The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-12-22 00:00:00

YEOVIL CHARITIES.

Lime, I die Juni', IRIS.
HENRY BROUGHAM, EM. ism the Chair.

Mr. George Mate, Mr. Wm. Wilmington, eot.l Mr. Fleury
Cull; o, under a:animation.

Was old Figes the tower of the school io his day'—No,
he Isveol at Rooney; Mr Tomblin was.
Was he master there ?—tio; be waa the massager of the
estate.

Who is the manager of that estate now ?—I do not know.
Does Mr. Tomkins occupy the fields of the Yeovil estate?
—One field of the charity, and one of the Gelds of the alms-
houses, He was the master of the almshouses fin years.
What is the valise of the estate belonging to the •Itus.
houses?—About 6061. a year; but there were some acres of
land lot►, which evinced it.
In whose hands are the rents for the almabouses?—The
same trustees; they are all our concern.
How many are mrsulained at the almshouses oat of these
rents!—There used to be only three or four, but now there
as the proper number. which to twelve, six of each sex; bat
the roles nut complied with as ordered.
Is fire hundred and odd posed. spent open these alms.
boluses !—No, our yet two hundred, I should suppose.
Wbu pockets the residue !--God knows.
How many are there in the pour almshouse !—Four.
How many might there to be ?—Nobody knows any thing
about it, that I know.
Do you river remember more than four in it ?—No.
What Is the revenue of that almshouse ?—About 6421. to
the best of my knowledge.
Who pockets the residue of that ?...Tbere were persons
calling themselves portreeves aid burgesses, four in num-
ber, Thomas Shorland, George Wellington, Thninu An-
drews, mod John Greettlutto ; oar of them is dead, Shorlutd.
Do they call themselves p►treeves?--George Wellington
does, and the other two call themselves burgesses of Yeovil
Have Hey the ebarter?—il believe it is last. ne I have
. .

Do those persons pretend to have a right to the marine-
anent of this charity ?—Yes, they manage the whole, and pay
the poor women.
Du they manage both Woburn almshouses and the poor
almshouses ?-1110, John Greenhorn and others has got the
Woburn home, but the three together only manage the poor
almshouse, Wellington, Greenhorn, and Andrews.
Do they pocket the surplus of the 8421 after paying the
four old women ?—dome years since the paup•rs that went
through the town, poor sailors, or any other poor person,
went to the portreeve and received a certain stem of money to
pass, and there way a pump in the middle of the town,
whereon there was an iron ladle fur then, to drink out of as
they passed un. That pump bas been taken up by Mr. Shur.
land, and sold there is 110 such thing now standing; they

gave their answer in, that they were to lay out the money
i'Ve the rood of the poor, but I have never known that dune.
Du those four old women who receive relief from the poor
almshouse receive parish relief also?—They du, from two
to three abillings a-week each.
Do you know, of your own knowledge, that they receive
anything at all from the purtreeve and burgesses?—They re-
ceive one shilling a werk between them. and on certain days
they receive compensations, Is 6d. on Saint Thomas's day,
6.1. on Christmas day, la. tid. at Easter, mid Is. 6d. at
Whitsuntide.
To wind Imes were the foods of %Yakima Charity
destined?—Here are the orders and statutes, con-
firmed by letter's patina of Edward the Fourth, dated No-
vember ttth, 1176, and the 16th year of his reign
(They were delincred is cad read, as fames
&tillers and Statutes extracted out of the Writing be-
longing to the Almshouse in Yeovil, confirmed by
Letters Patent of Edward IV. bearing date Novem-
ber the ninth, in the inxteenth year of his reign, one
thousand four hundred and seventy-six (1476).

I. linprowis, That an almshouse, one cousius, two war-
dens, and twelve poor people of both kinds, by equal por-
tions of number (or eight at least) always living wile and
chaste, not leprous of evil, do pray for ever in • chapel
budded to the honour of St. George and $t Christopher, the
blessed martyrs, ur in the parish rhumb of Teuvil. dtc.
11. That these he called the curios, wa►den, ■rd almshouse
of William Wuhourn, bole minor canon of the cathedral
church of St. Paul in London.
111. That the costos, wardens, and poor of the said alms-
house, and their successors for ever (►etug chosen busk's,
wardens, and poor of the said aluy.loonse,) shall he one body
and one eumuuality for ever, iu substance and uamo, sod

Midi be able persons io law, rod may purchase, "Maim, aod
receive, &c. whatsoever lauds or other prod' s shall be sold, be.
qurathed, given, assigned, Lc. may plead and Iseimplead.
prosecute all miniver of suits, quarrels, causer, slid lie.

kiiii, &C.

IV. That every year the enacts and wardens continually
be changed, within fifteen alays after Easter, being to he
chosen by five ur seven of the hunessest and discreetest men
of she parish of Yeovil, to be nominated by the eu•sus and
wardens thee being, and he so climes' emu the custuship,
and they au chosen Imo the wardership, shall hike their
loath before the residue of the men then present, to all and
*Menhir things which do pertain to their office in that part
to be dime ; and if it happens the said curios, or any of the
wordiest, shall depart thence or die in the year in tiehich they
are chosen, he or they which live and remain (with the con-
sent of five or seven of she hunestest and discreetest men of
the said parish, and with the i ooresit and usrnt only p.m,.
of the brig almshouse, letting fifteen days after their depar-
ture) choose in the stead of thse departed, she remaining part
of she year, nod they so chosen to take nails is abovesued
V That whim tiny one of the poor depars,d ie, sir be removed
by she mom or wardens fu► ill haturiustr Owing first three
times wanted hy.thr cost°, or wardens) that OOP other man
or woinatt be by the Clink/II Of wilniest., Within fifs►en data,
plored w Site strait of the departed dead or es-moved.
VI 1 list the etsinuienturatiun of ibe founders, and all
th• sr Wallow. of elute, be celebrated in site diureh of Vecivl I
on for 'lay of lie calends lit Lillllllly, being the day
I W the Cubverhow of St. Pawl, at winch time a dole is to ►e