Scope and Content
Containing (with loose index at front):
Abstracts of charitable donations (ff.2-3) grouped under Distribution fund (D), Church fund (C), Bread fund (B), School and Apprenticeship fund (S), and "in trust" (T), with particulars (ff.6-8) of charity properties, investments and objects 1830 and 1862.
Accounts of individual annuities:
Thomas Attwood (D) (ff.10, 36, 57, 109) 1829-53
Cornelius Bigland (S) (ff.11, 100) 1829-53
Thomas & Edward Crawley (C) (ff.12,31,41-2,106,118) 1830-53
William Crawley (D) (ff.13, 107) 1830-53
Roger Gillingham (S) (ff.14, 56) 1830-53
George King (B) (ff.15, 99) 1830-53
Thomas Long (S) (ff.16, 108) 1830-53
Sir Robert Napier (B) (ff.17, 101) 1830-53
Sir Theophilus Napier (B) (ff.18, 102) 1830-53
George Rotherham (C) (ff.19, 103) 1830-53
John Richards (S) (ff.20, 104) 1830-53
Elizabeth Rotherham (B) (ff.21, 105) 1829-53
Edward Vaughan and Sir Robert Napier's Houses (D) (ff.22, 110-11)1830-53
Elizabeth Winch (T) (f.23) 1830
Accounts of Charity funds:
Apprenticing fund (ff.28, 30, 38, 45-7; 27-8) 1830-58
Includes names of masters and apprentices
Bread fund (ff.26, 35, 58-61; 16-17) 1830-58
Payments for distributions (to named bakers)
Church fund (ff.27, 32, 39, 43-5, 65-7; 11-12) 1830-58
Payments towards repairs and expenses
Distribution fund account (ff.24, 29, 33, 37, 40, 50-3, 114-16, pp.123-32)1830-57
Includes payments to benefit societies, repairs to properties, relief to poor (some names)
School fund account (ff.25, 34, 54-5; 21-22) 1830-58
Payments to treasurer of Lancastrian school (to 1833) and then to National School
Schedule of Charity funds and rent charges (pp.121-2) n.d.[c.1850]
Accounts continued from 1859 as annual statements of "Luton Church Charity Accounts" under individual funds [contents similar to above - but generally brief] 1859-1879
Including:
Church fund: steeple repairs (£80) 1859-61
School fund: restoration of Thomas Long's tomb 1859
[see also P 85/5/2-10 for copies of accounts 1863-1896 - details from accounts abstracted in catalogue]
Memorandum concerning exchange of three cottages in Park Street for building land (40p.) in Chobham Street with executors of late Mr. Frederick Burr, 6 July 1859
At back: Memorandum on liability for chancel repairs and on work undertaken to east window, roof and walls by E.O. Williams (£6.15) and J.Ellard (£5.5) in 1858-9