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. Christ's Hospital, continued. Fryer's Gifts, continued. Sir John Leman's Gift Parradine's Gift. Sir Edward Barkham's Gift. executors and their heirs settled and established to charitable uses for the good of the poor for ever. By a decree of the Court of Chancery, bearing date 6th April, 28th Car. II., made in a suit instituted for the purpose of obtaining for this hospital the benefit of the above general residuary devise, it is ordered {inter alia) that the said manor and lands in Harlton with the appurtenances, and the several messuages and tenements in the parishes of Aldersgate and Cripplegate should be conveyed to the mayor, &c. for the use of the children of the New Royal Mathematical School of this hospital, as one of the masters of the court should direct, but that the said premises should continue charged with the several payments of lOOZ. per annum to the said niece of the testator and the heirs of her body; and lOOZ. per annum to the afore- said three parishes, viz. to St. Botolph's 40/., to Harlton 35/., and to Chiswick 25/., and 10/. per annum to the poor of Aldersgate, as an additional charity of the said Henry Fryer, to be yearly paid to the churchwardens of the said parish on the 20th December, for the benefit of 20 poor widows of that parish, or poor men, as therein mentioned, and that after payment of the said several yearly sums, all the surplusage of the rents and profits of the premises with their appurtenances should be at all times disposed of and employed by the said governors and their successors, for the only use and benefit of the said children of the then New Royal Foundation in Christ's Hospital. The property in Cambridgeshire consists of the manor and farm of Harlton, the latter of which, comprising 308a., is now let at 245/. 15*. per annum.—(See Rental.) The manorial rights produced,in 1835, 21/. 6*. \0d. In 1809 the governors purchased for 5/. 8*. a fee-farm rent 4.S., payable to the crown in respect of this estate. The greater part of the London property has been included in an exchange effected with St. Bartholomew's Hospital, in 1819; a part of the premises in Little Britain is thrown into the hospital buildings, and of the property originally given all that now remains is three houses in Fore-street, Cripplegate, and five houses in Mariner-court, now let at 35/. 8*. The payment of 100/. per annum, devised in tail to the niece of the donor, is now the sub- ject of dispute between four several parties, and the hospital has in consequence been com- pelled to withhold It since the year 1831. The payments of AOl. to the parish of St. Botolph, 35/. to Harlton, 25/. to Chiswick, and 10/. to Aldersgate, are all regularly made to the churchwardens of the respective parishes. The residue of the rents falls into the general funds of the hospital. Sir John Leman's Gift. Sir John Leman, of London, knight and alderman and fishmonger, by Will, bearing date 17th December 1631, gave to the master and governors, &c., an annuity of 100/., to be issuing out of his manor of Barnes, in the county of Middlesex, and all other his messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, in the parish of St. Mary Matfellow, alias Whitechapel, In the county of Middlesex, and St. Botolph's without Aldersgate, London, for the benefit of the poor in the hospital. This rent-charge of 100/. was sold In 1799, under the Land-tax Redemption Act, for 2,400/. Parradine's Gift. Mary Parradine, of London, widow, by Will, bearing date 1631, gave to the mayor, com- monalty, and citizens, &c., 400/. to be employed and bestowed by the treasurer and governors, &c. in purchasing lands or tenements, and out of the ])rofits thereof to pay yearly for ever to the mayor and bailiffs of the town of Bedford 6/. on St. Thomas's-day towards the relief of the poor people In the said town ; and also to give yearly for ever to every of the six poor widows of the hospital called the Widows' Inn, in the parishes of St. Bennett or St. Peter near Paul's Wharf, London, of the foundation of David Smith, father of the said Mary Parradine, a gown of russet cloth. It appears from a petition of the mayor, &c. to the court of judicature established for settling claims after the fire of London, that 160/., part of this money, was laid out in the 7th Car. L in the purchase of a house in Grey Friars'-court, which was pulled down in 1732 to make room for a sick ward for the children, and the site of which has been appropriated for the erection of the hall. Another sum of 100/. was expended In the same year in the purchase of a house in Silver-street, partly lying over the gateway to Dudley-court.—(See Rental, and Lawnde's Gift, p. 108.) These conveyances are in the custody of the hospital. A sum of 131/. (being the supposed balance) is directed by an order of court, 1691, to be charged upon the estate at Horley and Charlwood, purchased by the hospital in 1620. The payment to the corporation of Bedford is regularly made; and to the six widows in David Smith's almshouses 20.?. each is paid yearly in lieu of the gown directed to be given by the Will. Sir Edward Barkham's Gift. Sir Edward Barkham, knight and alderman, by Will, bearing date 14th January 1632, gave to the mayor, &c. an annuity of 6/. 13*. 4c?., to be issuing out of his messuage or tene- ment in Cheapside called the Flower de Luce, near the cross there, and payable to the trea- surer of Chrlst''s for the use of the children there. By a decree of the court of judicature for determination of differences touching houses demolished by the fire of London, bearing date 16th December 1668, reciting that Sir Edward Barkham had charged certain houses which had been destroyed in the said fire with the yearly payment of 6/. 13*. 4c/. lo the Drapers' Company, 61. 13*. 4d. to Christ's Hospital, 21. 12*.