An account of public charities in England and Wales, abridged from the reports of His Majesty's commissioners on charitable foundations, with notes and comments / by the editor of "The cabinet lawyer" [i.e. John Wade].

  • Great Britain. Commissioners for Inquiring Concerning Charities.
Date:
1828
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Credit: An account of public charities in England and Wales, abridged from the reports of His Majesty's commissioners on charitable foundations, with notes and comments / by the editor of "The cabinet lawyer" [i.e. John Wade]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHARITIES OF THE DISSEN¬ TING CONGREGATION OF THE OLD MEETING-HOUSE. William JSichol, in 1707, left £400, on trust, to purchase land, and out of the rents pay £5 to the pastor of the church of Christ, at Bedford, chosen by a majority of the brethren, and the residue of the rents to be given to the poor of the congregation, agreeably to the discretion of the trustees. The estate purchased with the legacy is situate in the parish of Thurleigh, and was conveyed, in 1808, with other estates held in trust for charita¬ ble purposes, by a general deed of conveyance, to the trustees of the Old Meeting, and con¬ sists of a farm-house, home¬ stead, and five closes, containing 32a. 3r. 22p. It is let to John King, as yearly tenant, at the rent of £30, which is applied as directed. John Taylor, in 1735, devised all his real estates in the parishes of Colmouth and Eaton Socon unto Thomas Woodward and Thomas Vincent, and the sur¬ vivor of them and his heirs. There are no trusts declared by the will respecting the estates, nor any formal declaration of trust executed by the testator; but it is stated in an entry in a minute-book, belonging to the trustees of the Old Meeting¬ house, that the trusts on which the estates were devised were, that half the rents should be paid to the pastor, and the other half to the poor of the church, with liberty to the distributors, when they should think fit, to apply a part, not exceeding one- fourth of the latter half, to the poor of the congregation, of so¬ briety and good report, though not members of the church. The estates consist of a close of five acres, in the parish of Eaton Socon, and of a farm-house, and 25a. 28njy. of arable land, prin¬ cipally in the open field of Col¬ mouth, and 7a. 3r. 14p. of sward land in the same parish. The whole is let to William Wag- staff, as yearly tenant, at the rent of £24 per annum, which is the full annual value. The rents are applied, one half to the pastor of the Old Meeting-house, and the remainder in a distri¬ bution of money among the poor of the church, at the discretion of the trustees. Mary Baynes, in 1730, left her premises, in the parishes of St. Mary and St. John, in Bed¬ ford and Cardington, and her estate in Stagsden, upon trust, to pay £5 unto the dissenting minister belonging to the con¬ gregation of dissenters of the Calvanist persuasion, in Bed¬ ford; and also £5 yearly unto some other dissenting minister (poor, regularly educated, and brought up to the ministry) of some other congregation in Great Britain, of the Calvanist persua¬ sion, whom the trustees should think most meritorious, and the residue of the rents was to be applied to the relief of the most needy and necessitous, without regard to their religion, provided they did not receive parochial relief, or aid from any other cha¬ rity. The number of trustees was not to be less than five ; and an option was left to them to apply the whole or such part of the rents of the last mentioned property, in the teaching of youth to read and write, as they thought expedient. The property devised under the will, consists.