54 KINGSBRIDGE 



here it may be asked, where is the money to come from? 

 I reply, from the ivealt/i and benevolence of the locality. 



* * * Should any one shrink from their pecuniary 

 duty to the cause, let me remind such that a hospital 

 has been compared to a universal bank, which has all 

 the wealth of the universe for its security, and which 

 pays the highest interest; vide Proverbs, chap, xix., v. 17. 



* * # And now, Mr. Editor, I must leave the under- 

 taking, with all its arrangements and details, to yourself 

 and your zealous friends, so laudably engaged in supplying 

 the wants of Kingsbridge; only adding, as a suggestion, 

 that although I have a large family, and have not a penny 

 but what I have earned, under the blessing of Providence, 

 by my hand and brain labour, I will (D. V.) contribute 

 £400, if met by four others, each in a similar amount, 



and subscribe myself 



A NON-RESIDENT INVALID." 



After the publication of this letter, the "Kingsbridge 

 Invalid Trust" fund was founded by the late William 

 Peek, Esq. (the "Non-resident Invalid"), by the gift of 

 £600 in New South Wales five per cent, bonds, for the 

 purpose of " aiding poor persons residing in Kingsbridge, 

 or at any place within six miles from the parish church 

 thereof by the main road, and not receiving any relief 

 from the parish to which they belong, and who may be 

 deemed proper objects of the bounty hereby contemplated, 

 to go to and return from one of the hospitals at Plymouth, 

 or Devonport, or Exeter, or the Free Hospital at Bath; 

 and moreover for the purpose of enabling or assisting 

 poor invalids residing within the limits aforesaid, and not 

 receiving relief from the parish to which they belong, to 

 go to the sea side for any space of time not exceeding 



