•94 General History of Bath. 



The Black Alms is under the management of the Muni- 

 cipal Charity Trustees, but a distinct body was, by a 

 "scheme" settled in 1872, entrusted with the regulation 

 and administration of the School. 



Bellotfs Hospital. 



This was founded in the reign of James I. by Thomas 

 Bellott, steward, and afterwards executor, to the great Lord 

 Burghley. It may not improbably have been an amplifica- 

 tion of the small foundation of Abbot Feckenham ; and was 

 •certainly an attempt to provide for poor strangers visiting 

 Bath for cure, some of the facilities of which they had been 

 deprived by the Dissolution. 



Lady Scudamore in 1652 added to the original charity a 

 small endowment to secure the services of a physician, and 

 other additions have since been made. The charity is 

 under the control of the Municipal Charity Trustees, and 

 provides accommodation for ten poor invalids, with con- 

 -veniences for bathing and a small weekly alms. 



The Hospital of St. Mary Magdalen at Holloway. 



The first purpose of this very ancient charity, which was 

 .annexed to the Bath Priory in the reign of Henry I., was to 

 harbour lepers on their journey to the city. As the disease 

 became less fearful in its ravages, the building, situate at the 

 top of Holloway, was converted into a sort of lunatic asylum. 

 The charity was fearfully plundered, and under an Act of 

 Parliament (19 and 20 Vic), its revenues were directed to 

 be accumulated, until a fund should have been attained for 

 the foundation of an asylum for idiot children. 



