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liability to receive therein persons suffering from the
Plague, in the event of an outbreak, the trusts were varied
by the Court of Chancery, and tbe Charity is now administered
under a scheme established by the Court in the year
1868. The endowment is described in the Order of the Court
as consisting of 13 houses in Craven Hill Gardens,
Paddington, and 7 coach-houses in Craven Mews, producing
rentals amounting in all to £183 14s. per anuum; the sum
of £15,537 in cash being the purchase-money of the premises
in that neighbourhood acquired by the Metropolitan Railway
Company, and £395 7s. 8d. Bank £.3 per cent. Annuities
remaining on the credit of "Attorney-General v. Earl
Craven."
The net income of the Charity is applied in specific proportions
to the funds of King's College Hospital and Charing
Cross Hospital, the Governors of the former being required
in consideration thereof to set apart 24 beds, and the
Governors of the latter 16 beds, for patients sent by the
Trustees of the Craven Charity. In addition to reserving
this number of beds, the Governors of each of the hospitals
named are also required to receive and treat as out-patients
all poor persons resident in the parishes benefited by the
Charity, who may be sent by the Trustees.
Under the above-mentioned scheme, this Parish, as well
as the parishes of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; St. George,
Hanover Square (which has been formed out of the Parish
of St. Martin since 1687); St. Clement Danes; and St. Paul,
Covent Garden, participate in the benefits of the Charity.
Four of the Trustees are appointed on the nomination of the
Vestry; the present Trustees so appointed being Mr. F.
Crane, Mr. J. Bonthron, Mr. R. W. Burgess, and Mr W.
Winnett.
A copy of the Accounts of the Charity for the year 1884
is given on page 220.