| Description | Account book (bound volume) relating to the administration of the Rugby Charities. The volume appears to have started as an account book for the administration of Holyoake's and Brooks's (and later Strong's) Charities. Thus it contains annual lists of recipients of money from Holyoake's Charity and bread from Brooks's Charity (1751-1802) and bread from Strong's Charity (1767/8, 1779-1802) and annual memoranda of receipts (signed by the churchwardens and overseers) in connection with payment of chief rent (and, in 1759, money towards repairing the church steeple) by Mr.Wright Chamberlain, tenant (1750-62 and afterwards: last entry 1794) to the Sapcote Estate ("poors land") purchased by the churchwardens for the use of the poor by a deed of 3 July 1750 (see DR0230/67/23) which contains a proviso that the churchwardens and overseers should keep an account of the rents and of all payments thereof, and should state the balance of such payments annually. But from 1768 it contains lists of recipients of "charity money" (presumably from all charities), with only incidental specification of charities concerned (see below), and general accounts after 1795.
Includes (pp.1-3) an abstract of the "writings and deeds" (with their original numbers, 1-25; see DR0230/67) re the purchase of the 3 quarters and half a quarter of land in Sapcote for £220 (£200 from Holyoake's charity and £20 from Brooks's charity) with an account of the officers' expenses occasioned in effecting the purchase (and a memorandum, dated April 1751, on the first leaf, re pp.1-3); a memorandum of an agreement of a Vestry meeting that the 12s. p.a. in lieu of the £15 left to the parish by Thomas "Cockson" [Coxon's Charity], citizen of London, deceased, laid out towards the purchase of 2 houses for the habitation of the poor of the parish (viz. the workhouse) shall be annually raised by the overseers (by levy) and paid by the minister and churchwardens; a bill/list of expenses associated with the enclosure of the Sapcote Estate and related receipts (signed by Thomas Harris who paid £70 of the costs) in connection with the mortgage of the same, 1779-1789 (see also DR0230/67/27-28); mention of other Charities includes references to the rent from Whitbread/White Bread Close [Woodland's Charity] in Rugby with lists of recipients of the 10s. rent, 1771-1773; the income and distribution of Mrs. Blake's Charity, 1768/1772 et seq.; and lists of people in whose hands the £50 and interest of Elkington's Charity is placed, 1791 and 1799. |