L30/11/301/309

Letter from Charles H Ware, Grays Inn to Amabel, Baroness Lucas.

21 Sep 1813

From: 1813 To: 1813

The difference between the sum Lady Lucas receives and that which is paid to the poor is occasioned by the property tax, which is deducted at the bank and Lady Lucas does not deduct when paying it over. [Relates to £127 6s 7d in April 1751] The writer believes the other charity fund was formerly divided and consisted of £100 lent to the Mercers Company and £122 16s 1d old S.S. annuities. In 1804 the Mercers Company discharged their debt and the money was laid out in the purchase of £177 15s 7d O.S.S. annuities which with interest of £122 16s 1d increased the former sum to it's present £300 11s 8d. The annual sum of £8 4s 2d is the dividends after deduction of property tax. The annual payment to Flitton has not been altered since it consisted of £3 13s 8d (the interest from the £122 16s 1d and interest of the £100, being £3, a total of £6 13s 8d. The Mercers paid only 3%. A return of the property tax for the time past could not be obtained, although charities are exepmted. The exemption might be obtained for the time to come, but it would be an annual trouble exceeding the value. The writer believes there is an inscription in Flitton church stating the purpose of the donations. [Possibly relates to Robinson's Charity, Flitton.]

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Ware, Charles H,
Amabel, Baroness Lucas

estates correspondence, property tax, estate accounts, local charities, FLITTON, Flitton charities, Flitton Robinson's Charity