354 Bradford-on- Avon. [ Charities. 
Gallery, it appears that these gentlemen were accustomed “to 
divide the dividends yearly at Christmas in crowns and ha/f-crowns 
among the poor of the Parish.” 
After the decease of the two last mentioned Trustees it seems to 
have been distributed for a time by their respective widows. For 
a few years, a part only of the funds was given away. Successive 
investments of undistributed dividends raised the whole amount, 
in 1837, belonging to this Charity, to £300 Stock. 
There does not appear to have been any regular distribution of 
the dividends after this time, inasmuch as there was, in September 
1841, in the hands of Messrs. Hobhouse and Co., at the time of 
their bankruptcy, a sum of no less than £48 11s. 1d. standing to 
the credit of this Charity. 
In the year 1847, a petition was filed in Chancery, for the pur- 
pose of obtaining an order to appoint new Trustees, and of provi- 
ding for the future distribution of the Funds. By the decree of the 
Court of Chancery four Trustees were nominated, and the Vicar 
and Churchwardens of Bradford, together with the Incumbent of 
Winsley, for the time being, were appointed Co-distributors of the 
Fund. 
For more than nine years no steps, beyond transferring the 
Funds of this Charity into the names of the newly-appointed 
Trustees, were taken in respect of this order of the Court of Chan- 
cery. This delay rendered it expedient to lay the matter before the 
Charity Commissioners, who, ultimately, judged it necessary again 
to bring the matter before the Court of Chancery. They obtained, 
from the Master of the Rolls, a decree appointing the Vicar and 
Churchwardens of Bradford and the Incumbent of Winsley, for 
the time being, Trustees of the Charity, in addition to and con- 
junction with those of the Trustees, appointed in 1847, who sur- 
vived; and ordering the funds of the Charity to be transferred to 
the “Official Trustee of Charitable Funds.” The dividends from 
time to time were directed to be distributed “in clothing or blan- 
kets, and in bread and coals, or in any one or more of such modes, 
amongst such of the most deserving poor of Bradford and Winsley, 
