90 Kington St. Michael. \_Charities. 



Lyte, born iu this Parish, Alderman of London late deceased, built 

 this Almshouse and endowed it a.d. 1675." He resided at Mort- 

 lake in Surrey, and by his Will, proved 21 Ang. 1673, bequeathed 

 " six hundred pounds to be laid out in building an Almeshouse in 

 the Parish of Keinton in the C°- of "Wilts where I was born, for 

 the maintenance of Six poor men to be from time to time nomi- 

 nated and appointed by the Minister, and Churchwardens, and the 

 major part of the most ■suflB.cient men in that Parish. And my 

 Will is, that the money be received by E-ichard Poole and Mr. 

 Jonathan Dyke, and by them to be first laid out for the use afore- 

 said." A site for the House and piece of land for gardens, were 

 conveyed to Trustees in 1674 and again in 1707: in which year 

 also an interest in 50 acres in the Parish of Corston was vested in 

 the same parties under the charitable trusts in Lyte's Will, In 

 1730 the whole premises were again assigned to Trustees: of whom 

 Mr. Isaac Sadler Gale of Bath considered himself surviving repre- 

 sentative in 1811. Partly with his own money, partly with the 

 funds of the Charity, he put the Almshouse in proper order, and then 

 claimed the nominations ; but the claim was resisted by the Parish 

 authorities. The land at Corston has been for many years in the 

 possession of the Earl Eadnor : the tenant paying only £20 a year 

 to Kington Almshouse. Why this sum was fixed upon there is no 

 satisfactory explanation : and the Commissioners in their Report 

 mark the case as one proper for the consideration of the Attorney 

 General, but nothing has been done. The Almshouses form one 

 building, consisting of six tenements of two rooms each. 



Newman's (or Sadler's) c. a.d. 1680. 

 The founder of this Charity was Miss Dorothy Newman, eldest 

 niece of Sir Charles Snell. She died unmarried before 1680, giving 

 £200 to the Poor. Her representatives were her three nieces, 

 Dorothy Sadler wife of Wm. Coleman, Meriell Sadler, (afterwards 

 wife of Isaac Gale), and Margaret Sadler, (afterwards wife of Thos. 

 Stokes). In 1680 each of the three settled a rent charge on cer- 

 tain lands to maintain the charity. Two of these are now payable 

 by Mr. Walter Coleman of Langloy, and the third by the repre- 



