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ALMS FUND.
An account of Stock in the 3 per Cent. Consols, on the 12th May, 1868:— £ s. d.
Mrs. Wood's Legacy, 3 per Cent. Consols 9,100 0 0
Renewal Fund, ditto 2,787 14 8
Sinking Fund, New 3 per Cents. 1,870 6 4
£13,738 1 0
Memorandum.- The full establishment in the Alms Houses consists of Seventy Widows and Unmarried
Women, who have been Housekeepers in the Parish; they receive 34s. 6d., 36s., and 42s. fid. 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 arc furnished with Medicine free of charge. The Out-Pensioners
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 their 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,
1869, were as follows:—50 Almswomen, 11 Married Couples, and 41 Single Persons Out-Pensioners.
Deed of Gift of Sir Charles Cotterell and Mrs. Susan Grahme.
Sir Chari.es Cottkrell, in , £ s. d.
gave for 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 ou his Foundation
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 being, and who form a part of the 70 Alms Women
in the Alms Houses. This fund is independent
Foundation of the monthly pay they each receive from the
Parish Foundation.
8 19 7 The residue of the Rent-charge purchased by the
Vestry with £179 Parish Stock.
£78 10 7
Smith's Charity. The proportion of the Rent received by this Parish varies
from £20 to £24 per annum; arises from the Manor and RecHenry
Smith, Esq., be tory of Longney, in the county of Gloucester; Trustees, the
queathed by will in 1g26 to 24 Governors of Christ's Hospital, to whom an annual return is
made of the distribution. The proceeds are distributed by the
parishes the Rents, &c., of his 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,
either as Housekeepers or Lodgers.
to £30 per annum, according to N.B. This Charity is kept separate and distinct from the
the declarations of the will. General Alms Fund.
Trustees of the Lamp Acre Estate. Trustees of the Cockspur Street and
Holborn Estates.
1. Mr. R. Cobbett, Northumberland 1. TNT r. W. H. Daltun, Cockspur Street. \
Street. 2. ,, R. T. Pugh.
2. „ R. Hawices, Kilburn. 3. „ R. Cobbett, Northumberland
3. „ J. Bowen, Panton Street. 4. „ R. Hawkes, Kilburn. [St.
4. ,, W. B. Hudson, Haymarket. 5. ,, P. Palmer, St. Martin's Lane.
5. J. Jackson, Highgate. 6. „ J. Bowen, Panton Street.
7. S. Barton, Strand.
8. „ John Jackson, Highgate.