This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 Excerpt: ...Methodists. In the parish are four day schools, one of which contains about 40 children, and is partly supported by two rent-charges amounting to 9, one of 5 by John Edwards, of Deptford, in 1770, and the other of 4 by Richard, Lord Herbert; and partly by 16 from the Earl of Powis, making 25 per annum, which forms the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 Excerpt: ...Methodists. In the parish are four day schools, one of which contains about 40 children, and is partly supported by two rent-charges amounting to 9, one of 5 by John Edwards, of Deptford, in 1770, and the other of 4 by Richard, Lord Herbert; and partly by 16 from the Earl of Powis, making 25 per annum, which forms the salary of the master, who has also a house and garden rent-free, and the liberty of taking boarders and day scholars: in the other three schools about 125 children are instructed at their parents' expense. A Sunday school maintained by subscription, and containing about 75 males and females, who attend the Established Church, is aided by a grant of 5 from the Earl of Powis, and the Rev. Maurice Lloyd, which sum is paid to the master of the above school for attending occasionally; and a girls' Sunday school is principally supported by Dr. and Miss Davis, of Montgomery. There are several charitable donations and bequests in land and in money, the produce of which is distributed among the poor. The principal of these is a rent-charge of 5 on the West Ham waterworks, in the parish of Stepney, Middlesex, granted by John Tanner in 1649; another of 4 was left by Henry Whittingham, in 1631; and Edward Weaver bequeathed 24, in 1763, the interest of which, 20s., is, with the above rent-charges, divided periodically. In addition to the preceding, an unknown benefactor gave divers detached pieces of land, amounting altogether to nearly 17 acres, and paying a rent of 29 per annum, which is generally distributed after Christmas, in small sums. The lost charities, which amounted to 75, and part of which was a bequest of 40 by Mrs. Hannah Barkley in 1736, were laid out at interest about 6...
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