• Charities of a donor unknown (prior to 1622) and of John, Lord Somers (deed 1716), the charity estates consisting of Reddall Field and Carpenter’s Grove Field, near Hawkshead, containing 16 acres and 6 acres 3 roods respectively, producing together a yearly income of £20.
• Charities of Thomas and Anne Edwards (deed 1626), consisting of a cottage, barn, and garden, and about 10 acres of land in the parish of St. Peter, St. Albans, producing £25 a year; also of three pieces of land in Angerland Common containing about 2 acres.
• Charity of Sir Thomas Hude (deed 1655), consisting of 1 acre 3 roods 27 poles abutting on Roestock Common, in Angerland Common, and 35 poles in centre of the common. The lands in Angerland are let together to one tenant at £4 a year.
• Charity of Martha Coningsby, consisting of 2 acres 2 roods 20 poles in Woodsdell Common, producing about £2-10s. a year, distributable among ten of the poorest inhabitants on Shrove Tuesday.

The official trustees of charitable funds hold the sums of stock belonging to the following charities also comprised in the above-mentioned order of 1891, namely:-

• Charities of Edmund Faldo (will 1626), Sir Thomas Hyde, and John Seranck (1655), £1,179-11s-9d. £2-10s. per cent. Annuities arising from salse of land; income for poor and apprenticing.
• Charity of Same Lydia Mews (will 1727), £305-14s-9d. consols.
• Charity of Anne Hunter (will 1784), £256-10s-3d. consols.
• Charity of Joseph Sabine (deed 1816), £109-12s. consols; income for bread and meat to widows on Easter Eve.
• Charity of Miss Holmes (will 1847), £121-5s-5d. consols, income for one poor widow.

Caroline Lydia Casamajor, by her will, proved at London, 10 September, 1853, left £3,000 consols for support of at school at Water End for educating and in part clothing the children of the poor, and for repairing and improving the school-house, the school to be a Church of England School.

In 1905 the consols were realized and proceeds re-invested in purchase of £3,264-9s-1d. India 2 ½ per cent. stock; a sum of £166-13s-4d. stock was subsequently sold out to be replaced within a period of twenty-five years for making an addition to the girls’ and infants’ school, leaving a balance of £3,097-15s-9d. India 2 ½ per cent. stock with the official trustees, which, under an order of the Board of Education on 9 February, 1906, was apportioned as to £196-1s. stock for repairs of schoolhouse, £2,176-6s-1d. stock for salaries of schoolmistresses, and £725-8s-8d. for girls’ clothing, fuel, books, &c. Two-thirds of the dividends computed as if of the original sum of £3,264-9s-1d. India 2 ½ per cent. stock, are now paid over to the Herts. County Council.

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