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MRS. ANN NEWTON'S CHARITY.
This Charity arises from the bequest, in the year 1811, of
the sum of £1,000 by Mrs. Ann Newton, who directed that
the same should be invested in the five per cents., and the
interest thereof annually applied to apprenticing, or sending
to sea, one of the poor boys attending St. James's Chapel
(now the Union Schools, Wandsworth Common), and chosen
by his fellows for good conduct. On the distribution of
Mrs. Newton's effects, it was found that her personal estate
was not large enough to admit of payment of the legacy in
full, and the will became the subject of a protracted Chancery
suit. The Court decided that Mrs. Newton's real property
could not be charged with the legacy, and the amount thereof
was reduced, after payment of the costs of the proceedings
and duty, to £429 19s. 2d. This, however, was supplemented,
in the year 1836, by the gift of £600 in Consols,
by the Rev. W. Bagshaw, the executor of the will.
The property of the Charity is now represented by the sum
of £1,169 12s. l1d. Consols, and the income thereof is
administered by the Governors and Directors of the Poor.
A copy of the accounts of the Charity for the past year will
be found on page 223.
LE QUAINTER'S CHARITY.
The only Charity which is administered by the Vestry is
that known as Le Quainter's. It arises from a bequest, in
1782, by Mr. Peter Le Quainter, formerly a resident in
Piccadilly, who directed that the income should be "equally
distributed at Christmas amongst twenty poor persons who