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| The SPIRITUAL GOVERNMENT. [Charities.] | 66 |
The SPIRITUAL GOVERNMENT. [Charities.]
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| BENEFACTORS. | Lands, Tenements, or Sums
of Money given. | For what Uses. | The Date of the
Gift. |
| Mr. Morgan | Houses in Katharine-Wheel-Alley | To the Town of Oswestree in Shropshire, a Payment of 20l. | |
| Mr. Blandel | A House in the Poultry | To the Wardens of the Company; to the Prisoners in Newgate. | |
| Mr. Barnes | His House in Lumbardstreet | To 4 poor Men certain Payments, and to 4 poor Widows; and to 12 poor People at the Election; and to the Stock of the Company. | His Will bore Date Aug. 20. 1663. |
| Mr. Bond | An Annuity issuing out of Houses in Breadstreet. Now laid into one. The Rents considerably fallen. | Payments to 6 poor Men, 4l. a Year. And to 26 poor Men of the Company at the Election. | By Will bearing Date Aug. 3. 1671. |
| Arnold, Esq; | 26l. a Year. Given by his Uncle. Cost the Company a Suit at Chancery before this Gift was fixed | To 20 poor People at the Election. | |
| Sir Hugh Smithson | An Annuity of 10l. for 99 Years, issuing out of his Houses in Paternoster Row | To 20 poor People at Easter, 10s. apiece | His Will dated Aug. 4. 1670. |
| Lady Wild | 2000l. | To buy in Impropriations, and lay them to small Vicarages. And as often as a Purchase is made, and laid to such Vicarage, the Vicar to enjoy two Parts, and the Company one, till the Value of the Purchase come in again: And after the Vicar to enjoy the Whole. | |
| Robert Aske, Esq; | His Charity is so great and noble, that it is mention'd elsewhere in the Chapter of Colleges and Hospitals. | | |
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Communicated to me by one now deceased, who had been Master of this Company.
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BESIDES these, I meet with other Benefactors of this Company, mentioned by Stow in the Chapter of the Honour of Citizens, to which I refer the Reader; viz.
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| Robert Offley | The Sum of 1460l. | For several Charitable Uses. | |
| William Whitmore | 200l. | To Bridewell. | |
| Florence Caldwell | | To several poor Parishes in London yearly, 20l. | |
| Robert Rowe | | For Maintenance of poor Scholars in the Universities yearly, 20l. | |
| William Jones | A most liberal Donation, mentioned before. | For an Hospital in Monmouth for the maintaining of 20 poor People. For a Free School, and for a Preacher in the same Town. For a weekly Lecture at St. Bartholomew's behind the Exchange. And many other Charitable Purposes. | |
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More Benefactors yet of this Company are mentioned by Dr. Willet, in his Catalogue of Good Works.
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