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siderable falls of timber have been made ; from the sale of which, and the 

 accumulations of surplus income at the time of the inquiry (May 1820), 

 they held a sum of 12,426/., three per cent., yielding a dividend of 

 37'Zl. \5s. 6d., which, added to the surplus 264/., makes the whole annual 

 balance swell to 637 /. Here, then, is actually 6371. of surplus income, 

 with 12,426/. stock in hand. Again, then, we ask, as we did in the case 

 of Monmouth, what benefit receive the Newport people by these institu- 

 tions ? The instruction of thirty-eight boys in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, 

 say the statutes but that has long been dispensed with ; of thirty-eight 

 boys, who, of course, are precisely those who least stand in need of gra- 

 tuitous education ; and the maintenance of four alms-people : and all the 

 while here are funds that would educate the whole town certainly all to 

 whom gratuitous education is an object, and to the extent that their sta- 

 tion in life requires ; and not only educate the whole town, but very mate- 

 rially relieve the parochial burdens ; not by mixing up such funds with the 

 poor-rates, but by relieving the distressed, and thus keeping them from the 

 rates. By the way, the sum appointed to the minister for catechizing the 

 scholars, &c. now augmented to 60/., is given to the resident officiating 

 curate to the benefit, no doubt, of the incumbent. Be sure of this the 

 incumbent pays his curate so much the less. We must be permitted to 

 ask also, whether the company contemplate spending the large savings of 

 this charity on some magnificent pile of brick and mortar? 



MORGAN'S CHARITY, 1604. A devise of property in Budge-row, White- 

 lion-court, Fleet-street -and at Stratford-Langthorne, Essex on condition 

 of paying 20/. to the poor of Oswestry. Some part of these estates was 

 subject to other interests ; and the part in White-lion-court is all that is 

 now left producing, however, still 150/. The company have started a 

 doubt of their liability to this payment. 



CALDWELL CHARITY, 1614. A house in Ludgate-hill, devised to the 

 company for charitable uses ; the house was burnt down in 1666, and the 

 ground the following year sold to the city for 92/. 10s. Payments to the 

 amount of 9L 5s. 8d. are made annually, of which 21. 3s. 4d. go to the 

 poor of Rolleston, in Staffordshire. 



Mils. WHITMORE'S CHARITY. Certain property in Bishopsgate-street, 

 and Helmet-court, now let for 108/. 19s, on condition of paying 51. to 

 the poor of St. Edmund, in Lombard-street, and of delivering to ten widows 

 of the company, each a govvn of three yards of broad cloth, and one ell 

 of holland, of two shillings ; the remainder to be applied to the use of the 

 company. What ratio these several payments bore to the original rent, 

 does not appear. Indeed there is a sad lack of information frequently in 

 this respect. The payments, it seems, are made as directed by the testa- 

 tor, with some augmentation. 



OFFLEY'S LEGACY, 1590. Two hundred pounds to be lent to four 

 young men of the company, SOL each for five years ; 200/. to be 

 employed by the company, on consideration of paying twenty poor per- 

 sons of the company 10s. each ; and 200/. for two scholarships, one to be 

 named by the company's court of assistants, and the other by the corpora- 

 tion of Chester. For these three sums of 200/. each, nothing, it seems, is 

 now paid but the 1 Os. to their own poor. On the recommendation of the 

 commissioners, the company propose to revive the exhibitions a matter of 

 the least importance. 



BLUNDELL'S CHARITY, 1603. One hundred and fifty pounds to be 



