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 HISTOBY OF BISHOP AUCKLAND. 137 ^15 amongst the poor of Bishop Auckland, in sums varying from 1& to 3s., and set apart £10 for the other townships, the sums appropriated to each varying from 4a to 30s. ; but, by reducing the amount of this distribution, he was enabled to give about £13 in small sums to such poor persons of the parish as he found in sickness or peculiar distresa Out of his receipts, which amounted to £95, he expended about £38 in the manner above mentioned, and, to provide for the next renewal of the lease of the lands at Westerton, he placed £30 in a bank at Durham, for which interest was paid at 3 per cent. In October, 1828, he had a balance of £26 15a Od. in his hands towards the distribution at the following Easter. In the apportionment of the tithes, which was prepared by the late Thomas Davison, Esq., the person appointed to estimate the value thereof, and which received the confirmation of the Tithe Commissioners on the 1st of January, 1841, it would appear that a considerable tract is there mentioned as belonging to the poor of Auckland- The lease of the premises mentioned in that of 1826 was again renewed on the 8th September, 1861, by the Dean and Chapter, to the Eev. G. K Green, the incumbent The fine paid on that occasion amounted to £87 15a 9d An agreement was entered into, on the 28th September, 1865, between the Rev. G. H. Wilkinson, the then incumbent, by which the farm was let to the present tenant, George Robinson, at the yearly rent of £58. NUTTY HAGG. The report of the Charity Commissioners, states that, by the award made on the division of Byers Green Moor, there is a cottage and about four acres and a half, including a new allotment of lA. 2r. 4p. added in 1807, situate in the township of Byers Green, and called "Nutty Hagg," the rent of which we understand was added, and has since been so appropriated to the charitable stock of the town of Bishop Auckland It is not known from whom these premises were derived, as there is no deed in existence to point out the name of the donor ; but, according to a Parliamentary return for the year 1786, under the head of Byers Green, it is stated that one John Hunter gave land to the poor, to be vested in the minister and vestry; and this, in all probability, was the property above mentioned. It wiU be seen by the annexed account that the land, &c., at Nutty Hagg is let for the annual sum of £lO, which is appropriated to the same purpose and carried to the same account as that of Pearson's Charity. LANGSTAPFE'S CHARITY. In a bond, bearing date Ist May, 1787, given by John Bainbridge to the Rev. Thomas Capstick, Farrer Wren, and Ralph Bowser, for securing the sum of £200, with interest at 4^ per cent, it is stated that the said money was in trust for the poor of the parish of St Andrew's Auckland, and was given to the use of the said poor by indenture, bearing date 28th June, 3rd Queen Anne, between Frances LangstaflFe, widow, of the first part, Mark Riddell, of the second part, and the Rev. William Lupton, of the third part ; and was the same sum that was secured with interest, by indenture bearing date 1st May, 1761, between Sarah Gibson of the first part, John Hall of the second, and the Rev. Abraham Smith and three others of the third part. This sum was lent by way of mortgage on certain leasehold premises held of the Bishop of Durham, which were demised fix)m time to time fix)m the year 1765, to the incumbent of St Andrew's and another person, as a security for this money, and for the further sum of £50, mentioned under the following head, the family of Bainbridge and their assignees having enjoyed the property, paying the interest on the two sums of £200 and £50. By a lease, bearing date 26th November, 1821, the then Bishop of Durham (Barrington) demised to the Rev. John Bacon, the curate of St Andrew's Auckland, and Thomas Henry Faber, Digitized by Google