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. St. Bartholomew's Hospital. continued. an estate and manor in the parish of Great Barfield, Essex; and directed that out of the rents the company should pay, amongst other charities, £. s. d. To St. Thomas's Hospital ..800 Christ's 5 0 0 Bridewell 3 0 0 St. Bartholomew's ... 4 0 0 The yearly sum of Al. is regularly paid by the company to this hospital. 1646. Sir Nicholas Rainton gave 12/. per annum, payable by the Haberdashers' Com- pany out of houses in Lombard-street, as fully staled in the Tenth Report, p. 219. This rent-charge is regularly paid by the company. 1648. Robert Jenner, by deed, gave \bl. per annum, payable by the Goldsmiths' Com- pany, out of premises in Foster-lane (as more fully stated in our Eighth Report, p. 336). This rent-charge is still paid by the company. 1652, 24th September. Dickens gave to the governors of St. Bartholomew's a parcel of freehold land, called Nicholas Close, containing two acres, in St. Leonard's,, S he - ditch, for their better support. (See London Rental, Shoreditch.) 1658.—Ralyjh Hanson (see Tenth Report, p. 238) gave certain premises in Crutched Friars, to the Ironmongers' Company, upon trust to pay (amongst other charities) to the four hospitals, viz. Christ's, St. Bartholomew's, Bridewell, and St. Thomas's, 40*. a-piece yearly. This hospital receives its proportion of the payment described, 1661.—William Robinson, by Will, gave to the Grocers' Company certain lands and mes- suages in Grub-street [now Milton-street], on trust (hiter alia), to pay 51. yearly to Christ's Hospital, 51. yearly to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 51. yeai'ly to St. Thomas's Hospital in Soutlnvark, and 5/. yearly to Bridewell. This rent-charge is regularly received by the hospital. 1665, September 30.—Margaret Astell devised to the governors of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, for the relief of the poor and maimed there, amessviagewith 66 acres of land, called Lyne Brook or Legen Brook, in the coimty of Hereford. (See Rental, Herefordshire.) 1667.—William Cleave is recorded in the ancient minute-book of the hospital under this date as having given houses, lands, and legacies to the four hospitals. The hospital appears to have derived the property in Kentish Town mentioned in the rental from this donor. 1671.—Captain Bond gave, by Will, a house in Leadenhall-street to the hospital.—Minute- book. (See London Rental, Leadenhall-street.) 1681.—Thomas Stretchley gave 10/. per annum out of the rents of certain premises (not here described), to be paid one year to St. Thomas's Hospital, the next to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, the third to the Hospital of Bridewell for ever. (Minute-book.) This sum is paid every third year by Christ's Hospital, to which the premises were devised, and in the report of which a full statement of the gift will be found. (See Rent-charges.) 1685.—Thomas Moffat, by Will, bearing date 22d December 1681, gave, after the decease of his wife, a messuage and two gardens on the north side of Whitechapel-street, and two yearly rents of 34*. and 42*. issuing out of other copyhold messuages there; and also a mes- suage or tenement, with a garden and two cottages, and another customary garden, in Strat- ford Bow, in the manor of Stebunheath or Stepney, to the president, treasurer, and governors of St. Bartholomew's Hospital and their successors, for the better maintenance of the poor there kept, every Friday once a-week and every year for ever. The only property in the possession of the hospital traceable to this donor is the house in Whitechapel mentioned in the rental. 1685.—John Hayne gave 40*. per annum, tax free^ for the care and comfort of the poor in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, issuing out of his tenement in St. John-street, called the Maidenhead. This sum is regularly received from Sparkes, esq., the present owner. 1685.—John Butler, by Will, dated 7th January 1685, gave to the governors of St. Bar- tholomew's Hospital and their successors a parcel of land in the parish of Islington, in the county of Middlesex, containing six acres or thereabouts, in trust, to employ the rents and profits for the use and benefit of the poor children and other poor there. (See Rental, St, Mary, Islington.) 1691.—John Hall, by deed, bearing date 11th April 1691 (as appears from the Eighth Report, p. 390), gave 21. per annum to the governors of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, for the use of the poor in the hospital, payable by the Weavers' Company out of a messuage or tene- ment in Nicholas-lane. The sum of 21. is now regularly received from the company. 1693.—Edward Colston gave two bills for 350/. and 500/., making together 850/., for the purchase of the manor and farm of Mayland, in Essex. (See Rental, Essex.) 1697.—Richard Gibbs, of Barnard's Inn, by Will, bearing date 18th August 1697, gave his manor of Lofehurst or Lovehurst, in the county of Kent, and all his lands and tenements in Staplehurst, in the said county, subject to estates for life to his two sisters therein named, with remainder to their issue in tail, to the mayor, commonalty, and citizens of the city of London, governors of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and their successors, in trust, for the main- tenance and relief of the sick, lame, and poor there. The surviving tenant for Ufe died without issue, November 1745, when the estate fell into the possession of the hospital. (See Rental, Kent.) • 1701.—Prisca Coborn, by W^ill, bearing date 6th May 1701, gave to Robert Hardesty for his life her messuage, farm, and woodlands, and other hereditaments, in the parishes of Layer Marney, and Wigborough, in the county of Essex, in trust, for the relief and main-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2129866x_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
