FLITT HUNDRED 



LUTON 



on Market Hill, let at £7^ a year for ninety-nine 

 years from Christmas, 1897, and ^£358 10^. $ii. con- 

 sols with the official trustees, arising from the accumu- 

 lation of income. 



By a scheme of the Charity Commissioners of 

 19 April, 1882, two-thirds of the net income of 

 about £^0 a year is applicable in the promotion of 

 instruction of boys in religious knowledge by grants 

 to the Church of England schools, also for scholarships. 

 See the Distribution Charities below for application of 

 the remaining third. 



Thomas Attwood's Charity. — Deed 1 610, rent- 

 charge of £1 on Kitnowe Close, and rent-charge of ^^l 

 on Ivy Cottage, Langley Street. 



William Crawley's Charity.— Will 1682, three- 

 fifths of rent of homestead and land in Round Green. 

 The net income of these charities, amounting to about 

 £17 !t year, is distributed in coal. 



Elizabeth Rotherham's. — Will 1 71 5, rent-charge of 

 £2 1 2/., charged upon land in Harthill, twelve penny 

 loaves to be distributed every Sunday to twelve poor 

 women attending divine service. 



Sir Robert Napier's. — Will 1637, an annuity of 

 j^5 4/. charged on Brache Farm, for twenty-six poor 

 people in bread, 2s. every Sunday after divine service. 



Sir Theophilus Napier, bart. — Will 171 5, an 

 annuity of ^^5 from land at Luton Hoo, in bread 

 every Sunday morning. 



George King's. — Deed 1642, formerly £z izs. a 

 year out of land in Blackwater Field, to be laid out 

 by I zJ. a week in bread to twelve poor people every 

 Sunday ; redeemed in 190 1 by transfer to the official 

 trustees of ;^I04 2\ per cent, annuities. These 

 charities are duly distributed in bread. 



In 1660 Elizabeth Winch by will devised 7 acres in 

 Burge Field (subsequently known as Bell Close), the 

 rents to be distributed on St. Thomas's Day amongst 

 the poor of the town. In 1902 the land was sold for 

 ^^4,250, which — less £loz 15/. for expenses — was 

 invested in j^4,453 7-f. iid. consols with the official 

 trustees. The income amounting to j^lll 6s. Sa". is 

 applied for the benefit of the poor under the pro- 

 visions of a scheme of 12 November, 1886. In 

 1903 609 persons received gifts of coal. 



Charity of John Richards. — See Education Charities 

 above. 



Under the provisions of the scheme of l88z one- 

 third of the net income, amounting to about £z^ a 

 year, is applied, as to £z i zs. a year, in distribution of 

 bread to six poor widows, and the remainder in sub- 

 scriptions to hospitals, provident clubs, and contribu- 

 tions towards the outfit of persons under the age of 

 twenty-one years. 



In 1624 Thomas Crawley and Edward Crawley, 

 by deed, gave a messuage standing next the tithe barns, 

 and 5 acres in the common fields of Luton, in trust 

 for sustaining and amending the parish church and 

 steeple for ever. The trust property now consists of 

 a shop and beerhouse adjoining in Park Square, shop 

 in Park Square, and seven cottages in Park Square let 

 to weekly tenants, homestead and meadow land at 

 Round Green containing 2 acres 2 roods, and 



^£1,246 5/. jd. consols, with the official trustees, arising 

 from investment of the proceeds of sales. The income, 

 amounting to about ;^2lo a year, is applied, as re- 

 quired, in the repairs of the church and steeple. There 

 was at Easter, 1906, a balance in hand of about /3So. 



Almshouses founded by Robert Hibbert by deed 

 dated 2 January, 1 8 19 (enrolled in Chancery). 

 The endowment fund consists of ^^5, 000 on mortg.-ige 

 of freehold estate in the parishes of Chalgrave, Tils- 

 worth, and Stanbridge at £^ per cent. ; j^l,zoo India 

 3 per cent.; and £1,385 14/. ild. consols with 

 the official trustees, of which £')']<) I 'is. id. consols 

 was transferred in 1888 from a portion of the endow- 

 ment fund of the Luton Benefit Society (Widows' 

 Fund), producing an annual income of j^z 3 4, which is 

 applied in the support of the twenty-four widows 

 occupying the almshouses. 



The almshouses in Chobham Street were built in 

 pursuance of a scheme of the Master of the Rolls of 

 17 February, 1863, out of funds belonging to the 

 Luton Charities, in respect of which proceedings had 

 been instituted in the court. The almshouses are 

 endowed with a messuage, baker's shop, and premises at 

 Trowley Bottom, Flamstead, Hertfordshire, let at 

 £1!, los. a year ; ;£250 consols transferred under an 

 order of the Master of the Rolls as a repair and in- 

 surance fund ; and £97 4/. id. like stock transferred 

 in 1888 from a portion of the endowment fund of the 

 Luton Benefit Society (Widows' Fund), established In 

 1 8 1 8, the dividends to be applied for the benefit of 

 widows occupying two of the almshouses not receiving 

 parochial relief. The sums of stock are held by the 

 official trustees. 



The Bute Hospital. — A cottage hospital in High 

 Town Road was founded In 1872, which in i88z 

 was removed to a new building in Dunstable Road 

 and called the Bute Hospital. The endowment funds 

 consist of ;£7oo India 2^ per cent, stock, £530 consols, 

 and £376 ijs. 4</. Liverpool Corporation z^ percent, 

 stock held by the official trustees, producing in annual 

 income of ^^40. The trust funds arise In part from 

 accumulations of Income and from a donation of j^ 1 00 

 by Arthur Smart, esq. and a legacy of £zoo by will 

 (1898) of the Rev. Thomas Lye. 



Union Chapel in Castle Street. — Martha Barber, 

 by will, proved 1 2 July, 1893, bequeathed £167 (>s.<)d. 

 India 3 per cent, stock (with the official trustees), the 

 dividends amounting to £<, qs. \d. to be applied 

 equally between the Union Chapel Auxiliary Fund of 

 the Baptist Missionary Society, and the Sunday School 

 in connexion with this same chapel. 



The Friends' Monthly Meeting at Luton and Leigh- 

 ton. — The official trustees hold a sum of ^^ 1 , 8 8 5 10/. \d. 

 consols, the dividends of which, amounting to 

 j^47 zs. 8</., are applied for therelief of poor Friends 

 and for education and apprenticeship expenses in 

 connexion with this monthly meeting in accordance 

 with the trusts of a deed of 30 March, 1864. The 

 stock arises from the investment of proceeds of sale in 

 1875 of four cottages and 7 a. I r. 2 p. at Dudswell, 

 Hertfordshire, and from sale in 1878 of a small piece 

 of land at Hendon, Middlesex. 



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