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under the control of the Trustees of the Charity. There
are 24 boys in the School, who are clothed and taught the
common rudiments of education, with the prospect of a
reward of £10 towards an apprenticeship.
The Trustees meet twice in the year to select children
to fill up vacancies, and upon the general business of the
Charity.
Wilkin's and Teage's Charity.
Mrs. Mary Wilkins, in 1771, left the sum of £50, the
interest of which was to be used for the benefit of poor persons
in the Parish not receiving relief.
The sum of one hundred pounds was left by will by
Mrs. Teage, in the year 1774, to the Minister and Churchwardens
of the Parish for the time being, to be placed out
at interest upon real security, or in the public funds, or in
the purchase of lands or hereditaments, and the interest or
produce, to be from time to time applied by the Minister
and Churchwardens, and their successors, in the purchase
of bread and coals, to be distributed by them to the poor of
the Parish on every St. Thomas's Day for ever.
£160 Consols have been purchased with these two
Charities, and realize together £4 16s. per annum, which is
distributed by the Rector and Churchwardens in the manner
provided.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester's Charity.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester, by will dated 29th
January, 1857 (proved in the same year),left a sum of money
for the benefit of poor persons in this Parish, and a like
sum for the benefit of the poor residing in the vicinity of
Grosvenor Chapel.