THE STANTON CHARITY PAYMENTS
Extract from the Will of Archdeacon Stanton who died in 1875:
"To the Poor of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Burbage belonging to the Vicarage. I give Two Hundred Pounds the Capital to be invested with the Charity Commissioners and the Interest thereof to be annually expended in the purchase of good Blankets and Cloaks and given annually in November by the Vicar & Churchwardens of the Mother Parish of Burbage to the most deserving Poor".
Note that the Ecclesiastical Parish is smaller than the Civil Parish. It excludes Durley and Warren.
The accounts of the first 24 years were recently discovered and are reproduced here.
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YEAR |
AMOUNT SPENT |
GOODS BOUGHT FROM |
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ITEMS GIVEN ETC |
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1876 |
£3:13:4d |
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12 red cloaks to aged women; 12 pairs of blanket |
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1877 |
£3:13:4d |
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12 red cloaks to aged women; 12 pairs of blanket |
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1878 |
£3:13:4d |
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12 red cloaks to aged women; 12 pairs of blanket |
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1879 |
£5:10:0d |
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Cloaks to the me |
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1880 |
£7:18:0d |
Mr. Jones |
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Blankets (for £6:18:0d) and boots (£1) for the deserving poor |
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1881 |
£7:10:0d |
Mr. Jones |
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18 received blankets and 8 women received material for dresse |
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1882 |
£7:1:6d |
Mr. Jones |
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22 received blankets and 4 women received material for dresse |
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1883 |
£6:12:0d |
Mr. Jones |
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22 received blanket |
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1884 |
£5:18:6d |
Mr. Jones |
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16 received blankets and 8 women received flannel petticoat |
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1885 |
£5:11:0d |
Mr. Jones |
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16 received blankets and 8 women received flannel petticoats |
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1886 |
£5:10:0d |
Mr. Jones |
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18 received blankets and 2 women received flannel petticoats |
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1887 |
£5:15:2d |
Withers Brothers |
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18 received blankets; 1 woman received a serge dress and 2 men received 2 pairs of stockings each. |
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1888 |
£5:15:0d |
Withers Brothers |
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20 received blankets (at 11/6d per pair) |
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1889 |
£5:15:4d |
Withers Brothers |
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18 received blankets (at 11/9d per pair) and 1 invalid young woman received a serge dress |
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1890 |
£5:8:0d |
W. Noyes |
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18 received blankets (at 12/- per pair) |
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1891 |
£5:8:0d |
W. Noyes |
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18 received blankets (at 12/- per pair) |
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1892 |
£6:18:8d |
W. Noyes; W. Hilliard; W.P. Jones |
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19 received blankets (W. Noyes £4:16:0d; W. Hilliard £1:3:6d) and 4 women received flannel petticoats (W.P. Jones 19/2d) |
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1893 |
£5:10:0d |
W. Noyes; W.P. Jones |
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17 received blankets (W. Noyes £4:16:0d and one left over from 1893) and 2 women received shawls (W.P. Jones 14/-d) |
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1894 |
£5:10:0d |
W. Noyes; W.P. Jones |
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18 received blankets (W. Noyes £4:7:6d, W. Pyce Jones £1:2:6d) |
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1895 |
£5:18:9d |
W. Noyes; W. Hilliard; W.P. Jones |
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14 received blankets (W. Noyes £3; W. Hilliard £!:1:0d) and 3 men received coats (W. Pyce Jones £1:17:9d) |
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1896 |
£5:8:11d |
W. Noyes; W.P. Jones |
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17 received blankets (W. Noyes £5:2:0d) and 1 woman received a petticoat (W. Pyce Jones 6/11d) |
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1897 |
£5:8:0d |
W. Noyes |
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18 received blanket |
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1898 |
£5:0:6d |
W. Noyes; W.P. Jones |
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14 received blankets (W. Noyes £4:4:0d) and 3 women received petticoats (W.P. Jones 16/6d) |
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1899 |
£5:2:0d |
Wm. Noyes |
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17 received blankets |
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From 1900 to 1902 the ledger simply states that "Blankets were distributed as normal". I have yet to determine what happened to the charity.
© Colin Younger 1998