The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-12-29 00:00:00

CROYDON CHARITIES.

Mr. William Deltas Warding, called Is, and ezaatinal.

You reside at Croydon in Surrey ?—Yes.
Hare you bail occasion to inquire there Into the state of
rbaritshie fends in that parish?—Yes; the last eight years I
Um. had little or nothing else to employ tee.
Are the feeds considerable if well managed ?—There ap-
pears to be about 30111. a year coining in to the parish fowls,
nut not appropriated to the poor, except about tiny or misty
pouudo worth of bread on new year'. day; there is au hos-
pital fuoaded by Archhailaup Parker; these are the ab-
ulances of it.

is there any thing besides this Hospital?—There is an.
other school of Archbishop Tennyson, established in the year
1714; I do nut know much shout that, hot the (smile are
runsitlerable ; and they have made SWIM •hrltlit.l.l, and they
look Archbishop Land'. a ratio at ll,nne in Surrey, and ap-
isrupriatrd to the utliee'eleirgiy, s bill is to bind not poor
boys sprgewlice, out to of 44:11 the.fn r school.

Is llw re any uth..r?—Yes, lb. re is another alntslousse for
Neves pour people, as In which 1 here been in Chatirery,
there is the ruaststut Asercsl by Bishop Parker.
Cau you cive the erssunassire any islet of the lots) seal
valise of ,hose tchwitotitie froth.?—Here is a sr leatent,
rutilli4l, ,t An Abase nn of the Onassis belongs's/ its the
'Hospital of she Ho in Crisysissu,usi slit Fusisolalstn:
of Areldn,ll,,p from winch it appears that she
lentil of 1612 ist,. Thif. I , that the slew r. 1.1.11 in
1818 is b6O/ 4... I t brit lirts site rral ristuttiti vsslise or the
&Mittel, surveyed by A Jujal ihdtiltluU of LaUib• 01, 8

hod-surveyor of cr.-of emittiller, slll,Utillill to 2,67 111,

!Wye rr
ill IliN ili4

I The ri/ee•s delivered it in. and ft Unit {fwd.]

Who employed Mr. Middletou!—l got bin) hi. his th as
surveyor to the hospital.

Waa lie a regular sioveyor employed by the hospital, by
the nflirers?—Yr•, aVpniut,d nailer throAsitoil and

How dd. vrot account for the lands brine let so moth midsr
their seal vain, % —They were let formerly at what they call
21 weirs lease, renewable every seven yearn, upon a fine.
What fine in taken upon the present renewals,—We have
abated f that plan, and let 21 years lessen at rack rent.,
and that causes pipe ailrml ton.
Before the Atilt? Awn what was the amount of the finee—
Va. bona Aims wire taken.
Had top ever ant prsiceedinen relative to 'them matters, at
law ?—Wg, we harl; the Rev. Dr; Juba Awe was schnullisas.
ter Now 18411 to 1111 1 ; we wart a lame lima before we could
art the archbishop to dowhina him, winch we were &sirens
of, wn ai could sit his having received tines, and nut brought
them to account.

Now mock did it a ppeor he had i eceired, wittont !minx-
inc to arc..unt not know at that time, lout It la
now naceriniroil, by th.• trial in the action which we I 4lit
araiwit bon, Ili it 4SOI. 711, had bleu so appropriated by
which 411 M we iecimrriol in damages _

Did it attmac thrt there wax all other sum be had sp.
rupriated, tw.ides this?—Yes; we here ice retaavertd
some.

To what aniunnt?—We do nut know; the parties rerun
to 1,11

What were the fair emnbirnesits of the schonlantrier alto.
Nether?—He has a bowie and premises, valued at 7W a year,
and 201. a year fur rending prayers in the chapel, and ohs'.
ever the other poor brothers lento ; this is 291. neer and
above their pay; they had about' 4.1 a week when I
began wilts them; I have now got then. op to Bs. trades
25/01. every quarter day:
What berme of the overplns of the fonds —We keep pity-
ing them up stow ; they have all the money that is (mimic
in, 'hair is about 12s a wick, hot we ,halt hare mare DOOM ;
they were let in reversion, and that it do..e 3wity.

Hitherto, you have spolati of archbishop Wititritt's Hos-
pital ; lire you [rare of any otlo•r p ,l/f 1411.115, of which prn
can give information to the (2..ininitire?—Th(re is lice
*urn of money tit the fund* ur *anther charity; we bare ex-
tracted tins (sum the a gu.ter of memui lets at the cleik of the
iII'UCC Ace (producing a paper.)
What is the real properly here estimated al?—Resides the
landed properly, there are I welae hundred and odd pound* in
the fonds; it was cousiderid, if the property had been let use.
enr4lntg to the valuation of it by the pariah surveyor, It wuuld
be 303/. 10i.

What is it actually let at !—We never could foul wit ; it
is impossible to say ; the trustera, as they call themselves,
would not give as an atrium., and we bled a petition curler
Sir Samuel Romilly's act, and they have raised the pay.
Have you any idea of what it is let at !—No,I have not.
Do you know the estates helmigitsg to any other charities
in Croydon ?-s-Yes, there are the parish estates, which are
let at 3001. altogether ; but there are petit' in Chancery
which stop it, and Iltiows are out brought forward a■ they
should i.e.

What are they actually let at ?—I can tell yaw anme of
them ; there are terente.•la aerro of land at New Crow, by
Deptford, let at 1431.; they sic 'Kurth 1,1.10 i. they tell one
111/101.

For wbat term it it In believe s sixty years lease.
%fhnt fine was Inken!—We do not know that.
Miro dor* it rxpire ?—Suine years to 1:11111b they will
not tell ux.

Who will plot tell yart ?--Theelotrehwarilens or governors,
who !wing it into their uccuunts ; they put it into the clitnell

lu *hose hands is the trisintrentent of the charity to which
those acres be 1.01.7 ?—The money is brought forward by Mr.
Dritninsond, ►olicitor, of Croydon, and brought into the
churchwardens IteCl/11111.

It belongs to the parish?—Yee. it was 1,011(1f. left by
Henry Smith, F.aq. called Dog R •oth, about the year t 637.
Why was he called hog Smith "!—.l4rcause he umal in travel
about the country with :I
Has Whilrife• chanty a %perial visitor?—yo.
. .

Any anverrnor ?—No, not Mat I know of. I itelieve the
parish bunted that land I hare just mentioned, trills the
money he lift
are the prevent churchwarden,?—Thomas Head and
Thomas Hewson.

T. whom were the act es at Div (...t d let ?--Evans was one
Rime.

Who is possessed of the deeds relmovz to Whitt:did
huagtsl '—The warden ; I ivive de in to the rhea nuts, and
Queen Elisabeth's devd of f"undatmon.

[The witness delivered in the following document, which
was veal d—
aimon, Couotitutiono, and Orainatinees devised by me
John iThitegift, arrhhi.hup of Canterbury ; ['minder iif
the butprall of the HulyP Trinity in Cr0y.',,,,, in the
cosesty of Surrye, and gives mutt, them of the sayde
huapitall, for the order, gnvernemente, and ilarecti tttt ,
honcho ure the lamb and tenements of the said 'utopian,
and all the members thereof.

(From ti copy i• the W.S. library et Lambeth, No 275.)
The Archbishop's 'unit noble foundation of his Iwismital,
free-school, and chapel, at Croydon, •as finished in the year
1509.