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Clerkenwell 1897

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Clerkenwell, St. James and St. John]

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CHARITIES.
Name of Gift,
Situation of Property.
How Let.
Tenant.
Amount of
Bank of England
Stock in Names
of Trustees.
Principal.
???rt of
???ncery.
Gross Annual
Income.
How appropriated,
REMARKS.
Bellow's Gift
ChurchstyleHse.,Cobhm. Lease
Piece of land, Cobham At will
Piece of land, Cobham B uilding lease
for 80 years from
Michaelmas, 1882
Blunt
Woodbury
Bradley
..
..
25
0
0
20/- to Church wardens of Cobham
for Bread to the Poor on Good
Friday, and the remainder for
Bread to Clerkenwell Poor on
Sundays
5
0
0
12
0
0
Wood's Gift
Late 36-7, Clerkenwell
Close
38-9, Clerkenwell
Close
.. ..
.. ..
1446
5
5
.. ..
39
15
4
Bread to the Poor at Lady-day
and Michaelmas
36-7 Clerkenwell Close, sold to
School Board for London for the
sum of £1,430. Trustees of Stock,
"The Official Trustees of Charitable
Funds."
Lease 21 years
from 1886
Moore
.. ..
.. ..
90
0
0
Wigglesworth's
Gift
Late"Sessions House"
Hotel, Clerkenwell
Green
.. ..
.. ..
.. ..
13
2
50
17
6
Left for apprenticing poor children.
Now devoted to educational
purposes in the Parish,
by order of the Master of the
Rolls
Sold to Metropolitan Board of
Works under Streets Improvement
Act, 1872. Stock sold in
1895 for £1,338 6s. 11d., and
proceeds invested in ground rents
in Credon Road and Verney Road,
Bermondsey, increasing income to
£50 17s. 6d. (proportion of £104)
Strode's Gift
Cockshute Farm, Malvern,
consisting of
34 a 2r 34p. with
buildings thereon
Lease 99 years
from 29th
September,
1859
J. Jones's
Executors
.. ..
.. ..
250
0
0
£6 to the minister for a preparatory
sermon, and the residue to
the poor in sums of 5/- each
— [See Bennett's Gift below].
5
15
9
22
8
4
.. .. .. ..
Proceeds of sale of portion of the
Estate to the Worcester and
Hereford Railway Company
Purchase money of house and
premises in Silver Street, described
as the "Blue Axe," Turnmill
Street
Stanhope's
Gift
.. .. ..
.. .. ..
.. .. ..
.. .. ..
9
16
0
37
2
4
Bread to the Poor
Spencer's
Gift
.. .. ..
.. .. ..
.. .. ..
2000
0
0
.. .. ..
55
0
0
Bread, coals and warm clothing to
poor not receiving Parochial relief
Trustees of Stock, Messrs. G. B.
Meyer, W. Davies,and F. G. Scheib
Robertson's
Gift
.. .. ..
.. ..
.. ..
290
5
0
.. ..
7
19
4
To keep his vault in St. James'
Churchyard in repair, residue to
be distributed in sums of 5/each
to poor widows
Trustees of Stock, Rev. R.
Maguire, D.D,, Messrs. G. B.
Meyer, and J. J. Goode
Bennett's Gift
Late 106. St. John St.
.. ..
.. ..
.. ..
13
15
4
59
18
2
In coals to the Poor
Sold to Metropolitan Board of
Works under Streets Improvement
Act, 1872. £1,336 10s. 3d.
of the stock sold in 1895 for
£1,396 13s. 1d., part purchasemoney
of ground rents in Credon
Road and Verney Road, Bermondsey,
increasing income to
£53 2s. 6d. (proportion of £104),
£247 5s. 1d. remaining in Consols.—[See
Wiggles worth's Gift
above].
Sanderson's
Gift
Late 59, Turnmill St.,
and Lamb and Flag
Ragged Schools
.. ..
.. ..
.. ..
77
7
2
10
7
6
To the Poor
Sold to Met. Board of Works under
Streets Improvement Act, 1872
75
17
0
21
6
8
20/- to Charity School and remainder
to 20 poor widows on
Shrove Tuesday
Gardner's
Gift
Formerly two houses
in Ray Street, Hockley
in the Hole
.. ..
.. ..
.. ..
.. ..
79
6
8
To the Poor
Paid by Cloth workers' Co.
Heron's Gift
Portion of ground rents
at West Hackney
.. ..
.. ..
.. ..
.. ..
2
12
0
Bread to the Poor
Paid by Girdlers' Company
Herbert's Gift
Rent charge on a house
and garden in Turnmill
Street
.. ..
.. ..
.. ..
.. ..
3
0
0
Food, Raiment and Clothing
Paid by Rev. J. Holden's Exors.
Kytson's Gift
Rent charge on Manor
of Lackford, Suffolk
.. ..
.. ..
.. ..
.. ..