The older charities of Plymouth / by R.N. Worth.

  • Worth, R. N. (Richard Nicholls), 1837-1896.
Date:
[1885]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The older charities of Plymouth / by R.N. Worth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    of nomination, which are not exercised in favour of workhouse children, but in favour of lads who may or may not have a claim on the score of poverty, and whom it has been the custom to pass in at one door of the workhouse and out of another, to keep up the paltry pretence that they are preferred from the Hospital of Poor’s Portion ! Joan Bennett’s Trust was founded under her will, bearing date August 10th, 1650. She left certain premises in Plymouth (Old Church Lane) to the Mayor and Commonalty, to the intent that £6 of the yearly proceeds should be paid for the preaching of twelve sermons in the parish church of Maker, by Jasper Hicks, of Landrake, or whom he might appoint during his life (afterwards, her other executors had the appointment, and finally the Mayor and Commonalty); the residue to be paid quarterly to the poor of Maker. And certain other premises, in Southside Street, the profits of which were to be applied for the maintenance of two scholars in the study of divinity at Oxford or Cambridge, or one of them; one student to be of the posterity of her husband’s brother’s sons, and the other of the posterity of one of her sisters. Furthermore she left £30 to be lent out in sums of £10 for four years or less, gratis, to young tradesmen of Plymouth, well and piously affected; another £50 to be lent out in like manner for the same period, gratis, to “two able and religious ministers of the gospell;” and out of the profits of her properties in Plymouth, formerly the land of Pollard or his wife, £6 a year, for preaching a sermon monthly in the “ Great Church ” of Plymouth, every Saturday before the first Lord’s-day, or before the celebration of the Lord’s Supper, and during the term she had in the same property, by Mr. George Hughes, minister of Plymouth, or such as he should appoint—the residue of the profits to go to the increase of the maintenance of the two scholars; £20 was also left to be given to poor people of Plymouth—ancient men or poor widow women. Finally, after a number of personal bequests, Joan Bennett left the whole remainder of her property for the purchase of the freeholds of her leasehold interests, or of other lands, “to the end that the portions appointed by me for the maintenance of the said scholars and the lecture in the towne of Plymouth may be ppetuated and continue foreur if god shall soe please.” The executors were George Hughes, Jasper Hicks, Andrew