The payment was therefore made by the Company for the period during Mr. Gilbert's incumbency, and the Company set apart 4661. 6s. 9d. 3 per cent. Consols, being a valuation of the stock which could be purchased by 2301. for 23 years arrears, and the principal sum of 2007. The sum of 131. 19s. 8d. a year (the dividends) are brought to a separate account, out of which 107. a year are paid to the vicar of Cripplegate, and the balance is carried to the credit of the Company. This application, which appears to be justified by Mr. Kettle's opinion, seems to be inconsistent with the principle on which it was required that the Company shall invest the arrears. There could be no necessity for that investment unless it be a fund dedicated to charity, and whether the increased dividends thus arising belong or not to the original object of the endowment, it must I apprehend, if properly invested, be considered as liable to some charitable application to be settled by scheme. ROCHDALE'S GIFT. Richard Rochdale, by will of the 1st July 1657, gave to the Governors of Christ's, Bridewell, and St. Thomas' Hospitals, three messuages in Wood Street, upon trust to pay (amongst other things) to the poor of the Company, 31. a year, before Christmas Day. The Company receive 31. a year from the Governors of Christ's Hospital. JEMITT'S GIFT. By indenture of the 23rd June 1679, reciting the will of Philip Jemitt of the 26th December 1676, whereby he gave to the Company 2007. to purchase lands to pay out of he rents To four poor freemen or their wives 67., and the residue for the use of the Company; and reciting that the Company were seised of certain messuages in Shoe Lane. The said Company in consideration of the said 2001. charged the above premises with the payment of 61. a year. (See Bellowe's Gift as to application.) WHITBREAD'S CHARITY. The Great Barford Estate. Samuel Whitbread, by indenture of the 26th March 1794, gave to the Company a messuage, garden, and appurtenances, with 270a. Ir. 9p. of land at Great Barford, Beds, upon trust to pay £ s. d. For the general uses of the Company 10 10 0 To the clerk 550 and then to invest the residue in the funds, and after his decease, in January and July every year to pay the rents and dividends towards maintaining one or two master brewers, 100l. to be paid to one such master brewer, and 507. each to two, and if the residue of the rents and dividends should amount to 150l. a year, then to pay the same to one such master brewer, or 100l. to one and 50l. to another. And if such residue should be 2001. a year, then to pay 2007. to one, or 100l. a-piece to two such master brewers. The estate consists of a farmhouse and buildings on the lower, and a house on the upper farm, and 235a. 2r. 19p. of land situate in the parish of Great Barford, in the county of Bedford. It is let to John Selis Ayres, as a yearly tenant, at a rent of There are also the accumulations of rent, which at the last inquiry amounted to 2,1841. 7s. 1d. 3 per cent. Consols, and now consist of 4,2157. Os. 7d. like stock standing in the names of Robert Hanbury, Arthur Keith Barclay, Richard Martineau, and Arthur Pryor s. d. 280 0 0 Mr. George Allan, a blind liveryman and freeman Mrs. Eliza Lee, widow of a freeman Mrs. Mary Slater, widow of a freeman Mrs. Amelia Elizabeth Smith, widow of a freeman 60 0 30 0 50 0 40 0 0 126 9 0 £406 9 0 40 0 0 Mrs. Ann Smith, widow of a freeman 30 0 0 250 0 0 10 10 0 5 5 0 220 £267 17 0 The surplus income is invested and added to the accumulations as it arises. The balance of cash at the end of 1863, due to the Charity, was 1187. 13s. Od. BAKER'S GIFT. John Baker, by indenture of the 18th December 1813, reciting that he was desirous of endowing six almshouses, transferred 2,500l. Reduced Annuities, 3,000l. Consols, and 3,000l. Reduced Annuities to the Company, upon trust to sell a sufficient part of the said 2,500l. Reduced Annuities to purchase six small tenements in the parishes of Christchurch (Middlesex) Spitalfields, Shoreditch, Hoxton, Bethnal Green, or Whitechapel, or to build six such cottages, for the residence of six poor women, or female inhabitants of the said parish of Christchurch. And the said J. Baker conveyed to the Company a messuage and land in Horton, Bucks, to apply the rents and the dividends of the several sums of stock as follows:-- To the general use of the Company To the clerk 107., and beadle 21. 201. 121. and after the death of the said J. Baker, to apply the rents and dividends as an endowment for the said almshouses and their inmates. The testator died in 1818, and the almshouses, which had not been erected at the date of the last inquiry, were built in 1825 upon a plot of ground in Oxford Street, at the back of the London Hospital, in the Mile End Road, 120 feet by 114 feet, and conveyed by feoffment of the governors of that hospital to Robert Barclay and others of the 7th September 1825 in consideration of 4521. In 1838 by a lease of the 6th June of that year, the same governors granted to the trustees for the same uses a piece of land fronting the_almshouses, 110 feet by 114, for 73 years from Lady Day, 1838, at a peppercorn rent. There are rooms for eight inmates, each having a parlour and bedroom on the garden level, with a kitchen and offices to each on the basement floor. The cost of the building was 2,9481. 18s. 7d., which, together with the site, furniture, &c., was raised by the sale of a part of the 31. per cent. Reduced Stock belonging to the Company at the last inquiry. The productive estate of the Charity at present is as follows: Some other payments have been made recently. A cornrent of 31. 14s. 4d. to the rector of Horton, 207. on account of the restoration of the church and schools of St. Phillip, Stepney, and 201. to the church and parsonage fund of the same parish. At the close of 1863 a balance of cash of 1141. 15s. 5d. was due to the Charity, which will be invested and added to the accumulations. I append a form of the petition for admission. The notice of vacancies is given on the church doors of Christchurch, which also states where the forms of petition can be obtained. All which I submit to the Board. 501 (Signed) 305 13 9 27th January 1865. THOS. HARE, Inspector of Charities. APPENDIX. LADY OWEN'S SCHOOL. PROPOSED EXAMINATION of 118 Boys at the ANNUAL VISITATION by the WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF BREWERS, appointed for Friday the 5th of June 1863. TOWER HILL GRAMMAR SCHOOL, FOUNDED BY ALDERMAN JAMES HICKSON, A.D. 1687. TRUSTEES, THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF BREwers. Head Master. Rev. HERBERT WILLIAMS, M.A., St. John's College, Cambridge. Under Master.-ALBERT CRUMP, Esq. French Master.-M. MASSE, Head French Master at Dulwich College. Drawing Master.-H. ASHBY, Esq. The object of the school is to furnish a liberal and useful education for the sons of respectable persons who are engaged in professional, commercial, and trading pursuits in and near London. The course of education accordingly includes: Instruction in the truths and duties of Christianity, the Latin, Greek, English, French, and German languages, Mathematics, the Physical Sciences, Writing, Book-keeping, Geography, History, and Drawing. The duties of each day commence and end with prayer and reading the Holy Scriptures, from which none of the scholars are allowed to absent themselves. No boy may be absent from school on any pretence whatever, without special leave from the head master, except in case of sickness, which must be certified, if required, by some medical practitioner. A general examination of the whole school, conducted by gentlemen appointed by the court of the Brewers' Company, takes place at their annual visitation at Midsummer, when prizes are distributed for proficiency and good conduct. The hours of attendance are-On Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, from nine till half-past two-an interval of half-an-hour being allowed at one o'clock. The hours of attendance are On Wednesdays and Saturdays, from nine till one. The vacations are seven weeks from the end of July to the middle of September, a fortnight at Easter, and three weeks at Christmas. The number of scholars is limited to sixty. Twenty of this number are educated free, viz. :- 14 belonging to the parish of Allhallows, Barking, and St. John, Wapping. 6 A uniform charge of 5s. per quarter for stationery is made to each boy, whether on the foundation or otherwise. Books and drawing materials are charged at the usual prices. There are no extras of any kind whatever. A deposit of 31. must be made with the clerk of the Company, on account of each boy educated in the school, which will be returned on his leaving. A quarter's notice, in writing, must be given to the head master prior to the removal of any scholar, whether on the foundation or otherwise. Pupils are admitted between the ages of eight and sixteen by the Court from time to time as vacancies occur. A report of each boy's proficiency and conduct is sent to his parents, and also to the court of the Brewers' Company every half year. A report book is also in use, by means of which a boy's friends are acquainted with the manner in which he has acquitted himself at school from day to day. The school-rooms are lofty, and thoroughly warmed and ventilated. Attached to the school there is a library of instructive and entertaining books for home reading, to which all the pupils have access. Applications for admission to be made to C. R. Vines, Esq., clerk to the Brewers' Company, St. Helen's Place, Bishopsgate Street, from whom, or from the Rev. the Head Master, 9, Trinity Square, E.C., further particulars may be obtained. November 1861. The object of the school is to furnish a liberal and useful education for the sons of respectable persons who are engaged in professional, commercial, and trading pursuits; the general plan of instruction, accordingly, includes instruction in the truths and duties of the Christian Religion, the Greek, Latin, English, French, and German languages, Mathematics, the Physical Sciences, Writing, Book-keeping, Geography, History, and Drawing. The general age for admission is from eight to sixteen years. The duties of each day commence and end with prayers and the reading of the Holy Scriptures, from which none of the scholars are allowed to absent themselves. The hours of attendance are: On Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, from 9 to 24. On Wednesday and Saturday, from 9 to 1. Scholars who are irregular in their attendance, or inattentive to their studies, will be detained after the schoolhours under the charge of a master; and in each case the time of detention will be noted in the daily report book. No boy is to be absent from school on any pretence whatsoever, without special leave from the head master, excepting in case of sickness, which inust be certified to the head master by some medical practitioner, if required. The scholars must be cleanly in person and apparel, to the satisfaction of the head master, failing which he is authorised to send them home to their parents. Registers are kept of the attendance, progress in learning, and conduct of the several scholars, from which half-yearly reports are transmitted to their parents or guardians, and to the court of assistants of the Brewers' Company. Flagrant misconduct on the part of any scholar, or cutting or otherwise defacing the desks or forms, will subject him to suspension or expulsion from the school. A general examination of the whole school, conducted by gentlemen appointed for that purpose by the court, shall take place at the annual visitation previously to the summer vacation, after which there will be a distribution of prizes for proficiency and good conduct. The vacations consist of seven weeks in Summer, three weeks at Christmas, and two weeks at Easter. The scholars are expected to attend the school till the vacations commence, and to return punctually when they close. One quarter's notice in writing must be given to the head master by parents or guardians intending to remove their children from the school. The Worshipful Company of Brewers of the City of London having this day elected my son as a boy to their school, No. 9, Trinity Square, Tower Hill, I do hereby certify that I have read the above rules, with a copy of which I have also been furnished, and that I agree to conform to, and comply with, and be bound by such rules, so far as the same apply to myself, and that I will endeavour to enforce the performance of them so far as they relate to my son. It is also agreed that I shall forthwith deposit with the clerk of the Brewers' Company the sum of three pounds, to be returned to me upon my removing my son from the school after the expiration of one quarter's notice, in writing, previously given by me to the master of the school, of such my intention, and also contingent upon my having discharged all school bills due to the said master, otherwise the said sum of three pounds to be absolutely forfeited to the said Company. Dated this day of 186 . upon the conditions within mentioned. |