Marriage portions from historic charity bequests
A survey of charitable bequests across volumes by the Commissioners concerning Charities details marriage portions for poor maidens and widows. It cites Henry Raine 1736, Thomas Axe 1601, Henry Smith 1620, Sir W. Harpur, John Barwick, John Lyon and others, describing sums, conditions, ages, and sometimes late refusals or adjustments, with notes on moral concerns and administration.
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Henry Raine
St. George’s
Middlesex
Woll
Thomas Axe
Orchard
Somersetshire
Ottery St. Mary
Devonshire
Thomas Harris Jeft
Cloford
Nanoney
Charchwarena
John [Reland
Henry Smith
London
Sussex
W. Harpur
Fiward VI
Bedford
John Barwick
St. Paul’s
Witherslack
Westmorland
John Lyon
Sharrow-on-the Hill
Stork
Lonsdale
Skirlaugh
Yorkshire
George Shiers
Petcham
Surrey
Iial
Margaret Fenwicke
Dorking
Isaac Duckett
St. Clement Danes
St. Andrew's
Holburn
Thomas Crasswell
Northampton
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Faye Goto Eos
Swan
Cape of Good Hope
William Lilburnmander
St. Katharine
Lilburn
Messrs
Hawker and Sons
Plymouth
Henry Dod
Cockburn Sound
Na’berdeen and Londo & Vigation Company
Duke of Wellington
John Walker
Barthen
Queen OF Scotland
John Pearson
Aberdeen
Sarernay
Mugen
Spread Eagle
Regent Circus
Piccadilly
P. Shunders
Avent
Here
Rhine
Cologne
Mayence
Ngland
Netherlands Steam Boat Company
Rotterdam
John Bartineau
Pickford
Wognenday
Evenlngz
Chifertain
Belfast
Liverpool
Water-street
Burgh
United Kingdom
Berthen
D. Furner
Greenwich
Edinburgh
Scarborough
Circus
Cross Keys
Gracechurch-str
W. A. Cunningham
St. Swithin's-lane
George
Sell
Fenchurch-street
H. Underwood
Haymarket
Llesmere and Chester Canal
Elle
Corporation
Messrs. Saunders and Comyn
Queen-street-place
Southwark-bridge
Tandan
Gle
Rezent‘eet
Downes
Aenraveaus
Imerick and
Waterford
Dixon Holmes
Richard Orlando Lanty Bridgman
Eagg
India
Thames
York
Janes William Farrer
Witettekers
Lis
Southampton-buildings
Chancery-lane
Oporto Wine Company
Victoria Titsbatts
Carcavelia
White Port
Littery Champagne
Cek Einrage
Burg Moselle
Bnis
Buell
Chateau Margaux
Messrs. Walsh
Negentestreet
Westland Row
Dublin
Thomas Edgington
Tooley-street
Southwark
Benjamin -Edgington
Horticultural Society
Swan River
van Diemen’s Land
Benjamin Edgington
Torley-street
Southwark. Co
John Burgess and Son
Strand
Savoy-steps
Parkei
Sanger
Ox Tichborne-street
Vickery
Tavistock-street
Straka
Prout
Edwards
Butler
Cheapside
Johnston
Hall-Street
Ford-Street
Hendrie
Covent-garden
Low
St. Paolo
Corabil
Sexton
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Bels MA
Btessra
Thomas
WSI
HENRY
Manchester
Metropolis
United Kingdoms
St. Anthony’s
Br. James
Newbery
Dr. James
Messrs. Butler
Corner St. Paul's
Sackville-street
Princes-Street
R. G. G. James
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England
Jmrty
Carlise Patrist Committee
Carlisle
T. W
Sr. S.brooks’s
Ball's-pond
Intireton
Oney
W.S
No. 9
Springestreet
Portman
Qaur
D. D
Charles-street
Soho-square
Ewgun
Newgate Street
Marquis of Hertford
Blessrs
Capron, Rowley, and Weld
Savilleplace
Hertfordshire
Blessrs. Bromley
Gray's, Finsquare
Fletcher
Takenhouse-yard
Hirty Miles
Bath
Bristol
Henry Harrison
Park-street
Grosvenor
Orsetshire
Driver
Hampreston
Wimborne
Poole
Ringwood
Bourne Mouth
Dorset
Stour
Place
Richmond-terrace
Parliament-street
His Majesty's
Custom House
Berwick
Geneva
Messrs. J. and
G. Sharp
Bank
North Star
Ranger
Rio de Janeiro
J. J
Hon. East India Company
Udia House
Johannes di Galdar
Amsterdam
Brokera
Winchester-street
Berks
Hants
Oakingham
Reading
Hawkes
Rose Tun
Barkham-Square House
Ascot Heath
Hartford Bridge
The
Military College
Great Western Road
Windsor
Lond
Sir John Cope
Crown
Basingstoke
Sun
Maidenhead
Chalmington
Dorsetahire
W. W.simpson
the Mart
William Bawer
Cattistock
Dorchester
Bridport
Yeovil
Sherburne
Isaac Symes
Re. Farquharson
South Chalmington
W. Eliot
Old Bank
Weymouth
E. Pearce
Sifietter
Bodmin
Cornwall
R. Cg, Taylor
Carlton Chambers
Mart
Pin Pe
Foreign Quarterly Review
Sobo-Square
Colburn
New Burlington Street
Philip Gasteneys
Sir Roger Greseey, Bart
Post
Ape School of Fashion
Rivaelieu
France
OLD' Court
Waldegrave
Ecarte
Paris
Gilvert Earie
Stratton Hill
Lettera
East
Trinity Houve
Baldwin and Cradock
Longman, Rees, Orme
R. Hunter
Boosey and Sons
Sturm
God
Christian Christopher Sturm
William Johnstone
A.M
Stalin
Loutton
Baldwin
Cradock
Jesus Christ
Bingley
W. Bingley
Harvey and Darton
J. Rivington
J. Booker
Hewet
John Frost
F.A
Medico-Botanical Society
F. EB. J. Valpy
Trinity College
Cambridge
Reading School
Ploedrus
Caesar
Ovid
Cornelius Nepos
Justin
Quintus Carttas
Virgil
Livy
Florus
Velleius Paterculus
Horace
Cicero
Lucretius
Longman and Co
Whittaker and Co
Simpkin and Marshall
J. Souter
Oxford
Bos and
Holmes
Vatican
Horne
Melle
Longman
Whittaker
Harding
Rivington
J. Richardson
Mulcieton
Judea
Jerusalem
E. Valpy
Saunders and Benning
J. Butterworth and Son
Fleet-street
J. Cuitry
Alan
Samuel Harper
Law Stationer
Charles Watkins
Middle Temple
George Morley
Richard Holmes Coote
Thomas Coventry
Bumphry W. Woolryeb
Lincon’s Inn
Lord Tenterden
Samuel Martin
Lower Temple
W. Robinson
Friendly Societies
Lord Joan Hussell
M.P
James Wright
Imo
Sherwood
Gilbert
Piper
Price
William Renou
Renou and
Newman
Royal College of Surgeons
Adam-Street
Adelphi
Salonia
Noah
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