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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… made. From the same fund were founded and endowed twenty almshouses, each containing four apartments, for ten aged men … and the Duke of Bedford contributes 100 per annum. Eight almshouses, for unmarried persons of either sex, were founded …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… are, several bequests for the benefit of the poor, four almshouses for aged widows, a district-visiting clothing … to be applied to the erection and support of schools and almshouses: upwards of 500 children are taught on the … three per cents. for charitable purposes, from which fund almshouses for twenty-five poor fishermen and twenty infirm …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the cotton-works. Henry Smith, Esq., endowed two almshouses, and bequeathed an estate producing 30 per annum, … between the minister and the poor of Belper; two other almshouses were endowed by James Sims, with 12 per annum. The …
A Dictionary of London
… Bennet's Almshouses - Berwardes Lane Bennet's Almshouses On the west side of St. Peter's Hill, Upper Thames …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… now consists of 9300 in the New South Sea annuities. Almshouses for six aged widows were founded in 1681, and … and 20 per annum towards repairing the chapel and almshouses, all charged on the Berwick estate. The property …
A History of the County of Hertford
… of this charity. In 1681 John Sayer by his will founded almshouses for six poor widows, constant frequenters of … also receives 6 a year for rent of land at rear of the almshouses, and dividends on 144 15 s. consols arising from … proceeds of sale in 1887 of a strip of land adjoining the almshouses. The charity is also possessed of the following …
A History of the County of Hertford
… 26 Further westward along the High Street are the Sayer Almshouses, dated 1684, a range of low red brick buildings …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… seventy boys, and is partly supported by subscription. The almshouses founded by Captain Fisher in 1711, and those … incumbent of the minster. Beverley contains seven sets of almshouses, or charities, in which more than 90 poor people … viz.: Fox's hospital, Routh's hospital, the Corporation almshouses, Warton's hospital and charities, Sir Michael …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Walk which had been conveyed in 1840 by Joel Emmanuel for almshouses. 57 On the rest of Milkhouse Bridge, behind the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… (1718), and shared in Fuller's, Bowry's, and Pemel's almshouses, 32 the last of which, at 'Dog Corner' in 1732, … 33 Also in Bethnal Green were the nonparochial Fisher's almshouses for widows of ships' commanders, built in 1711 on … southern end of Dog Row. 34 They were absorbed by Trinity almshouses, which stood just outside the boundaries but took …