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the use: GLEANEK MB MOHMODTTHSHIRB RECORD A Ijocal Register of Events and Magazine of Information. No. 12. Published bt J. H. CLARK, at "The County Observer" Office, Use. PRICE 3d ROGER EDWARDS'S CHARITY. Continued. To this information the defendants, on the 29th Kbvember, 1811, answered, and the cause came on to be heard before the Master of the Rolls, who by a decree of this date, ordered that Mr. John Olive (who desired to be discharged from acting in the trusts) should be discharged accordingly, and that it should be referred to Master Cox, to appoint one or more proper person or persons to be a new trustee or trustees of the said charity estates and premises, in the room and stead of the said defendant, John Olive : and it was ordered that the defendants Iltyd Nicholl and Thomas Hughes, and the several other remaining trustees, should convey and assign the said trust estates and premises, so as to vest the same in themselves and in such new trustee or trustees so to be appointed by the said Master, such conveyance and assignment to be approved of by the said Master: and it was ordered, that the said Master should approve of a proper scheme for the future management and regulation of the said Charity, and for the application of the funds belonging thereto; and the trustses were to be at liberty to lay proposals before the Master for that purpose, and in the mean time it was ordered, that the Master should inquire and state to the Court, whether it would be (according to the nature of the said charity) for the benefit of the several persons interested therein, that the Almshouses should be pulled down and re-built, or what would in his opinion be most advisable to be done in respect thereof. And it was ordered, that the relators should transfer the £130U in the funds into the name of the Accountant General of the Court, in trust in the cause. No further proceedings appear to have been taken in the suit, nor the decree to have been otherwise acted upon, than by the appointment of three new trustees in the stead of Thomas Jones, deceased, and John Olive, resigned, and the execution of a deed of conveyance, dated 9th June, 1813 (settled and approved of by the Master, (whereby John Watkins, Thomas Prothero, Alexander Jones, Iltyd Nicholl, and Thomas Hughes, the five then continuing trustees, conveyed all the Charity estates, so as to vest the same in themselves and Thomas Williams, Richard George, and Edward Bury, the three new trustees appointed. 12 On the 13th June, 1810, Mr. James Davies, the agent to the trustees, resigned the office, and his brother, Mr. Michael DaviF, was appointed in his place, and instead of being paid a fixed salary, he was allowed 5 per cent, on the gross rents received. The Rev. James Barnard Davies, a late scholar of the Free Grammar School, having been admitted into the University of Oxford, applied for the allowance of £5 towards the expenses he had incurred, which was paid to him. This annual bequest of £5 to any poor scholar going to the University of Oxford had not been paid or applied for, except on that occasion, within the memory of the oldest trustee of this date. Mr. Andrew Gordon resigned the situation of Master of the Writing School on December 27th, 1811, which he had held for upwards of thirteen years, in consequence of declining health. On the 5th of June, 1816, in consideration of the great reduction in the value of agricultural produce, the trustees ordered their agent to make an allow¬ ance of 20 per cent, to thirteen of their tenants, and to continue the same allowance until further orders. Thomas Lucas, of the town of Usk, appeared before the trustees on 13th May, 1818, and made complaint of the conduct of John Bowen Havard, the Writing Master, in neglecting his duty and making irregular charges for admittance and other¬ wise of the sons of the said Thomas Lucas, and other information of irregular conduct of the said master having been given, he was suspended from the office of schoolmaster for a week, whilst further inquiries were being made. On the 20th of May, John Bowen Havard was dismissed for inattention to his duties and improper conduct, and John George, the younger, of the town of Usk, was appointed Writing Master in his stead, at the same salary of £70 per annum: and it was ordered, that no entrance money be demanded or received in future by the said master. By deed of the 4th July, 1821, Mr. Hughes was discharged from being a trustee at his own request, and the said Thomas Prothero and Edward Bury being then dead, two new trustees, namely, William Addams Williams, the younger, esquire, and Benjamin Jones, clerk, were appointed in their stead, and the Charity estates again conveyed, so as to vest the same in the continuing and new trustees. On May 29th, 1822, the whole of the rent of Tyrlay farm being bequeathed in certain proportions