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Mrs. Jones' Gift.
By Will, dated 21st March, 1842, Mrs. Susannah Jones
gave and bequeathed to the Trustees of the Charity Estates the
sum of £100 Three Per Cent. Reduced Annuities, "the interest
to be paid annually at Christmas, equally to six poor persons
residing in the Liberty of Peckham."
The Dividend, £2 15s. od., per annum, forms one of the
Special Gifts, and is distributed according to the Testatrix's Will.
Mathews' Gift.
Mr. William Mathews, by his Will, dated the 30th of
October, 1750, gave the interest of £150 "to the Minister,
Churchwardens, and Overseers of the Parish of Camberwell, to
be laid out in Bread, and distributed to poor communicants of the
Church of England on Sacrament Sundays." By a decree of the
Court of Chancery, in a suit Attorney-General v. Osmond, this
sum was invested in the purchase of £187 5s. 11d. Three Per
Cent. Consols, in the name of the Accountant-General of the
Court of Chancery, and the Dividends, belong to the Special
Gifts, and are distributed according to the Will by the
Churchwardens. (The Dividends now amount to £5 3s. od., 2J
per cent. New Consols.)
Howlett's Acre.
By Will of Sir Edmond Bowyer, dated nth July, 1626,
a piece of land situate at Half-Moon Lane, Dulwich, known as
Howlett's Acre, was given to the Poor of " Camberwell, the rents
to be paid yearly on Good Friday."
In the year 1858, this land was sold to Mr George Keen
of Herne Hill, by the Trustees, with the consent of the Charity
Commissioners, and the proceeds invested in the purchase of
£350 Three Per Cent. Consols (now 2¾ per cent. New Consols).
The Dividends of this sum form part of the General Fund
paid to the Distribution Committee.