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Memorandum. -The fall establishment in the Alms Houses consists of Seventy Widows and Unmarried
Women, who have been Housekeepers in the Parish; they receive 32s. and 4'2s. 6d. per Calendar Month,
according to the several Foundations to which they have been elected. Those labouring under sickness,'
or other infirmities, are provided with Nurses at the charge of the Funds. A Chaplain attends at Chapel
on Sunday and Thursday in each week, to perform Divine Service: they are also attended by an eminent
Medical Gentleman, and are furnished with Medicine free of charge. The Out - Pensjoners consist of Ten
Married Couples, each Couple receiving 30s per Calendar Month: Twenty Single Persons receive 20s.
per Calendar Month each; they have been also Housekeepers in the Parish. The Vestry having found
that several applicants for the Alms Fund preferred receiving the Out-Pension and living with them
friends, instead of residing in the Alms Houses, have during the last few years, elected the most deserving
applicants as Out-Pensioners, by which means the Alms' Fund has been distributed between a larger
number of Out-Pensioners than formerly. The number of Pensioners on the Fund in March, 1861, were
as follows:—58 Almswomen, 8 Married Couples, and 39 Single Persons Out-Pensioners.
Deed, of Gift of Sir Charles Cotterell and Mrs. Susan Grahme.
Sir Charles Cotterell, in £ s. d.
1686, gave 8 Alms , 20 0 0 per annum arising from the Manor of Drayton and
Women in the Alms Westover, in the County of Somerset.
Houses on his Foundation )
and of
Per annum arising from the same Manor. These
Mrs. Susan Grahme, in sums are paid to those twelve Alms Women
1686, for 4 Alms Women monthly, by the Vicar, or his Deputy for the time
in the Alms Houses on her' 50 0 0 being, and who form a part of the 70 Alms Women
Foundation in the Alms Houses. This fund is indepents
of the monthly pay they each receive from the
Parish Foundation.
8 19 7 The residue of the Kent-charge purchased by the
Vestry with £179 Parish Stock.
£78 10 7
Smithes Charity. The proportion of the Rent received by this Parish varies
T, from £20 to £24 per annum ; arises from the Manor and Rec-
Henry Smith, Esq., be- tory of Longney, in the county of Gloucester: Trustees, the
queathed by will, in 1626, to 24 Governors of Christ's Hospital, to whom an annual return is
parishes the Rents, &c., of his made of the distribution. The proceeds are distributed by the
last senior Churchwarden, in Clothing, Provisions, or Money,
Manor, and the amount of their to poor persons of good character, who have been or are
respective shares vary from £12 residents, or who have lived in the Parish at least five years,
to £30 per annum, according to either as Housekeepers or Lodgers.
the declarations of the Will. N.B This Charity is kept separate and distinct from the General Alms
Trustees of the Lamp Acre Estate. Trustees of the Cockspur Street and
Holborn Estates.
I.Mr. R Cobbett, Northumberland 1. Mr. H. J. Hall, Long Acre.
„ w Sheet. 2, „ w. H. dalton, Cockspur Street.
-. „ R. Hawkes Kilburn. 3. „ R. T. Pugh, Salisbury Street.
3. „ J. Bowen, Panton Street. 4. „ R.Cobbett, Northumberland St.
4 " H.Hutchings, Lond Acre 5. „ r. Hawkes, Kilburn.
5. „ w.B.Hudson , Hay market. 6. „ R. Palmer, St. Martin's Lane
6. „ J. Jackson, Highgate. 7. „ H. Hutchings, Long Acre
8. „ J. Bowen, Panton Street
9. ,, S. Barton, Strand.
10. ,, John Jackson, Highgate.