DR. 1881. COOPERS' COMPANY. CHARITABLE ACCOUNTS FOR 1881. BALANCE SHEET of the RATCLIFF CHARITY from 31st December 1880 to 31st December 1881. By girls 862 0 0 By one year's interest on India 45 58 0 0 By 39 By Consols Reduced 22 3 6 54 16 8 135 0 2 By income tax on rents, one year, to 35 0 0 63 196 22 10 0 DR. 1881. BALANCE SHEET of the EGHAM CHARITY from 31st December 1880 to 31st December 1881. By 5241. 48. 10d. Consols By 1,4897. 10s. 8d. Consols (official trustees' account) 895 7 4 £ 8. d. £ 8. d. 67 610 Miscellaneous: Loan of Charity premises Making clothing for almspeople Sweeping chimneys Lighting school fires Laurels Engraving communion service Advertisement Repair school clock Clerk, postages, &c. 24 6 6 250 0 16 0 0 11 0 030 2 11 2 30 12 8 DR. 1881. BALANCE SHEET of the WOODHAM MORTIMER ESTATE from 31st December 1880 to 31st December 1881. Audited 26th January 1882: ROBERT CARTER, Master. THOMAS WILLIAMS, Upper Warden. E. BREFFITT, Renter Warden. CYRUS LEGG. ALFRED CHANTLER. JNO. TURNBULL. R. J. BLAKE. GEO. ELKINGTON. CORDWAINERS' COMPANY. Richard Minge, by his will of the 16th November 1622, gave to the Company certain messuages, lands, and hereditaments in Horseshoe Alley, St. Saviour's, Southwark, upon condition that they should every New Year's day cause some preacher to preach a sermon at the church of St. Ann and Agnes within Aldersgate, and give him 10s., and distribute to 12 poor people of the said parish 12d. a piece; and for a sermon on the 24th June, at St. Leonard's, Foster Lane, church, 10s., and to distribute amongst eight poor people of that parish 12d. a piece. The Company hold the property devised to them by the testator. They pay annually to the rector of St. Ann and Agnes the sum of 10s. for a sermon, and the same to the rector of St. Leonard's, Foster Lane. The officers of the Company pay 1s. each to 12 poor people in the parish of Saint Ann and Agnes, pointed out by the churchwardens, and the same to eight poor people in the parish of St. Leonard, near Christchurch. The master and wardens attend on the occasion, and the sermons are duly preached. The property now consists of three messuages in Fleet Street and Falcon Court. In the year 1832 an information was filed by the Attorney-General, at the relation of Morris Salmon and John Mayne, against the Cordwainers' Company, praying that it might be declared that the defendants were trustees of the rents and profits of the three messuages in Fleet Street and four messuages in Falcon Court, and that the whole of the surplus of the increased rents, after providing for the payment of the several sums in the said will inentioned, ought to be applied in augmentation of the said 51. and 6s. 8d. to the charitable uses in the said will mentioned, or that some other proportional increase of the said yearly sums might be directed to be made out of such increased rents, having regard to the change in the value of money, and that the said defendants might be decreed to account accordingly before the master for such sums as ought to have been so paid out of said rents during the period of 20 years at least before the filing of the information, and that the said defendants might pay into court what should be found due from them, and that the future application of the said augmented sums might be settled by a scheme to be approved by the master. By the decree on the hearing of the 16th December 1833, the Master of the Rolls ordered that the information be dismissed with costs, to be taxed by the master in rotation. The churchwardens on the third Wednesday in May meet the Master and Wardens of the Company in the church of St. Dunstan, Fleet Street, at an afternoon service, and produce 100 poor persons, men or women, who receive 1s. each. The Master and Wardens at the same time give 6s. 8d. in pence to children of poor persons in the church or near it. The churchwardens of the parish receive 28., and the officers of the Company 5s., according to the directions of the will. SHAWE'S CHARITY. James Shawe, by will of the 5th May 1630, gave to the Company four messuages near Smithfield Bars, in trust, to pay To 15 poor pensioners 2s. each quarterly For a sermon at St. Sepulchre's For a dinner (not 13s. 4d., as stated by the Commissioners of Inquiry) To the Master 1s. 8d., and to the four Wardens 10d. each To the clerk and beadles £ s. d. 6 0 0 0 10 0 6 13 4 And the testator declared that if there should reinain any surplusage of the rents of the said four messuages after the annuities appointed to be paid out of same be fully discharged, then he willed the same surplus to be employed in repairing the said four houses, and for the general use and benefit of the said Company for ever. The premises have been taken by the City of London for the new meat and poultry market in Smithfield, and the sum of 1,1007. has been paid into the name of the Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery, ex parte the Master and Wardens of the Company, and invested in 1,1841. 7s. 9d. Consols. The Company pay 2s. a piece quarterly to 15 poor pensioners, forming part of larger pensions which are given out of the proper funds of the Company to men, and women who are widows of freemen The rector of the parish of St. Sepulchre for a sermon The officers of the Company receive, according to the directions of the will £ s. d. 600 0 10 0 080 6 18 0 The sum appropriated to the dinner, which is inaccurately stated in the reports of the Commissioners of Inquiry at 13s. 4d. instead of 61. 13s. 4d., is carried to the account for that purpose. SHAWE'S EXHIBITIONS. James Shawe, by his will of the 5th May 1630, gave to the vicar and churchwardens of St. Sepulchre a messuage in that parish, to pay 81. a year to the Company for maintaining two poor scholars at Cambridge or Oxford. The parish officers of St. Sepulchre pay the Company 81. a year, as a rentcharge on a public-house in Smithfield, for two exhibitions. They are not always full, but the sum is retained until a vacancy occurs, and then the arrears are paid to the exhibitioner chosen. They are chosen by the court on the application of the parties with certificates of residence. |