Shipley: Charities for the poor

A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6 Part 2, Bramber Rape (North-Western Part) Including Horsham. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1986.

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'Shipley: Charities for the poor', in A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6 Part 2, Bramber Rape (North-Western Part) Including Horsham, (London, 1986) pp. 127. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol6/pt2/p127 [accessed 19 March 2024]

CHARITIES FOR THE POOR.

A Mr. Briggs left £10 before 1724; (fn. 1) the income was possibly still being received in 1830. (fn. 2) A like sum left by a Mr. Smith at an unknown date had been lost by 1786. (fn. 3) James Burtenshaw by will proved 1832 left £50 to be distributed in bread at Easter; (fn. 4) in 1964 the income was for the general benefit of the poor. (fn. 5)

Footnotes

  • 1. W.S.R.O., Ep. 1/26/3, p. 17.
  • 2. Dallaway & Cartwright, Hist. W. Suss. ii (2), 305.
  • 3. Char. Don. H.C. 511, p. 1264 (1816), xvi (2).
  • 4. 30th Rep. Com. Char. 245.
  • 5. Char. Com. files.