On the 31st of July, Sir Giffin Wilson, the Master in Chancery, to whom the cause of the Attorney General v. Caius College, had been referred, made a report from which it appears that the following Property is applicable to the purposes of Dr. Perse's benefactions. CAMBRIDGE. 1. THE SCHOOL and the Houses of the Master and Usher. Freehold. 2. A HOUSE in Free-school Lane, occupied by the Revd. Richard Kerrich, under a Lease from Caius College, at the rent of £2 per annum. hold. 3. THE ALMS HOUSES in Pembroke Lane. 4. Freehold. Free A GARDEN adjoining the same held on Lease from the Corporation of Cambridge for 999 years, from the 10th April 1808, subject to the rent of 5s. per annum. 5. THREE HOUSES in Free-school Lane, occupied by Wm. Yorke, Wm. Chapman, sen., and Wm. Chapman, jun., at rents amounting together to £59 per annum. Freehold. ESSEX. 6. The MANOR OF FRATING HALL with the appurtenances in the Parishes of Frating, Bentley and Elmstead. Freehold. 7. FRATING HALL FARM comprising a capital messuage and 370A. OR. 31p. in the Parishes of Frating and Elmstead, occupied by Henry Vincent at the rent of £420 per annum. Freehold. 8. PAINE'S FARM comprising a capital messuage, and 106A. 1R. 6P. of land in the Parishes of Great and Little Bentley, occupied by Nathaniel Bromley at the rent of £110 per annum. Freehold. 9. DAIRY FARM comprising a capital messuage, and 84A. OR. 1P. of land in the Parishes of Frating and Bentiey, occupied by Wm. Abbot at the rent of £120. per annum. Freehold. 10. CRAB-TREE FARM comprising a capital messuage, and 244A. OR. 28P. of land in the Parishes of Great and Little Bentley and Bromley, occupied by Susannah Maria Cousins at the rent of £334 per annum. Freehold. 11. HOCKLEY FARM comprising a capital messuage, and 205A. 1R. 22P. of land in the Parishes of Frating and Elmstead, cccupied by the representatives of James Piper at the rent of £198 per annum. Freehold. 12. FRATING WOODS comprising 107A. 2R. 20P., in the Parish of Frating, average value £144. 3s. per annum. Freehold. 13. THE TITHES of 66A. or thereabouts of woodland, 170A. or thereabouts of arable land, and 8A. or thereabouts of marshland, in the Parish of Much Bentley, occupied by Susannah Maria Cousins at the rent of £55 per annum. 14. LAMB'S FARM comprising a capital messuage, and 67A. 2R. 24P. of land in the Parish of Chich St. Osyth, Copyhold of the Manor of Chich St. Osyth, and occupied by Wm. Chaplin at the rent of £123 per annum. Freehold. 15. A CAPITAL MESSUAGE and 151A. 2R. OP. or thereabouts, of land in the Parishes of Alresford, Elmstead, and Frating, occupied by Orbell Simons at the rent of £223 per annum. Freehold. SUFFOLK. 16. 32A. 2R. of land in Lawshall, occupied by Thomas Smith at the rent of £35 per annum, partly leasehold for a term of 500 years, from the 32nd Eliz., and partly copyhold of the Manor of Lawshall. NORFOLK. 17. 80A. 3R. of land in West Dereham, whereof 15A. 2R. is freehold, and the residue copyhold of the Manors of Curples in West Dereham, and Tine. worth in West Dereham with Batchcroft in Bexwell, occupied by James Olett at the rent of £90 per annum. STOCK. Caius College held in trust £23,100, £3. per cent. Consolidated Bank Annuities, producing £693 per annum. £2,400, New South Sea Annuities, producing £72. per annum. (1) Sir Giffin Wilson also approved of the following scheme, which was duly sanctioned by the Court. AS TO THE GENERAL ADMINISTRATION OF THE PROPERTY AND APPLICATION OF THE INCOME. 1. THE Master and Four Senior Fellows of Gonville and Caius College (being Dr. Perse's Supervisors) shall make choice of some sufficient man from time to time to be Dr. Perse's Registrar, whom they may dismiss from such office from time to time. But such Registrar is not at any time to be the Master or one of the four Senior Fellows of the said College, or Master or Usher of Dr. Perse's School, provided that the Bursar of the said College may be Dr. Perse's Registrar, notwithstanding his being Master or one of the four Senior Fellows of the said College. (1) Estates 1 and 2, belong exclusively to the Free School. Estate 5 was purchased by Caius College in 1829, of Mrs. Sophia Kerrich for £970. Estates 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 were purchased by Martin Perse, Esq. Executor of Dr. Perse, of Sir Thomas Bendishe, of Steeple Bumpstead, in the County of Essex, in 1618 for £5000; in the same year they were conveyed by Martin Perse to Trustees for Caius College. The surviving Trustee in 1657 conveyed them to the College. Estate 13 was purchased by Caius College in 1830, of Samuel Edenborough and Hugh Edenborough, for £1500. Estate 14 was purchased by Caius College in 1835, of William Kendall Dawson, for £2,600. Estate 15 was purchased by Caius College in 1836, of Orbell Simons, for £5,250. Estate 16 was purchased by Caius College in 1736, of the Executors of the Rev. Stephen Cambourne, for £400. Estate 17 was acquired in the following manner: in 1627, Martin Perse, Esq., in consideration of the grant to him of liberty to cut the woods and underwoods in Frating, conveyed to Caius College 77 acres of arable land, in Bassingbourn, in the County of Cambridge: in 1733, the College exchanged the Estate at Bassingbourn, for the Estate at West Dereham, which had been devised to the College by John Lightwine: £739 19s. 10 d. being paid from the Perse fund for equality of exchange. The legal estate in 1, 2, and 3 was in the heirs of the last survivor of Dr. Valentine Carey Bishop of Exeter. Martin Perse, Isaac Barrow, Thomas Brook, Richard Ridding, John Wiseman, Robert Lukyn, Nathaniel Cradock, and Henry King. The legal estate in 14 was in the Rev. Alexander Thurtell, of the copyhold portion of 16 in the Rev. James Drew Borton, Rector of Blofield, Norfolk, in so much of 17 as is copyhold of the manor of Curples, in George Edward Paget, M.D., aud in so much of 17 as is copyhold of the manor of Tineworth with Batchcroft, in the Rev. Charles Porter. The legal estate in the leasehold portion of 16, was in the last survivor of Dr. Sir Thomas Gooch Bishop of Ely, James Husband, L.L.D. Sir James Burrough Knt, Robert Simpson, and Francis Shuldham, M.D. The legal estate in the other property was in Caius College, subject as respects 15. to a term of 1000 years, vested in Christopher Pemberton, Esq., in trust to attend the inheritance. 2. DR. PERSE's Registrar shall receive the rents, dividends, and income of all the estates and property belonging to the trust, and make all payments on account of the trust, and transact the business and manage the estates and property of the trust, under the direction of the Master and four Senior Fellows of the College in pursuance of this scheme, and shall keep the account hereinafter mentioned, and attend at meetings of the Master and four Senior Fellows and record their proceedings, and perform the other duties directed by this scheme. 3. THE accounts of the receipts and expenditure of the trust (except on account of the property applicable exclusively to the purposes of the school) shall be truly and regularly kept and entered by Dr. Perse's Registrar, in a book to be called "The Perse Book." 4. THE accounts of receipts and expenditure on account of the property applicable exclusively to the purposes of the school, shall be truly and regularly kept and entered by Dr. Perse's Registrar, in another book to be called "The Perse School Book." 5. THE said Accounts shall be audited in Gonville and Caius College yearly, on the 14th of December, being Dr. Perse's mortuary or commemmoration day; or if the same shall be a Sunday on the Saturday immediately preceding, or the Monday immediately succeeding by the Vicechancellor of the University of Cambridge, or in case such Vicechancellor shall be the Master of the said College, by the Masters of Trinity Hall and Corpus Christi College and the Senior Doctor in Physic being the Visitors of the said College, or any two of them; and Dr. Perse's Registrar shall give three day's notice to the Auditor or Auditors of the day and hour of such audit. And at such audit Dr. Perse's Registrar shall exhibit the said accounts made up to the Feast of St. Michael next preceding, so as to comprise all receipts and payments becoming due up to that day inclusive, with all vouchers and papers relating to such accounts. And if such accounts shall be found correct, the Auditor or Auditors shall sign the same, and the said vouchers and papers shall forthwith be deposited and kept in the Treasury of the said College. 6. PROPER minutes of all business relating to the Perse Trust or School which shall be transacted at any meeting of the Master and four Senior Fellows of the College shall be entered by Dr. Perse's Registrar in a book to be kept by him for that purpose, and shall be signed by him. 7. No fine shall be taken on any lease of any of the trust estates. 8. ALL the accumulations as well those now existing as those hereafter to arise of the trust funds (except such sums of cash not exceeding £500. as the Master and four Senior Fellows of the said College shall consider necessary to retain to meet current demands), shall be invested in Bank three pounds per cent. annuities, in the name of the Master or Keeper and Fellows of the said College. And whenever the Master and four Senior Fellows of the said College shall deem it necessary to employ or bestow any part of such accumulations in the purchase of lands and tenements, pursuant to the trusts of the deed of the 3rd day of March, 1618,(1) or whenever any part of such accumulations shall be required by the said Master and four Senior Fellows for any other purposes of the (1) Vide Vol. iii. p. 100. n. (1) trust, not inconsistent with this scheme, the said College shall sell a competent portion of the said £3. per cent. consolidated annuities for such several purposes. 9. SUCH a sum of £3. per cent. Bank annuities as at the time of carrying the same over, shall be of the value of £100. sterling, shall be carried over from the funds of the Perse Book to the funds of the Perse School Book, to answer the sum of £100. bequeathed by Mr. George Griffith for a supplement to the revenues of Dr. Perse's School, and the sum of £400. which has been received by the said College from the University of Cambridge since the filing of the Information in this suit, for Rent of the Old Schoolhouse and Usher's Room shall be carried over to the Perse School Book; and that all rent to be received for the future for the same premises, and also the sum of £230. agreed to be paid by the said University upon giving possession of the same, shall, when the same shall be received, be carried to the like account. 10. DR. PERSE's Registrar is to be allowed for his care and pains £4. per cent. on the gross rents of the real estates received by him in addition to the yearly sum of £15. payable to him under this scheme. 11. THE School House and the houses of the Master and Usher, and the Almshouses belonging to the trust, and the building in Caius College called the Perse building, shall be rebuilt under the direction of the Master and four Senior Fellows of the said College, either upon or adjacent to the present sites of the said several buildings, or on some other convenient spot; and the expences of such several new buildings shall be defrayed out of the capital of the Bank £3. per cent. annuities, now forming part of the trust fund. Provided, that the amounts to be so laid out in rebuilding the School House, and houses of the Master and Usher, and the almshouses, shall not exceed the several sums following, that is to say, for the School House and for the houses of the Master and Usher £2600. sterling, and for the Almshouses £1280. sterling. And provided, that no greater sum than £5300. sterling shall be taken from the capital of the said Bank £3. per cent. annuities to defray the expence of rebuilding the said Perse Building. The School House, and the houses of the Master and Usher, and the Almshouses shall be rebuilt as soon as conveniently may be; and the building called the Perse Building shall be rebuilt at such time as the Master and four Senior Fellows shall think fit; and so much of the said Bank £3. per cent. annuities as at the time of transfer shall be equal to the sum of £5300. sterling shall forthwith be transferred by the Master and Fellows of the said College into the names of the Master and four Senior Fellows of the said College as a fund for the rebuilding of the said Perse Building, and the dividends of the said sum shall be accumulated and added thereto; and the said sum, with the accumulations thereof, or so much thereof as the said Master and four Senior Fellows shall think necessary for that purpose, shall be applied in the rebuilding of the said Perse Building. Provided, if there be any surplus of the said sum and accumulations after defraying all the charges of such rebuilding, such surplus shall be retransferred into the names of the Master and Fellows of the said College, and again form part of the general trust estate. 12. THE houses of the Master and Usher of Dr. Perse's School, and the School House and Dr. Perse's Almshouses, and the Building called the Perse Building, in Caius College, or the houses and buildings to be erected in lieu thereof, are to be kept in repair by the Master and four Senior Fellows of the College, and the repairs charged to the Perse Book. 13. THE yearly sum of £100. allowed to Mr. James Bailey, late Master of Dr. Perse's School, for his life, is to be charged to the Perse Book. 14. THERE shall be set apart from the net income of the Perse Book a sum which shall bear to the whole net income the same proportion as the sum of £6 5s. 4d. bears to the sum of £250., to be from time to time bestowed in such charitable uses as the Master and four Senior Fellows of the said College shall think fit, and Dr. Perae's Registrar shall state in the Perse Book the manner in which the same shall have been bestowed. 15. THERE shall be paid out of the income of the Perse Book to the Preacher of the sermon on Dr. Perse's Mortuary day, as directed by his will, the sum of £5.; to the Vicechancellor of the University of Cambridge, on auditing the said accounts, the sum of £3.; and to the three Esquire Bedells of the said University, the sum of 10s. each. 16. The annual payments out of the income of the Perse Book to the other objects of the trust shall be as follows, namely: To the Schoolmaster of Dr. Perse's School To the six Almspeople of Dr. Perse's Almshouses, £26 each To the six Scholars of Dr. Perse's foundation in the said To the Master and Fellows of the said College towards the reparation of the buildings of the said College, and increase of their stock To the two Morning Under Lecturers of the said College £15 each To the six Fellows of the said College called Mrs. Frankland's Fellows, £22 10s. each 180 0 0 To the Master Cook, to the Butler, and to the Porter of the said College, £8 each To the under Cook of the said College To the three Almsfolk of the Almshouses belonging to the said College, £4 each To the maintenance and repairing of the Banks and current of the new river brought into Cambridge. To the maintenance of the Causey appointed by Dr. Perse's will to be made between Jesus Lane and Quy Causey, and to the maintenance of the banks by Dr. Perse made in Jesus Lane To the Churchwardens of the Parish Churches of Great Massingham and Harpley in the County of Norfolk, for either of the said Townships, to be bestowed at the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord God amongst the poor of their several Parishes, with the assistance of the Minister for the time being, £3 to each of the said Parishes |