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On the 17th December, 1880, the Vestry referred to the Trustees of the Charity Estates of
this Parish the question of the distribution of the additional funds received, and to be hereafter
received from the Charity Estates of this Parish.
A Meeting of the Trustees called to consider the question was held on the 24th February.
1891, and eventually adjourned to enable the Churchwardens to formulate and submit a scheme
to carry out the object in view, and such proposed scheme was submitted to the Trustees at their
adjourned meeting held on the 10th March, 1891, as follows, viz.:—
Parochial Offices,
Lower Road, S.E.,
6th March, 1891.
To the Trustees of the Poors' Land (Stratford and Plaistow Charities).
Gentlemen,
In accordance with the suggestion made at a meeting of the Trustees, held at the
above offices on Tuesday, February 24th, 1891, we beg to lay before you a Scheme for
the distribution of the increased Charity moneys arising from the Rents of the Stratford
and Plaistow Estates, by reason of the augmented income from the latter. Having for
the last five years, as Wardens of this Parish, taken an active part in the administration
of the whole of the Charities, we think it desirable to call your attention to certain
facts in reference to some of them, hoping they will prove worthy of your consideration
at this time, and possibly of use for further reference.
The Income which supplies the funds necessary for the provision of the 150 sixpenny
loaves distributed every Sunday at the various Churches in the Parish, is derived from
three sources, viz.:—Hill and Bell's Charity (1613), Smiths' Charity (1642), and an
amalgamation of several sums of money left by William Stevens (1653), Thomas
Gattaker (1654), and Roger Tweedy (1653), which amalgamated sum purchased (in 1659)
the Estates at High Street, Stratford, and Plaistow Road, West Ham, both in the
County of Essex, and now commonly known as the Stratford and Plaistow Charities,