[572] See Reports of the Charity Commissioners.
Among these sums at Bristol were the following:—
Alderman Thorne's Gift £500 in 1532 to "succour young men that were minded to cloth making."
John Heydon, 1579. £100 for two young men trading over seas at interest of £3. 6s. 8d.
Alderman Whitson, 1627. £500, £250 to five young men for seven years at interest of ten shillings, £250 to twenty tradesmen for seven years, &c. Report VIII., p. 597 seq.
Such bequests were also sometimes in the hands of parochial officials.
St Mary, Aldermary. John Kemp in 1569 gave £100 to the churchwardens that they might lend the same to ten poor occupiers without interest.
Anthony Sprott in 1607 gave £20 to the churchwardens and parishioners to be lent by them to a young occupier at 16s. a year. Rep. VI., p. 201.
[573] Dom. State Papers, Chas. I., Vol. 349, No. 70.
[574] See supra, p. 214.