The accounts for the year ending the 25th March 1899 are as follows : RECEIPTS. St. Margaret The Black EXPENDITUre. £ S. d. well Scholar Lloyd's Charity for Holy Trinity, Bessborough Gardens. Richard Lloyd, by his will dated the 12th October 1895, bequeathed to the vicar and Lloyd's churchwardens of the parish of Holy Trinity, Westminster, 2,000l. to be invested by Charity. them, and the proceeds to be applied half to the relief of the poor of the parish and half to the maintenance of the choir and organist. Letters of administration, with the will annexed, were granted in Dublin, and sealed in the Principal Registry, London, on the 27th May 1898. The legacy, less duty, was invested in 1,1407. East Indian Railway Irredeemable 41. 10s. per Čent. Debenture Stock, which sum now stands in the names of the Rev. George Miller, William James Brooks, and William Follit, and produces annual dividends of 511. 6s. One year's dividends only had been received at the date of the Inquiry. The amount had been applied half to the churchwardens' fund and half to the fund for the relief of the sick and poor in the ecclesiastical parish of Holy Trinity. The poor fund is administered by the vicar and district visitors. Particulars of the receipts and expenditure in respect of the two funds are given in the subjoined accounts. The stock is about to be transferred to the Official Trustees of Charitable Funds. The following is a summary of the accounts of the churchwardens for the year ending the 31st December 1899: The following is a summary of the Poor Fund Account for the year ending the 31st December 1899: St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster. The Grand Khaibar Charity. Woolstaple or Hospital of St. Stephen. Lady's Alley Vandon's The following Charities have ceased to exist or cannot now be traced : The Grand Khaibar Charity (see page 2). It appears from the first Report of the trustees appointed under the Scheme of the 31st May 1889 (see page 158), that on the 17th May 1847 a balance of 20l. to the credit of the Grand Khaibar Charity was transferred to the funds of the Blue Coat School. No grants have been made to the school from the Grand Khaibar Charity since that date, and the last-named Charity must be regarded as extinct. No trace can be found of the 1007. South Sea Annuities mentioned at page 2. Woolstaple Almshouses or Hospital of St. Stephen (see page 38). It appears from Mr. Skirrow's Report (part I., page 30), that in 1828 the almshouses were in a dilapidated and ruinous condition, and were pulled down in 1830 by direction of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury. On the demolition of the almshouses the then inmates were granted life annuities of 37. each, in addition to their annual stipends. The site was sold in 1830 under powers vested in Her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues by the Act 10 Geo. IV. c. 50, entitled "An Act "to consolidate and amend the laws relating to the management and improvement "of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, Parks, and Chases of the Land Revenue of the "Crown, &c." No further appointments of pensioners appear to have been made, and at the date of Mr. Skirrows Report one only of the former inmates was surviving and she has since died. It is stated in the above-mentioned first report of the trustees that the Charity was believed to be in the possession of the Watermen's Company, but such does not appear to be the case. Under the circumstances of the case the Charity must be regarded as extinct. Lady's Alley Almshouse (see page 40). This almshouse was pulled down at the same time as the Woolstaple Almshouses, and the inmates, three in number, were granted annuities of 67. 10s. each, in addition to their annual stipends. At the date of Mr. Skirrow's Report, all the annuitants were dead, and no fresh appointments having been made, the Charity had in 1857 ceased to exist, and has never been re-established. Vandon's Almshouses near St. Ermin's Hill (see page 40). The following information respecting these almshouses has been furnished by Almshouses Mr. Ratcliffe, clerk to Mr. Charles Bedford, chapter clerk to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster : near St. Ermin's Hill. Emery Hill's in Petty Extracts from Chapter Orders:— 21st January 1835. Ordered, that notice be served on the lessees for dilapidations to the premises in lease to Henry Frederick Cooper and others (see page 41), with a view to complete the amendments required as stated in the particulars reported by Mr. Seward, should they be neglected. 8th December 1858. Dr. Cureton (rector of St. Margaret's), having called attention to the state of the four vacant almshouses in St. Ermin's Hill, Ordered, he be authorised to take measures for having them pulled down. 11th April 1859. Ordered, that direction be given to take down old almshouses at St. Ermin's Hill. It is stated in Mr. Skirrow's Report (part V., page 16), that the a'mshouses were in 1857 tenanted by inmates appointed by the Dean and Chapter, but no record of any such appointment can be found. It does not appear that there was any income-producing endowment attached to the almshouses, and the Charity must be regarded as extinct. Emery Hill's Almshouses in Petty France (see page 45). An account of the demolition of these Almshouses has already been given on page 153, and the Charity formerly known by the above title must be regarded as having ceased to exist as a separate Charity. Charities of John Varneham and William Lambert (see page 47). St. John, Charities of It appears from Mr. Skirrow's Report (part V., page 35) that shortly after the publi- Westminster. cation of the Report of 1823, and probably in consequence thereof, an information was laid in the Court of Chancery by Daniel Whittle Harvey against the then churchwardens John Varneof the parish with regard to the, as it was alleged, improper surrender of the leases of ham and the property of these Charities. The information was, however, dismissed, and the Charities must be regarded as extinct. Sir John Cutler's Charity (see page 53). William It appears from the first report of the trustees that in 1839 the Vestry ordered that Sir John the distribution of the Charity should be discontinued upon the deaths of the then Cutler's Charity. recipients. The last payments were made in 1865. It is stated by Mr. Skirrow in his above-mentioned Report (part V., page 70) that the grounds on which the Vestry discontinued the annual gifts were that the parish had provided sufficient accommodation for the poor in the Church. Sir Philip Warwick's Charity (see page 53). Nothing further is known respecting this Charity, which must be regarded as Sir Philip Warwick's extinct. Charity. The King's Bounty (see page 56). It appears from Mr. Skirrow's Report (part V., page 76) that the annual payments The King's made in respect of this Gift were continued until 1831. It is stated by Mr. Skirrow that the bounty was originally given as compensation for the supposed exemption from poor rate of the Royal Palace of Whitehall and the grounds adjacent thereto, and this view is supported by a note in the Parliamentary Returns of 1786-8, which mentions a gift of the King's most Gracious Majesty, and states that it was given as a yearly benevolence to the poor of St. Margaret's parish for Whitehall and Kensington Palaces. In 1832 a distress for poor rate was put into a house in Richmond Terrace, formerly situate within the bounds of the grounds of the Palace of Whitehall, to determine whether or no the exemption was capable of being maintained. Proceedings took place at Nisi Prius, and, the claim for exemption being disallowed, the bounty was discontinued. In addition to the Charities mentioned in the last nine headings, various Charities or Gifts for the benefit of the parishes of St. Margaret and St. John the Evangelist, or for one or other of these parishes, are mentioned in the Parliamentary Returns of 1786-1788, or in the report of the trustees above referred to. Many of these Gifts were never received, or were given for the purpose of immediate distribution. Particulars of the Charities which appear to have been given upon a permanent trust, but have been lost or expended, are given in the tabular statement subjoined. Bounty. of Foun- |