3oG Public Charities. [OcT. 



TEMPLE HOSPITAL, founded in 1613 by Thomas White, doctor of 

 divinity, and incorporated under the name of the Ancient Brothers and 

 Sisters of the Temple Hospital of Bristowe. The property left for the sup- 

 port of the charity consists of houses in London and Bristol, the annual 

 rent of which is now 609/. 18s. The building has forty-eight apartments ; 

 each person has two. The sum allowed each person is not specified ; but 

 between 4001. and 500/. is stated to be expended on the hospital ; leaving 

 a considerable balance, and one that will be very much augmented, when 

 the new rents come in, in favour of the foundation. 



The same Dr. White left in trust to the corporation four houses in 

 Gray's-inn-lane, London, then held at a rent of 40/., for the following 

 annual payments : 40s. to the poorest persons in the gaol of Newgate, 

 Bristol ; 20*. for a sermon on the festival of St. John the Baptist, at the 

 Cross in the parish of Temple : I O/. for four sermons by the minister of St. 

 Warborough's ; the same by the minister of All Saints ; 51. for one sermon 

 by the minister of Temple church ; 6/. to the poor of Temple Hospital, 

 for the increase of their alms ; 40s. towards the expense of the annual 

 dinners of the governors, " whereby the diet of the poor people there that 

 day might be amended;" and the remaining 4/. for any necessary expenses 

 of the said hospital. The rent of the premises has increased, and the dis- 

 posal of the surplus is now under consideration. 



SIGN COLLEGE, LONDON. The same Dr, White, in 1622, left 3000/. 

 " for the buying of a fair house and backside, fit to make a college for a 

 corporation for all the ministers, parsons, vicars, lecturers, and curates 

 within London and the suburbs;''" also for an ALMSHOUSB adjoining, subject 

 to the same regulations as the Temple Hospital of Bristol, for ten men and 

 ten women ; the governors of which almshouse are to be the president, the 

 two deans, and four senior ministers of the college. For the support of 

 the college and almshouse, Dr. White left 160/. out of his real estate 120/. 

 for the almshouse. The occupants were to be taken, six out of St. Dun- 

 stan's in the West, two out of St. Gregory, four out of Bristol, and the 

 rest out of the company of Merchant Tailors, London. The corporation 

 of Bristol accordingly appoint four, who are allowed by the governors of 

 Sion College to be out-pensioners. At present they all receive 8/. a year 

 each : the sum varies with the funds of Sion College, an account of which 

 will hereafter be given. 



The same Dr. White left 100/. a year for the repair of the highways 

 within five miles of Bristol, and for the highways most used leading to 

 Bath and Oxford; and in case this expenditure should become unnecessary, 

 301. were to be lent for two years to each of two poor tradesmen ; and 10/. 

 given to each of four poor maidens of honest fame, as marriage portions. 

 This 100/. a year was provided for by the Bradley and Hockley estate iu 

 Essex, the rents of which were so divided between Sion College and the 

 corporation of Bristol as to give the latter seven-tenths; two-sevenths of 

 which were appropriated to Temple Hospital. The produce of the road 

 estate has been, upon an average of some years (to 1821), 479/. 2s. ; and 

 as the turnpike-acts rendered the appropriation of the money to the roads 

 unnecessary, a surplus accumulated to the amount of 3,395/, 14s. 2d., 

 which, by the Chancery, was directed to be expended chiefly in building 

 additional almshouses. The future disposal of this 479/. 2s. is to be, for 

 repairing roads (notwithstanding the turnpike-acts !), 100/. ; for loans and 

 gifts, 100/. ; for eight additional almsfolk, J62/., for an additional shilling 



