Report of the Commissioners appointed in pursuance of an act of parliament made and passed in the 5th and 6th years of King William the 4th, c. 71 : instituted, "An act for appointing commissioners to continue the inquiries concerning charities in England and Wales, until the first day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven." (Dated 30th June 1837.) Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty.

  • Great Britain. Commissioners for Inquiring Concerning Charities
Date:
1840
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Credit: Report of the Commissioners appointed in pursuance of an act of parliament made and passed in the 5th and 6th years of King William the 4th, c. 71 : instituted, "An act for appointing commissioners to continue the inquiries concerning charities in England and Wales, until the first day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven." (Dated 30th June 1837.) Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i London.] INQUIRING CONCERNING CHARITIES. Ill and the other on Candlemas-day, and 2(ls. yearly for ever, to and amongst the resident officers of the same hospital, as within and during the three years then last past had been used; and 6/. yearly for ever to the master, wardens, and committee of the Company of Skinners of the city of London, towards the relief of the poor of the said Company ; and all the residue of the yearly rents, issues, and profits of the said lands, tenements, and hereditaments (saving the sum of 10^. a-piece, to be once detained by the said trustees for their pains) for the relief of the poor children of Christ's Hospital, to the intent that, by reason of this charitable work, such and so many poor children of poor freemen of the said Company of Skiimers, to the number of 10 in the whole, as the master and wardens of the said company, or the governors of the said company, should thereunto nominate, should from time to time be received and taken into the said hospital, and brought up with the other children therein; and that the same 10 poor children, so from time to time to be received into the said hospital, should wear green caps and green facing on their coats, whereby they might be discovered and known from amongst the rest of the said children. The governors were put in possession of a copyhold estate at Hornsey under the above devise, but no money was paid by the executors to make up the required value of 100 marks. This estate was sold in the year 1617 for 810/., which, with other monies of the hospital, was invested in the following purchase. By indenture of bargain and sale, enrolled in Chancery, bearing date 1st April, 18th Jac. I. (1620), William^Mulcaster and George Ede, in consideration of 2,136/. granted to the mayor, commonalty, and citizens, the manor of Duxhurst or Duxthurst, in the county of Surrey, and the site of the capital messuage and farm of Duxhurst, and all hereditaments whatsoever, called Weyse's Garden, containing 6a., situate in the parishes of Charlwood and Horley, in the said county; and certain messuages and hereditaments called Lodgers, in the same parishes; and those closes of land containing together 83a. 2r. 30p. of arable land, and 95a. 2k. of pasture, and 48a. 3r. 14p. of meadow, with the same messuages, farms, and tene- ments occupied, situate in Charlwood and Horley; and also a messuage, farm, and tenement called Westlands, and certain crofts and closes containing 44a. 3r. 36p. of arable, 28a. 3r. 5p. of pasture, and 8a. 2r. 16p. of meadow land, with the same occupied, situate in Charlwood and Horley: and also a messuage, farm, and tenement called Hill Lands, and certain closes containing 21a. 3r. 36p. of arable, 34a. 3r. of pasture, 3a. 3r. 24p. of meadow land, and 7a. 2r. 18p. of wood ground, with the same messuage, &c. occupied, situate in Charlwood and Horley; and also all other hereditaments whatsoever in Charlwood and Horley, which, by an indenture bearing date 22d December, 17th Jac. I., were conveyed unto the said grantors, and all other hereditaments in Charlwood and Horley, which, by an indentiu'e bearing date lOth January 1615, were conveyed unto the same parties (except 3a. in Battle- mead, in the same parishes), together with all woods, &c. upon the premises, and all and singular the appurtenances thereunto, unto, and to the use of the mayor, &c.. to be employed and disposed towards the maintenance and education of poor children to be brought up in Christ's Hospital. The purchase-money, 2,136/., was composed of the following sums:— £. s. d. Wilham Stoddard's Gift 810 0 0 Lady Margaret Slaney 300 0 0 Randolph WooUey 300 0 0 Hospital funds 726 0 0 The lands were then let at 133/. \0s. The following gifts are also ordered, 15th May 1691, to be considered as charged on this estate:— £. s. d. Alice Owen, otherwise Elkine 60 0 0 Thomas Hodges, 200 marks 133 6 8 Susan Davis 200 0 0 John Babington 100 0 0 Rowland Wilson 100 0 0 Mary Parradine (part of 400/.) 130 0 0 The property called Duxhurst, comprising about 226a., is situate at Horley, adjoining other lands called West Lands, containing 89a. 2r., and Hill Lands, containing 25a. at Charlwood, in the immediate neighbourhood of the lands purchased with Lady Rarrisey's Legacy. The land is of very inferior quality, and the whole is now let at rents amounting to 118/. per annum, exclusive of about 44a. of plantation, which are retained in hand. In respect of Stoddard's Gift, a sum of 4/. is carried to the dinner and collation fund (see p. 308-9) ; 2/. is divided every second year among the resident officers of the hospital, 3.y. ^d. to each; 6/. per annum is paid to the Skinners' Company for the relief of their poor; and 10 children are constantly maintained and educated in the hospital upon the presentation of the master, wardens, and assistants of the Skinners' Company. The copy of the freedom of the city to the parents of the children is always produced to the hospital authorities. The children attend one day in the year at Skinners' Hall, and go to church with the menibers of their Company. They are not distinguished by the green caps or facings speci- fied in the Will, or by any other badge, from the other children in the hospital. London. Christ's Hospital, continued. Stoddard's Gift, continued.