The facts bearing on the claim of the poor to 1. The Poorhouse grounds and buildings; 2. Paul's work mortification; and 3. Trinity Hospital : and dissent from the report of the Law Committee of the Council refusing the poor's claims / by Councillor Curror.

  • Edinburgh (Scotland). Parochial Board.
Date:
1862
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Credit: The facts bearing on the claim of the poor to 1. The Poorhouse grounds and buildings; 2. Paul's work mortification; and 3. Trinity Hospital : and dissent from the report of the Law Committee of the Council refusing the poor's claims / by Councillor Curror. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    “ twenty such children as are entitled to the City of Edinburgh Charity,” to be lodged in separate wards, educated separately from the other poor children, wear a different dress, and to be called the Children of Paul’s Work. On 27th June 1750, intimation by order of the Council was made, “ by the precenters of this city on Sabbath next, that the Council have conveyed the funds of Paul’s Work to the treasurer of the charity workhouse, for the space of seven years, for the maintenance, clothing, and education of the children of decayed burgesses; any such who have children may apply to ye Council, in order to their being admitted.” On 26th August 1752, the Council having reported on the account of stock and revenue of Paul’s Work Hospital, ordered the balance of £4, 12s. 10d., due by the treasurer, to be paid to “ Mr James Stirling, present treasurer of Paul’s Work, for behoof thereofand found that the stock handed over by the old treasurer amomited, in bonds and cash, to £3215, for which they ordered a city bond to be granted “in favour of Mr Stirling and his successors in office, for behoof of the said Paul’s Work.” From that date to 1781, the revenues from Paul’s Work were accounted for to the charity managers. On 6th June 1780, “ Mr Richard Richardson, treasurer of the charity work- house of this city,” laid before Council “ accounts of feu-duties, payable by certain proprietors, or possessors of Paul’s Work and Saint Ninian’s Row, to the charity workhouse.” And the Council “ disponed, conveyed, and made over to the said Richard Richardson, and his successors in office, for the use and behoof of the said charity workhouse, all byegone arrears, and the said annual revenue for the space of seven years com- plete, from Whitsunday 1781.” In 1787, the managers presented a petition to the Council, in which they stated that they had all along got the whole revenue of Paul’s Work, and asking payment of the arrears for Forglen’s Park. On 2d June 1787, a committee of charity managers was appointed to thank the Council for having appropriated the whole funds of Paul’s Work Hospital for the use of the workhouse, and to entreat the Council “ to order