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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… endowed with property producing about 37 per annum. Some almshouses were erected in 1587, by Thomas Seckford, for the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… had apparently been applied by the overseers to buy five almshouses for the parish in 1763. 30 The alms-houses, in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… amounted to £58. 46 In 1763 the overseers purchased five almshouses for the parish 47 and in 1776 £103 was spent on …
The Environs of London
… town, burnt down, (1648,) with the college, church, and almshouses, damage 90,000l.; (collected 8s. 11d.) 47. Fire at …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… as apprentice fees with the boys when leaving the school. Almshouses for six widows were built near the southern …
A History of the County of Oxford
… house was the Mermaid, flanked on the west by the town's almshouses and on the east by the common pound. 28 For much … 11. Nos. 87-96 Oxford Street The site of the Marlborough almshouses of 1794, demolished in 1874. 36 12. No. 2 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… for the Poor Municipal Charities. The corporation's first almshouses were successors to those founded in the chantry … for the occupants, but after the duchess of Marlborough's almshouses were opened in the 1790s the buildings seem to … occupied by single women. 84 The corporation sold the almshouses in the early 20th century for c. £80, which was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… slates, although the corporation was still thatching its almshouses in the early 17th century. 4 Most houses are … 1778 on the north side of Oxford Street, and two ranges of almshouses built for the Marlboroughs in the 1790s, of which …