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In this year Mr. John Davies (Citizen and Cutler, of London), by his will charged his Estate, known as the Bowes Farm, Edmonton, with the payment of a sum of Thirty Shillings per annum for ever to the Cutlers' Company "for the use of the Poor Men of the said Company."

In this year Mr. W. H. Pepys (Citizen and Cutler, of London), presented the Cutlers' Company with a sum of £100 in trust as a permanent fund, the amount to be invested, and the interest to be applied in the purchase of Coals yearly for the Pensioners of the Company.

In this year Mr. John Peacock (Proprietor of the London Tavern), by his Will bequeathed the sum of £100 to the Cutlers' Company.

In the year 1838, the Court being desirous in their prosperity to add to the welfare and comfort of their poorer Brethren and Sisters, resolved to build some Almshouses, and they accordingly voted a sum of money for that purpose. A piece of land was purchased in the Ball's Pond Road, Islington, and twelve Almshouses erected thereon. The Court grant the use of them to decayed Freemen and Liverymen and their Widows.

Pensions are also granted by the Court to deserving Freemen, Liverymen, and their Widows, if upon strict enquiry they are found deserving thereof.

Considerable sums are also given to distressed persons related to former Freemen or Liverymen of