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226 CHARITIES FOR WOMEN.
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Preston Hospital, Shropshire. T The Ains...
placed upon tlie foundation , preference in the former case being iven to those who had moved in a respectable position in life .
Lad g y Herbert ' s bequest was invested in the funds , and from time to time , as opportunity occurred and savings accrued , valuable additions
of farms and land were made in the neighbourhood to the real estate , homesteads were rebuiltand the whole property brought into an
, efficient condition . Early in the present century , ( viz . 1802 , ) the endowment was further increased hy a bequest in the will of
Charles Henry Coote , last Earl of Montrath , of the sum of £ 4 , 000 to be spent in the augmentation of the widows' pensions . This
nobleman ' s mother previously to her marriage with the Earl of Montrath , was Lady Diana Newport , fourth daughter of Richard
Newport , second Earl of Bradford , and consequently niece of the founder , Lady Catherine Herbert . In 1827 , new buildings -were
erected as wings to each end of the hospital , and the number of widows on the foundation increased from twenty to twenty-six . In
1830 , when the Charity Commissioners gave in their most favorable report of this fine endowment , the property stood as follows : a real
estate in land of rather more than a thousand and seventy-seven acresbringing in a yearly rental of £ 1 , 301 5 s . 6 d ., and the sum
of £ 9 , , 621 4 s . 6 d . invested in the funds . ( Twenty-fourth report of Commission for Enquiry concerning Charities . 1831 , p . 360 . )
Of late years , most judiciously , spinsters have been admitted to the benefits of the charity as well as widows . Candidates are
selected by the trustees according to their own personal knowledge or the recommendation of persons who are acquainted with them ,
without any restriction with respect to the place of birth or residence , and those who have formerly lived in a good situation in life and
are reduced in circumstances are preferred . They must belong to the Church of England , and be not less than sixty years of age at
the time of nomination . Each of the twenty-six recipients receives eihteen pounds a year by quarterly paymentsand twenty of these
a g further sum of eight pounds , in two half yearl , y payments , under the bequest of the Earl of Montrath . This larger payment ,
twentysix pounds per annum in the aggregate , is very fairly distributed , for each one , as deaths occur , becomes a receiver . For funeral
expenses five pounds is allowed . Two tons of coals yearly are likewise apportioned to each , as well as separate apartments and a small garden .
Upon admission to the hospital , each candidate has to deposit ten pounds in the Wellington Savings Bank , for the purpose of
providing herself with such medical assistance as she may require . Till this rule was laid down hy the Court of Chancery much distress
existedas the Trustees had no power to lend assistance . Whilst , the status of the widows and others has thus been judiciously
modified , that of the children nominated to the school still remains the sameThey aregenerally speakingtaken from the
agricultural and . laboring classes , , are boarded , clothed , , and educated free of
all cost to their parents till they are sixteen years of age , and then
226 Charities For Women.
226 CHARITIES FOR WOMEN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1858, page 226, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121858/page/10/
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