A biographical history of Guy's Hospital / by Samuel Wilks and G.T. Bettany.

  • Wilks, Samuel, Sir, 1824-1911.
Date:
1892
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    established a, trust, including three members of the Blood lamil\', Jolm C'heatly, Arthur Alcock, Thomas Orton, John Radford, and his trusty friend John Osborn, to maintain his almshouses for fourteen poor persons, men and women, who should be inhabitants of the townships of Wilnecote, Glascote, Bolehall Street, Amington, Wigginton, or Hopwas,—Tamworth being left out, as we have noted before. His own relations were to be preferred, if any should offer themselves, and appeared to be proper objects of such a charity. The inmates might be removed for misbehaviour. Out of the perpetual payment of £125 due from the Stationers' Company, by bond, dated February 3rd, 1717, £115 was assigned for the support of the almshouses, £80 of it to be applied to maintaining the almspeople, by pay- ments of two shillings per week to each, and the surplus was for repairing the premises or other purposes. The remaining £35 was to be applied by the trustees to apprenticing children, nursing, or such-like charitable deed, of four, six, or eight persons of the families of Voughton or Wood, or proceeding therefrom, as the trustees thought fit ; and if no others could be found, of such other persons as were proper objects of charity. The almshouse, says Palmer, is said to occupy the site of the original (nnld Hall of St. George, an im- portant religious confraternity in earlier times in Tamworth. It is a plain substantial building, present- ing two sides of a s([uare, with a garden behind common to the fourteen poor. Each of the almspeople occupies one room, having a separate entrance. The front to- wards Gungate was rebuilt in 1827, and bears a tablet recording the foundation. Out of the annual income, and from savings during vacancies, etc., £1,400 was accumulated and laid out in the ]nn-chase of pro- ])erty in the parish of St. jNIartin's, lUrmingham, on which leasehold houses have been built. The leases