358 PMc Chanties. [OcT. 



WHITE'S CHARITIES.' Thomas White, in the reign of Henry VIII. 

 left certain lands, tenements, and rents for the payment of 4*. a month to 

 each of five hospitals : 20s. annually towards the maintenance of the con- 

 victs of St. John's and Allhallows ; 1 /. I s. 8d. to the prisoners in Newgate ; 

 and 6** 8d. to St. Ewan's parish : these together came to 1 1 /. 1 8s. Sd. 

 The income from the property on a part of which stands the county 

 house of correction, and for which compensation was made to the charity 

 now amounts to 42/. 14*. 8d. No account is given of the disposal of the 

 balance. 



SPENCER'S MESSUAGE. William Spencer, in 1494, left a messuage in 

 Bristol, then let at 4/. a year, for " pious uses ;" namely, sermons, ringing 

 church-hell, and spreading Redcliff church with rushes. II. 13*. 4d. is still 

 paid for the sermons and rushes at Whitsuntide; hut no account is given 

 of the present value of the property. There are too many hiatuses of this 

 kind in the reports. 



BROWN'S GIFT, 1629. Humphry Brown left his estate, in the parish of 

 Filton, in Gloucestershire, to provide for four sermons in St.|Warborough's 

 church oh the days in which he came into this " vale of misery" and quit- 

 ted it, and those of his baptism and marriage ; for a lecture every Sunday 

 in the same church or St. Nicholas's; for a sermon in each of the churches 

 of Westbury-upon-Trim, and Acton ; and 40*. to the poor of each of these 

 latter parishes on the day of the sermon. The sermons and lectures are 

 still preached, and the money distributed to the poor of Acton and West- 

 bury. But, again, the Commissioners have forgotten to stale the value of the 

 Filton estate, nor do they tell what sums are paid. They might as well, 

 almost, have left the thing alone. 



LADY ROGERS gave 20/. to the corporation, to provide a sermon at St. 

 Thomas's, for which 20s. is annually paid. 



WILLIAM GIBBS likewise, in 1602, left 101, for a sermon at the Church 

 of the Gaunts. This is now called the Mayor's Chapel, and the whole 

 expense of providing church-service is defrayed by the corporation. 



CHESTER ESTATE. This was a grant in the reign of Elizabeth, by 

 Alderman Chester, of certain premises in the parish of St. James, on con- 

 dition of the corporation paying 71. 1 6s. to the poor of St. John ; 4*. to 

 the almsfolk of St. James's Back; and 40*. for the maintenance of the 

 House of Correction. The corporation are in possession of two houses let 

 on a lease for ninety-nine years, determinable upon their lives, at a 

 reserved rent of 6/. They have also a fee-farm rent of 20*. 



BAGOD'S CHARITY. In the 9tb of Henry VII., John Bagod granted 

 the corporation four messuages in Grope-lane, on condition of their distri- 

 buting 3*. Id. in bread to the poor prisoners in Newgate. The corporation 

 hold many houses on this spot, now called Nelson-street ; but they are 

 unable to distinguish Bagod's property. They expend not less than 1000/ 

 a year for the benefit of the prisoners in Newgate ; and the bread-bills 

 atone amount to 400/. for some years past. Bagod's is mixed up with the 

 rest. 



II. We come now to the MONEY LEGACIES. 



JACKSON'S CHARITY, 1658. There is some doubt whether the original 

 bequest was one or three hundred pounds. The sum of ten guineas, how- 

 ever, is paid to the overseers of five parishes in Bristol for the relief of the 

 poor, we hope, and not of the poor-rates. 



PRISON CHARITIES. Peter Matthew left 100/. ; Sir John Young, 20/. ; 



