Thomas King, by his will of the 29th August 1804, gave to the Company 1,000l. New South Sea Annuities, in trust to pay 51. yearly to each of six master feltmakers' poor widows, to be approved of by the majority of the master, wardens, and court of assistants, such payments to be made on the 30th January yearly.

And he also gave to the Company 400l. consols, in trust to pay 21. yearly to each of six poor master feltmakers, to be approved as aforesaid, on the 30th January yearly.

These sums now form a sum of 1,489l. 18s. 4d. 31. per cent. Consols, standing in the corporate name of the Company.

The dividends amount to 441. 3s. 10d., and are distributed as follows:

King, George

17, New Place, Jamaica Level,

Bermondsey.

183, Great Dover Street, South. wark.

183, Great Dover Street, Southwark.

104, Leadenhall Street.

35, Gracechurch Street.

35, Gracechurch Street.

27, New Street, King Street, Old Gravel Lane, Wapping.

1, Helmet Court, Upper Thames Street.

Upper Norwood.

104, Leadenhall Street. Lowndes

bridge.

Terrace, Knights

19, Buckingham Street, Adelphi. 10, Hanover Villas, Notting Hill. 19, Royal Hill, West Greenwich.

25, Wentworth Road, Bow Road. Buchanan Cottage, Queen's Road, Peckham.

33, West Street, Neckinger, Bermondsey. Aldermanbury Postern. 146, Long Lane, Bermondsey.

16, Poultry.

2, Northampton Terrace, Denmark Hill.

1, Saville Buildings, Stepney Green.

-17, Mansell Street, Whitechapel.

Richard

Williams,
Henry.
Wontner, Joseph

THOS. HARE.

19, Great Coram Street, Bloomsbury.

2, Francis Street, Drummond Road, Jamaica Level, Bermondsey.

Manor Villas, Manor Road,

South Hackney.

17, Medina Villas, Dalston Lane, Hackney.

47, York Road, Lambeth.

15, Terrace, Kennington Com

mon.

4, George Yard, Lombard Street. 12, Terrace, Peckham Rye.

3, Chester Terrace, Regent's Park.

27, Barrington Road, Brixton. Fruit Meter's Office, 171, Tooley Street.

9, Great Bland Street, Dover Road, Southwark.

The Grove, Highgate.

5, Church Street, Horsleydown.

5, Gedling Street, Bermondsey. 6, Manor Terrace, Brixton. 5, Arthur Street, Old Kent Road. Seafield Lodge, North Road, Blackheath Park.

96, Union Street, Southwark,

Downs Park Road, Clapton.

JAMES PEACHEY, Clerk.

TO THE CHARITY COMMISSIONERS FOR
ENGLAND AND WALES.

IN pursuance of a minute of the 1st November 1864, I have inquired into the condition and circumstances of the undermentioned Charities under the management of the Founders' Company of the City of London, and I have stated in the Report under the head of each specific endowment the result of my investigation.

JORDEYN'S CHARITY.

WOODHILL'S CHARITY.
PARRATT'S CHARITY.

THE FOUNDERS' CHARITABLE FUND.

The style of the Company is

"The Master, Wardens, and Commonalty of the "Mystery of Founders of the City of London."

The Court is composed of a Master, two Wardens, and 15 Assistants. There are about 63 or 64 on the livery, exclusive of the Court. The freemen who are not liverymen are about 30. None have been admitted since 1850.

JORDEYN'S CHARITY.

Henry Jordeyn, by his will of the 15th October 1468, gave to the Fishmongers' Company several houses in London to pay thereout (inter alia) 13s. 4d. to the Founders' Company for coal to 20 poor householders of the craft of Founders. The Fishmongers' Company pay 13s. 4d. per annum, which is carried to the general account of the Company. The Charities of the Company are stated under the head of the Charitable Fund.

WOODHILL, OR WOODHALL'S CHARITY.

Abraham Woodhill, or Woodhall, by his will of the 20th September 1640, gave to the parish of St. Bride's certain tenements, on condition to pay 40s. yearly to the Company to be distributed to the poorer sort of the Company.

The property on which this rentcharge was laid appears to be now the site of Farringdon Market, and the sum of 40s. a year (deducting property tax) is received from the City Chamberlain generally in payments of two years at a time.

It is carried to the general account of the Master during his year. The charitable application will be found under the head of the Founders' Charitable Fund.

PARRATT'S CHARITY.

Joseph Parratt, by will of the 18th August 1654, gave five houses in Shoe Lane to Eden Richardson on trust to pay to the Company 41. yearly for their most indigent poor and needy freemen. The property seems to have been destroyed at the Fire of London, and the claim reduced to 40s. a year under local powers granted in consequence of that event. The property is stated to have been taken by the Corporation for the site of Farringdon Market, and nothing has been since paid to the Company. The Company cannot identify the premises, and the Charity must be regarded as lost.

THE FOUNDERS' CHARITABLE FUND.

In the Cash Book kept by the Clerk of the Company of the Founders' Charitable Fund, it is described as being instituted the 2nd April 1829.

Under a resolution of the 2nd April 1829, a meeting was held for the purpose of raising a fund for the relief of the distressed and deserving liverymen and the widows of liverymen of the Company, and that subscriptions of the Court and livery should be solicited, and it was resolved that all sums collected should not be subject to the debts and contingencies of the Company but applicable only to the charitable purposes proposed, and that the interest arising therefrom should be distributed at such times as the Court should appoint, so as not to interfere with the usual charitable distributions of the Company (meaning the gifts made by the Court every year out of their own

the account of which was audited on the 6th May 1830, and an investment is then recorded to have been made with 4441. 7s. 6d. cash in 3l. per cent. Consols 5007.

Other subscriptions were received and various sums of money were from time to time invested, and it appears on the 2nd May 1844, the accumulated investments had amounted to 1,4501. 31. per cent Consols. In the same month (14th May) it was resolved that the sum should be sold out when required and applied in part payment of the building on the site of the Founders' Company of two houses in Founders' Court, Lothbury (now the site of the Electric Telegraph Company), the Company paying 4 per cent. for the money. On the 8th October 1844, 500l. was sold out for 5011. 178. 6d., and 900l. producing 8971. 15s. 6d. There were subsequently other subscriptions amounting to 2001, and which being applied to the use of the Company made up the debt with which they charged themselves by a minute of the 6th May 1847, to the sum of 1 600l. The remaining subscriptions afterwards collected made up a further sum of 275l., 31. per cent. Consols, which stands in the names of Wm. Devey, Wm. Christie, Wm. Hems, and James Moul.

The Company has not executed any mortgage or bond for the 1,600l., but they now charge themselves with interest at 51. per cent., and admit that it is a charge by way of mortgage upon the whole of the property of the Company. The property in Lothbury produces upwards of 700l. a year.

The income of the Charitable Fund therefore is as follows:

This Charity was founded by the will of William Bond (a former clerk of the Company), which was proved in London on the 7th August 1824, whereby a sum of £1,000 was bequeathed to the Court of Founders upon trust to pay the income to two nieces of the testator for their lives, and after the death of the survivor upon trust to pay yearly 101. to each of four young men who have served their apprenticeship to a free founder, and a further 10l. towards refreshments. This legacy is represented by the sum of 9351. Consols standing in the names of William Evans Franks, Francis Pritchett, Edward Baldock, and Edward Augustus Franks. The income of the Charity is at present accumulating.