By T. H. Baker. 313 
Waptow’s CHarity. 
John Wadlow, a retired builder, of Mere, who died in 1863, left 
by his will, dated 1858, the sum of £100 less legacy duty, the 
interest of which was to be applied to the use of the National 
Schools. The sum of £96 12s. 11d. Consols is now vested in the 
Official Trustee as representing this charity. John Wadlow also 
left a similar sum for the benefit of the British School in Mere. 
This sum was paid to the treasurer and managers of this school for 
the time being. 
Putiiuies’s CHARITY. 
John Phillips, Esq., late of Chadenwich, who died in 1881, left 
by his will the sum of £800 invested in Consols, to the Vicar and 
_ Churchwardens of Mere ; the interest of £200 to be given to the 
Church Sunday school; the interest of £300 to be distributed in 
blankets to the poor of the parish on St. Thomas’s Day ; the interest 
of £300 to be spent upon the repair of the tomb of his parents and 
sister in the churchyard, and the balance for the repair of the 
Church. 
John Phillips died at Eltham, Kent, 19th December, 1881. 
The following above-named charities, viz., “ Bower’s,” ‘ The 
Almshouse,” “‘ Wyndham’s,” ‘‘ Harding’s,” a portion of “ Still’s,” 
viz., the non-ecclesiastical part, consisting of £71 3s. 8d., and 
Phillips’s blanket charity were consolidated by an order of the 
Charity Commissioners in 1897 as an amalgamated charity scheme. 
Miss Grove’s LeGacigs. 
A tablet in the south chantry chapel of Mere Church contains 
the following inscription :— 
“Miss Julia Elizabeth Chafyn Grove, late of Zeals House, who died on the 
27th day of November, 1891, gave the following charities to local objects :— 
* To the Dorcas Society in Mere, the sum of £50. To the Vicar of Mere, the 
Rector of Zeals, and the Churchwardens money sufficient to produce annually 
£120 sterling, to be paid by equal half-yearly payments to the Vicar of Mere for 
‘the time being so long as he shall keep two Curates, and in default to the 
Diocesan Poor Benefice Augmentation Fund for the Diocese of Salisbury, to be 
applied for the purpose of such society. 
