BY WHOM BEQUEATHED, AND HOW ADMINISTERED. BY EDWARD MORTON DANIEL , Esq. Reprinted from the “S. Mary Abbots Parish Magazine .” Printed for Private Circulation By EDWARD MORTON DANIEL, Esq . A Paper read at a Meeting of the Kensington Ratepayers Association , held at S. Mark’s Parish Rooms , Notting Hill , on Tuesday , 21 st April , 1891. [Reprinted from the “S. Mary Abbots Parish Magazine .”] As everyone has need of charity, everyone exercises charity, and most of us receive charity, the subject

In 1652 Mr. William Methwold by will gave six cottages or almshouses, in the will called “an hospital,” to form residences for six poor women. These almshouses were situated in what is now called Cromwell Lane, and adjoined a house and grounds called Hale House, which had been owned and occupied by Mr. Methwold; and this house was charged with the payment of £24 a year to give a pension or subsistence money of £4 a year each to six alms-women by quarterly payments of £1, at Hale House. The will

Year ended Easter , 1890. The undermentioned charities are apportioned among the several ecclesiastical districts of the parish, pursuant to an order of the Court of Chancery, dated 22nd December, 1852, viz.:—   £ s. d. Lady Berkeley’s Gift 10 0 Thomas Young’s „ 1 3 4 Thomas Sam’s „ 17 6 Elizabeth Ramsden’s Gift 13 15 0 Mary Barnard’s „ 3 8 Mary Carnaby’s „ 54 16 11 Thomas McIntosh’s „ 3 7 4 Thomas Reeve’s „ 17 0 94 9 Less Cheque Book (stamps) 0 8 4 Clerical Assistants, re Accounts 1 3 9 4   93

I now come to the only remaining charity of which I propose to treat, which is that now representing the old Parish Free Schools, viz., the well known schools in Church Court, adjoining the parish church of S. Mary Abbots, now called the National and Infant Schools. The first endowment to this charity dates from so long ago as 1645, when Roger Pimble gave by will two houses in High Street, Kensington, held under a lease from Brazenose College, Oxford, for “a salary for the maintenance of a free