642 .A.MOUNDERNESS HUNDRED.

Grim;;argh, as well as other places. The annual rent is £64. which is divided into four equal parts, of which Preston and receive one. This is sub.. divided, and two~thirds given to Preston, and one~third to Grimsargh. Winckley's Charity. In 1710, the interest of £50. for binding poor appren~ tices. This, and Hodgkinson's charity in 1697, belong to the corporation, and there is an accumulation of interest, amounting to £34. 9s. 4d. Addison's Charity. In 1729, a rent~charge of £5. to twenty poor house~ keepers. Henry and EleanOT ' s Charity. In 1738, £300. in trm:~t for the poor. Part of the income is applied yearly in binding out apprentices, and the remainder is given to poor persons, in sums of 2s. 6d. each. Rigby's Charity. In l 741, the in tere~t of £I 00. to six poor widows. Donors unknown. Two benefaetions, amounting to £70., appear upon a paper, written between 1750 and 1760, and are secured upon a close of land in Kirk ham, let at the annual rent of £7. St Michael's parish receives 2~7ths of the rent. Ann Winckley's Charity. In I779, the interest of £100. to poor widows. Annual produce, £5. 2s. 4d. Lost Charities. Eight benefactions from the year 1605 to 1631, amounting to £134; the interest of £68., left in 1690. by Whittingham; £7. 4s. per annum, by Ingham and Ashton, in 1609 and 1709, probably never received. Sudell's Charity. £5. 10s. -per annum, not paid for a number of years. Worthington's Almshouses. Built in 1663, were taken down many years ago, and the materials sold for £12. l2s., which, with other money, was applied to the building of one almshouse on waste land. Corporation Almshouses. In 17901 six almshouaes were built on waste land, and are occupied rent free by persons appointed by the corporation. There are also three others at the top of Clerk yard, occ:upied by three person11 put in by the mayor. In 1840, Mrs. Fletcher devised £700. to the charities of Preston. [Fur the other charitiea belonging to the parish, see the out-townships.]

In Catholic times, the almshouses of Preston were so numerous, that every principal entrance to the town had it!! eleemosynary es­ tablishment; but those have all disappeared, and the above are the only two institutions of this description of charities now in ex· istence. The Pt·eston Uni&n embraces the following 28 township51, viz. Alston, Barton, Broughton, , Dilworth, Dutton, Elston, , Fishwick, Fulwood, Grimsargh with Brockholes, Haighton, Hothersall, Howick, Hutton; Lea, Ashton, Ingol, and Cottam; , Longton, , , PreRton, , Ribcbester, , W alton-le-Dale, Whittingham, aml W oodplumpton, which contained, in l 841, a population of 77,096 souls. 1 t is divided into the six districts of Preston (east and west), A1ston, Broughton, Longton, and Walton. There has been no new workhouse erected for this union, the :five old ones being made to do duty in its stead. Their situations are Preston, \Valton, Penwortham, W oodplumpton, and Ribchester. The Preston workhouse occupies an airy and healthy situation in

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