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Second Edition by Francis Whellan & Co., transcribed by Peter Brown 2014
Whellans Directory 1874
CHARITIES OF HIGHAM FERRERS HUNDRED
as abstracted from the Parliamentary Reports &c. See also the histories of the town, parishes &c.

Date

Donor and nature of gift

To what place and purpose applied

Annual value

 

Stephen Cox (£20)

Bozeat parish, bread to poor

£1  0  0

 

             Dexter (rent)

Ditto, ten poor men

       5  0

 

Town Land (13a.) and cottages

Ditto, church

35  0  0

1760

Abigail Bailey and Ann Levitt (£260, for which land was purchased)


Chelveston cum Caldecot school


50  0  0

1765

Thomas Neale (£20)

Ditto, poor

  3  0  0

1699

James Sawyer (rents)

Chelveston and Raunds parish,
4 poor widows


42  0  0

 

In lieu of the herbage of the green lanes

Easton Maudit parish, poor

  4  8  0

1422

Archbishop Chichele

Higham Ferrers parish school

10  0  0

 

Fitzwilliam family

Ditto, voluntary gift, ditto

10  0  0

 

Archbishop Chichele

Ditto, 13 poor beadsmen

  3  9  7

 

Corporation

Ditto, ditto

  2  10  0

 

John Dewberry

Ditto, 20 poor widows

  1  0  0

1619

Rev Nicholas Latham (rent)

Ditto, 6 poor persons

  3  0  0

1715

Eliz. Freeman (£20)

Ditto, minister and 10 poor widows

  1  0  0

1708

Hon Lewis Watson (£50)

Ditto, poor

  4  0  0

1747

Richard Wagstaff

Ditto, bread to poor

  1  0  0

1747

Ditto

Ditto, minister, for preaching a sermon

  0  10  0

1790

Ann Glasbrook (£50)

Ditto, gowns for 4 poor widows

  2  10  0

1804

Ann Saunders (£50)

Ditto, poor

  2  5  0

 

Mrs Maskell (£20)

Ditto, ditto

  0  19  0

 

Mrs Rowlet (rent)

Ditto, ditto

  0  10  0

1855

George Newman (£5000)

Ditto, 6 poor women

124  4  0

1804

Feoffee Estate

Irchester parish

114  0  0

1611

Thomas Jenyson

Ditto, bread, 12 poor persons

  5  4  0

1858

Samuel Sharwood (£182)

Ditto, school and poor

  4  0  0

1704

Mrs Peaps (£100)

Raunds parish, school

Making total
of 51a

85  0  0

1722

John Blaise (18a)

Ditto, poor

1797

Commissioners of Inclosure (10a)

Ditto, church land

1720

Robert Nichols (6 tenements &c.)

Ditto poor

16  5  0

 

Ditto, land (2 roods)

Ditto, poor and church   about

  1  0  0

 

Charity estate (27 acres and a limekiln)

Ringstead parish, school and poor

58  12  0

1619

William May (£100)

Rushden parish, poor, &c.

25  0  0

1619

Rev N Latham

Ditto, 6 poor people

  3  0  0

 

Mary Greaves

Ditto, poor

  3  0  0

 

Church land (15a)

Stanwick parish

28  0  0

 

Rev Peter Needham, D D (£10)

Ditto, poor

  3  12  6

1674

Thomas Neale (rent)

Wollaston parish, bread to poor

10  8  0

1730

Charles Neale (£120)

1732

James Hazelden (rent)

Ditto, poor

  1  19  0

1800

Jonathan Bettle (£306 13s. 4d., 3 per cent.)

Ditto, bread to poor and books for the choir

  9  4  0

    Total
£672  2  1


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