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A History of the County of Lancaster
… left the income of 160 Lancaster Corporation stock for a dole to forty poor widows every Christmas Eve, the vicar and …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 194 respectively; there are also a bread charity 96 and a dole for poor widows. 97 A number of ancient gifts have …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… there are three benefactions for the poor. The Penwortham Dole, with an income of over 64, the result of a number of … and that the householders who have hitherto received a dole expect and claim one.' 52 For Longton, the poor's land, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… John Hodgson in 1761 left land to be sold for endowing a dole of meal for Great Marton; it seems to have produced 100, … in Great Marton. Edward Jolly in 1784 gave 60 for a weekly dole of bread to be distributed at the chapel on Sunday …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Rowson, Henry Windle, and others, as also of 'Aughton's Dole.' No reason was known for the discontinuance of the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… to 14. 14 s. 4 d., have been combined with the mayor's dole. 249 The almshouses have been pulled down, 250 the bread …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… appropriated to Ribchester. This is called the Waterworth Dole. The capital sum is 1,300, invested in Preston …