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tenants and producing £t.x a year, and 17 acres 2 

 roods of allotment land, let to various tenants, pro- 

 ducing yearly about ^^25. By the above-mentioned 

 order one-half of the income was apportioned as an 

 ecclesiastical charity to be called the Church Land, 

 and the remainder as an eleemosynary charity to be 

 called the Poor's Land. The rector and church- 

 wardens and one co-optative trustee were constituted 

 to be the trustees of the ecclesiastical charities, and 

 the rector and three representative trustees, appointed 

 by the parish council, to be the trustees of the non- 

 ecclesiastical charities, the property of the original 

 charities to be managed by the two bodies acting jointly. 

 After paymeht of [^zo 15/. i^d. a year towards 

 the liquidation of a loan of X^S' expended on the 

 cottages, about £15 a year are applied for the benefit 

 of the church and poor in respect of the ecclesiastical 

 charity, and about £,z(i ^ year for the poor in respect 

 of the eleemosynary charity. 



In 1840 Mrs. Sarah BuUen, widow of the Rev. 

 Henry St. John Bullen, formerly rector of the parish, 

 left j^50 to be invested in consols and dividends, to 

 be applied by the rector and churchwardens in the 

 purchase of blankets and clothing for distribution 

 among the poor. The legacy is represented by 

 j^55 8/. zd. consols with the official trustees, the 

 dividends being applied in the distribution of warm 

 clothing. 



In 1895 Miss Ann Barber by will gave to the 

 incumbent and churchwardens £,zoo, to be expended 

 by them for the benefit of the poor upon such insti- 

 tutions or objects and in such proportions as they 

 should think fit. The legacy was invested in the 

 purchase of ^'^7 '°^- Z'^- I'ldia ^^3 per cent, stock, 

 with the official trustees. 



The dividends, amounting to [^t, 12s. 6d. annually, 

 are applied chiefly in supplying grocery to the poor 

 and sick. 



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