“Mr. Malcolm sustained a loss of property by the appalling event to the amount of £370. and being a person of exemplary character with a numerous family entirely depending upon him for support his case has excited the greatest sympathy, it has therefore been proposed by a few of his friends to enter into a subscription on his behalf with a view of raising by voluntary contributions a sufficient sum to release him from his present embarrassed situation.
“I have known him for several years a constant trader to this wharf, and consider him worthy of every sympathy.”
| Leith and Glasgow Wharf | Joseph Adams | £5 | 0 | 0 | |
| London May 6th. 1847 | Geo. Carroll | 5 | |||
| A. Nichol & Sons | pd. | 5 | |||
| P. Laurie | 5 | ||||
| Vivian & Sons | 3 | ||||
| J. H. Petty | 2 | pd | |||
| Messrs. Drummond | £5 | pd. | |||
| Cranford Colvin & Co. | £3 | ||||
| Baring Brothers | 5 | ||||
| Curries & Co. | 3 | ||||
| Jono. Price | 5 | 5 | |||
| Reid, Irving & Co. | £5 | ||||
The signatures attached to this are imitations of the handwriting of various firms, each distinct, individual, and apparently genuine.
The next “screeve” takes the form of a resolution at a public meeting:—
“Notting-Hill, District
Parish of Kensington
August 6th, 1857
“The Gentry and Clergy of this neighbourhood will no doubt remember that the late Mr. Edward Wyatt, (for many years a respectable tradesman in this parish) died in embarrassed circumstances in 1855, leaving a Widow and Seven Children totally unprovided for, the eldest of whom a fine Girl 19 years of age having been a Cripple from her Birth has received a liberal education and is considered a competent person to superintend a SEMINARY for the tuition of young females which would materially assist her Mother in supporting a numerous family.
“A meeting was convened on Monday evening the 3rd inst (the Revd J. P. Gall, Incumbent of St. Johns, in the Chair) when it was unanimously proposed to enter into a subscription with a view of raising by voluntary contributions the sum of £40 in order to establish the afflicted girl in this praiseworthy undertaking, I have been instructed by the Parochial Authorities to draw up this statement and therefore take upon myself the responsibility of so doing knowing the case to be one meriting sympathy.
“Signed
By order of the Chairman
Reuben Green
Vestry Clerk”
| Subscriptions received at the Meeting, | £11 | 13 | 6 | |||
| Revd J. P. Gill | £1 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Mrs. W. Money | 10 | 0 | pd | |||
| Chushington | £1 | |||||
| Mrs Coventry paid | 10/ | |||||
| J. & W. S. Huntley | pd | 1 | 1 | |||
| Addison Terrace | ||||||
| Notting Hill | ||||||
| Mrs. Cribb | pd | 5 | 0 | |||
| The Misses Shorland | 7 | 6 | ||||
| Mrs Harris | 5 | 0 | ||||
| Miss Hall Lansdowne Crescent | 10/ | |||||
| W. Atkinson | pd | 5 | 0 | |||
| Thos Jacomb | 5 | 0 | ||||
| Miss J. Robertson | paid | 5 | 0 | |||
| The Misses Howard | 5 | 0 | ||||