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amongst all tLe poor of the township of Dilworth in suma usually 

 varying from about 2s. to 5s. At the last meeting in December, 1 824, 

 a sum of £2 7s. was reserved by the trustees to pay for some repairs 

 not then completed. In the accounts of the year 1824, two sums of 

 £1 88. 9d. and 13s. 8d. were charged as the expenses of the meeting 

 held that year. Nearly the whole of that expense was incurred by Mr. 

 John Cottam, one of the trustees, who came over from Preston for the 

 purpose of attending the meeting, Mr. Cottam having sold the estate 

 which he formerly held, called Know Green, ' several years ago, and 

 now residing at a considerable distance from DUworth. Under 

 these cii-cumstances it seems that it would be for the advantage of the 

 charity if he were to resign the trust in favour of some person resident 

 in the neighbourhood, who would concur with the other trustees in 

 letting the estate at its full value. 



TOWmiEY'S CHAEITY. 



Henry Townley, by will, dated 23rd January, 1776, bequeathed all 

 his personal estate, after payment of his debts and funeral and testa- 

 mentary expenses, to Cuthbert Singleton and three others, their exe- 

 cutors, administrators, and assigns, upon trust, to dispose of the same, 

 and place out the produce upon good security, and to jiay the yearly 

 interest thereof, for ever, after the decease of certain persons therein 

 mentioned, to such poor necessitous persons, having legal settlements 

 in DUworth, as they in their discretion should think proper objects, on 

 every 21st December ; and when anj' one or more of the said trustees 

 should die, he directed the survivors by a memorandum, in writing, to 

 nominate such substantial persons, inhabiting in Dilworth, as they 

 should think fit, in tho room of such person or persons so dying, to act 

 in conjunction with the survivors in the trust thereby reposed in them. 



The residue of the personal estate of Henry Townley is understood 

 to have produced the sum of £100, but we have not been able to dis- 

 cover any authenticated account thereof. The sum was lent out on bond 

 tUl about two years ago, when it was agreed by the inhabitants of the 

 township to call it in and apply it to the building of a workhouse, 

 which was erected for the townships of Eibchester, Dutton, Dilworth, 



'Knowl Green. 



