Book Description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 edition. Excerpt: ...behind, to Henry Chalkley, A small part of the garden belongs to the houses Nos. 3 and 4, and the rest was. occupied by Clarke. The tenants held from year to year, and the rents are the fair annual value of the tenements, which are in good repair. The letting of the parish property is usually managed by a committee appointed by the vestry of the parish for the conduct of the parish affairs. As the premises acquired in the year 1634, were purchased wholly with the charitable funds enumerated in the schedule to the purchase deed (page 196 ante), the whole profit of them should be applied to the purposes of the respective charities specified by the persons whose benefactions contributed to the purchase. For the portion of C'00mbe's Croft, taken for the site of the workhouse and garden, the parish did not pay any rent to the trustees. With respect to the houses purchased in 1807, it is not exactly known from what funds the purchase money of 740. was taken, but the contemporaneous receipt of the premium of 551. for the lease of the Bell and Hare alehouse leaves little doubt that this formed part of it: if so, as this premium was the produce of the charity estate, the investment of it must euure to the use of the charities which would be entitled to 33. 7s. 0d. a year as the proportion of the rents due in respect thereof. If not thus invested, this sum is wholly unaccounted for by the parish to the charities. In fact, no specific application is made of the rents of either of these properties to charitable uses. No separate account is kept of this or of any other of the charitable estates or funds in the parish hereafter mentioned, but the produce of the whole is car VOL. 11. 2 c ried to the general parish account, and is...