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3. OTHER CHARITIES.
GRAY'S CHARITY.
By Will, dated 15th December, 1868, Robert Alexander
Gray bequeathed £500 (to be invested) and the interest to
be applied in purchase of warm clothing for the poor of the
Parish not receiving parochial relief; also Three Per Cent.
Consolidated Bank Annuities to produce thirty guineas per
annum, to be distributed by the Master of the Workhouse of the
Parish of Camberwell each Christmas, for personal comfort or
benefit of the inmates of such Workhouse.
HENRY SMITH'S CHARITY.
A sum, averaging £19 per annum, is receivable by the
Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of
Camberwell, under the Will of Henry Smith, dated the
24th April, 1627, arising from the Rents of certain Freehold
Estates in the County of Kent, " to be laid out every winter
in the purchase of Great Coats for the Poor Inhabitants" ot
certain parishes named in the Will, including the Parish of
Camberwell.
The amount is received by the Churchwardens and Overseers,
and appropriated by them in the purchase of great coats
and cloaks, which are distributed to the poor at Christmas in
every year.