Shipley: Charities for the poor

A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6 Part 2, Bramber Rape (North-Western Part) Including Horsham. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1986.

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A P Baggs, C R J Currie, C R Elrington, S M Keeling, A M Rowland, 'Shipley: Charities for the poor', in A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6 Part 2, Bramber Rape (North-Western Part) Including Horsham, ed. T P Hudson( London, 1986), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol6/pt2/p127 [accessed 17 November 2024].

A P Baggs, C R J Currie, C R Elrington, S M Keeling, A M Rowland, 'Shipley: Charities for the poor', in A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6 Part 2, Bramber Rape (North-Western Part) Including Horsham. Edited by T P Hudson( London, 1986), British History Online, accessed November 17, 2024, https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol6/pt2/p127.

A P Baggs, C R J Currie, C R Elrington, S M Keeling, A M Rowland. "Shipley: Charities for the poor". A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6 Part 2, Bramber Rape (North-Western Part) Including Horsham. Ed. T P Hudson(London, 1986), , British History Online. Web. 17 November 2024. https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol6/pt2/p127.

CHARITIES FOR THE POOR.

A Mr. Briggs left £10 before 1724; (fn. 1) the income was possibly still being received in 1830. (fn. 2) A like sum left by a Mr. Smith at an unknown date had been lost by 1786. (fn. 3) James Burtenshaw by will proved 1832 left £50 to be distributed in bread at Easter; (fn. 4) in 1964 the income was for the general benefit of the poor. (fn. 5)

Footnotes

  • 1. W.S.R.O., Ep. 1/26/3, p. 17.
  • 2. Dallaway & Cartwright, Hist. W. Suss. ii (2), 305.
  • 3. Char. Don. H.C. 511, p. 1264 (1816), xvi (2).
  • 4. 30th Rep. Com. Char. 245.
  • 5. Char. Com. files.