Appendix III — Almshouses
The following is a list of almshouses belonging to and founded in the seventeenth century:—
Alleyn’s
1614
Petty France
10 men and women
£2 and clothes
Alleyn’s
1616
Old Street
10 men, 1 woman
26s. and clothes
Alleyn’s
1616
Deadman’s Place
10 men, 8 women
26s.
Amyas’
1655
Old Street
8 men or women
£5
Aske
1692
Hoxton
8 men, 20 boys
£3 and clothes
Badger’s
1698
Hoxton
6 men and wives
20s.
Baron’s
1682
Shadwell
15 women
7s. a year
Bayning
1631
Crutched Friars
Parish Almshouses
Butler’s
1675
Wismount
2 men and wives
£6
Camp’s
?
Wormwood St.
6
34s. 8d.
Caron’s
1623
Vauxhall
7 women
£4
Dewy’s
1684
Soho
?
Emanuel
1601
Westminster
20 men and women
£10
Grey Coat Hospital
1698
Westminster
{ 80 boys
50 girls }
£1457
Green Coat
1633
Westminster
20 boys
£300
Graham’s
1686
Soho
4 women
£10
Hammond
1651
Snow Hill
6 men
£10
Haws’s
1686
Poplar
6 widows
30s.
Heath
1648
Islington
10 men
£6
Hill’s
1677
Westminster
3 men and wives
1s. 8d. a week
Jackson
1685
Deadman’s Place
2 women
1s. 8d. a week
Lumley
1672
Old Street
6 women
£4
Meggs
1690
Whitechapel
12 women
£5:4s.
Melor
1691
Stepney
10 women
£8:13:4
Monger’s
1669
Hackney
6 men
£2
Newbury
1688
Mile End
12 women
£5:4s.
Owen’s
1610
Whyton
10 women
£3:16s. and clothes
Palmer
1654
Westminster
12 men and women
£6
Parnell
1698
Mile End
8 women
1s. 8d. a week, etc.
Rogers
1612
Cripplegate
6 men and wives
£4
St. Peter’s
1618
Newington Butts
Fishmongers’ Company
Sion College
1623
London Wall
20 men and women
£6
Southampton
1656
St. Giles
Spurstowe
1666
Hackney
6 women
£4
Stafford
1633
Gray’s Inn Lane
4 men, 6 women
£6 and clothes
Trinity Hospital
1695
Mile End
28 men
£10:12s.
Walter’s
1651
Newington
16 men and women
£3:10s.
Watson’s
?
Shoreditch
12 women
20s. and coals
Whitcher
1683
Westminster
6 men and women
£5 and a gown
Wood’s
1613
Ratcliffe
6 men
£6 and coals
Young’s
1694
Southwark
2 women
1s. a week
From the almshouses turn to the schools. Those founded in the seventeenth century were as follows:—
Allhallows, Staining
Will. Linton
1658
£26
per annum
6 boys
Almonry
Emery Hill
1677
7
„ „
...
St. Saviour’s Church Yard
Applebea
1681
20
„ „
30 „
Dunhill Fields
Trotman
1673
80
„ „
30 „
Castle Street
Alf. Tenison
1685
1500
„ „
30 „
Cherry Tree Alley
W. Worrall
1689
30
„ „
40 „
East Smithfield
Sir S. Sterling
1673
20
„ „
16 „
Islington
Dame Alice Owen
1613
20
„ „
30 children
Lambeth
R. Lawrence
1661
35
„ „
20 „
Palmer’s School: see Almshouses
Grey Coat
Green Coat } see Almshouses
Parker’s Lane
W. Skelton
1663
...
50 boys
Plow Yard
J. Hickson
1689
£30
per annum
20 „
Rotherhithe
Hills and Bell
1612
3
„ „
8 children
Tothill Fields
Emery Hill
1677
20 boys
Whitechapel
Davenant
1686
about £80
„ „
{ 60 „
40 girls