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. Dunn's Gift, continued. Meredith's GifL Babington's Gift. Rudge's Gift. Singleton's Gift. honest man or woman, to be employed to teach some of the maiden children of the hospital to read English, and also, out of the said rents and profits, as well to give to some goodly minister 10,?. to preach a sermon in the parish of St. Catherine Cree church, on the 5th November yearly, in remembrance of the deliverance of the nation from the gunpowder treason, as also on the same day to pay to the churchwardens of the said parish, 20.9., to be by them distributed amongst the poor of the parish, and to pay to the officers of the hospital 3/. for a repast or supper for them and the children of the hospital on the same day ; and to dispose of the remainder of the rent for the use of the hospital, as in their discretion they should think fit. The house thus devised was sold in 1799, under the provisions of the Land-tax Redemption Act, for 450/. £4 was formerly paid specifically to the schoolmistress at Hertford under this Will. Since 1802 it has been merged in her salary; 30*. is annually paid to the churchwardens of St. Catherine Cree church for the sermon on the 5lh November, and for distribution to the poor. In respect of the 3/. allowed for a supper, 40*. is annually carried to the dinner and collation- fund, and 20*. is paid to the nurses in money. Meredith's Gift. Christopher Meredith, of London, stationer, by Will, beai-ing date 24th January 1652, gave a yearly sum of 4/., payable to the treasurer of Christ's Hosj^ital by the Company of Stationers out of a rent-charge limited to them by the said testator, issuing out of two messuages in Paul's churchyard, London, to the intent that there should yearly, for ever, be provided as many small bibles, plain bound and clas])ed, as could be bought with the same, for the use of the poor children of the said hospital. (See Twenty-second Report, p. 80.) The Stationers' Company furnish yearly at Michaelmas to the hospital, 12 minion 12mo. bibles of the value of 6.v. Be/, each. These are distributed to the boys (each of whom receives a bible upon his admission) in the same manner with those purchased for the purpose by the governors. Babington's Gift. JoJin Bahinpton, of London, Salter, who was buried 21st May 1652, by Will, bearing date 24th October 1651, gave to this hospital 100/., to the intent that, out of the benefit thereof, 40*. yearly, for ever, near the time of his burial, should be laid out in furnishing roast meat for the children over and above their usual allowance. This payment is charged by an order of Court, made in 1691 (in which it is by mistake called 50*.) on the estate purchased by the hospital in Horley and Charlwood. See p. 308. Rudge's Gift. William Kudge, of St. Gregory's parish, London^ gentleman, by Will, bearing date 22d May 1652, gave to the governors 2501., to put forth children bred in the said hospital apprentices, and 150/. to put children bred in the hospital to the university. By an order of Court, made 25th July 1656 (as stated in the Will-book), it was settled that in respect of this gift 12/. 10s. should be annually applied in apprenticing children, and 71. 10*. to a scholar. The sum of 12^. 10*. is regularly carried to the account of the apprentice fund for boys, and 71. 10*. to the fund for exhibitions to Cambridge. On an alteration in the mode of keeping the accounts in 1802-3, when it was determined to consolidate in one fund different gifts for the same purpose, there appeared to be no arrear in the apprentice fund, but there was an arrear of 18/. 15*. on the exhibition fund, which was carried to account in the general fund appropriated for that purpose. Singleton's Gift. Thomas Singleton, of London, skinner, by Will, bearing date 17th August 1653, gave his picture to be set up in Christ's Hospital, and he gave and devised all the residue of his personal estate after payment of his debts, funeral and testamentary expenses and legacies, and also his house situate in the parish of Mildred in the Poultry, called the Windmill, subject to an annuity of 10/., to his executrix for her life, to the mayor, &c. and their successors, upon condition and to the use that there might be always, six cliildren of the city kept and maintained in the said hospital till they should be made fit to be placed abroad, such children to be chosen by, and at the discretion of the president and governors, and if any question should arise on the subject of his said Will, that the same should be determined by the said president and governors in a loving manner. And he desired that the president and governors, if the dean and chapter of St. Paul's, London, should at any time thereafter lay claim to have their rent again, which they laid claim to be formerly due 'to them and cannot be avoided, would be pleased to let the said dean and chapter have their rent again in a loving way, and renew their lease again from them that he then had, and so renew the same from time to time, according to their former course for 40 years, that his gift might remain to perpetuity ; with a proviso that if his Will, with respect to the six children, should not be performed, the devise to Christ's Hospital should be void and go over to Brazen Nose College, Oxford, on certain trusts, but if the college should neglect the trusts confided to it, then it should return to the hospital. The property above-mentioned is still held under the dean and chapter of St. Paul's. It now consists of a large house in the Poultry, formerly two houses, and is held by the hospital](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2129866x_0134.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
