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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![London.] INQUIRING CONCERNING CHARITIES. 119 1G31. 1631. 1632. 1665. 1666. s. The impropriate rectory of Layston, in the county of Suf- folk, then of the yearly value of 50/., over and above 10/. yearly paid to the curate, together with the charges thereof, purchased for 558 The white tithes, parcel of the impropriate rectory of Wigston, in the county of Leicester, of the yearly value of 45/., purchased for 572 The impropriate rectory of Bitteswell, in the county of Leicester, of the yearly value of 72/., purchased for . 881 11 8 The impropriate rectory of Albrighton, in the county of Salop, of the yearly value of 50/., purchased for . . 830 0 0 The impropriate tithes of Dyesworth, in the county of Leicester, of the yearly value of 50/., purchased for . 669 18 0 8 8 7 8 London. Christ's Hospital, continued. Lady Mary Weld's Gift, continued. £3,512 6 0 By a decree of the High Court of Chancery, bearing date 3d May 1708, pronounced in a suit, wherein the mayor, commonalty, and citizens, &c., were complainants, and the master and four wardens of the Haberdasliers' Company were defendants, after reciting the Will of the said Dame Mary Weld, and the payment of the said sums of 2,000/. and 100/. to the said Haberdashers'Company by her executors upon the trusts of the said Will; and also that the said company had appropriated great part of the said 2,000/., and also the third part of the profits of such purchases as they had then made, to their own use, and had neglected or refused to account to the said governors, as required by the said Will ; and that, under a Commission of Charitable Uses, which had been taken out by the said governors against the said company, the commissioners had found that there was remaining in the hands of the said company, on account of the said sum of 2,000/., and the increase which had, or might have been, made thereof, the sum of L, which the said company was decreed to make good to the uses of the said Will; and reciting that the said sum of /. was never jjaid, but lhat a proposal was made on the part of the said company, representing the losses they had sustained by the great fire in 16G6, and offering to raise a fund of 1,000/. as a stock to give a new beginning and foundation to the said charity, and to give good security to answer interest for the said 1,000/., at 21. 10s. per cent., imtil such time as thereby, or by investing the same in the purchase of impropriate rectories or tithes, or other improvements to be made , thereof, the same should be advanced to the sum of 2,000/., which said sum of 2,000/., when so raised, should, with the privity and consent of the said governors, and their successors, be laid out on the trusts of the said Will; and that for the future the said governors, and their successors, should alternately, out of the children to be educated and brought up in the said hospital, nominate and present, as well to the said rectories, parsonages, or impropriations already purchased, as to such as should be thereafter purchased with the said new capital, stock, or fund of 1,000/., or the interest or other improvements thereof; and that it was resolved, at a general court of the said hospital, that such proposal should be accepted on the part of the said hospital, and the same was ratified and confirmed by a general coiul holden by the said company, but that the said proposal pmd agreement had never been carried into effect; it was ordered that ^he said proposal, made by the said defendants, and consented to by a general court of Christ's Hospital, and ratified by a general court of the said company, should be accepted and complied with; and that, on the said defendants raising the said sum of 1,000/., they should be acquitted and discharged from all claims and demands whatsoever touching the said charity and the arrears thereof; and that the said company should pay interest for the said 1,000/., or any part thereof, not less than 100/., which should remain in their hands, at the rate of 21. lOs. per cent. ; and that the said 1,000/., and the interest thereof, should be laid out for such purposes and in such method as was prescribed in the said Will; and that the said complainants, and their successors, should have such alternate presentation to the said impropriations then purchased, and to those which should thereafter be purchased, as aforesaid, the said complainants to have the nomination on tlie first vacancy that should occur. Since the date of this agreement, the governors of Christ's Hospital and the Haberdashers' Company have alternately presented to the five livings above mentioned as they fell vacant. The governors also regularly receive the 3/. 6s. 8d. per annum, which is carried to the hospital account. In the year 1819, the Haberdashers' Company purchased, for 2,670/., then in hand, the vicarage of Chertsey, with the great tithes of 47a. 1r. 22p. of land, leaving only about 100/. in hand. This appears to have been an improvident investment, and the committee of Christ's Hospital expressed much dissatisfaction at the fund having been thus exhausted. The names of the several incumbents of the livings purchased under the provisions of this trust, and the annual value of each living on a rough calculation, were stated to be as follow : Vicarage of Albrighton, Salop; incumbent the Rev. George Windus W^oodhouse, presented by the Haberdashers' Company; value about 700/. a-year. Vicarage of Bitteswell, Leicester- shire ; incumbent the Rev. James Powell, presented by the Haberdashers' Company; value about 400/. a-year. Vicarage of Great Wigston, Leicestershire ; incumbent the Rev. William TroUope, formerly third grammar-master of Christ's Hospital; value under 120/. a-year. Vicarage of Dyesworth, Leicestershire; incumbent the Rev. Francis Richard Begbie, formerly a scholar of, and sent to the University from Christ's Hospital; value about 200/. a-year. Perpetual curacy of Leiston, Suffolk; incumbent the Rev. John Calvert Blathways, presented](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2129866x_0125.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
