For a general biography of Sir Thomas White, see A. Daly Briscoe: "A Marian Lord Mayor" at reference 920 in Record Office searchroom library. For the charity's terms, cf. PA101/8/18.I. Lord Mayor of London in 1553, Thomas White founded St. John's College, Oxford and benefitted thirty English towns with his profits gained from the cloth-trade; including £1,400 given to Coventry corporation for purchase of St. Mary's Priory property in 1542 (however, he gave Bristol £2,000 in 1545). By his will, Sir Thomas stipulated that, for ten years after his death, £40 should be used out of the profits from the Coventry property as a nine years' loan to be divided between four young men (formerly apprentices of the city) in order to set them up in business; for the next thirty years the money should be divided between two such recipients (actually they were usually weavers), but after those two periods (in fact from 1607) the money (subsequently increased - vide PA329/1) was to be loaned to one recipient each in a quinquennial cycle involving Coventry, Northampton, Nottingham, Leicester and Warwick. Sir Thomas also bequeathed every year £24 among twelve poor Coventrian male householders, £4 to the mayor and recorder, £1 to the steward and town clerk for helping with the charity's accounts, and £1 to the Merchant Taylors' Company of London; over the next century there was some malversation, but lost sums were made good to the charity in 1641 and order was reinforced by the 1660 and 1676 enfeoffments. In 1695 the Merchant Taylors began an action to ensure that payments continued in the original proportions; Coventry corporation had been enjoying more than its fair share and tried to settle matters with the four benefiting towns, but this ruse was discovered, and in 1712 the charity was vested in an independent body of trustees with sequestration until 1719 of corporation property so that the £2,241 surplus due to the charity might be levied (see PA101/8/18). During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries loan-money was acquired from corporators who had acted as officials of the Charity (about which there was a law suit in 1779 over the £4 bribes to freemen at the time of general elections). By the 1835 legislation Sir Thomas White's Charity was placed among the city's General Municipal Charities but had a separate body of trustees who paid over the yearly income (from 1837) to the city's General Trustees; by 1853, £912 of the £2,650 income was distributed in £4 gifts among poor men who had lived within the municipal boundary for five years and had been leaseholders for one year. Applications for loans (popularly known as the "City Fifties") had not kept pace with the charity's increased interest formed through rising property-values, so in 1851 the Attorney-General began proceedings which led to the 1861 Scheme whereby £3,000 of the surplus was spent in building a school for the daughters of deceased freemen, known as the Industrial Girls' School, and the rest invested in Sir Thomas White's Pensions Fund (an idea which the freemen had pressed since at least 1856, according to PA2398/6/1/6). In the late nineteenth century the £4 gift was chiefly enjoyed by younger men. Parliamentary Acts appropriated the moneys to the pensions, loans (cf. PA488/1/1/8/77-79; PA488/1/6/3), educational and eleemosynary branches of the General Municipal Charities Scheme in 1896. The girls' school, to which it was stated that more general Schemes did not apply even when it had been closed for thirty years (cf. PA488/1/1/8/23-69,81-87), was augmented with interest from Jesson's Charity but closed in 1919 (however, the progress of pupils therefore transferred to other schools was followed - see PA488/1/6/127,151,160,173) and its building sold to the Coventry & Warwickshire Hospital (see PA488/1/6/93); in 1921 began girls' exhibitions (the scheme is PA488/1/1/9/2) under the Sir Thomas White's Educational Foundation which favoured deceased freemen's daughters - they enabled the recipients to attend schools, universities or training-colleges, and were extended to boys in 1929 (relevant orders are PA488/1/1/8/88-96; the scheme for the extension is PA488/1/1/9/3; correspondence is at PA488/1/6/438); in 1961 part of the fund was reserved to the Alec Turner Scholarships (each worth £1,000 maximum and awarded to freemen or their children who wanted to do postgraduate research work - see PA488/1/1/1/5): see PA488/2/5. In 1896 the trustees' and clerk's shares of the overall charity money were assigned to the eleemosynary branch, but the Merchant Taylors still receive their yearly £1. To cater for Coventry's expanding population, an 1845 Act released much Sir Thomas White's Charity property between the city wall and Swanswell Pool (the legislation intended that new houses there should have uniform elevations and cost at least £300 each to build - see CCA/2/3/774 passim: CCA/2/3/811/1-4 (the "Sir Thomas White" inn, White Street/Norton Street)), and a nursery garden at Chapelfields was similarly freed the next year; thus the suburb of Hillfields (with roads named after White and such other benefactors as Bird, Fairfax, Ford, Hales, Jesson, Norton and Wheatley) was enabled to grow in an area which had included Prior's Orchard Mill which from 1632 to 1844 was part of the city's waterworks, whilst the Chapelfields land became the site of Mount Street, Duke Street and Lord Street, with Russell Terrace along the Allesley Old Road (see PA56/130; PA56/134/1; PA56/136/4). The charity's property also comprised Jeffreysfield, Coundon (held from the trustees at 4/- p.a. by Humphrey Burton in 1709) and other land south of Moat House Farm in that suburb, which was covered with council-housing by 1927 (cf. PA704/72/53); a close near Harnall held by the Davenport family until 1638/39; land at Radford (see PA56/102/1-3), covering 118a. in 1833, with Radford Mill; the Priory's Stoke estate and its Hawkesbury and Attoxhall holdings (later collieries), built up from 32a. which formed an identical area in the fourteenth century and 1833; and sundry Lammas Lands (of which agricultural system the trustees were the largest proprietors in 1850): in 1863 2a. on the Stoney Stanton Road were acquired from the trustees of this charity and of Henry VIII Grammar School as the site for Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital. See PA101/1/362, also PA101/137: PA56/127/1.XII. See PA295/84/1 for the charity's land at Allesley in 1935. Coundon's Four Pounds Avenue is named after the gift. See PA202/1/39.IV - VIII passim; PA202/1/34: PA242/1/34; PA242/3/26. The Vicar Lane Building Society bought at least part of the Harnall close in 1828 - see PA221/1/2. See PA263/9. See PA50/3. See PA67/33 for the grant of Abbott's Mill to a new tenant in 1876. See PA71/1 fol. 230. See PA115/6. PA118 is a rental for Sir Thomas White's Charity and other lands, c.1750. PA122/3 is a charities-list including Sir Thomas White's. See PA145. His arms are displayed on the Council House frontage. See PA171/8/1 for adjacent corporation land at Bishopgate Green,1785. PA198 deals with a plot of the Spittlemoor land in 1856-66. PA416 relates to the charity's Shortley land. PA492/2 fol. 84 is a sketch of White's heraldic arms, which were considered for display at the Council House, early twentieth century. PA1/6 fol. 60 (fol. "28") is a mid-nineteenth century watercolour of White's St. Mary's Hall Great Hall portrait. PA2/1 fols.45r-46r (fols. "39"r - "40"r), 49v (fol. "43"v), 51r -52v (fols. "45"r - "46"v); 5 reverse fols. 9r-v (fols. "5"r-v), 12v (fol."8"v), 17r - 18v (fols. "13" -"14") are seventeenth-century rentals and accounts. PA14/11/7 reveals that during the eighteenth century the lands were so fruitful that their rents were used to augment charities less well endowed, a practice which PA1337/1 suggests was already established at its start. See PA14/1/21; PA14/4/3,6,20,29,57; PA14/5/24; PA14/6/30,69,80,90,180,197; PA14/8/37. PA14/11/11 includes the 1855 scheme's proposals. PA21/2/46.V,XI,XII,47 refer to the Attoxhale holding, PA21/2/46,XI,XII,47.III to the collieries' leases. PA22/4/7: PA96/37/1 relate to the 1695 - 1725 lawsuit. PA17/29/18-20 refer to Northampton loans, PA17/29/15,17,22: PA96/38 to Nottingham loans, PA17/29/16,21,23 to Leicester loans and PA17/29/24: PA96/39 to Warwick loans. PA17/29/25 relates to the Merchant Taylors' Company, and PA17/29/5 to sequestration. PA17/29/12,13 deal with a council committee investigation at the time of Charity-Commission reform, with which PA17/34/18 fol.18 is associated. PA17/29/14 mentions a £4 gift being justifiable in 1749. PA17/29/11 relates to Coundon land in 1621, PA17/29/6-9 to Hawkesbury colliery (1650-88). PA17/29/10 is a lease book (1653 - 1771). PA17/29/1,2 deal with the institution of the St. John's, Oxon. link, but PA17/34/18 fols.101,104,105 with its practice during the 1830s, and PA17/61/1 fols.16,17 deal with more general fears then on the part of the unreformed corporation. See PA17/29/3,4. White's will is summarised at PA16/2 fols. 27-29, 55 recto - 78 recto (fols."55" - "57"). For the Hawkesbury land, 1868 - 1912, see PA279/44/17, 314, 346, 349, 409, 1228, 1285, 1303, 1307, 1337, 1338, 1343, 1446, 5438, 8262, 10906. The Radford land extended to Kingfield - see PA279/44/7253,7282 (1899). See PA279/44/8297,8358,12138. For transfer of the Freeman's Orphans' School from Leicester Street to "Grove House", Coundon, 1916, see PA279/44/12195, 12197-12199, 12202, 12205, 12206, 12210, 12212, 12217, 12222, 12248, 12389, 12406, 12408, 12417, 12528, 12554, 12640, 12702. For sale of Walsgrave holding in 1863, see PA279/45/1; for purchase of Elms Farm, Walsgrave in 1897, see PA2297/1/2. PA214/1/8 shows White's loan trustees acting as mortgagees (1731). PA213/1/1,2 relates to sale of Harnall land in 1804 (cf. PA704/1/3.I(a). It was alleged in 1737-40 that loan money had been used as election bribes - see PA248/6/34-36: PA2358/4/1. For litigation with Warwick corporation, 1736-41, see PA248/6/44; PA248/7/1 fols. 32,33,44,45, PA248 series 8 passim. PA248/8/7 is a bond with Northampton corporation. Relating to the 1845 Swanswell sale, PA244/32 summarises the charity history to that date. PA244/48/7 (endorsement), PA244/48/8 (endorsement), PA244/48/14-17 (endorsements), PA244/48/20 (endorsement), PA244/48/21 (endorsement) PA244/49/1 (endorsement) are 1730s applications for £4 gifts, whilst PA244/48/9 (endorsements), PA244/48/18 (endorsement), PA244/48/22 (endorsement) are 1730s petitions for £40 loans. PA244/49/4 relates to St. John's College, Oxford. PA101/1/262, 288 mention the Harnall land in 1729. For his wife Joan's interest in the will, see BA/H/Q/F8/5/1; the gift did note her annuity (see BA/H/Q/A79/65A). BA/B/P/102/3 mentions an ex-Trinity Guild rent (1552). BA/D/BL/1/2,3 are books detailing loans to this and other charities. Loan beneficiaries for 1660-67 are listed at BA/H/Q/F20/7/6, whilst loan-securities for 1779 appear at BA/H/Q/F20/7/9. BA/H/Q/F8/1/106,110,117-119 are receipts for £4 gifts and the town clerk's and aldermen's sums, 1746-58 passim. Loans-securities for 1647 - 1730 are at BA/L/G/4/1. For the lawsuit in 1702-21, see BA/H/Q/F8/1/81: BA/H/Q/F20/7/7,8. BA/L/G/1/1 forms articles of agreement between Coventry corporation and the Merchant Taylors. BA/H/Q/F8/5/2 is a 1697 lawsuit account. For the levy of £2,241, cf. BA/A/G/2/1. BA/A/B/2/8 relates to £20 loaned to John Bedson in 1711; BA/A/B/2/8 to premises upon which £50 was charged similarly for Edward Winter's in 1735. BA/F/B/109/1 is the 1827-35 distribution table for gifts. BA/A/G/10/5,6; BA/A/G/12/15; BA/A/G/23/20,24,25,30; BA/A/G/26/28,57 relate to applications for loans, 1749 - 1821. BA/B/F/12 passim are tithes' fee-farm receipts, late sixteenth century - late seventeenth century. For Radford land, see BA/H/F/20/7/2: PA56/53. For the Stoke estate, see BA/G/A/39/5 and footnote 4550. For the Hawkesbury coalmines, see BA/H/Q/F20/4,5. BA/D/Q/2-4 relate to the fellowship from the grammar school. Letters relating to university matters are BA/H/Q/A79/63E, 66C,D, 67, 89A, 91, 118, 119A, 160B, 210B, 245A,B, 246A-C, 263B, 264, 290, 291, 306, 314, 315. There is a very large borough archive fonds at BA/D/A, including a lawsuit (BA/D/A/8) to which BA/D/AZ/1/8 relates. Various papers are at BA/H/Q/F8/5/1. Some of the Spon land was administered along with that nearby belonging to Wheatley's Charity - see BA/D/H/26,5,6. BA/H/Q/A79/65X is an engraving of Sir Thomas White. PA1516/26/1 and footnote 110 refer to his wife's 1563 annuity receipt. PA436/7/5-11 passim refer to the charge of a £50 loan to a silkweaver upon a Dead Lane dwelling, 1781-91. PA465/142/1 is a draft scheme for the Educational Foundation, 1967. PA466/5/1 p.23 shows that the charity acquired land at Hawkes End as late as 1936. It had some on the corner of Fairfax Street with Ford Street in 1883 - see PA466/8/2 p.24. Sir Thomas White's Road in Chapelfields is eponymous. PA440/1/7 relates to a 1744 £50 loan. John Hands had loans operative from 1754 to 1783 - see PA440/2/5-11. PA440/5/28 relates to an 1880 £100 loan. PA482 is a c.1700 copy of Sir Thomas' 1566 will. PA494/3/1 relates to an early eighteenth century mortgage to the trustees. PA54/160/6,7 relate to a £50 loan in 1788; PA2398/6/2/6/29-30 refer to one taken out perhaps slightly later. For the university fellowship, 1771 - 1841, see PA54/278; PA54/279. See PA54/291/9 for the lease in 1829 as from Sir Thomas White's Charity trustees of a close which really belonged to the Ford's Hospital estate. PA54/364/3 lists the charity trustees in 1838. PA500/1/1 is an 1858 Chancery order. PA500/2/1 is an assignment of a lease of Radford land (1769). PA500/19 shows that the 1845 Act for sale of the estate involved Henry VIII Grammar School trustees. William Tedd mortgaged New Street property to secure two loans in 1830 - see PA500/41/1. PA506/235/67 suggests that his Greyfriars' Green statue was erected, c.1881. PA507/1/3.1 shows that the Swanswell lands lay near Dunchurch School's. The memorial to Sir Thomas White erected in 1883 is a statue on Greyfriars' Green, but there had been a proposal then that it take rather the form of a new Coventry cross - see PA526/54-58. PA540/2/8.IV relates to a wife's mortgage so that her husband could enjoy a loan (1813). PA575/42-47 are leases of various properties, 1852 - 1901. The trustees bought messuages adjoing Bell Green Road in 1878 - see PA538/38. For Butts land, 1851-96, see PA591/1.1.2.V-VII,X: PA56/96/2. PA593/2 is a bond for a £100 loan. The local footpaths preservation society was concerned about the state of two paths across the charity's Coundon land, 1932 - see PA596/2/15. PA594/10/2/1/2-4 relate to Sandy Lane, Radford land, 1885 - 1906. PA55/28/1 lists the entire estate in 1712. A back building behind Cross Cheaping was leased in 1786 - see PA55/15/2. PA55/27/1,2 relate to sale of Harnall land in 1809, PA55/72 to more there in 1830-40. In 1840 the Stoke land included Collier's Meadow, Far Close, Gillyflowers, Broad Field, Gravelly Hill, Rickyard Close, Rushy Meadow, Nailor's Close and Nailor's Ground and covered 98a. 0r. 4p. [Blyth]. PA1681/7/2 refers to nine-years loans to three men in 1790. See PA1681/25. PA1681/27/1.XXXVI refers to a nine-years loan to a man of mature years (1749). PA1681/48/1.VIII relates to the charging of a loan upon the innholder Samuel Bartlam's property, later eighteenth century. For loans to freemen, see PA56/17/14,15; PA56/81/1,3,4; PA56/84/10; PA56/86/7-13 passim; PA56/94/3-6; PA56/138/1.VIII: PA96/5/4-5. For Walsgrave parish land, see PA56/33/1: BA/H/Q/F8/1/121. For Silver Street property, see PA56/51/6 (1856). The charity bought Foleshill Road, Bishopgate Green land in 1860 (PA56/52/2). For land behind Smithford Street, see PA56/117/2.I. PA96/71/19.XXIX abstracts a mortgage upon Mill Lane premises which was charged to the charity in 1718. Christopher Davenport (q.v.) charged the rent from Black Orchard, Spon End to finance a school in 1622 which still had a master in 1713 - see PA468/5/3/53. See PA468/5/12/24. See PA488/1/1/5/1; PA488/1/1/6/1,2 (revision proposals, 1965-68); PA488/1/1/7/15-53 passim (regarding proportion-money divided between the interested towns in the quinquennial cycle and other beneficiaries and transfer of some to Bablake School); PA488/1/1/9/1 (1906 scheme for use of loan-money to advance education in Nottingham); PA488/1/3/5/1-4 (stock-conversion, 1915); PA488/1/3/6/3,4,8 (investments, 1963); PA488/1/4/2/9,12,13 (pensions-correspondence, 1961-63); PA488/1/6/3,7,8,15,17,150 (loans-correspondence, 1894 - 1927); PA488/1/6/186-390 passim (general correspondence about property, 1928-31); PA488/1/6/392-535 passim (loans-correspondence, 1935-63); PA488/1/6/451 (pensions-correspondence, 1937). For Radford land, see PA488/1/6/111. For Coundon land, see PA488/1/6/532,533: PA2730/2/18.I (1935 sale to Thomas Cooksey (q.v.) for housing). For Stoke land, see BA/H/Q/F8/1/109. The sub-collection within the General Municipal Charities collection PA488 which relates principally to this charity is PA488/2; therewithin, PA488/2/1 is for property, PA488/2/2 for finance, PA488/2/3 for pensions, PA488/2/4 for loans, PA488/2/5 for education and PA488/2/6 specifically for eleemosynary aid. PA489/3/2/3 is an 1896 agreement for supply of bread to Sir Thomas White's Girls' School; PA489/6/7/18 is endorsed upon a table of names of girls who applied for university exhibitions in 1920. PA489/3/20/1 is a memorandum about rearrangement of funds between Bablake School and Sir Thomas White's Charity, 1924; PA489/3/22 and PA489/3/32/24,36,39,40 are items of correspondence about a loan from the charity to Bablake, 1964-66. See PA489/3/26/7; PA489/5/23/26. PA489/5/19 is correspondence about land which Bablake School bought from Sir Thomas White's Charity trustees in 1931. PA2297/11 is a sale catalogue for purchase of ["Kirby House"] and other Little Park Street premises by the trustees in 1875. For Sir Thomas White's Charity loans, see PA491/8/1. For Radford land, see PA491/69/1.III. For Chapelfields land, see PA491/77/1.VII. PA491/75/4,5 show that the watchmaker George Cowley (q.v.)'s 1856 nine-years' loan was invested in a building society at the end of the term. For other nine-years' loans, see PA491/76; PA491/78/7,11,15; PA491/82/2,9; PA491/84/13; PA491/95/20,22.I; PA491/97/34. For Spon Causeway land, see PA491/78/1. The charity was allocated one allotment at Alderman's Green and two on Great Heath when Foleshill was enclosed in 1775 - see PA1001. The Great Heath allotment appears to have been in the erstwhile district of Vauxhall, based on Lockhurst Lane, to judge from CCA/2/3/31/21(a)(i). Because it was so large, White's Charity subsidised Stone's, Gayer's and Wheate's benefactions to Henry VIII Grammar School during the earlier eighteenth century - see PA2358/1/25. PA849/5/24; PA849/21/1; PA849/22/11 are more nine-years' loans. PA1023/5-6 recite a nine-years' loan. The charity purchased a small farm at Walsgrave in 1879 but sold it in 1967 - see CCA/2/3/111/29,32. CCA/2/3/10/2-5; CCA/2/3/19/8-9,13-14; CCA/2/3/43/15; CCA/2/3/80/12-15; CCA/2/3/107/10; CCA/2/3/136/9; CCA/2/3/169/11-12; CCA/2/3/170/22,25-26; CCA/2/3/175/1; CCA/2/3/180/17-33 passim; CCA/2/3/241/20,21; CCA/2/3/281/12,13; CCA/2/3/352/2-8 passim; CCA/2/3/380/25; CCA/2/3/424/21,25,31; CCA/2/3/425/3,5; CCA/2/3/430/12; CCA/2/3/440/10,11; CCA/2/3/463/2,3; CCA/2/3/472/18,19; CCA/2/3/782/2-3; CCA/2/3/803/7; CCA/2/3/814/10-13 passim; CCA/2/3/912/17,18.1 relate to nine-years' loans. See CCA/2/3/430/64. PA2643/1.I,II relates to the loan made to the gardener Saint John King (q.v.) in 1739. The charity sold Allesley closes in 1836 (see CCA/2/3/782/30). The charity sold land at Broomfield Road, Earlsdon in 1906 (see PA2673/2.I). For its Spon End land, 1900-35, see PA2541/1-14 passim. Julian Hoare (q.v.) of the "Coventry Evening Telegraph" was mildly interested in Levi Fox(q.v.)' 1961 proposal to write a history of the charity (see PA2684/2/3/4). In 1866 the charity bought some of Thomas Ball Troughton(q.v.)'s land at Hawkesbury - see PA2684/10/1/113,116. For a Greyfriars' Lane rentcharge, 1933, see PA2691/3/3/54. For its Butts land, 1859-75, see PA2701/1.II,IV,V. For its Courthouse Green land, 1899, see PA2596/1.I,9.XIII. PA2583/3 comprises charity accounts, 1990 - 2000. See PA2713/4/1. PA2721/2,4 show that the charity bought the "Nugget" at Coundon in 1892 and land near it in 1910. For nine years' loans, see PA2730/2/4,6,7. Charity land beside the future Albany Road, Earlsdon was sold in 1878 to the poor law guardians - see PA2735/13.II. PA2734/2/1 is a copy of Edward Phillips(q.v.)' 1808 transcription of Sir Thomas White's Charity estate maps and particulars as it had been in 1739. See PA2409/2/10/7/21. For the proposal, made in 1871 but not realised for twelve years, that a statue in White's memory be erected in Coventry, see PA2409/2/15/12,59,68,72. The charity owned Courthouse Farm in 1933 (see PA2307/21/12). It received rent from Harvest Hill Farm, Allesley in 1914 (see PA2307/62/7,25). Land adjoining Weston Wood, Cubbington, Warwickshire was rabbit-damaged in 1943, according to PA2307/91/1. PA2307/163 shows that the charity owned Whoberley Hall Farm between the World Wars. See PA2770/15/22; PA2770/34/25; PA2770/62/1.II. PA2770/26/1-2; PA2770/48/11 refer to nine years' loans, PA2770/43/1 (attachment 1) to sale of land at Steeple Fields, Radford (1902). For Stoke land, see PA2770/44/2.I. For Hillfields land, see PA2770/52/1.IV. For Whoberley land bought in 1902-06, see PA2770/55. For Pinley land, see PA2770/56/1.VI. For Allesley Old Road land bought in 1901, see PA2770/57/20. The trustees accepted a Gloucester Street housing-plot as security for a nine-years' loan, 1872-81 (see PA2789/1/3,4). PA2806/5 is a nine years' loan deed for 1901-10, with as security property at Woodshires Green. PA811/3/14 refers to such a loan, secured upon Lucas Court messuages in 1824. For Barrs Hill, Radford land, 1760 - 1860, see PA2830/2/1. PA2831/3/7 is an historico-archaeological file about the charity's Spon land. CCA/2/3/434/2-4,10-11 relate to nine-years loans secured upon five Cow Lane messuages from 1743; CCA/2/3/142/3,4 to one secured upon a West Orchard tenement, 1753-63; CCA/2/3/914/13,15 to two secured upon Earl's Mill Lane premises from 1815; CCA/2/3/749/4-7 to one secured upon a Spon Street messuage, 1775-84; CCA/2/3/185/10-12 to two secured upon Little Park Street messuages, 1802; CCA/2/3/573/58,59.to one secured upon Longford premises, 1857-66; CCA/2/3/186/18,24-25,28,31,38 to a pair and then two others secured upon Bayley Lane cottages, 1827-38, 1860 and 1877-86; CCA/2/3/942/21 to one secured on a Gosford Street house, 1718; CCA/2/3/951/28 to two secured upon Gosford Green land, 1822; CCA/2/3/1007/1 to one secured upon a Bayley Lane messuage, 1744-52; CCA/2/3/13/16 to three secured upon Much Park Street messuages, 1813; CCA/2/3/156/13 to one secured upon a Priory Court messuage, 1748-58. PA2845/2/154 is a slide of the statue which was erected in his memory on Greyfriars' Green. The maltster William Smith (q.v.) took out a £50 mortgage with the trustees before 1755 (see CCA/2/3/313/3). The charity still had land at Alderman's Green in 1848 but sold some of it to the local Primitive Methodists in 1910 - see PA2876/3/1; PA2876/4/1. PA704/5/1 is a draft of a petition to the trustees asking them in 1934 to contribute towards repair of the road in front of The Quadrant, which development itself was built on land that the trustees sold in 1853 (see PA704/33/5). PA704/87 relates to loans, 1928-70. For the Educational Foundation, see PA704/88; for the sale of the girls' school in 1921, see PA704/89. The Bibbins family was involved in loaning our money from this charity during the late eighteenth century - see PA1508/13/1. For Whoberley land bought in 1913 and sold in 1926, see PA2978/2/4.IV,XI,XII. 1555-78 council minute book extracts which relate to the charity are to be found at PA3000/3/2.