Sir Thomas White charity estates (Coventry): enabling the trustees to sell parts, and other provisions Act 1845
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1845 c. 17 |
| Year | 1845 |
ANNO OCTAVO & NONO
VICTORLE
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Cap
AT,
An Act to enable the Trustees of Sir Thomas
fVhite's Charity Estates in the City of Coventry
to make Sale of Part of such Charity Estates;
and for other Purposes. [4th August 1845.]
HERE AS by a certain Indenture, bearing Date the Sixth Recital'of
Day of July in the Fifth Year of the Reign of Edward the
May
monalty of the City of Coventry of the one Part, and the Master and
Wardens of the Merchant Tailors of the Fraternity of Saint John
Baptist in the City of London of the other Part, after reciting that
the Mayor, Bailiffs, and Commonalty of the City of Coventry had
purchased to thepi and their Successors, of His late Majesty King
Henry the Eighth, certain Lands, Tenements, and yearly Rents lying
as well in the said City of Coventry and County of the same City as
in the County of Warwick, being of the clear yearly Value and
Rent of Seventy Pounds or thereabouts, as by the Letters Patent
under the Great Seal, dated at Walden the Nineteenth Day of July,
Thirty-fourth Henry Eighth, did appear, and the Particulars of which
said Purchase, Lands, and Premises also appeared in a Schedule
annexed to the said Indenture, which said Purchase was made by
the Procurement of Thomas White afterwards Sir Thomas White
Deed of
6th July,
5 Edw. 6.,
creating the
charitable
Uses and
Trusts.
] 5 V Knight,
454 8° & 9° VICTORIA,
Cap.
17.
Knight, Merchant Tailor, of the City of London, who, minding to
relieve and prefer the Commonwealth of the said City of Coventry,
paid unto the said Mayor of the said City of Coventry and to his
Brethren, for the obtaining of the said Purchase, the Sum of One
thousand four hundred Pounds, it was witnessed that the said
Mayor, Bailiffs, and Commonalty, at the Request of certain Friends
of the said Sir Thomas, thereby covenanted, for them and their Suc-
cessors, with the said Master and Wardens and their Successors, that
the said Mayor, Bailiffs, and Commonalty, and their Successors for
ever, should, immediately after the Death of the said Sir Thomas,
yearly give, distribute, and pay of the Rents and Profits of the said
Lands and Tenements the Sum of Seventy Pounds yearly in manner
following; (videlicet,) to Twelve poor Men, Inhabitants of the said
City of Coventry, being Householders and not common Beggars,
yearly from thenceforth for ever, in free Alms, on the Tenth March,
or within Six Days then next, the Sum of Twenty-four Pounds,
{videlicet,) Forty Shillings each in free Alms towards their Relief
and Succour, and that he or they of the said poor Men that should
have the said Alms One Year should not be elected thereunto again
within Five Years next following, unless the Mayor and Aldermen,
with the Residue of the Council of the said City, should think it as
charitable or more to help those Persons in Alms as any other Person
as should be newly elected in his or their Room ; and also that the
said Mayor, Bailiffs, and Commonalty should yearly, after One full
Year ended next after the Death of the said Sir Thomas, upon the
Tenth of March, or within One Quarter of a Year next ensuing,
pay or deliver, by way of free Loan, yearly, during the Space of Ten
Years next after One full Year ended, the Sum of Forty Pounds to
Four young Men of the said City of Coventry, of good Name and
Fame, and thrifty, and such as were free and had been free Appren-
tices in the said City of Coventry, {videlicet,) to every of them Ten
Pounds, and every of the said young Men should have the Occu
pation of the said Money to their own Use for Nine Years next after
the Receipt
thereof,
putting in Bond and Securities upon the Receipt
thereof to the said Mayor, Bailiffs, and Commonalty, for the Repay-
ment thereof after the said Nine Years, and after the Repayment of
the said Sums of Money so delivered as aforesaid the said Mayor,
Bailiffs, and Commonalty should again deliver and pay the same
yearly to such other like young Men of the said City, they to have
the same free Loan, after the Rate of Ten Pourids each in manner
aforesaid, for Nine Years next after the Receipt
thereof,
putting in
Bond'and Securities for the Payment thereof in manner aforesaid, and
so the Fashion, Order, and Rate of Ten Pounds to a Man so yearly
received and lent by the Space of Ten Years as aforesaid should have
Continuance in the said City of Coventry from Nine Years to Nine
Years for ever; and also that the said Mayor, Bailiffs, and Com-
monalty, after the End of the said Ten Years, should for Thirty
Years then next pay said Forty Pounds to Two other like young
Men of the said City, of good Name, Fame, and Condition, at
Twenty Pounds a Man, and the}' to have the Occupation thereof for
Nine Years, giving Security for Repayment thereof at the End of
Nine Years, in free Loan, in equal Portions, to have Continuance for
ever, and after the said Thirty Years the said Mayor, Bailiffs, and
5 Commonalty
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