| I. St Ethelbert's, an old foundation for ten poor people in the hands ofthe Cathedral authorities. | ||
| II. Sick Man's Hospital. A foundation partly managed by the Corporationand partly by the Vestry. | ||
| III. St Giles's, an old endowment in the hands of the Corporation. | ||
| IV, V, VI. Kerry's, Williams', and Price's Hospitals, endowed during thereigns of Elizabeth and James I., and governed by the Corporation. | ||
| VII. Lingen almshouses founded 1609. | } | Under private management. |
| VIII. Coningsby Hospital founded 1617 for eleven old soldiers,mariners, or serving men. | ||
| IX. Mary Price's almshouses, 1636, for six poor widows or single women. | ||
| X. Weaver's almshouses, 1641. Under management of parochial authoritiesof All Saints'. Charity Commissioners' Rep. 32, Pt. II., pp. 6-56. |
[503] Rep. VI., pp. 253 and 495.
[504] Ib. 32, Pt. II., p. 11.
[505] Numerous examples of these bequests occur in the Reports of the Charity Commissioners. The following may serve as specimens of the charities of this kind existing in a single parish.
In St Giles, Reading. Char. Com. Report, 32, pt. I., pp. 131, 132.
Clothing. Augustine Knapp, 1602, gave to the churchwardens 20s. a year for ever to be bestowed for the clothing of poor, lame, blind and impotent people in the parish.
1625. Richard Shaile gave £10 upon trust to buy yearly three shirts and three smocks worth 2s. 6d. a piece for three poor aged men and three poor aged women, chosen by the churchwarden. This gift was lost before 1688.
Bread. 1606. Thos. Deane gave an annual rent of £3 to be bestowed yearly in good, wholesome, well sized bread and given to the poor of the town in St Giles's churchyard as might be settled by the churchwardens and overseers of the poor. The bread was to be given as follows: yearly upon Christmas Eve, 20 dozen of bread: upon Good Friday another 20 dozen, and upon Ascension Eve another 20 dozen.
1623. Rich. Aldworth gave another gift of £3 a year for the same purpose, to be distributed at the same times.
Money. In 1614 A. Humphrey Champion had given a gift of £10, the interest of which was given to poor people. Now lost.