FINCHDEAN HUNDRED 



PETERSFIELD 



for maintenance of a sufficient person to teach poor 

 children of the tithing to read the English tongue. 

 The rent-charge, which is payable out of a farm in 

 Sheet, called Westmark, was at various times in 

 arrear, which arrears on recovery were invested in 

 l 30 i o/. 4^. consols. The income was applied for 

 educational purposes. 



Poor's Allotment. By an award dated 1859 two 

 acres were appropriated as allotments for the use of the 

 poor, the profits of which, averaging 2 a year (sub- 

 ject to a yearly rent-charge of 1 5^.), are applied with 

 assistance from the rates in improving the allotments ; 

 43. or. 27 p. of land was also awarded as a recreation 

 ground and village green. 



Miss Frances Cobb by will proved in 1905 be- 

 queathed 448 zs. f,d. Consols with the official trustees, 

 dividends to be applied at Christmas in providing 

 coals and blankets, and in such other way as trustees 

 may think proper for the benefit of the poor of 

 Sheet. 



The Willow Almshouses. See parish of Peters- 

 field. 



Tithing of Weston. John Goodyer, by his will 

 dated in 1664, and proved in the bishop's court, 

 Winchester, devised to trustees tenements and lands 

 in Weston in this parish and Buriton containing 

 1 7 a. 3 r. 2 8 p., in trust that the rents and profits 

 should be employed for ever thereafter for the putting 

 forth and placing abroad of poor children in the 

 tithing of Weston, and that the overplus thereof 

 should be distributed to the poorest inhabitants of the 

 said Tithing. 



The official trustees also hold ,1,052 it. ^d. 

 Consols arising from sale in 1876 of a house and two 

 cottages and gardens. The land is let at 52 a year, 

 which with 26 6s. dividends was in 1905 applied, 

 after payment of expenses of management, in the 

 distribution of ^35 in money and clothing to seventy- 

 five persons, clothing allowance at l to each of 

 eight servant girls, $ to the schoolmistress, and 

 26 in connexion with apprentices. By an order 

 of the Charity Commissioners of 2 July, 1897, 

 trustees were appointed, and the legal estate vested in 

 the official trustee of charity lands. 



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