Master, for the belter regulation of the charities, was confirmed, and the rules and orders for that purpose were settled, by which rules it was amongst other things ordered, that when the number of the trustees of the almshouse, and premises thereto belonging, should be reduced to six, the surviving trustees or feoffees should, within four months after reasonable request to them, made by two sufficient men of the said parish of Frome Selwood, make a new feoffment or conveyance of the said almshouse, almshouse lands and premises, to the use of themselves and a sufficient number of the most able and sufficient men of the said parish, and their heirs, making together with themselves the number of 20 in the whole; and that the present 20 trustees which had been approved, and to whom the said almshouse and lands were conveyed, and also all other trustees for the time being, and the survivors of them, should be called trustees and governors of the said almshouse, almshouse lands and premises, according to the rules and orders thereinafter mentioned. That the said twenty trustees and governors should from time to time c Frome. Almshouse and Charity School, continued. Application to Chancery. Rules.