Reference
P85/25/1/1
Title
Charities account book
Date free text
1805 - 1828
Production date
From: 1805 To: 1828
Scope and Content
Containing (with index at front):
Abstracts of all charitable donations (ff.1-4) and the funds to which revenues were applied c.1805, i.e.
Edward Vaughan (1602) - Distribution fund
Thomas Attwood (1610) - Distribution fund
Thomas and Edward Crawley (1624) - Church fund
George Rotherham (date unknown) - Church fund
Sir Robert Napier (1637) - Distribution and Bread funds
George King (1642) - Bread fund
Elizabeth Winch (1660) - Distribution fund
Cornelius Bigland (1673) - School fund
William Crawley (1682) - Distribution fund
Roger Gillingham (1695) - School fund
Sir Theophilus Napier (1715) - Bread fund
Thomas Long (1736) - Bread fund
John Richards (1731) - School and bread funds
Elizabeth Rotherham (1715) - Bread fund
Descriptions of properties and investments of each charitable donation c.1805 (ff.11-12)
Vestry resolution re charities, n.d. [c.1805] (f.5 and f.13)
Charity accounts, as follows:
Bread fund accounts (ff.93-107) 1805-1828
Regular distributions (beneficiaries not named)
Church fund accounts (ff.131-145) 1805-1828
Refers to improvements to the pews and green baize lining 1809-13;
painting the font and varnishing the arch 1819;
repairs to church clock and new clock face by James Cain 1821;
new organ gallery (£129.3.5) 1823.
Distribution fund accounts (ff.17-30) 1805-1828
Includes new cottages on Tower Hill 1811;
seven new cottages on Tower Hill (£110.1.5) 1821;
School fund accounts (ff.56-72) 1805-1828
Includes apprenticeships (with some names); payments to Treasurer of Lancasterian school passim
at front: Stationer's receipt (Coles, Dunn & Knight, Fleet Street, London) for 14s.6d. paid by the Trustees for the account book
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