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double that amount, say £6^, i8s. 8d.), a consider- 

 able falling off, which is curious, seeing that part of 

 the land had been purchased by the L. & N. W. 

 Railway, and the sale must have been badly 

 managed if it did not produce enough to keep up 

 the usual rental of about £80 a year. 



The property has now, like all other charities, 

 been taken over by the Charity Commissioners ; but 

 the governing body is instructed, as a " special 

 trust," to apply the ^5 for a maidservant or poor 

 man's daughter and the ^35 for coals for the poor 

 yearly, for these specific purposes. 



NEAR ILAM, RIVER DOVE 



