Leicester. Trinity Hospital, continued. That the said rents and gifts, and the donations of Lady Moyer and Mr. Holmes, being 2611. 13s. St., and the said sum of 1721. 1s. 7d., part of the said sum of 206/., and also the augmentation of 40%, making in the whole 4737. 15s. 3d., and also such further part of the said 2061. a-year, as was not applicable to the payment of any specific annual outgoings, together with the balance in the hands of the chamberlain, should be made one common fund for the purposes after mentioned, and be disposed of accordingly, viz., that the chamberlain should, every Friday morning, pay to the hands of the foremen 81. 8s. 8d., to be immediately paid to the poor in manner following, viz., to the eight nurses 2s. 4d. each for their weekly allowance, and 1s. 8d. amongst them for the usual weekly allowance for soap for washing the linen of the poor; to the two women entitled to the weekly donation of Mr. W. Billers and exclusive thereof 10d. each, and to the remaining 80 poor 1s. 10d. each, which will amount in the year to 4387. 10s. 8d., at 8l. 8s. 8d. per week, That the chamberlain should pay such apothecary residing in the borough of Leicester as should be annually nominated by the master, for attendance and medicine, not exceeding 51. for the half year,— That the chamberlain should make the usual allowance of 97. 11s. 1d. per annum, for fuel for the common use of the said hospital, or a further allowance not exceeding 117. in the whole, Also allow such money as had been usually paid for providing necessary lights in the hospital, under the title of Lamp-money, not exceeding 57. per annum. Also to the foremen their usual allowance for collecting the rent, 15s. a-year. That the residue of the fund and all savings arising by the stoppage of pay during the vacancy of any place in the house, should be set apart to answer the expense of keeping the hospital in good repair; and in order that the same might be sufficient, the weekly pay charged on the said fund to be saved for three months after every vacancy (except the pay of nurses) and carried to the aid of such fund, The nurses and poor to keep in repair the interior of their rooms, and in default thereof the foreman to cause the same to be repaired and paid for out of the weekly pay, That the weekly pay of 2s. 4d. each to the nurses (over and above the said sum of 1s. 8d. per week for soap) should be in full satisfaction of all pecuniary benefits whatsoever payable to them out of the revenues of the said hospital, or by any of the poor thereof. Income and expenditure according to the above: £. S. d. Rent and gifts, including Lady Moyer's and Mr. Holmes's. 261 13 8 Payments weekly at 81. 8s. 8d. 246 0 0 Apothecary 11 0 0 500 0 15 0 465 5 8 Leaving for repairs and contingencies . £ 42 8 0 By an order of the Duchy Court, dated 13th August 1793, reciting that the master and assistants of the said hospital had presented a memorial to the chancellor of the duchy setting forth that by certain rules and orders made by the said chancellor and council and made patent, (reciting the preceding order of 1780,) and that the then annual income exceeded the income of the year 1780 by 80l. 12s. 6d., which had arisen by the additional rents reserved on leases lately granted, that the savings accruing with their accumulations had been invested in the purchase of £300 Three per Cent. Reduced, in pursuance of an order of the chancellor and council in 1792; it was ordered that there should be issued and paid from the revenues of the said hospital to each of the 90 poor folks an additional allowance of 4d. a-week, to continue for so long time as the master and assistants should find the same could be spared from the revenues consistently with the general good of the hospital. A similar order, bearing date 24th May 1805, stating that the income of the hospital had then increased 50l. per annum, the chancellor and council declared that there should be paid an additional allowance of 2d. a week to each of the said poor besides their former pay. By two other orders of the said duchy, the one bearing date 2d December 1807 and the other 23d January 1821, the chancellor and council ordered two additional payments of 4d., and 4d. each to be made to each of the 90 poor persons in the hospital. The total weekly payments thus ordered to be made to the hospitallers amounted to 131. 15s. 8d., being 3s. a week to each, besides the other allowances to the nurses, amounting in the year, if all the places are full, to 716!. 14s. Sd. These payments were made for some time, but from the year 1826, in consequence of heavy repairs, there had been a balance regularly accumulating against the charity. In the year 1828-9 an expense of 5827. 13s. was incurred in rebuilding the houses in Blue Boar-lane; this money was advanced by the corporation of Leicester on interest at four per cent., being 237. 5s. per annum, which interest is still annually paid from the funds of the charity. As the balance against the charity annually increased, a meeting of the master, assistants, &c., was held at the Exchange, 3d February 1832, when the affairs of the hospital were investigated, and it appearing that the hospital was largely indebted to the corporation, and Leicester. continued. that the income very little exceeded the fixed payments, leaving only about 281. per annum for repairs and incidentals, and nothing towards the interest due for the money borrowed of the corporation; it was resolved that a reduction of 10 persons should be made in the number Trinity Hospital, of the hospitallers, until such time as means could be found from the revenues to meet the debts and engagements, and the then mayor having agreed not to fill up any more vacancies which might happen in his year, it was ordered that the future mayors should be requested not to nominate to more than four places in the course of the year, until the reduction proposed should be effected or this resolution rescinded, and that they should be requested only to nominate those four at alternate vacancies, but in no year to exceed four. At this time the income of the hospital was thus stated :— In the following statement will be found an account of all the lands and houses, rentcharges, and money-payments at present belonging to the hospital which have come to our knowledge. The Charter Land.-Besides the premises occupied with the hospital, there is the following property within the Newarke, called the Charter Land, and understood to be the four acres originally granted by the Earl of Lancaster. 1. An orchard or garden, together with all the tythes, offerings, and duties thereto belonging, situate within the walls of the Newarke, between the church-yard of the parish of St. Mary in the borough of Leicester on the north part, the land late of William Wright, esq., on the south, and extending in length from the land late of Temple Sutton, formerly Thomas Penford's land, and theretofore George Beckett's on the east, to the south gates of the castle of Leicester on the west, containing in breadth at the east end 24 yards, in the middle 22 yards, and at the west end 234 yards, now held by Messrs. Thomas Leach and Payne, for the term of 21 years, from Michaelmas 1821, (under an order of the master, assistants, &c., made at a meeting held 7th October 1819), at the yearly rent of 167., with a proviso that lessees might have separate leases if they required it, and might divide the land by a brick wall. 2. Two tenements, with yard, &c., adjoining the chapel of the hospital, also a building, formerly a barn or workshop, now a coach-house and stable, &c., adjoining the two tenements and abutting east on the way to the Castle Gates, let to Mr. Richard Warner Wood on lease for a term of 21 years, expiring 1846, at the rent of 167. per annum. 3. An orchard and garden, part of the ground commonly called the hospital burying-ground, situate within the walls of the Newarke, and also the herbage of the said burying-ground (except a small part of the said orchard which had been laid to the premises adjoining, on the south-side thereof, and separated from the remaining part by a brick-wall); also a building, standing at the east-end of the said orchard, for many years used as a register-office (except, also, the liberty of digging graves and burying, in any part of the said orchard or buryingground, the poor people belonging to the said hospital), demised by the master, &c., by indenture, dated 12th December 1820, to William Harrison, to hold from Lady-day preceding for 21 years, at the yearly rent of 21., payable half-yearly, at Lady-day and Michaelmas, with covenant by lessee to keep and leave all the premises in good repair. This is a low rent. 4. A piece of ground enclosed, containing 1R. 29P., lying in the Newarke, between the hospital on the east and the river Soar on the west, and called the Paddock or the Bleaching-yard, and also a stable and chaise-house, built on ground of the hospital, adjoining the entrance to the said Bleaching-yard, let on lease from year to year to the Rev. Dr. Fancourt, chaplain of the hospital, at the full rent of 87. per annum, used as a garden. 5. Another garden, originally part of the Bleaching-yard and taken out of it, and adjoining Dr. Fancourt's, let to John Johnson as yearly tenant, at a fair rent of 21. per annum. 6. Another garden, also adjoining Dr. Fancourt's, and taken out of the Pike orchard, let to Thomas North as yearly tenant, at a fair rent of 17. per annum. 7. An orchard and garden, in the Newarke, called the Pike Orchard and Garden, containing together about an acre, separated from part of the premises of the trustees of Jeremiah Duffkin by a brick-wall belonging to the hospital, as delineated in a plan on the back of lease, demised by master, assistants, &c., by lease, dated 22d December 1835, to Mary Duffkin, widow, for the term of 14 years from 10th October 1835, at a fair rent of 107. per annum. 8. Eight tenements, adjoining each other (erected many years since by a lessee), situate adjoining the Pike Orchard Garden, and let to weekly tenants at rents generally amounting to 12s. 6d. a-week; when all are full making 327. 10s, per annum. The above rents are all paid to the chamberlain. 9. In addition to the above, there is another small garden, let to Thomas North at 10s. per Rep. 32-Part V. H Leicester. Trinity Hospital, continued. annum, and also a water-cistern, adjoining the tenements, supplied by shutes from the hospital, let to the same person at 20s. per annum. 10. A portion of the hospital garden, at the back of the building, let to John Cowell as yearly tenant, at 47. per annum. And two small plots of garden, one in front of the chapel and the other in the drying ground, let to two poor men at 4s. each per annum. The rents of Nos. 9 and 10 are received by the hospitallers, and divided equally among themselves. Hyndman's Gift.-By deed, bearing date 22d October, 1st Elizabeth (1559), John Hyndman, of the Newark of Leicester, beadsman, granted and confirmed to Thomas Barley, Thomas Evington, Thomas Beally, and Henry Coltman, a third part of a yard land, lying in the fields of Leicester, in the parish of St. Margaret, which he had lately bought of Thomas Burdon for 51., to hold the same to the said grantees and their heirs, to the use of grantor for life, and after his decease to the use of all and every the inhabitants within the house of prayer or beadhouse of the Newark, in Leicester, called beadmen and beadwomen, viz., every man and woman being blind, or that thereafter should chance to be blind, to have yearly, perpetually, to endure one penny in money, and the residue or overplus to be put into the common box of the same house, to the use aforesaid. By an award, dated 20th December 1764, made upon the inclosure of the open fields, in the parish of St. Margaret, Leicester, in pursuance of an Act of Parliament, passed in the 4th Geo. III., the commissioners allotted to the mayor, bailiffs and burgesses, as trustees of the Hospital of the Holy Trinity, or the Old Hospital, a parcel of land, in the Conduit Field, containing 3A. 3R. 25P., bounded on the north-west and north by an allotment of George Coulton, on the north-east and south-east by an allotment of Alice Loe, and on the south-west by the turnpike-road leading from Leicester to Market Harborough. By the said award, the commissioners also assigned and appointed that there should be yearly payable by the said mayor, &c., as trustees, and by the owners or occupiers for the time being of the said allotment in respect of the same, and also of another allotment of 2R. 9P., made to the same parties, in another part of the said Conduit field, the sum of 19s. 7 d., being part of a sum of 1102., awarded to be paid in lieu of and satisfaction and full compensation for all tithes of corn, grain, and hay, wool and lamb. The tithe-rent has since been apportioned by agreement, and the sum of 12s. 8d. remains chargeable on this allotment. The allotment, which, by a survey made in 1816, contains 4A. OR. 6P., is now in two closes (in one of which the Conduit stands), adjoining the London-road, let, together with a tenement and garden, part of the allotment, to the widow of Thomas Winterton, as yearly tenant, at the rent of 351. per annum. This land lies advantageously for building, for which purpose the fee-simple would sell at the rate of 1,2001. an acre; but as it is understood that the Midland Counties Railway will pass through both the closes, the whole of the property will, probably, be taken by the proprietors of that undertaking. Hynd, sen., Gift.-" Mr. John Hynd, sen., once one of the aldermen of this borough, and twice mayor thereof (viz., 1589 and 1622), gave, by his Will, unto the Hospital of the Holy Trinity, the sum of 107., enjoining the executors and overseers of the said Will to purchase a piece of land or some annuity with the said 107., which might remain unto the said hospital for ever."-(Old Charity Book.) It is probable that this money was laid out in the purchase of land, in St. Margaret's Field, as we find another allotment there, for the possession of which we cannot otherwise account, set out by the award mentioned in the preceding charity to the mayor, bailiffs, and burgesses, as trustees of another parcel of land, in the said Conduit Field, in the following words:"And also a parcel of land, in the said Conduit Field, containing OA. 2R. 9P., bounded on the north-east by old inclosure, in the borough of Leicester; on the east by the road from the east-end of Hangman's-lane to the turnpike-road leading from the said borough towards Uppingham; on the south-west by an allotment made to the said mayor, &c., in their own right; and on the west by the borough of Leicester." This allotment was situate in the Horse-fair, and appears, by an entry in the hall-book, 22d February 1765, to have been rented by the corporation, at 40s. per annum, which was paid to the poor of this hospital. This land was exchanged, in 1807, for land in the Burgess Meadow. By a deed-poll or award, dated 24th April 1807, under the hands and seals of John Bishton and Thomas Wightman Gee, commissioners appointed by an Act, passed in the 44th of George the Third, for inclosing lands in the parish of St. Mary, Leicester, the said commissioners, by the authority of the said Act, with the consent of the mayor, bailiffs, and burgesses of Leicester, and of the master, assistants, chaplain, and poor of Trinity Hospital, and of the Right Hon. Spencer Perceval, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, allotted to the said master, assistants, chaplain, and poor, an allotment or parcel of land, in the Burgesses' Meadows, in the parish of St. Mary, containing 2A. 3R. 20P., bounded as therein described and as delineated in a plan in the margin of the award, bounded on part of the north by other land set out to the said hospital as proprietors, and by a lane leading from Horsepool-street to the Newark, or Swan Mills, to hold the said parcel of land to the use of the said master, &c., in exchange for a parcel of ground, allotted to the use of the mayor, bailiffs, and burgesses of Leicester, described as a piece of ground, containing OA. 2R. 9P., in the parish of St. Margaret's, adjoining to a certain garden there, called the Horse-fair, or Bowling-green Garden, of which last-mentioned piece of land the said master, &c., were possessors. The land received in exchange, and the other parcel allotted to the hospital as proprietors, containing OA. 2R. 29P., arising from Morton's Charity, after mentioned, now form one close, situate in Mill-lane, containing in the whole, by survey in 1916, 3A. 1R. 37P., let to Joseph Spencer, as yearly tenant, at a good rent of 127. per annum. Clarke's Gift.-The table of benefactions in the chapel states that Mr. Thomas Clarke gave 31. 6s. 8d. yearly for ever, and a fuller account given in Nichols's History of Leicestershire, purporting to have been also taken from a tablet in the chapel, states that Mr. John Clarke, twice mayor of Leicester, gave an annuity of 37. 6s. 8d. out of a piece of ground, barn, and malting-kiln, in the parish of St. Nicholas, in tenure of John Birkhead, sen., payable at Michaelmas and Lady-day. Both these statements are incorrect. Thomas (not John) Clarke was mayor in 1583 and 1598, and by Will, in 1603, devised the fee of the property in respect of which the rent of 31. 6s. 8d. was payable to the poor of the hospital. We have seen an old 99 years lease of this property, on which was reserved the rent of 31. 6s. 8d. The devised premises, which are situate in Blue Boar Lane, being in a ruinous state, have been partly rebuilt in 1828, and now consist of the following parcels : Leicester. Trinity Hospital, continued. There is also another cottage adjoining, worth about 51. a-year, which is let, together with the property of Hall's Charity, at one rent of 167. for the whole. All the above are yearly tenants, and the premises are let at their full value. The shop and two last-mentioned tenements are old and in bad repair. The cost of rebuilding these houses was 5827. 13s., which was advanced by the corporation, at 47. per cent. interest, and is still owing to them. Hall's Gift.-For the last 11 years the rent of the property mentioned below has been entered in the accounts as derived from the gift of Mr. Hall. No such benefaction appears on the tablet in the chapel, nor are we able to discover will or deed relating to it. any The hospital is possessed of three old tenements, situate on the north-side of Blue Boar Lane, adjoining to Simons's Hospital; also two other old tenements in the same street, adjoining the first mentioned, together with the garden behind the same, all formerly in lease to Bland; also another house adjoining, late in possession of William Boothby, part of T. Clarke's Gift, all let to David Hudson, as tenant from year to year, from Lady-day 1832, under an agreement made at a meeting of the master, &c., held at the Exchange, 2d December 1831, at the rent of 167. per annum. The tenements are all old and in bad repair, and the rent is their full value in the present state. The premises are now held by the widow and representatives of David Hudson. No improvement can be expected in the rent, until the premises are rebuilt, which would require an expenditure of from 500l. to 800., which the funds of the hospital are not in a condition to meet. The tenements are inhabited by persons of the lowest description. Brookesby's Gift.-Robert Brookesby, by deed, dated 31st December, 5 James I. (1607), granted to the poor of the Old Hospital, in Leicester, the sum of 17. 6s. 8d. per annum, to be issuing and payable yearly, for ever, out of his lands and tenements in Great Ashby, in the county of Leicester, to be paid half-yearly, at Michaelmas and Lady-day. He also granted a messuage or cottage-garden and orchard, situate at Wartnaby, and two beast pastures thereto belonging, for the use of the said hospital. The property liable to the rent-charge consists of a hall, house, and yard, and premises and lands, situate at Great Ashby, formerly the property of Mr. Hubbard, and now of Mr. Crowder, who pays 13s. 4d. half-yearly to the foreman of the hospital. The commons at Waltnaby are now inclosed, and the property belonging to the charity consists of a messuage, brewhouse, and stables, with a garden and orchard behind, situate in the Town-street at Wartnaby, between the occupation road and the road to Saxelby. Also of a close, containing 2A. 1R. 25P., lying on the east side of the accommodation road, and bounded on three sides by lands belonging to Rev. Bingham. The whole is now let to William Pickard, as yearly tenant, at a good rent of 87. per annum, having been reduced from 107. about three years ago. James Ellys the elder's, Gift.-James Ellys, the elder, of Leicester, woollen-draper, by Will, dated 4th September 1615, and proved in the Court of the Archdeaconry of Leicester, 11th November 1617, gave and bequeathed his house, with the appurtenances, in the Sowthe Gates, within the borough of Leicester, in the occupation of Francis Braunstone, unto the poor people of the Old Hospital, in or near Leicester, and their successors, for ever, so that they should not put out his said tenant, Francis Braunstone, nor raise his rent, he paying the rent he then paid and keeping the said house in good and sufficient repair. The hospital, in respect of this bequest, is possessed of two messuages, situate on the west-side Leicester. of Southgate-street, in the parish of St. Mary (now called Oxford-street), abutting northward near the tower or magazine adjoining the Newark Gates, and over against the common well Trinity Hospital, there, lately rebuilt, at the expense of the lessee, on the site of two old messuages, pulled down by him, demised by the master, &c., by lease, dated 22d December 1835, to John Moore, for 50 years from 25th March 1827, at the rent of 4l. 10s. per annum. continued. These houses, &c., are now worth about 20%. a-year. Elbow-lane Premises. It is not known how the hospital became possessed of the following property, which they have had for at least 200 years. In Nichols's History of Leicestershire it is stated that James Ellys, sen. gave this property by Will, in 1617. On inspecting the Will, however, we find it contains no such bequest. These premises are supposed to be the messuage, &c. in All Saints, charged by James Ellys, sen. with 17. 6s. 8d. per annum for the second schoolmaster. (See Grammar School.) The hospital, during the long possession of these premises, does not appear to have paid the rent-charge. The property now consists of an orchard or piece of ground in the parish of All Saints, in or near Elbow-lane, 48 yards in length, and 22 in breadth, and near a parcel of land, formerly called the Vine-yard, demised by the master, assistants, &c. to Thomas Christey, his executors, &c. by lease, dated 22d March, 1784, for the term of 81 years from 10th October 1783, at the yearly rent of 21. 2s. The lessee covenanted within nine years to build on demised premises, in a substantial manner, 12 brick tenements, with slate roofs; and also sink a well, and set down a pump, viz. four houses to be built and well sunk, &c. within 12 months; and one more tenement in each succeeding year, until the whole should be built; also to keep and leave them in repair. The 12 tenements were all erected in pursuance of this lease, and now form a range of buildings, called Orchard-row, they are in tolerable repair, and are worth about 67. a-year each. No. 1, is a public-house worth about 10l. a-year. There are also four other smaller tenements, round the corner at each end in Elbow-lane, built on the remainder of the frontage of the land, worth about 5l. a-year each. The lease is now vested in William Moore (late Christey's executors.) The lessee also pays to the hospital, in addition to the reserved rent, 11s. 11d. redeemed land-tax. James Ellys the younger's Gift,-James Ellys, the younger, of Leicester, woollen-draper, nephew of the preceding, by Will, dated 16th January 1628, and proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 27th July 1630, and filed in the Court of the Archdeaconry of Leicester 13th November 1635, gave and bequeathed his house in Parchment-lane, with the appurtenances, then in the tenure of Henry Loseby; and also the piece of ground lying upon the town wall, which he bought of Lawrence Dawson, and next adjoining to the orchard or garden of the said house; and also the house, dovecote, and close, with the appurtenances, lying and being beyond the West Bridge, in the parish of St. Mary, then in the tenure of Robert Dannett, to Mary his wife for life, and if she should die without issue by testator, then he gave the said two houses and piece of ground upon the town wall, with their appurtenances, unto Robert Ellys, son of Thomas Ellys, of Mawham, in the county of York, and the heirs male of his body; and for want of such issue, he gave the said houses and premises with the appurtenances, unto the old hospital called The Holy Trinity, in the Newarke, in . or near Leicester, or by what name or title scever the same was called or incorporated, the rents and profits thereof to be distributed to and amongst the poor people of the said hospital, either with their halfpenny money or their gown money, as should be thought fittest by the mayor and aldermen of the said borough. The devise over in favour of the hospital, in case of failure of issue male of Thomas Ellys, appears to have taken effect, as the hospital has, from an early period, been in possession of the devised premises. The property in Parchment-lane, now called the Swine's Market, is let as follows: 1. A house fronting Swine's Market, and two tenements adjoining, and four other tenements and several old buildings and ground (marked red in the plan), now let to Thomas Knott and Samuel Noon under an agreement for a lease for 21 years from 25th March 1821, at the rent of 251. por annum. The lessees agreed to take down some of the old tenements and walls and do certain other specified repairs, and keep and leave the premises in good repair. 2. A piece of ground in the parish of All Saints, containing 779 square yards or thereabouts, bounded on the west by Bond-street, on the north by premises belonging to the hospital, in lease to John Breedon Sharpe, towards the east by premises belonging to Dawes, Horner, and Black, and on the south by a passage leading from Bond-street to Church-gate, dividing the demised premises from those let to Thomas Knott and Samuel Noon; and also four several messuages with outbuildings, lately built by lessee on part of the land fronting to Bond-street, delineated in a plan in the margin, demised by the master, &c. by lease, dated 5th September, 1828 to Robert Dawes, jun., victualler, for the term of 50 years from 25th March 1821, at the yearly rent of 41.; covenant by lessee to keep and leave in repair. 3. A parcel of land in the same parish, containing by admeasurement 1335 square yards, bounded west partly by Bond-street and partly by buildings and premises belonging to Iliff, Tomlinson, Johnson, Fossett, Palmer, and Rowe, on the north by premises of Rev. John Valentine, from which the demised ground is separated by a brick wall, the property of the hospital, on the east by other premises of the said John Valentine, Deakin, Gibson, Coltman, and Hextall, and separated therefrom by a brick wall, also belonging to the hospital, and on the south by the premises in lease to R. Dawes; also a messuage with back kitchen and buildings thereto belonging, built by lessee on part of the said demised land fronting to Bond-street, demised by the said master, &c., by lease dated 5th September 1828, to John Breedon Sharpe for the term of 50 years from 25th March 1821, at the yearly rent of 77.; covenant by lessee to keep and leave in repair. |