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Benefactors to the Poor of Stapleford Tawney

Published in Issue 55

A Rent Charge of £5 left by Thomas Luther to be paid out of the estate of Mrs Jones. A moiety of this estate has been sold to Sir W. Bowyer Smijth, Bt., who has ……half of the above rent charge by transferring to the official trustees of charitable funds the sum of £83.12.8 Consolidated £3 per cent annuities. The remainder of the above estate was left to Mrs Mark Lavender of Brentwood, who pays to the church wardens the yearly sum of £2.10.0.

A rent charge of £2.17.6 left by Mrs Luther to be given away in bread by the proprietors of Suttons, and five shillings per annum to be paid to the Church Clerk out of the same estate, for keeping the gravel walk clean.

A piece of ground called Church Lands left by a person unknown, in extent nearly 5 acres. In 1869 this piece of ground was sold to Sir. W. Bowyer Smijth Bt. For the sum of £495, which was invested in the purchase of £533.13.10 consolidated £3 per cent annuities, and invested in the names of the official trustees of charitable funds. Sir John Smijth Bt. In 1838 left the sum of £60 to the poor of the parish. The Revd. Sir E. Bowyer Smijth Bt., in 1840 gave the sum of £50 in augmentation of his late brothers legacy and invested the first sums in the purchase of £109 consolidated £3 per cent annuities, in order that the interest arising from it should be expended in coals, clothing, or food, to be distributed yearly among poor inhabitants of the parish, at the discretion of the rector for the time being. The above mentioned £109 consolidated £3 per cent annuities has been transferred to the account now stands in the name of the official trustees of Charitable Funds.