HERTFORD HUNDRED 



In addition to these repayments a sum of £42 (ft. 

 was in 1909 applied towards the repayment of a loan 

 from a building society, and a sum of £172 1 9 / - °^- 

 was apportioned out of the income of the charity for 

 the benefit of the poor, as follows ; £76 16/. for 

 the poor of St. John's, £55 $s. 6d. for St. Andrew's, 

 £19 15/. for All Saints, and £21 p. for the district 

 of Brie ken don. 



Residence for a Wesleyan minister, comprised in 

 deed 7 December 1896. In 1908, with the sanction 

 of the Charity Commissioners, the residence was 

 sold for £510, and the balance, after payment of 

 liabilities, was invested in £104 is. $d. consols with 

 the official trustees. 



Educational Charities. — The grammar school was 

 founded in 1 6 16 by Richard Hale. M 



The Greencoat school was founded in 1760 by 

 Gabriel Newton, including the gifts of George 

 Butteris, Lady Grimstone, Mrs. Skinner, and Benjamin 

 Cherry. 3 ' This school was afterwards merged with 

 the Cowper Testimonial School. 



By will of 1649 Mary Pettyt, widow, gave two 

 tenements near Cowbridge for as many poor widows. 

 These were exchanged in 1824 for other houses in 

 St. Andrew's Street occupied by eight poor widows 

 nominated by the churchwardens of St. Andrew's. 



The charity of Sir John Harrison, kt., will, 1669, 

 augmented by his son, Richard Harrison, consists of 

 certain fee-farm rents purchased with a sum of 

 £ 1 08 \y.\d. and conveyed by deed 14 March 1676. 

 The properties charged having been subdivided, 

 difficulties arose in obtaining payment of the several 

 charges, and a sum of £5 only appears to be now 

 received which is regularly distributed in bread 

 among the poor of All Saints and St. John's. The 

 official trustees also hold a sum of £17 lor. consols, 

 producing 8s. %d. yearly, arising from investment of 

 balance of arrears of fee-farm rent of £z lis. id. 

 charged on the rectory and manor of Abbots Langley. 



In 1625 Roger Daniel by his will (among other 

 bequests) devised an annuity of £10, of which £5 

 was payable for a monthly sermon, £4 for fourteen 

 •poorest householders of All Saints and six of the parish 

 of St. Andrew, 121. for bread and drink for poor 

 prisoners in the ' Maine Gaol,' and 8/. for a breakfast 

 for the administering trustees. The annuity of £io 

 is duly received from the Merchant Taylors' Company, 

 London — £5 is paid to the vicar for a monthly 

 lecture, £4 for twenty poor widows, the 12s. for 

 prisoners is paid into the Post Office Savings Bank, 

 the amount of which exceeds £20, and the 8/. break- 

 fast money is carried to the general church account. 



Endowments for organist. — In 1698 Mrs. Elizabeth 

 Cranmer, by will, left £200, which was laid out 



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in the purchase of a rent-charge of £8 issuing out of 

 land at Springfield near Chelmsford. 



In 172+ Robert Dimsdalc, M.D., by his will, 

 devised a rent-charge of £ 1 5 issuing out of a house in 

 the market-place, Hertford. The annuities are duly 

 paid to the organist, who alst 



1730, the sum of £30 a 

 : in Fore Street, Hertford, 



1 dated 14 August 1662, 



of Miss Dionisia ) 

 year, the rent of a 

 formerly known as the ' id- 

 Thomas Noble, by his W 

 devised a messuage in the parish of All Saints, 

 place there called Bayley Hall Style, for the use of 

 the poor. These premises are situated in Castle 

 Street, producing £6$ a year or thereabouts, which 

 together with a rent-charge of £ 1 5 a year issuing out 

 of an estate at Bennington derived under the will of 

 the same donor is distributed among the poor of All 

 Saints. 



In 1909 a sum of £19 15/. was likewise applied 

 for the benefit of the poor of All Saints in respect of 

 the poor's estate for the borough. 



In 1 8 17 Charles Saunders by will bequeathed £500 

 consols, the dividends to be distributed in bread. 



In 1S44 Thomas Cheek by will bequeathed £200 

 consols, the dividends to be distributed in bread 

 on Christmas Eve to the poor of All Saints and 

 St. Andrew's, or either of them. 



In 1872 John Davies, M.D., by will proved at 

 London, left £53 17J. 6d. consols, the dividends to 

 be applied for any charitable purpose the trustees 

 should think fit. The annual dividends, amounting 

 together to £\ 8 1 6s. 8</., are distributed by the vicar 

 and churchwardens chiefly in bread. 



In 1854 six almshouses in All Saints parish were 

 built by Marquess Townshend for poor widows and 

 others. 



In 1875 Miss Hannah Smith, by will, bequeathed 

 a legacy represented by £275 10/. $d. consols, the 

 annual dividends amounting to £6 1 js. Sd. — subject 

 to repair of tomb in cemetery for sixty years after 

 death of testatrix — -m augmentation of the income of 

 Herts. County Infirmary, at the expiration of the 

 term the stock to be transferred to that institution. 



In 1885 George Ringrose, by will, left a sum of 

 money, now represented by £187 in. consols, the 

 annual dividends of £\ 13/. ^d. to be distributed in 

 coals, bread, or money to the poor. 



In 1 897 Henry Rayment, by will proved at 

 London, left a sum of money, represented by 

 £176 i8r. \\d. consols, the annual dividends, 

 amounting to £\ 8s. \d., to be divided on 8 February 

 among three poor widows. 



The several sums of stock are held by the official 

 trustees. 



