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the trustees should nominate another person, so as to keep up the 

 number of three, and that such nomination should be entered in a 

 book, wherein should also be entered aU such orders and regulations 

 as the trustees should from time to time think proper ; provided, that 

 when any trustee should be appointed in lieu of the said John Cottam, 

 or such of his family or kindred as were thereinafter mentioned, there 

 should be any of the family or kindred of the said John Cottam, 

 entitled to an estate in Eibchester, called Know' Green, near adjoining 

 the said premises, such person should be appointed ; and it was thereby 

 agreed that the said trustees should manage the said lands, and super- 

 intend the letting and repairing thereof, as they should think proper, 

 and should apply the rents, after deducting aU necessarj' charges, upon 

 the trusts mentioned in the will of Frances Eoades. 



No third trustee appears to have been appointed in the manner 

 directed by this deed till 19th June, 1823, when Mr. Cottam and Mr. 

 Parkinson, by an entry in the book of charity, appointed Mr. James 

 Dilworth to be a trustee jointly with them. 



The charity premises consist of a house and shippon and four closes, 

 containing about three acres (customarj' measui-e of seven yards to the 

 perch), now in the occupation of Thomas Eastham, as yearly tenant, at 

 the rent of £9 9s. per annum, the trustees doing the repairs and paying 

 one-half of the taxes. 



The same tenant has held the premises since 1804, at the same rent, 

 and before that time at £8 8s. per anniuu. It is stated by the Eev. 

 Mr. Parkinson^ and Mr. James Spencer, that the premises have not 

 been well managed by the tenant, but that they think them worth 

 about £14 per annum, but that Mr. Cottam has hitherto been unwilling 

 to have the rent raised. In 1823, the buildings were put into a good 

 state of repair at an expense of about £14 ; a small quantity of timber 

 was cut and sold from the property in 1824 to the amount of £2 lOs. 6d., 

 which was brought to account. 



The trustees meet on the 20th December annually, and, after de- 

 ducting the sums paid for repairs and for taxes, and some charges for 

 the expenses of the meetng they distribute the residue of the rents 



^Knowle. 'Curate of Longridge. 



