A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



3. Mary Bone's Charity for education, will, 1732, 

 a rent-charge of 20 issuing out of a farm and lands 

 known as Lomer in the parishes of Corhampton and 

 Warnford. 



4. A sum of 500 consols with the official trustees 

 of charitable funds to an account entitled ' The Hamp- 

 shire County Council Repayment Fund,' which may 

 be claimed in certain contingencies by the County 

 Council ; and 



5. A sum of 1,360 Great Eastern Railway Com- 

 pany 4 per cent, consolidated preference stock, 

 which includes 1,195 stock representing investment 

 of proceeds of sale in 1882 of land belonging to Robert 

 Kerby's charities. 



The income of the educational branch, amounting 

 to 96 1 8j. a year is applied in support of the 

 institute, which is open without distinction of creed 

 to all young persons of the civil parishes of Bishop's 

 Waltham and Curdridge, and so much of the civil 

 parish of Swanmore as was included in the ancient 

 parish of Bishop's Waltham upon payment of such 

 fees as the trustees may fix ; but the buildings are by 

 the scheme reserved to the free use on Sundays by the 

 rector for the purposes of religious education in respect 

 of Mary Bone's charity. 



The Combined Eleemosynary Charities consist of 

 the following charities, viz. : 



1. The Almshouse Charity, almshouses sold in 

 1882, now 44 of above-mentioned railway stock. 



2. Poor's Stock Money, being 854, other part of 

 said railway stock. 



3. Mary Bone's Charity for poor widows, will, 

 1732, formerly rent-charge of 6 out of Stakes Farm 

 in this parish, redeemed in 1902 by transfer to the 

 official trustees of 240 consols, forming part of 

 1,237 I 7 l - %d- consols mentioned below. 



4. Bishop's Palace Charity, consisting of rent- 

 charge of 8 on Palace House, Bishop's Waltham, 

 and of 28 of said railway stock. 



5. Thomas Grant's Charity, rent-charge of 2 

 issuing out of a messuage in the High Street. 



6. Elizabeth Penford's Charity for poor of Bishop's 

 Waltham, 372 of said railway stock. 



7. Elizabeth Penford's Charity for poor of Cur- 

 dridge, will, 1842, 186 like stock. 



8. Unknown Donor's Charity, 8 1 like stock. 



9. 1 ,400 Great Eastern Railway 4 per cent, pre- 

 ference stock, forming part of 2,760 like stock with 

 the official trustees, which comprises the several sums of 



railway stock above-mentioned; and 1,237 1 7 S - %d. 

 consols, also with the official trustees representing 

 balance of accumulations, and 240 consols, Mary 

 Bone's charity for poor widows above-mentioned. 



The income of the Eleemosynary Branch, amount- 

 ing to 96 1 8;. 8</. a year, is applicable under the 

 scheme for the benefit of necessitous poor in the area 

 above mentioned in such manner as the trustees may 

 consider most conducive to the formation of provident 

 habits, in aid of the funds of provident clubs or 

 societies, contributions towards provision of nurses, 

 &c., also in pensions to old people. In 1905 80 

 was expended in providing parish nurses, and six old 

 persons received pensions. 



Poor's allotments consist of 8 acres, deed, 1832 ; 

 the rents, about 12 ids., a year, are carried to the 

 poor rate. 



By an award, 1870, 4 acres were acquired as a re- 

 creation ground, the rent of ' feed ' being carried to 

 the highway rates. 



The Wheat Charity. 5^ sacks of wheat to poor 

 yearly charged on the rectory. 



The National Schools. See article on schools, 

 V.C.H. Hants, ii, 396. 



CURDRIDGE 



The Combined Charities. See Bishop's Waltham. 



Gravel Pit Allotment consists of 3 acres acquired by 

 award, 1856, rent applied in aid of highway rate. 



The National Schools. See article on schools, 

 V.C.H. Hants, ii, 398. 



Sir Henry Jenkin's Memorial Scholarship Fund 

 consists of 304 los. \d. London County Consolidated 

 Stock which the official trustees raised by subscription. 

 By scheme of 31 August, 1901, the dividends are 

 applicable for maintenance of a scholarship for a boy 

 or girl who has been a scholar in a public elementary 

 school in Curdridge or Botley. 



Poor's Allotment consists of 3 acres award, 1856, 

 subject to a yearly rent-charge of 3. 



Recreation Ground. By an award, 1856, 4 acres 

 were acquired for this purpose, regulated by schemes 

 of the Charity Commissioners of 25 August, 1885, 

 and 9 March, 1887. 



Reading Room. By deed, 1884, a site and build- 

 ing thereon, together with a cottage, were dedicated 

 for the use of the parishioners an income of about 

 12 1 6s. is derived therefrom. 



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