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my Stock in the same Fund, and to be transferred to them immediately after 
my decease, in trust, that they and their successors for the time being, do and 
shall receive the interest, dividends, or produce arising therefrom, and pay the 
same yearly for ever, to such poor persons of the said Parish of Bradford, as do 
not receive alms of the Parish, and to be paid and distributed by them either 
in Crowns or half crowns, as they shall think proper, and to be paid at the 
same time as the crowns given by the late Mr. Curll are paid and distributed.” 
In the year 1847, an application was made, on the part of the 
Churchwardens of Bradford, to the Court of Chancery, for the 
purpose of obtaining an order requiring the surviving Trustee of 
this Charity,—(to whom the funds had been transferred, as one of 
the Churchwardens for the time being),—to transfer the same to 
those who had become his successors in that office, in accordance, 
as they deemed, with the intentions of the Donor, as expressed in 
his will. The petitioners further prayed, that, in the event of the 
Court not being willing to order such a transfer of the Funds 
to the Churchwardens for the. time being, the whole Fund 
might be transferred to the Accountant-General of the Court of 
Chancery. ' 
The Court of Chancery, by order, dated May 7, 1847, accepted 
the latter alternative of the petition: the surviving Trustee was 
ordered to pay over the fund to the Accountant-General of the 
Court of Chancery, and the said Accountant-General was directed 
to pay the dividends from time to time to the Churchwardens of 
Bradford. , 
The dividends are regularly distributed by the Churchwardens, 
as directed by the will of the Donor. 
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Lost CHARITIES. 
Of some of these we have already spoken. The following 
inscriptions from boards, now painted over, but which can be read 
without any great difficulty, refer to others of which we can now 
give no satisfactory account :— 
“Mr. Richard Bissy gave £50, to bind out a poor child apprentice yearly.” 
‘Mr. Nathaniel Wilkinson gave £10, (?) the interest for Bread yearly to the 
poor of Lye and Woolley.” 
“‘Mr. Nathaniel Houlton, of London, gave £50.” 
‘-Mr. William Yerbury gave £100, for the distributing of Five Pounds in 
Bread, on five Fridays in Lent.” 
