BOROUGH OF SOUTHAMPTON 



place. It was in two stages, as usual, the lower being 

 available for market or shop accommodation. Notices 

 of this building occur in I457, 483 and it is mentioned 

 by Leland. This building, after much patching from 

 time to time, was finally removed, and the present 

 Audit House built (17713) farther down the street 

 (on the site of a house and garden), with a wide Doric 

 fa9ade of Portland stone in two stages. Improvements 

 and additions have been made according to require- 

 ments, but a new pile of municipal buildings has been 

 long talked of. Here are the council chamber and 

 other rooms and offices of the borough ; the valuable 

 municipal archives and official regalia, &c. are kept here. 



The Hartley University College.' 84 A handsome 

 structure of Grecian character in three stories, built 

 and founded from the remains of the bequest of 

 Henry Robinson Hartley, who died in 1850. Estab- 

 lished by order of Chancery in 1859, the first stone 

 was laid in 1 860, and the opening ceremony per- 

 formed in 1862, both by Lord Palmerston. The 

 building shows a fa9ade to the High Street of about 

 74 ft. with triple entrance, flanked by caryatides, 

 opening into a spacious hall. Here are a museum, 

 library, lecture theatre, class rooms, and every appli- 

 ance for its manifold purposes as a university college. 



Ordnance Survey Office, near the entrance to the 

 Avenue. This is the head quarters of the Ordnance 

 Survey. Established here in 1841, on the site, and 

 partly in buildings occupied by a branch of the Royal 

 Military Asylum, finally removed to Chelsea in 1840. 

 In 1855 an extensive new wing was added, and in 

 1873 the old main buildings were removed, and the 

 whole remodelled. The office now presents an ex- 

 tensive pile of fine modern buildings occupying a site 

 of some two acres. 



The Grammar School. 465 Removed from its 

 position in Bugle Street, on the site of the ancient 

 West Hall. 486 The first stone of the present building 

 in the West Marlands was laid 2 September, 1895, 

 and it was opened 9 September, 1 896. It is a hand- 

 some and commodious edifice of modern architecture, 

 erected at a cost of between 12,000 and 13,000 

 from designs of Mr. Gutteridge. 



The Free Public Library. Established in 1889 is 

 a fine building erected on the site of an old residential 

 property, well situated for its purpose in the main 

 street from Above Bar, at the corner of Bedford Place. 

 It is managed by a committee of the town council. 



Originally these were in part 



CHARITIES provided for under the ancient 



Gild Ordinances 48 ' after the manner 



of the times ; regulations belonging in some part 



possibly to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. 



Later on the alms of the town were settled on a 

 plan and lists kept of the weekly recipients of charity. 488 

 Following upon this the charities bore the impress 

 of the various statutes made in reference to the 

 poor. 489 



The first almshouse was founded by the mayor, 

 Richard Butler, in 1564; the first workhouse in 

 1630 under the will of John Major, a former 

 mayor. 



Of the modern medical charities, a Dispensary was 



started in 1809, the corporation subscribing 5 5*. 

 annually. The Royal South Hants Infirmary was 

 established in 1838, and has been considerably im- 

 proved and enlarged, being the chief hospital for this 

 part of the county of Hants. There are also various 

 dispensaries, smaller hospitals, and nursing institutions 

 which endeavour to keep pace with the population. 



Among special benefactions are the following : 



Lawrence Sendy, burgess, gave (about 1564) 20 

 in trust to the corporation to pay the interest to the 

 almshouse occupants. William Sendy (1533) gave 

 100 to the corporation for certain objects now 

 obsolete, in lieu of which 10 per annum is given to 

 the Grammar School. 



Sir Thomas White (1566) made Southampton one 

 of twenty-four towns to receive a benefaction in 

 rotation. This, amounting to 97 io/., was last paid 

 in 1902, and transferred from the Grammar School 

 to the Taunton School fund. 490 



William Wallop (1616), 100 : interest in loans to 

 young men. 



William Lynch's gift (now 210 stock), accounts of 

 which begin 1641, for similar loans. 



John Steptoe, alderman (1667) : certain property 

 in trust for loans for 'young beginners' and for other 

 purposes. This and the two preceding charities are 

 dealt with under scheme of 1862. 



John Cornish, alderman (1611), 100 : gowns 

 annually to poor persons. 



George Gollop or Gallop (1650), 200 : cloth 

 gowns annually ' of some sad colour.' 



Catherine Reynolds (1615), 50. In lieu of 

 annual shilling doles 4 per annum is now paid to the 

 Grammar School. 



Bridget Parkinson (1635), 20. In lieu of doles 

 the interest is now paid to the Grammar School. 



Alexander Rosse 491 (1653), 100 : partly to the 

 Grammar School, partly otherwise : the whole interest 

 is now paid to the Grammar School. 



Mrs. Delamotte, 30*. annually to fifteen widows : 

 now paid to the Grammar School ; also 30^. annually 

 to the vicar of Holy Rood. 



Mr. Bradsell, 24*. annually to the vicar of Holy 

 Rood. 



Mr. Jacomin, 50 : the interest to loo poor 

 people : now given to the Grammar School. 



Nathaniel Mill, (1638), 42 per annum, from the 

 residue of which, land tax deducted (38 2/. 6J), pay- 

 ments are made to the Grammar and Taunton's Schools, 

 and for other purposes. 



Peter Scale, alderman (1654), 100 : for appren- 

 ticing poor children : now paid to Taunton's School. 



Peter Scale, jun. 5 annually for apprenticing : now 

 paid to Taunton's School. 



Mrs. Avis Knowles (1634), 50 : for apprenticing 

 two town-born children : now paid to Taunton's 

 School. 



Richard Taunton (1752), the founder of Taun- 

 ton's School : benefaction of 2 1 per annum to the 

 vicar of Holy Rood under conditions : benefaction for 

 decayed aldermen, &c. 



Richard Searle (1738), interest of 30 for charit- 

 able purposes. 



483 Steward's Bk. ; Davies, op. cit. 

 125-8. 



484 V.C.H. Hann, ii. J9S Ibid. 

 486 Davies, op. cit. 320. 



48 ? See ordinances 4, 7, 22. 



88 Steward' 8 Bk. 1441. 



489 Davies, op. cit. 294, &C. 



490 For an account of these, as of the 

 other schools of the place, see /'.(.'.//. 

 Hanrs, ii. 



535 



491 This learned writer was master of 

 the Grammar School 1616, vicar of Holy 

 Rood and rector of All Saints 1628, and 

 subsequently one of the royal chaplains 

 and vicar of Carisbrook. 



