MANUAL, PRIVATE USE OF THE COURT OE ASSISTANTS HABERDASHERS’ COMPANY, LONDON: ABRIDGEMENT OP THEIR COMPENDIUM. COMPOSED BY JOSEPH EITZWILLIAM VANDERCOM, faster, SAMUEL BUTLER, fflffilartreil. BENJAMIN HAWES, I WILLIAM KING, j With the assistance of their Cleric, Mr. H. KNAPP. REVISED AND RE-PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE COURT, JOHN DEAN.jKaSta. WILLIAM HARRIS . EDWARD EAGLETON JOHN EAGLETON . GEORGE HAINES . . JOHN CURTIS.fflletft. 1850. < 3«\'Cs>v^'av\ TO THE MASTER, WARDENS, COURT OF ASSISTANTS, Worshipful Company of Haberdashers. Gentlemen, While employed on the Compendium, so impressed were we with its importance and absolute necessity, that it was and ever will be, to us incomprehensible, how the affairs of this Company could have been hitherto pro¬ perly conducted, or by the Court sufficiently, if at all, known or understood, without (as the fact was) the existence of any similar guide or register. And were it not that those, who have been successively appointed your Clerks, had, in a preliminary station, become qualified for their office, extreme confusion, if not a to¬ tal obstruction in all current proceedings, must have, on every change, for a time prevailed. Under this belief, confident that the more fre¬ quently the Compendium was read and its contents generally known, the greater would be the future credit and security of the Com¬ pany and benefit to its Charities; and aware, that from its diffusive construction, it was not, however, nor could indeed consistently, be be made suitable for the cursory perusal of 4 every person and at all times;—we, therefore, on presenting the same to the Court in No¬ vember last, took occasion to advise and volun¬ teered our further services towards making, with the aid of your Clerk, an Abridgement thereof, to be printed for the common use of and distribution among the Assistants. This advice aud offer having been graciously re¬ ceived and sanctioned, we have, accordingly, with the utmost attention, composed and now respectfully present and dedicate to you the following MANUAL. And we esteem it an ample recompence for our zeal and labour in completing both these productions, to have been selected and encouraged thus to publish and perpetuate a Volume of such digested in¬ formation, as will enable our Brethren and Successors, to become immediately acquainted with the entire establishment of the Company, and without uncertainty, henceforth, always to co-operate in the observance and assertion of its Rules and Privileges and in the just and most effectual administration of its various Trusts, Funds and Estates. Joseph Fitzwm. Vandeecom, P. Master. Samoei. Butler, Warden. Benjamin Hawes, ) • _ } Assistants. William King, j 1828. A MANUAL, &c. THE HABERDASHERS’ COMPANY company. Is the Eighth in Order of the twelve principal Corporations of the City of London. It is go¬ verned by a Master, four Wardens and an indefinite number of about fifty Assistants,who exercise their functions under the authority of a Charter, granted by Queen Elizabeth in 1578,* which incorporates them by the name of “ Cfjr Mwttv antr Out ffiElattrcnsi of tfit Name. dFrattrmtp of ti)e &tt ot of ffiahtrs iraoijtr#, in tf)0 ©Its of aontron and recites * A subsequent Charter from James II. in 1684, was not long afterwards repealed by the second of William and Mary, section 1st, chapter 8th, being “An Act for reversing the Judgment in a Quo Warranto against the City of London, and for restoring its ancient Eights and Privileges.” B 2 and ratifies previous Letters Patent of Henry VI., Henry VII., and Henry VIII., and of Philip and Mary ; and invests the Company with the usual and necessary Powers and Privileges. The Company’s Arms are: Barry nebule of six, Argent and Azure: on a Bend gules, a Lion passant guardant Or: Crest, on a Helmet and Torse, Two Arms supporting a Laurel proper, issuing out of a cloud Argent: Supporters—Two Indian Goats Argent, attired and hoofed. Or. They were granted by Ro¬ bert Cook, Clarencieux King at Arms, by patent, under hand and seal, 8th Nov. 1570, 12th Elizabeth; and confirmed at the Visita¬ tion in 1634, 9th Charles I.—Henry Andrews, Alderman, Master. There have been twenty-five Lord Mayors of London belonging to the Company. Their Hall (rebuilt in 1667) is situated in Gresham Street, West, formerly Maiden Lane, in the parishes of St. Mary Staining, and St. Michael, Wood Street, the site of which, and of various houses and premises thereto attach¬ ed, containing about half an acre (of which there is amongst the Company’s documents an accurate plan) was, by the will of Mr .William 7 Bacon, Citizen and Haberdasher, bequeathed Halt to the Company in 1478,18th Edward IV. A perpetual rent charge, however, of £16.6s. 8d. is payable to the Grocers’Company for a por¬ tion of the premises in Staining Lane. Their former Hall and Premises, together with Records and Property of considerable value and importance, were, at the great fire of London in 1666, almost entirely destroyed, and the greatest difficulties entailed on th« Company by that calamity. In addition t< which they had, not many years previously, during the troublesome times of Charles I. and of the Commonwealth, been compelled to contribute their quotas of several Loans as¬ sessed by Government on the City of London and its Corporations, and thus lost an amount of nearly £50,000., including a calculation of interest to 1673, in which year the account was finally made up and is still extant. An Estimate and Schedule of their own Property, &c. Property, Income and Expenditure, Policies, Household Effects, &c.. will be found in the Compendium, Vol. I., folios 341 to 367. Their original Bye-Laws having been burnt Bye-Laws, at the Conflagration, a new code was drawn up, and in 1675 duly sanctioned, among which the following chiefly are now in use : AS TO THE ELECTION OF MASTER AND WARDENS. sifter and “ That the Master and Wardens be elected Wardens. on the Saturday before or on the Saturday next after Saint Catherine’s Day, yearly, due publication whereof is to be made to the Li¬ very previously to their being sworn into office.” THE OATH OF THE MASTER. Master’s Oath. “ You shall be true to our Sovereign Lady, the Queen’s Majesty that now is and to her heirs and successors, Kings and Queens of this Realm: you shall be good and true unto the Fraternity of Haberdashers whereof you be now Master, and shall truly and indif¬ ferently govern all the Brethren and others of the said Fraternity, for your time to the best of your power and skill; you shall keep, maintain and put in due execution all the good and lawful Acts and Ordinances of the said Fraternity, and all the breakers of the same you shall, as far as justly you may, cor¬ rect and punish with the advice of the Wardens and Assistants of the said Fraternity for the time being, according to the quality and quan- 9 tity of his and their several Offences; and the Bye Laws. Fines and Penalties imposed or ordained upon such the breakers thereof, you shall do your best endeavours to be duly levied and raised. And all other things that to your office, as Master of the said Fraternity belongeth, you shall duly do and perform to the best of your wisdom and discretion.—So help you God.” THE OATH OP THE POUR WARDENS. “ You shall be true to our Sovereign Lady, Wardens’Oath. the Queen’s Majesty that now is and to her heirs and successors, Kings and Queens of this Realm: you shall be faithful and true unto this Fraternity whereof you are now Wardens; and well, truly and indifferently, to the best of your power and skill, govern all the Mem¬ bers of the same for the time of your Warden- ships. You shall observe, keep, maintain and put in due execution all the good and lawful Acts and Ordinances of the said Fraternity, and the breakers of the same you shall, as justly you may, correct and punish, with the advice of the Master and Assistants of the said Fraternity for the time being, according to the quantity and quality of his and their several Offences. And the Fines and Penalties im¬ posed upon such breakers, you shall do your best endeavour to be duly levied and raised. You shall truly and indifferently, to the best of your wisdom and discretion, examine, hear, and determine all differences that shall be brought before you, either between Master and Servant or others without partiality, favour, fear or affection. You shall cause all the rents, revenues and profits due to the said Frater¬ nity, which you respectively shall receive in the time of your Wardenships, together with all your payments for and on the behalf of the said Fraternity, to be truly written, and a true account thereof you respectively shall give and deliver to your next Successors, Wardens of the said Fraternity, upon the day that shall be appointed for the delivery of your said Accounts. And all other things belonging to your said office, you shall duly do and per¬ form, according to your wisdoms and discre¬ tions —So help you God.” AS TO THE CHOICE OF ASSISTANTS. That all who have borne the office of Mas¬ ter or Warden or fined for the same, shall be Assistants. And that the Master, Wardens and Assistants, or the major part of them, may, at their pleasure, make choice of any others of this Fraternity to be Assistants.— 11 The custom accordingly is for two of the Bye Laws. Livery annually to be elected Third and Fourth Wardens, and the following year As- THE OATH OF THE ASSISTANTS. “ You shall be faithful and true to our So- Assistants’ vereign Lady the Queen’s Majesty that now is and to her heirs and successors, Kings and Queens of this Realm. You shall at all times when you shall be summoned by the Beadle or other officer of this Fraternity, be present in your proper person with the Master and Wardens of the same or any of them, be it in their Common Hall or other place, for or about the necessary affairs, matters and causes concerning the said Fraternity, without you have a cause or reasonable let to the contrary. And at all such times when you be present, you shall give the best advice and counsel you can in all things that shall be propounded unto you for the weal, profit and good govern¬ ment of the said Fraternity. And all lawful secrets and counsels of the said Fraternity you shall keep secret, and all other Duties that to the Duty of an Assistant to the said Frater¬ nity belongeth, you shall faithfully do and perform to the utmost of your power.—So help you God.” 12 Iiv COURT OF WARDENS. of war- This Court, consisting of the Master and “• four Wardens have paramount authority and are principally responsible for the Property, Trusts and Transactions of the Company. They meet on the first (though sometimes, under special circumstances, on the second) Tuesday in every Month, except August; to superintend all Bindings and Turn-overs, sanc¬ tion Admissions to the Freedom and Livery of the Company, and elect Boys into Trot- man's Free School, Bunhill Row. AS TO THE CHOICE OF LIVERYMEN. choice of ii- The Master, Wardens, and Assistants or the major part of them, are empowered to no¬ minate and choose whom they think fit of the Fraternity for Liverymen. The Fine for re¬ fusing to take up the Livery is £30, and the Admission Fee £27. 8s. QUARTERAGE. A Quarterage of 6d., or 2s. per Annum is to be paid by all the Liverymen and Freemen of the Company. 13 APPRENTICES. Apprentices shall not be on liking more Apprentice?, than six weeks, nor taken for less than seven years ; and are to be made Free within forty days after the expiration of their Indentures. THE OATH OF EVERY FREEMAN. “You shall be faithful and true to our So- Freenia vereign Lady, the Queen’s Majesty that now ° ath ' is, and to her heirs and successors. Kings and Queens of this Realm. And the Master and Wardens of the Fraternity of the Art or Mys¬ tery of Haberdashers, for the time being, and their successors, Masters and Wardens of the said Fraternity, in all things lawful and rea¬ sonable you shall obey; and all manner of summonses assigned by the said Master and Wardens, and all ordinances made and to be made by the said Master and Wardens of the said Fraternity for the time being, for or con¬ cerning the weal, well ordering, rule and government of the said Fraternity, you shall observe and keep to your power. And all lawful secrets and counsels of the said Frater¬ nity you shall conceal and keep. —So help you God.” 14 “ You swear to be true to our Sovereign Lady, the Queen’s Majesty that now is, and to her heirs and successors, Kings and Queens of this Realm. You shall be a true Brother to this Fraternity of Haberdashers whereof you are now chosen Clerk. You shall give your attendance upon the Master, Wardens and Assistants at all Courts and Public Meetings for the weal, service and business of this Company 5 you shall not discover the lawful counsel of the said Fraternity which you shall have knowledge of, and which should be kept secret within yourself. You shall not write or deliver any act or ordinance or other prece¬ dent, made within this Mystery for the good regimen and profit of the same, to any person of another Mystery within this City or without, unless it be with the license, will and consent of the Master, Wardens and Assistants for the time being, or the greater part of them; nor no manner of Writings, Books, Escripts, Scrolls nor Evidences embezzle. You shall give your best counsel and advice unto the Master, Wardens and Assistants for the time being, in all things concerning the common weal and profit of this Fraternity. You shall diligently and truly inform the Master and 15 Wardens for the time being of all manner of Bye taws. Ordinances, Constitutions and Statutes, made in this Fraternity and Mystery, as far forth as you shall have knowledge thereof, at all times needful and behoofful, that the said Master and Wardens run not into errors through your silence and negligence. You shall duly and carefully register all Orders made from time to time by the Master, Wardens and Assist¬ ants, at Assemblies and Meetings by them to be holden; and you shall behave yourself well and truly to the said Company in all things relating to your said office—So help you God.” THE OATH OF THE BEADLE. “You swear to be true to our Sovereign Beadle’s Oath. Lady, the Queen that now is and to her heirs and successors, Kings and Queens of this Realm. You shall be a true Brother to this Fraternity of Haberdashers whereof you are now admitted Beadle. You shall be obedient and dutiful to the Master and Wardens for the time being. You shall know no Foreigner to occupy within this Mystery, contrary to the Ordinances thereof made, but that you shall show the names of them, so soon as you have knowledge thereof, to the Master and Wardens 16 for the time being. Yon shall faithfully and diligently execute the office of Beadle of this Company whereto you are now admitted. You shall, from time to time, attend the War¬ dens upon all businesses that any way concern the said Fraternity. You shall go upon all needful errands as you shall he appointed by the Master and Wardens or any of them or by the Clerk of this Company for the time being, in the name or by the direction of the said Master and Wardens. You shall make and do all manner of Summonses and Warn¬ ings within the said Fraternity or Mystery. You shall be ready to make all manner of Distresses and to levy all manner of Fines, Debts, Amerciaments and all other duties belonging to the said Fraternity, which are or shall be assigned you to make, gather or re¬ ceive : and the same gotten, gathered or re¬ ceived, you shall make thereof a true account and payment unto the said Master and War¬ dens for the time being or one of them; and in all other business that belongs to your office of Beadle, you shall behave yourself to the credit of this Fraternity to the utmost of your power—So help you God.” The officers of the Company are all elected by the Court of Assistants in November, annually. 17 Their duties are as follow— THE DUTIES OF THE CLERK, As SETTLED DeC. 1848. To attend all Courts and Committees—To Clwt ’ 3 Cutie8> prepare and enter the Minutes and all Reports, Orders and Contracts—To abridge all the Company’s and Charity’s current Documents, and supply a suitable Index—To keep correct Lists of the Courts and Committees and of the Livery and Yeomanry—to write all Letters— To bind and turn-over Apprentices—to admi¬ nister the Oaths—to attend to all precepts— To make up the Orphans’ Account annually —To have the Freedom Book stamped half- yearly—To make out Gift Papers, Lists of Pensions, &c. and attend to their payments— To provide the attendance money—To get in Bills—To keep a correct Cash Book, and to see the Accounts kept posted up by the Book¬ keeper— To keep correct Rentals of the Estates and attend all Surveys—To keep a Register of Policies of Insurance, and to see to the punctual payment of the premiums—To keep lists of Bondsmen and Sureties for Loans and Contracts—To report progress of Law proceedings frequently—To keep a petty Cash Book, and other Books if directed. To give 18 ciert’s Duties, his advice and assistance to the Master, War¬ dens, Courts and Committees on all occasions when required. An Estimate, in detail, of the emoluments of the Clerk, will be found in the first volume of the Compendium, folio 27. THE BEADLE AND PORTER’S DUTIES, As SETTLED IN JuLY, 1826. Beadle’s I. To write and take out all Summonses for & meetings of the Company and attend thereon. II. To write and deliver all Rent Sum¬ monses and Notices. III. To deliver Invitations for the Livery Dinner and to attend the same. IV. To deliver Insurance Notices, make inquiries at the Fire Offices and ascertain the payment of premiums every quarter, and to certify to the Clerk any irregularity or defal¬ cation in such payments, for him to report the particulars to the Master and Wardens. V. To collect the Quarterage from the members of the Company residing within six miles round London, and in so doing to inquire. 19 ascertain and keep a List, for subsequent pro- Beadle s duction to ihe Court of Wardens, of what Freemen are desirous of, or in sufficient circumstances, to justify their being summoned and chosen on the Livery. VI. To make inquiries respecting the cha¬ racter and responsibility of the Bondsmen and their Sureties, and deliver all Notices relating thereto, and to certify all particulars to the Clerk, for him to lay before the Master and Wardens VII. To attend at the proper station at Guildhall on all Common Halls. VIII. To deliver all Rent and Insurance Notices for the Hoxton Estate—To attend at Aske’s Hospital three times a week, and at the Quarterly Committee Meetings; and on every Saturday to pay the Old Men. The Beadle is the Company’s summoning officer. The Porter is to keep clean the Company’s Porter’s Hall and Rooms, prepare the same for holding their meetings, and generally to assist the Beadle in his duties. N.B. The Beadle and Porter are not allowed to follow any other occupation, and their c 20 Porters whole time is engaged in the Company’s business. The Porter is subordinate to the Beadle, and is not sworn. Their Incomes are detailed in pages 43 and 47 of the Compendium, Yol. I. THE SURVEYOR’S DUTIES. Surveyor^ To inspect and superintend all Buildings and Repairs, and to make all requisite Plans and Valuations of the House Property. He is not, directly or indirectly, to accept employ¬ ment from the Company’s Tenants. His Emoluments are detailed in Vol. I. of Com¬ pendium, page 34. THE TACKLE PORTER’S DUTIES. Tackle Porter’s To attend the landing and shipping of Detie=. Goods at and from the legal Quays on the Thames. Out of the profits of his office, he pays £30 a year to the Company for their charitable application. The Emoluments of this officer are detailed, and his situation explained in Folio 37 of Compendium, Yol. I- 21 TABLE OF FINES AND FEES. & s. d. Binding. 5 5 0 Rues, &c. Turn-over. 3 3 0 Freedom by Servitude or Patrimony 5 5 0 Ditto by Purchase. 56 12 0 Livery . 27 8 0 Master on serving the Office. 11 1 0 First Warden Ditto. 11 I 0 Second Ditto Ditto. 11 1 0 Third Ditto Ditto.116 l 0 Fourth Ditto Ditto.116 1 0 Master on being excused . 30 0 0 lstor 2nd Warden, Ditto, separately 20 0 0 1 st or 2nd Ditto, Ditto, together.. 30 0 0 3rd or 4th Ditto, Ditto, and becom¬ ing Assistant...158 11 0 In July 1826 , after a most diligent and committees, unexampled investigation of the Company’s affairs, it was resolved, “ That the business of the Company and its Charities should be divided between and (subject to the sanction of the Court of Assistants) executed in future by three standing Committees, viz.:—The Charities, the Estates, and the Finance Com¬ mittees. The duties of each Committee are as follow: c 2 22 THE CHARITIES COMMITTEE Smniuee. Has the domiciliary management and super¬ intendence of Aske’s Hospital and of all the other charitable establishments—The charge of inquiring into and acquainting the Court of Assistants with the character and circum¬ stances of all applicants for admission therein; and of all candidates for any living, beneficial situation or employment, annexed to the Trusts—It is to visit the Schools, Alms-houses and Establishments within ten miles of Lon¬ don annually; and those from ten to sixty miles from London once in every three years; and, where beyond sixty miles, once in every seven years; three members only, deputed by the Court and attended by the Clerk, are to make the two last visitations. The Committee meets Quarterly, viz.—on 24th February, 24th May, 24th August, and 20 th November at Aske’s Hospital; and at the Hall when necessary. THE ESTATES’ COMMITTEE Is invested with the care of all the Company’s Houses, Estates and Trust Property; It settles the Agreements for and regulates and deter- mines all matters arising out of Leases and ^*“’ tee Lettings; and makes periodical surveys in the same manner as the Charities Committee. Its meetings are Quarterly, and as often be- THE FINANCE COMMITTEE Keeps the Account at the Bank, signs Cheques, Finance receives and pays all money whatsoever, and onum decides on all Bills and pecuniary transactions. Its meetings are Quarterly, and as often be¬ sides as necessary. THE AUDIT COMMITTEE Meets Quarterly—It superintends the Book- Audit keeper, examines his Books and ascertains onmu and reports the balances. MANNER OF APPOINTING THE COMMITTEES. The Committees consist of two sets or classes Appointment ofits members, one of whichhasbeen appointed 0 onum 6 a year before the other. All the members are to be two years on each Committee; and on the Publication Bay , a removal is annually effected by a mutual exchange with the other •24 Appomtm=nt Committees of each person of the two year 01 committee. c | a5Se __ alternately by seniority, and in equal numbers, as nearly as circumstances may per¬ mit, regard being had to fil l i n g vacancies, caused by death or disqualification, and so as to secure the regular succession of every As¬ sistant to each Committee. The Committees are taken alphabetically ; consequently the Charity is the first, the Estate the second, and the Finance the third, in order for the admission and exchange of members. Neither the past junior Wardens nor any of the Assistants are appointed to any Committee . until they have duly attended as Assistants for one year: and then are at first placed on the Estates and Finance Committees. The Audit Committee consists of the Master and two senior Wardens ; and of two Members deputed from and by each of the other Com¬ mittees annually at the Court of Assistants next after Publication Day. REGULATIONS AS TO THE CHOICE OF THE JUNIOR WARDENS, &c. cLoic* of jo- The Master and Wardens are to cause to be mor warden. ma( j e an( i re gularly kept and laid before the 25 Court annually, at their September meeting, C ^ 0 °‘ c f v ^; a correct List of all such Liverymen as are, or seem to be competent persons, in good circum¬ stances, of reputable stations and unexception¬ able character. The Clerk is to read over such List, seriatim, until six persons be fixed on by shew of hands (unless a ballot be demanded according to the standing order in that case provided) for the Master and Wardens forthwith to make the most strict and circumstantial inquiries about, and to report the result to the next Court of Assistants ; when four out of such six are to be again selected, by shew of hands or ballot, as aforesaid. The usual notices of nomination are to be sent them, preparatory to two being finally balloted, at Election Lay in the third and fourth Wardenships ; and where the War- denships may be declined or the notices unan¬ swered, such contingency is to be first supplied from the two remaining of the said six persons, so first chosen. Every Liveryman, on being elected a Junior Warden, is thenceforth duly to attend, and on or before taking his seat, to pay to the use of the Company the sum of £116. Is. And in the following year, at the expiration of his said Wardenship, in due course, he is to be sworn 26 Assistant's in Assistant, on payment of the Fee for admi- Elecuon. 1 J nistering the Oath. Whenever, towards supplying any vacancies from casualties, or for other reasons, it is thought proper and expedient to entertain any request or application from any of the Livery¬ men for admission on the Court, and to choose an Assistant or Assistants without service of the Junior Wardenships, such application is to be introduced, and supported by, six mem¬ bers of the Court at least, then present, to whom the applicant is personally known. And every person elected an Assistant under such exemption and circumstances, is to pay the sum of £158 11s. to the use of the Company. In no case is any Junior Warden or Assist¬ ant to be chosen without due nomination at a previous Court; and in the official notices to be sent by the Clerk, the expense of admission is to be stated. The List of the Court of Assistants is to be read by the Clerk, and the deaths of any Members, or their disqualifications from be¬ longing to any Committees ascertained and declared. 27 A CALENDAR Of the Days fixed for holding Courts and®^ ; "^ Committees, for the Election to, or Distri¬ bution of Gifts and Benefactions, and for periodical Business:— JANUARY. The first Tuesday. A Court of Wardens for Binding and making Free, &c. Gifts to Preachers. The first Thursday after Old Christ¬ mas Day. Banks’ Half Yearly Meeting and Pensions. The second Monday. Court of Assist¬ ants. FEBRUARY. The first Tuesday. Court of War¬ dens. Second Monday. Court of Assistants. Distribution of Forfeited Gifts and Court Dinner. The Twenty-fourth. Quarterly Meet¬ ing of Aske’s Hospital, and Dinner, unless it fall on a Saturday or Sun¬ day, then on the Monday following. MARCH. The fir st Tuesday. Court of Wardens. Second Monday. Court of Assistants. 28 Days of APEIL. The first Tuesday. Court of Wardens. Meetings. Second Monday. Court of Assistants and Dinner. Easter Gifts and Clothing to Six Men and Six Women, under Hobby’s Will. MAY. The first Tuesday. Court of Wardens. Second Monday. Co urt of Assistants- Twenty-fourth. Quarterly Meeting at Aske’s Hospital, and Dinner. In the last Week. Mr. Banks’ Meet¬ ing to receive applications for the £200 distributed annually to bis Relatives in Apprentice Fees, Mar¬ riage Portions, and to assist in set¬ ting them up in Business. JUNE. The first Tuesday. Court of Wardens. Second Monday. Court of Assistants and Dinner. JULY. The first Tuesday. Court of Wardens. First Thursday after Midsummer Day. Banks’ Half-yearly Meeting and Pensions. Second Monday. Court of Assistants, Quarterly Gifts, and Bond’s Gift of Clothing to Eight Men and Eight Widows. AUGUST. TheTwenty-fout'th. Quarterly Meet-Days of ing at Aske’s Hospital, and Dinner. SEPTEMBER. The first Tuesday. Court of Wardens. Second Monday Court of Assistants and Dinner. OCTOBER. The first Tuesday. Court of War¬ dens. Second Monday. Court of Assistants. Quarterly Gifts, Whitmore’s Gift of Clothing to Ten Widows. NOVEMBER. The First Tuesday. Court of Wardens. Second Monday. Court of Assistants. The Twentieth. Quarterly Meeting at Aske’s Hospital, and Dinner. NOVEMBER^ The Saturday after St. Catherine’s DECEMBER.}- 0 ^ ( bein 9 251/1 November). The general Election Court. The following Tuesday. Publication Day, and Court to swear in new Master and Wardens. DECEMBER. The Second Monday, Court of Assistants. Quarterly Gifts. Second Tuesday. Court of Wardens. CONCISE STATEMENT ALPHABETICAL ORDER CHARITABLE ESTABLISHMENTS Btntfartioup HABERDASHERS’ COMPANY. 33 Adams's Newport Charity, WlLLLIAM Adams, A.D. 1657, gave to the Adams's New- Haberdashers’ Company the Manor of Knigh- p ° rt Charity ‘ ton, in Staffordshire, comprehending about 883 Acres, and now producing about £950. per Annum, and thereout directed various stipends to be paid and a Free Grammar School at Newport, in Shropshire to be maintained. The Estates are let to the following Tenants: John Hollins, Knighton Farm, 235a. 1 k. 27p., Kent £291. per Annum, on Lease for 21 years, expiring Michaelmas, 1861. John Adams, Knighton Hall Farm, 222a. 3r. lip., Rent £290. per Annum, on Lease for 21 years, expiring Michaelmas, 1861. Abraham Plant’s Representatives, Knighton Grange Farm, 239a. Or. 37p., Rent £242. per Annum, on Lease for 21 years, expiring Mi¬ chaelmas, 1861. Thomas Thompson, Woodseaves Farm, near Drayton, 85 a. 1 r. 38 p., Rent £92. per A nnum , on Lease for 21 years, expiring Michaelmas, 1861. 34 Adams’s New- The payments have been increased from port Charity. . / . time to time. The following sums are now paid, viz.:— £ s. d. To the Minister of Newport, per Annum. 60 0 0 Who is not, however, appointed by the Company. To the Schoolmaster.200 0 0 To the Usher .100 0 0 To the Writing Master .100 0 0 To putting out three Apprentices, yearly, £18. each . 54 0 0 To the Visitors of the School, about 6 10 0 To the Boy for ringing the School Bell . 3 0 0 To the Boy for sweeping the School 3 0 0 Sum usually allowed out of Chan¬ cery for Repairs to the School- house and Alms-houses. 10 0 0 Four Exhibitions to Scholars from the School to any of the Colleges of Oxford or Cambridge, £22.10s. each . 90 0 0 To the four Alms-people, 7s. 6d. a Week each. 78 0 0 To twenty poor Persons free of the Haberdashers’ Company, in Gifts at Easter, £3. 15s. each. 75 o 0 To the Clerk of the Haberdashers’ Company. 6 0 0 35 To the Beadle, £2. 10s. and Porter, 10s. 3 0 To the Woodreeve . 30 0 To the Receiver, about.50 0 Insurance of the Charity Buildings and Farms . 30 0 Allowance for School Books under the direction of the Visitors .... 10 0 Incidental Expenses, on an average 10 0 Taxed Costs on passing Receiver’s Accounts in Chancery, on an average. 35 0 Total, about- £953 0 3 The Heir at Law of Mr. Adams having in 1787 claimed the surplus of this Estate, an Information was filed in, and this Charity has since been, and must continue, under the direc¬ tion of the Court of Chancery. It was decreed, however, that the surplus income belonged to the Charity, and the sti¬ pends of the Officers and Alms-people have, from time to time,been accordingly augmented. In October 1850 there was standing in the name of the Accountant-General the sum of £3819. 1.9. 6d. £3. per Cent. Consolidated Bank Annuities, which is to be considered as a Fund in reserve for Repairs or Rebuilding; D Adams’s New¬ port Charity. o o o 3 o o o 36 Adim^s w- an( j a i so to answer future costs and such con- port Chantj. tingent losses and expences as may happen from unforeseen circumstances. The Receiver is appointed by the Court of Chancery upon the nomination of the Com¬ pany. His Accounts are annually passed before a Master of that Court, and the surplus invested in the above Stock. The present Receiver is Mr. Robert Fisher, of Chetwynd Lodge, Newport, in Shropshire. The Rev. C. W. Saxton, D.D., is the present Schoolmaster, the Rev. William Sandford, Usher, and Mr. Crowther, Writing Master. It is a Classical School, for the reception of Eighty Boys, and there are now about Forty Boys on the Foundation. The several Officers, with the exception of the Minister, are ap¬ pointed by the Company, as Governors of the Charity. Aldersey’s Biinlmry Charity. AMersey’s Thomas Aldersev, by Letters Patent, dated charity”" the 2nd of January, 1594, founded the Free Grammar School of Bunbury in Cheshire, of which he appointed this Company the Go¬ vernors, with a PreachersLip and Curacy, to 37 which the Company have the appointment. He left for the support thereof a Rent Charge Chari| y- of £130. per Annum charged upon the Rectory of Bunbury and the great and small Tithes of that and several other Towns in the county of Chester, which is paid by the Aldersey family in the proportions directed by the Founder, viz.:— £ s. d. To the Preacher of Bunbury.66 13 4 Curate. 20 0 0 Schoolmaster . 20 0 0 Usher . 10 0 0 Poor of Bunbury. 10 0 0 Poor of the Company. 3 6 8 £130 0 0 The Rev. Thomas Donkin, B.D., is the pre¬ sent Preacher. The Premises allotted to and occupied by him consist of a House and Offices and 23 a. 2r. 3p. of Land, the Land-tax where¬ of is redeemed. In 1814 the Rev. John Egerton, the late Preacher, purchased from Sir Charles Bunbury a small piece of Land, containing about one-third part of an acre, for which he paid £30., and has annexed it to the Glebe; and in 1826 he likewise purchased, for the benefit of the Preacher for the time being, a Quit Rent of 8s. chargeable on the Land, for which he paid £12. d 2 The Rev. John Martin is the Curate.—His Emoluments are £ s. d. A Salary of. 20 0 0 A Rent Charge, purchased by an Augmentation in 1762, payable out of Estates in Cheshire, by Mr. Aldersey . 14 0 0 Surplice Fees, &c., about. 23 0 0 £5 7 0 0 A recent grant of £400. has been made to the Curacy, by the Governors of Queen Anne’s Bounty, on which they have agreed to pay Mr. Martin Interest at £4. per cent, until this money is laid out in Land, for the benefit of the Curacy. Mr. Martin in 1828 obtained the consent of the Company as Patrons, to ex¬ change with Mr. Aldersey the Rent Charge of £14. for 5J statute acres of Land. In 1821 Mr. Martin was also appointed Schoolmaster, and has a House of 1a. 3r. 5p of Land, on part of which stands the School- house, which was rebuilt by the Aldersey family in 1817. His Salary is £20. per Annum. Mr. William Spencer is the Usher, with a Cottage, and 3 r. and 20p. of Land. His Salary is £10. per Annum. 39 There are about Fifty Scholars on the Aiders J Bunbury Foundation, who are taught the Classics and charity. English Grammar and Reading gratis. The number of Scholars is not limited. The Aldersey family are hound to keep all the Premises in repair except the Preacher’s House, for thereparation of which the Preacher, on his appointment, gives a bond to the Com¬ pany. Arnold's Charity. Thomas Arnold by a testamentary paper, Arnold's dated a.d. 1669, gave a Rent Charge out of his Estate at Islington of £26. a year for the poor of the Company. The Premises consist of the Angel Inn and Land at the South-West en¬ trance of Islington. The Rent Charge is paid by George Thornhill, Esq. of Deddington Buckden, Huntingdonshire, the present pro¬ prietor of the Estate so charged. The annual amount is disposed of in Gifts of £l. 6s. each to Twenty Poor of the Company at the October Court. 40 Asko's Hoxton Charity. Aste’s iioxton Robert Aske by Will, dated the 18th Jan¬ uary 1688, gave to the Master and four War¬ dens of the Haberdashers’ Company £20,000. to belaid out in the purchase of ground within one mile of London, whereon was to be built an Alms-house for Twenty Poor Single Men,* free of the said Company; and also to buy so much Land as that, out of the profits might be paid to each poor man £20. per annum for their lives ; and the remainder for the main¬ tenance of so many poor boys in meat, drink, clothing and schooling as the same would pro¬ duce, at £20. per Annum each. Drs. Tillot- son and Sharp were appointed Executors, and the Testator gave to each of them the sum of £200. if they should act, but if they declined, he gave the same to the Company. And the Testator gave all the rest and residue of his Estate to the Master and Wardens of the Com¬ pany for the purposes of the Charity. By a codicil dated the 20th January 1688, the Testator appointed the Master, Wardens * They may he Widowers or Single Men, but not under Fifty years of age. 41 and Assistants of the Company to be Governors A81 ^ of the Hospital; and directed that the Boys to be admitted should be Freemen’s sons, and that the Governors should, from time to time, make Orders and Bye Laws for the govern¬ ment of the Charity. And that the trust might be no charge or burden to the Governors, the Testator directed that all the charge and ex¬ pence that might attend the same should be paid out of the Estate; and if it should happen thereafter, that any of the Revenues should fall short, that the same should be deducted from the Boy’s establishment. On the 20th December 1690, an Act of Par¬ liament was passed establishing this Charity, making the Master and Wardens for the time being a corporate body by the style of “ Go¬ vernors of the Possessions and Revenues of the Hospital at Hoxton, of the Foundation of Robert Askewith power to purchase Lands for the maintenance of the Hospital, to manage the Revenues, settle the Salaries and make Bye Laws and Statutes. It appears by an old account in the posses¬ sion of the Company, that £31,905. Is. was the amount received under Mr. Aske’s Will includ¬ ing the two legacies of £200. each, which devolved to the Company in consequence of the Executors having renounced, and the Com- 42 Asi ciarity l£ ° n ^ av i n S taken upon themselves the exe- T ration of the trust of the Will. With this money, several Estates near Ashford in Kent and the Land at Hoxton were purchased; and on the latter, a Hospital, School and Chapel were built in the year 1691. These Buildings, however, having been constructed on much too large and expensive a scale, and the annual and prospective charge for neces¬ sary reparations being enormous, they were pulled down in 1824, and in their stead, the present site of Buildings erected. The Estate at Hoxton consists of Twenty- one Acres of Land, part of which is occupied by the Alms-houses, Chapel, and School: the remainder is let on building Leases, and a number of Houses have been erected and Streets formed. The property in Kent consists of a Manor and Lands called Kingsnorth in the parish of Kingsnorth, the Manor and Hereditaments called Singleton, in the same parish, and in the parish of Ashford; and some Parcels of Land, in the parish of Great Chart; all which were conveyed to the Company in the year 1690 two Woods, called Rowfrith and Hele Wood, held by Lease, renewable every seven years, on payment of a Fine, under the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, containing about 43 twenty-four acres, conveyed to the Company A8k ^{°y t0Q in 1691;—Court Lodge Farm, and other Pre¬ mises in Great Chart, held also by Lease, re¬ newable in like manner every seven years, under the same Dean and Chapter, and con¬ veyed to the Company in 1693. The Establishment at Hoxton consists of Twenty Old Men, Twenty Boys, a Chaplain, an Usher, a Matron and four Female Servants- Each Old Man has a distinct House compris¬ ing two Rooms and a Yard ; and is now paid i l/a Week in money. The Governors have recently revised the original Statutes, made at the foundation; which are printed for general use. The Boys are admitted into the School at the age of eight, and remain till the age of fourteen years. They are instructed in Read¬ ing, Writing, and Arithmetic; to which has recently been added the use of Murray’s Eng¬ lish Grammar. They receive religious instruc¬ tion from the Chaplain, according to the Established Church, and are publicly cate¬ chized by him four times a year in the Hospital Chapel. They are also examined twice a year at the Hall by a competent Member of one of the Universites. The annual Stipends paid to the Officers are as follow: Chaplain and Schoolmaster, The Rev. John Laming Turner, for the Board and Education of the Boys, £800., with a House, free of rent, taxes and repairs. The Apothecary, Mr. Hockly, resident near the Establishment, £31. 10 s. The Clerk of the Company £100. The Book-keeper £55., and The Beadle £30. Bacon's Charity. William Bacon, by his Will made in the year 1478, bequeathed to the Company the site of their Hall and Buildings in Maiden Lane (now Gresham Street, West) and Staining Lane, except a part of the Hall and Kitchen, which was purchased of and is subject to a Rent Charge of £20. 6s. 8 d. payable to the Grocers’ Company, after deducting on account of Land Tax, £4. 45 Banks's Charity. John Banks, by his Will and Deed of Ap- pointment dated 21st March 1716, gave to the Master, Wardens and twelve Assistants of the Company, for the time being, Two Freehold Houses in Saint John Street, Clerkenwell, and his Leasehold Estate in the parish of Saint James, Westminster, upon trust to provide for and make the following payments:— £ s. d. To ten Liverymen, Pensions of £10. each .100 0 0 Ten Freemen, £5. each. 50 0 0 Twenty Widows, do.100 0 0 Ten Inhabitants of St. Bennett’s, Paul’s Wharf, do... 50 0 0 Ten ditto of St. Saviour’s, South¬ wark, £2. 10 s. each . 25 0 0 Ten ditto of Battersea, do. 25 0 0 Seventy Poor, 3s. Qd. each instead of Dinners . 12 5 0 The Beadles of the three Parishes, 105. each . 1 10 0 The Minister and Deacons of the Three Cranes Meeting . 12 0 0 Minister of Staining Lane Meeting for Half-yearly Sermons, £2.; and Clerk and Sexton of ditto, £l... 3 0 0 46 £. s. d. Bants’s Annuities to his (Banks’s) Relations 260 0 0 To put out Apprentices, help set up in Business or towards the Mar¬ riage of the Testator's Brothers and Sisters in such proportions as his Trustees should think fit.... 200 0 0 Salaries to the Clerk, Receiver, Beadle and Porter of this Com¬ pany . 67 0 0 Expences of Trust, about.100 0 0 The term of the Leashold Estate expired in February 1822. During its existence, how¬ ever, a sum was gradually accumulated by investments in Three per Cent. Consols, which now amounts to £58,580.12s. lOrf. standing in the name of the Accountant General of the Court of Chancery, the Dividends of which are found to he amply sufficient for the fulfil¬ ment of all the Testator’s intentions. The surplus belongs to the Company. The two Freehold Houses in Saint John Street are let on lease:— No. 99 till 1854, at a Rent of £30. per Annum. No. 98 till 1867, at a Rent of £45. per Annum. The payments are all made yearly, with the exception of £157. 10s. of the Annuities be¬ queathed by the Testator to his Relations, 47 which portion has been at various times bought Banks’s up and extinguished by the Company. ianty ‘ The £2. for Sermons at the Meeting-house adjoining the Hall, is paid to the Minister. The £12. given to the members of the Con¬ gregation held near the three Cranes is paid to the Deacons of that Congregation for dis¬ tribution. The sums directed to be given to poor Free¬ men and Widows of Freemen of the Company are paid to permanent Annuitants, chosen by the Trustees as vacancies occur. The poor persons of the several parishes of Saint Bennett Paul’s Wharf, Battersea and St. Saviour’s Southwark, are also appointed by the Trustees ; and the payments to these poor are made twice a year in the Company’s Hall. Instead of the Dinners directed to be given to the poor, 3s. 6d. in money is given to each of them at the Christmas payment, in addition to the pensions. The Trust is managed by the Master and Wardens for the time being and twelve Assist¬ ants : the latter are elected under the Will and 48 Deed of Appointment Trustees for life, and any vacancy in the Trust (by death or relin¬ quishment) is filled up by the surviving Trus- Barnc's Charity. Sir George Barne, by his Will dated 15th February 1557, gave to this Company his in¬ terest in the lease of a Windmill at Finsbury, Middlesex, for the benefit of the poor of the Company, then residing in their Alms-houses in Staining Lane. In 1678, the Company having sold such lease for £ 100., it was resolved, that the £4. thereto¬ fore given to the poor out of the rent thereof, should be paid out of the Company’s funds ; and it is now distributed in gifts of 20s. each to four poor, annually, at the July Court of Assistants. Barnes's Charity. Thomas Barnes, by his Will dated the 20th August 1663, gave to this Company a Freehold House, No. 50, in Lombard Street, to pay thereout as follows :— 49 To four poor old Freemen of the Company, £8. a year each. 32 0 0 To four poor old Widows of Free¬ men, £2. 10s. each. 10 0 0 Twelve poor Freemen or Widows, 20s. each . 12 0 0 The above pensions are paid quarterly. The Gifts are paid at Midsummer. The surplus income goes to the funds of the Com¬ pany. The House is let to William Eagland for 21 years from 1831, expiring at Christmas 1852, at a net rent of £120. per annum. Barrett's Charity. Martha Barrett, by her Will dated the 25th September 1584, gave to the Company £200. to be lent to four young men at £5. per Cent, interest, out of which, £3. 6s. 8 d. was to he given yearly to the poor of the parishes of Isleworth and Totteridge in Middlesex, £ 1. 13s. 4 d. to each, and £5. a year to a scholar studying Divinity, in Magdalen College, Cam¬ bridge. 50 The payments to the parishes of Isleworth and Totteridge are regularly made by the Company, although the first £100. is stated in the Company’s hooks to have been lost in the year 1668. The scholar’s benefaction was paid to the year 1700, but was thenceforth discontinued, in consequence of the other £100. being then also lost. Ralph Bcnskyn's Charity. charitj D S Ralph Benskyn, by his Will dated the 14th September 1603, gave the Company £50. to be lent to a young man, paying 20s. yearly to the poor of the parish of St. Martin, Ongar. The Company received £20. only which was lost in the year 1662; they however continue to pay 8s. a year to the parish, as being the same proportion of interest on £20. as 20s. would have been on £50. Peter Blundell's Charity. Blundell’s Peter Blundell, by his Will dated 9th June 1599, gave the Company £150. to pur¬ chase Land or Houses, and out of the rents 51 thereof, to pay 40s. a year to the poor Debtors : in Newgate: the surplus rent is bequeathed to the Company. In 1603, a House now No. 8 in the Poultry was purchased, and is now held on lease by Robert Birchall for twenty-one years, from Christmas 1830, expiring 1851, at £ 105. rent. The Annuity of 40s. is paid to a person appointed by the Debtors who have been re¬ moved from Newgate to White-cross Street Prison, and the receipts are witnessed by the Keeper of that prison. Boddington's and Boulter's Charities. Robert Boddington, Esq., by Will dated the 4th February 1700, gave the Company C1,arltie3 - £400. to pay to twenty poor people of the Com¬ pany 20s. each yearly; and in 1702, Edmund Boulter, Esq., gave £ 100. more in furtherance of the Charity, which sums were laid out in the purchase of five Houses in Bishopsgate Street, and two adjoining in Montague Court. This purchase was made by the Company for £480. 3s. 6d. subject to a lease theretofore 52 SaSSS- S ranted to Thomas Birdseye for 200 years, Clarities. from 1697, expiring 1897, at a rent of £20. £ s. d. Payments made to Twenty Poor People, in Gifts at Easter, 16s.16 0 0 Surveyor’s Salary on ac¬ count of this Charity.... 2 2 0 18 2 0 Surplus.£1 18 0 Martin Bond's Charity. Martin Bond gave the Company £50. to be lent from time to time to a Freeman of the Company for three years, gratis. 'William Bond's Charity. wm. Bond’s William Bond, by his Will dated 3rd Au- ant;> ' gust 1671, gave to the Company an Annuity or yearly Rent Charge of £50., to be payable out of premises in Bread Street, which he thereby devised to Daniel Andrews, Esq.; and he directed such Annuity to be paid in the following manner :— ‘ 53 To Six Poor Single Men (Freemen), ^ a Pension of £4. a year each_ 24 0 0 To the Poor of the Company in general, yearly. 28 0 0 £50 0 0 In 1693 the premises, consisting of a House No. 52, Bread Street, not producing more than £ 50 . a year, were resigned to the Company for them to receive the rent, which thenceforth they continued to do. Under their manage¬ ment the value of the premises increased, and in the year 1830 Mr. Peter Poland took a lease thereof for twenty-one years, at a rent of £ 170., which will expire at Midsummer 1851. In addition to the charitable payments directed by the donor, the Company have since the year 1817 made a further distribution, and the present expenditure is as follows:— £ s. d. Six poor Single Men, £10. a year each . 60 0 0 Ninety poor people, 20s. at Christ¬ mas yearly . 90 0 0 Surveyor’s Salary. 2 2 0 £152 2 0 e 2 54 wm. Bonds Under the uncertainty which existed as to whom the surplus rents of the above premises belonged, the Charity Commissioners certified this Charity as proper for the consideration of the Court of Chancery; and in January 1825 an information was filed by the Attorney General against the Company, praying that the surplus might be declared to belong to William Bond’s Charity; and at the hearing of the cause on the 13th May 1828, the Court decreed that the surplus did belong to such Charity, and that the Company should account for it from the year 1809, being allowed there¬ out the principal money paid by them in re¬ deeming the Land Tax and the additional yearly sum of £50. distributed in gifts from 1817, and all other just allowances. Also that a scheme should be submitted for appropriat¬ ing the surplus income, taking care to exclude objects receiving parochial relief; and that the Attorney General’s extra costs only should be paid out of the Charity fund. Bowcher's Charity. b-cw-s Thomas Bowcher, by Will, a.d. 1594, gave the Company £100. to be lent to two young Freemen of the Company for three years at 55 4 per Cent.; the interest to be given to the poor BowcWs of the Company. The Loans are made gratis, and £2. is dis¬ posed of in Gifts to two poor, 20s. each, at the July Court out of the Company’s funds. Bower's Charity. William Bower, by Will dated 25th June Bower’s 1586, gave the Company £200. to be lent Cba " ty ‘ gratis for four years, to four young men free of the Merchant Adventurers’ Company of Eng¬ land. Bramley's Charity. Thomas Bramley, by Deed dated 20th Au- B ramiey’s gust 1602, gave and assigned to the Company charity ’ several Leasehold Houses in the parish of St. Bartholomew behind the Royal Exchange, of the yearly value of £61. 15s. to pay various charities amounting to £37. 16s. 8 d. The premises were burnt down at the fire of London in 1666, and the Company having no 56 BramW’s funds to rebuild, surrendered the lease to the chamy. Clothworkers Company on being paid £ 150. The parishes of Lothbury, and of St. Bar¬ tholomew, being two of the donor’s charities, are however still paid each £2. 10 s. Bressie's Charity. Bressie’s Ann Bressie, by Will dated 4th October antJ 1596, gave the Company £100. to be lent to two young Freemen of the Company for three years, gratis. Bucklaud's Charity. Bnckiands Richard Buckland, by Will dated the ci'anty. 22nd August 1573, gave the Company two houses in Paternoster Row in the parish of Saint Michael Le Quern, London, to pay £ s. d. To four poor of the Company, 20s. each . 4 0 0 The parish of Saint Michael Le Quern . 1 O 0 The parish of Shepperton ... 1 0 0 57 In 1675, the Company sold the Houses for iwkian,r s £ 150. for improvements in rebuilding London, " ltJ ’ hut continue to pay the charities regularly. Lady Burgliley's Charity. Lady Mildred Burghley, a.d. 1584, gaveLnd^ the Company £200. to pay to the parish of charity. Clieshunt, Hertfordshire, an Annuity of £ 10. And in the same year gave the Company another sum of £210. for the following pur¬ poses :— £ s. d. For Loans to six Inhabitants of Romford, £20. each, for two years 120 0 0 Ditto to six Inhabitants of Hod- desdon, Cheshunt, and Waltham Abbey, £13. 6s. 8 d. each, for two years. 80 0 0 To the Company. 10 0 0 The Annuity of £10. to the parish of Ches¬ hunt is regularly paid, and the Loans are made to the Inhabitants of Romford; but the £80. to the Inhabitants of Hoddesdon appears to have been lost about the year 1670 from the failure of the Securities. Caldwell’s Charity. caidwdi’s Florence Caldwell, a.d. 1614, gave the m ' Company a House in Ludgate Hill of the then yearly value of £20., thereout to pay various Charities amounting to £15. 18s. The House was burnt down at the Fire of London, and the ground in 1667 sold to the City to widen the Street for £92. 10s. The Charities now paid by the Company are— £ s. d. To the parish of Saint Martin, Ludgate... 0 16 4 To the parish of Rolleston, Stafford¬ shire ... 2 3 4 Carpenter’s Cliarity. carpenter’s Thomas Carpenter, by Will dated the 29th anty ' April 1731, gave the Company £400., to be placed out at interest, and the produce to be yearly disposed of to twenty poor of the Com¬ pany. This sum was laid out in the purchase of £400. Three per Cent. Bank Annuities, 59 1726; and the Dividends amounting to £ 12. £“ r a P“ ter ’ 3 are disposed of in Gifts to twenty poor, 12s. each, at the April Court. Mrs. Clarice's Charity. Mrs. Frances Clarke, a.d. 1608, gave the M ^ ia ^ rke ’ 3 Company £200. to found two Exhibitions of £5 each for four years, one for a scholar of Christ's College, Oxford, and the other of any College, Cambridge. These Exhibitions are now increased to £ 10. each and regularly paid. Robert Clarke's Charity. Robert Clarke, by Will, a.d. 1603, gave R. ciarkes the Company £50. to be lent, from time to time, to a young man for three years, gratis. Thomas Cleave's Charity. Thomas Cleave (date unknown) gave theT. cieav Company £54. to pay yearly to ten poor Free- um> ' men’s Widows 4s. each, which is now bestowed in two Gifts of 20s. each at the July Court. 00 William Cleave's Charity. William Cleave, by Will, dated 1665, gave the Company two Freehold Houses, — one No. 6, Oxford Court, Cannon Street, which is let at £-25, and the other No. 83, Cannon Street, let at £45., till 1851: and also £200. in money, the income to he distributed in pen¬ sions of £5. each to twelve poor Widows of Freemen of the Company, which is distributed and the pensions paid quarterly. Crowche's Charily. Giles Crowche (date unknown) gave the Company £60. to be from time to time lent to three young men, £20. ’each, paying 5s. apiece, yearly to the Company. £20. of this Benefaction was lost in 1669. Culverwell's Charity. Nicholas Culverwell, by Will, dated a.d. 1569, gave the Company £300., thereout to lend £100. to five young, men for five years, 61 gratis ; and £200. to found two Exhibitions of cuivmreirs £5. each for scholars; one of Christ's College, Cambridge, and the other of Magdalen Col¬ lege, Oxford ; to be nominated by the Bishop of London. Although the Loans have been lost many years ago from the failure of the securities, yet the Exhibitions continue to be paid by the Company when applied for. Fenn’s Charity. Sir Richard Fenn, Knt., by Will, dated 1635, gave the Company £50. to be lent from time to time to a young Freeman for three years, gratis. Freeman’s Charity. Mrs. Elizabeth Freeman gave the Com- Freeman’s pany £100. to pay £5. yearly for the poor of the parish of Aspendon, Hertfordshire. French's Charity. George French in 1736 gave the Company Trend, v £40., to pay yearly to twenty poor of the Com¬ pany 2s. 6t/. each, which is now given in two Gifts of £l. 5s. each at the July Court. 62 Gale's Charity. Gale’s charity. Thomas Gale, by Will dated A.D. 1540, gave the Company £50. to pay yearly £l. for the poor of the parish of St. George, Botolph Lane, London. Gterrard's Charity. Gerrard’s Henry Gerrard, by Will, dated A.D. 1572, Charity. J gave the Company a House in Holborn, but for want of properly naming the corporation, the devise was declared void. The Company, however, purchased the House of Mr. Gerrard’s heir, and sold it in 1675, reserving a Quit Rent of £l. Is. 8 d. to pay the Charities directed, viz.:— £ s. d. To the parish of St. Sepulchre, Lon¬ don . 0 15 0 To the parish of St. James’s, Clerken- well. 0 6 8 £l 1 8 The premises charged with the Quit Rent are in the occupation of Messrs. Tringham, G3 Confectioners, Nos. 116 and 117, Holborn Hill, card's The payments to the parishes are regularly made by the Company. (iournay’N Charity, Richard Gournay, by Will, dated a.d. 1596, Goumay’s gave the Company £300, to be lent, from time to time, to young men, by £150. each, for two years, at five per Cent., to be disposed of as follows :■— £ s. d. To the poor of the Company ...... 5 0 0 To Christ’s Hospital,. 5 0 0 To a scholar of any College of Cam¬ bridge . 5 0 0 Hall's Charity. Catherine Hall (date unknown) gave the Catherine Company £50. to be lent for five years, at four per cent. The £2. is given away in one Gift at the January Court. Hammond's Charity. Edmond Hammond, by Will, a.d. 1638, i gave the Company £400. to buy a Piece of 04 Hammoond’s Ground and build six Alms-houses for six Freemen, and devised a Rent Charge of £60. a year to pay the six Alms-men a pension of £10. a year each. With the legacy of £400. the Alms-houses on Snow Hill were built in the year 1651. Mr. Hammond also gave £20. a year for the pooi- of the Company, which is by them given to twenty poor, 205’. each, on St. Tho¬ mas's Hay. The property, subject to such Rent Charges, (viz. £80. a year in the whole) consists of fifteen Houses in Mincing Lane and Tower Street, now the property of Y. H. Biscoe, Esq. of Hookwood near Godstone, Surrey, and are amply sufficient to secure the Rent Charge, which is regularly paid by him to the Com¬ pany. Mr. Hammond also gave the Company £1000. to purchase Church Livings, to be held by such only as have no other church preferment. This sum the Company laid out in the purchase of the Rectory of Awre, and Chapelry of Blakeney, annexed, in Glouces¬ tershire. The Rev. Joseph Henry Malpas was pre- 65 sented to the Vicarage of Awre in June 1826, and the income is £560. Os. 3 d. per Annum. Mr. Malpas has recently re-built the Vi¬ carage House, by the aid of Queen Anne’s Bounty. The glebe consists of about 6 a. 1 e. lip. The Rev. Charles Brooksband was pre¬ sented to theChapelry in 1843, with a stipend of £290. 6s. 11 d. a year. There is no House belonging to the Chapelry. Mr. Hammond also gave the Company £500. to be lent to young Freemen, by £100. each, for five years, gratis. Hare's Charity. Samuel Hare (date unknown) gave the m Company £50. to be lent to a young man for three years, gratis. Harrison and Wife's Ciiarity. Me. and Mrs. Harrison, in 1619 and 1656, gave the Company £300., to pay yearly for the poor of the parish of Allhallows Staining, Mark Lane, London, an Annuity of £ i 1. 15s. 6G Haziefoot's Charity. Haziefoot’s Heney Hazlefoot, by Deed, dated 1646, Charity. J gave the Company a Freehold Estate and Manor, called Pitley Farm at Great Bardfield near Stebbing in Essex, of the then yearly value of £70., to pay various Charities to the amount of £62. In 1744 a small copyhold Estate at Match¬ ing, Essex, held of the Lord of the Manor of Howsham Hall, was bought by the Com¬ pany. £> s. d. The freehold Premises consist of a Farm, called Pitley Farm, con¬ taining 212a. Or. 11 p., on lease to Joseph Ruse and Son, for fourteen years from Michaelmas 1837, ex¬ piring Michaelmas 1851, at the rent of.190 0 0 A Farm, partly copyhold and partly freehold at Matching, Essex, con¬ taining 32a. 2r. 12p., on lease to John Carpenter, for twenty-one years from Michaelmas 1832, ex¬ piring 1853, at . 35 0 0 Total receipts... .£225 0 0 67 PAYMENTS. The parish of St. Nicholas, Cole Cll “ rity- Abbey . 8 0 0 Twenty-eight poor, 20s. each, paid in October . 28 0 0 St. Thomas’s Hospital . 8 0 0 Christ’s Hospital. 5 0 0 Bridewell Hospital. 3 0 0 St. Bartholomew’s . 4 0 0 To release Debtors. 10 0 0 The four Wardens, 10$. each. 2 0 0 Clerk of the Company . 1 0 0 Beadle and Porter, 10s. each. 10 0 Insurance. 6 10 0 £76 10 0 The surplus income is given by the donor to the Company. Hewes*§ Charity. John Hewes (date unknown) gave the Com- pany £100 to be lent to young Freemen, £25. each for four years, at two per Cent., the interest to be disposed of to the poor of the Company. £62. 10s. of this Benefaction has been lost; the remaining £37. 10s. has been lent, gratis, and 10s. a year is given to a poor person at the January Court. Heydon's Cliarlty. Heydm’s John Heydon, by Will dated 1582, gave the Company £100. to be lent to young men trading on the seas, £50. each, for four years, at £3. 6s. 8 d. per Cent., to be paid to the Mer¬ cer’s Company. The Loans have not been made since 1644; but the Annuity of £3.6s. 8 d. is still paid to the Mercers’ Company. Hobby's Charity, chSty John Hobby, by Will dated 1674, gave the Clothworkers’ Company £3,000. to purchase Land of the annual value of £ 170., out of which £60. was to be applied for the purchase of Clothing for thirty poor aged persons, twelve of whom were to be free of, and nominated by the Haberdashers’ Company. Six poor Men and six Women are accord¬ ingly nominated by twelve Assistants present at the April Court. The Men’s Dress consist of a blue cloth Coat, Waistcoat, and Trowsers, a shirt, a pair of worsted Stockings and a pair of Shoes. The Women’s Dress consist of a Shift, Hobby’s Gown, Petticoat, a pair of Stockings, and a pair of Shoes. The poor attend with the Clothworkers’ Company at Lothbury Church on the 11th May, on which occasion 6s. 6d. in money is given by that Company to the Men and 10s. 6d. each to the Women, in lieu of an entertain¬ ment. Holden's Charity. Joseph Holden, a.d. 1681, gave the Com- Holden’s pany £ 110. to pay yearly £5. to ten poor of the chanty- Company, 10s. each. This sum is given at the September Court. Hutchinson's Charity. John Hutchinson, by Will, a.d. 1575, gave Hutchinson - a the Company £68. to be lent to a young man, Charity ‘ paying £2. yearly to Christ’s Hospital. The Loan is now made gratis, and the Com¬ pany pay the Annuity to Christ’s Hospital. 70 Iliintloe's Charity. Thomas Huntloe in 1543 and 1547 gave the Company £250., to pay yearly £18. 13s. Ad. to ten poor, in pensions of £l. 17s. Ad. each, and the Clerk and Beadle 6s. 8c?. a year each. The pensions have, at various times, been increased, and the Company now pay ten Freemen’s widows, pensions of £3. per annum each, besides the payments to the Clerk and Beadle. Jeston's Charity. Roger Jeston, by Will, a.d. 1622, devised all his Lands and Tenements in or near Grub Street, London, to the Company, to pay yearly various Charities amounting to £ 102. 12s. ; and directed that if at any time the income should be insufficient for the purpose, the pay¬ ments should be reduced proportionably; the surplus income (if any) was to be reserved as a fund for rebuilding or repairing the premises, where the tenants were not bound to repair : but if not so required, the same was to be lent gratis to Freemen, being Hatters by trade. 71 The Premises consist of eighteen Houses in Haberdashers’ Square, Cripplegate, on lease to Roddam Alletheus Smith for thirty-one years from Lady-day 1829, expir¬ ing Lady-day 1860, at the rent of 120 0 0 Six Houses in Milton Street (for¬ merly Grub Street), on lease to John Nesham for sixty years from Lady-day 1830, at the rent of ., 50 0 0 Total Rents. £170 0 0 PAYMENTS. £ s. d. Six Freemen’s pensions of £2. 12s. each (Hatters preferred, if any) 15 12 0 Clerk of the Company. 2 0 0 Beadle and Porter, £1. each. 2 0 0 Annuity given to the Testator’s Sister, purchased by the Com¬ pany in 1704. 20 0 0 The parish of Lambeth. 3 0 0 Ditto of Kinfare, Staffordshire .... 5 0 0 Exhibitions to three Scholars of Trinity College, Cambridge, ap¬ pointed by the College, £6. 13s. 4d. each . 20 0 0 Christ’s Hospital, purchased by the Company in 1811 . 8 0 0 72 £ s. d. St. Thomas’s Hospital . 4 0 0 St. Bartholomew’s Ditto . 4 0 0 The four Wardens, £l. each. 4 0 0 Bridewell Hospital. 4 0 0 A poor Clergyman of the Church of England . 5 0 0 The Lecturer of Lambeth. 6 0 0 Surveyor’s Salary . 4 4 0 Payments directed by the Donor £ 106 16 0 Johnson's Charity. Thomas Johnson, by Will, dated 1563. gave the Company £50., to distribute £4. yearly to their poor, quarterly, in meat, drink, and pottage. The sum is given to four poor, 20s. each, at the July Court. Jones's Monmouth Charity. JoaS'ciartj William Jones, by Will dated Dec. 26th, 1614, gave the Company £9,000., to ordain a Preacher and found a Free School and twenty Alms-houses in the town of Monmouth; £6,000. whereof was paid by Mr. Jones in his lifetime. 73 This Charity was established by Letters Jon “’® M