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An Account Of The Royal Cumberland Freemasons' School.
The oreat encouragement this Undertaking met with in it s infancy from several branches of the Royal Family , and from many distinguished characters among the nobility and gentry , as well without as within the circle of the Fraternity , enabled the Trustees a „ d Committee , who were delegated to manage the concerns of the Charity to take a house at-Somer ' s Town , m the New Road lead' to and on the ist of
ino-from Tottenham-court-road Islington , January 1780 , fifteen Children were admitted therein , which number has been , at different . periods , augmented to the amount of twenty-eig ht ; than which number the house is not calculated to accommodate more . . . The great and daily increase of benefactions to this Charity , how-Trusteesand General Committee ( under
ever has induced the , the sanction of a General Court of the Governors ) , to take a piece of around in St . George ' s Fields ; whereon they intend , by subscriptions and benefactions ( distinct from the annual contributions for the support of the Charity ) to erect a commodious and substantial building , sufficiently capacious to receive any number of Children their finances may be competent to support . Near three
hundred pounds have been already contributed for this purpose ; and , having contracted with a builder , to carry their design into execution , for 1819 / . they . solicit the benefactions of those who already are , as well as those who may be humanely disposed to become Subscribers to the Charity , to enable them to carry on and complete so benevolent an Undertaking . have supposed ) confined to the
This Charity is not ( as many Children of Masons within the Metropolis ( though it ' s principal support is naturally derived thence ) , for we understand , that they are received from all parts of the kingdom , and that there are now three Children in the School from Nottingham , Colchester , and Gravesend —indeed the qualifications laid down in the rules of the that Children equall
__Institution sufficiently imply , Country are y intitled to it ' s benefits with those 111 Town . As we are extremely desirous of recommending this Chanty to public protection , we ' have subjoined some account of the Plan on which it is conducted , the qualifications and privileges of a Governor and also the qualifications of Children necessary to enable them to participate of it ' s benefits ; referring our Readers for further information on the subject , to the book of printed regulations , which may be had of the Secretary , Mr . CUPPAGE , NO . 13 , W
arwick-street , Golden-square . A General Court of the Governors is convened by public advertisement four times a year ; when the proceedings of the Committees held in the intermediate time are submitted for confirmation or rejection ;—the accounts of the Charity ordered for liquidation ;—Children admitted and discharged , and all other business of a general nature transacted . At the Court in April , the Com-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
An Account Of The Royal Cumberland Freemasons' School.
The oreat encouragement this Undertaking met with in it s infancy from several branches of the Royal Family , and from many distinguished characters among the nobility and gentry , as well without as within the circle of the Fraternity , enabled the Trustees a „ d Committee , who were delegated to manage the concerns of the Charity to take a house at-Somer ' s Town , m the New Road lead' to and on the ist of
ino-from Tottenham-court-road Islington , January 1780 , fifteen Children were admitted therein , which number has been , at different . periods , augmented to the amount of twenty-eig ht ; than which number the house is not calculated to accommodate more . . . The great and daily increase of benefactions to this Charity , how-Trusteesand General Committee ( under
ever has induced the , the sanction of a General Court of the Governors ) , to take a piece of around in St . George ' s Fields ; whereon they intend , by subscriptions and benefactions ( distinct from the annual contributions for the support of the Charity ) to erect a commodious and substantial building , sufficiently capacious to receive any number of Children their finances may be competent to support . Near three
hundred pounds have been already contributed for this purpose ; and , having contracted with a builder , to carry their design into execution , for 1819 / . they . solicit the benefactions of those who already are , as well as those who may be humanely disposed to become Subscribers to the Charity , to enable them to carry on and complete so benevolent an Undertaking . have supposed ) confined to the
This Charity is not ( as many Children of Masons within the Metropolis ( though it ' s principal support is naturally derived thence ) , for we understand , that they are received from all parts of the kingdom , and that there are now three Children in the School from Nottingham , Colchester , and Gravesend —indeed the qualifications laid down in the rules of the that Children equall
__Institution sufficiently imply , Country are y intitled to it ' s benefits with those 111 Town . As we are extremely desirous of recommending this Chanty to public protection , we ' have subjoined some account of the Plan on which it is conducted , the qualifications and privileges of a Governor and also the qualifications of Children necessary to enable them to participate of it ' s benefits ; referring our Readers for further information on the subject , to the book of printed regulations , which may be had of the Secretary , Mr . CUPPAGE , NO . 13 , W
arwick-street , Golden-square . A General Court of the Governors is convened by public advertisement four times a year ; when the proceedings of the Committees held in the intermediate time are submitted for confirmation or rejection ;—the accounts of the Charity ordered for liquidation ;—Children admitted and discharged , and all other business of a general nature transacted . At the Court in April , the Com-