Reference
W3295-W3296
Title
Trust deed for Cardington almshouses (copy): 2
Date free text
18 Jun 1788
Production date
From: 1788 To: 1788
Scope and Content
(i) Samuel Whitbread of Cardington, esquire
(ii) Samuel Whitbread junior
John Howard of Cardington, esquire
John Wingate Jennings of Harlington, esquire;
John Thompson of the Barns, Cardington, esquire;
recites:- that Samuel Whitbread has lately built 4 brick houses on the East side of the green near the church; has allotted gardens and provided furniture; and has purchased of Thomas Borrett & trustees £78 fee-farm rent (subject to £10 per annum for Luton schoolmaster & land tax), net £52; and is desirous of settling the said dwellinghouses and said fee-farm rent for poor persons of Cardington; under own patronage during life; and then under lord of manor for time being;
-- the said 4 houses (at present in the occupation of 2 widowers, William Dunton, Nathaniel Grant; 6 widows, Mary Bigrave, Ann Field,
Susan[nah] Green, Ann Stewart, Jemima Ward, Mary Beccles, aged 47 - 80);
-- the said fee-farm rent from Shillington;
on trust to choose 4 - 8 poor persons to occupy the houses rent free; these are to be widowers, widows, or single persons of sober decent life and conversation, regular attenders at public worship, 60 years of age and over, born and 20 years resident in Cardington; and "shall never have received alms of any parish"; a clause forbids recent arrivals; allowance of £16 per annum (40s each) for coals;
New trustees: when these are appointed, preference shall be given to occupier of house called the Great Farm at Cardington "in which house the said Samuel Whitbread was born"; and to the occupier of the Barns;
witnesses. William Wilshere junior, Abraham Harman
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