ADDENDA. 441 



In looking over the list of those relieved by the charity, we ob- 

 serve the allowance to each varies from <10. to ,=36. and the sub- 

 scriptions vary from 10s. 6rf. to 6. 6s. each. 



In proportion as the benevolence of the charitable is extended 

 and increased, this and such like charities may be improved. 



In the diocese of Derry, in Ireland, is an excellent charity for 

 Clergymen's widows. It is thus noticed in Mason's Statistical 

 Account of Ireland, (vol. i. p. 601.) 



" The rector of this parish [Maghera] pays eight pounds a-year, 

 and the curate fifteen shillings, to this excellent institution, by 

 which the widows of those who pay one per cent, per annum of their 

 benefices or curacies, as rated some years ago, are entitled to an 

 annuity of thirty-five pounds a-year, and six of them are accommo- 

 dated with houses in the city of Derry, rent-free, and kept in re- 

 pair." In looking over the list of subscribers there recorded, we 

 perceive the subscriptions vary in the first class from 1. 10s. to 

 ^100. which latter sum appears opposite the name of the Lord 

 Bishop of Derry. The curates' subscriptions in the second class 

 are from 15s. to 18s. each. In 1813, the fund amounted to 

 e3746. 7s. 5|rf. 



The account concludes thus : " This fund is progressively in- 

 creasing, and holds forth a bright example to all other dioceses in 

 the British Empire." 



Our sincere wish is that the Staffordshire Nobility, Clergy, and 

 Gentry, will enable the Secretary to the Stafford Charity to make 

 a similar report of its " progressive increase." 



