HERTFORD HUNDRED 



CHESHUNT 



Loans j per cent, stock, the annual dividends, 

 amounting to £3 is. \d., to be applied in the 

 purchase of wearing apparel for distribution on the 

 first Monday in October to the widows at Turner's 

 Hill almshouses. 



In 1882 Henry Timson and Philip Augustus 

 Browne, by deed, gave £54.0, now represented by 

 £5160*. lid. Local Loans 3 per cent, stock, the 

 annual dividends, amounting to £1; 9/. id., for the 

 benefit of inmates of Turner's Hill almshouses and 

 of the Spital almshouses. 



In 1 j 84 Mildred Lady Burghley, by deed, granted 

 an annuity of £10 payable by the Haberdashers' 

 Company, whereof £2 1 p. ^d. is payable to the 

 vicar for sermons on the first Sunday after Michael- 

 mas Day, and at Christmas, Easter and Whitsuntide, 

 and the remainder in the distribution of bread and 



In 1794 Samuel Brookland, by deed, gave an 

 annuity of £3 10s. payable out of a house in the 

 High Street, £3 thereof to be distributed among 

 the inmates of the workhouse and 10/. to the master 

 for his trouble. The rent-charge is duly paid. 



Allotment in lieu of common rights. By an 

 inclosure award, 14 May 1804, 100 acres, part of 

 Cheshunt Common, were inclosed for the benefit of 

 cottagers having right of Common ; the land is let 

 producing £150 a year or thereabouts. In 1909-10 

 the net income, amounting to £125 5/. jd., was paid 

 to persons entitled to common rights. There was 

 also a sum of ,£250 on deposit account at the bank. 



The Cottage Hospital, founded about 1890, is 

 supported partly by voluntary contributions and 

 partly from endowments of about £80 a year derived 

 from gifts by the late Lady Meux, J. and C. Doc 

 Mrs. Baker, Mrs. Gaylcr and Thomas Lcig' 



Almshouses, Turner 



In 172; Joseph Alcock by his will gave £4 yearly 

 to be distributed equally among forty poor men and 

 women, 10/. to the inmates of the ten almshouses, 

 and 10/. to the vicar for a sermon on the Sunday 

 before Christmas. These sums are paid out of a 

 house in the High Street. 



In 1725, as recorded on a tablet in the church, 

 Mrs. Nicholls gave the dividends for ever upon 

 £54 1 or. 4 per cent, stock to be laid out in bread 

 for the poor. This sum, with accumulations, is now 

 represented by £70 consols, producing £1 1 $s. yearly. 



In 1 793, as recorded on the same tablet, 

 Mrs. Elizabeth Cook, and in 1794 Mrs. Sarah 

 Cook, gave £50 each, the interest to be distributed 

 in bread. These gifts, with accumulations, are now 

 represented by £144 9/. yd. consols, producing 

 £3 181. yearly. These charities are duly applied. 



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from legacies under the wills of Miss Sanders, 

 Mrs. Hird, John Crawter and W. Stevens. 



In 1854 John Britten, by deed, gave £1,000, 

 represented by £1,060 o>. yd. consols, in the names 

 of John Crawter and others, producing £z6 10/. 

 yearly, of which £5 is payable every fifth year for 

 the repair of a vault in the parish church, as an 

 ecclesiastical charity, two-thirds of the remaining 

 income being applicable in the distribution of money, 

 food, clothing or fuel, and the remaining one-third 

 as an educational charity. 



In 1880 James Bentley, by will proved at London 

 7 December, bequeathed £1,000 consols upon trust 

 that out of the dividends £10 should be distributed 

 among five boys at the Dewhurst Free School (see 

 under Educational Charities below), and that the 

 remaining income should be distributed among the 



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