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    Gray's Almshouses is a terrace of almshouses in Taunton, Somerset, England, founded in 1635 by the wealthy cloth-merchant Robert Gray, whose monument...
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    cider. Gray's Almshouses in East Street, founded by Robert Gray in 1615 for poor single women, are red brick buildings bearing the arms of Robert Gray, dated...
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  • almshouses. It includes historial almshouses (some of which are no longer in use as charitable housing) and new-build almshouses. Bedford Almshouses,...
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  • the reign of his brother, King Stephen. Taunton is also the site of Gray's Almshouses, which dates from 1635, and a building in Fore Street from the 16th...
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    The Tollemache Almshouses, also known as the Wilbraham Almshouses or Wilbraham's Almshouses, are six former almshouses in Nantwich, Cheshire, England...
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    The Widows' Almshouses, also known as the Wilbraham or Wilbraham's Almshouses and as the Widows' Hospital, are former almshouses for six widows in Nantwich...
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    Henry I, fortified the bishop's hall. Taunton is also the site of Gray's Almshouses, which dates from 1635, and two buildings in Fore Street from the...
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    The Wilbraham's Almshouses, also known as the Wilbraham Almshouses, are six former almshouses in Nantwich, Cheshire, England, located on the north side...
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    Estbury (1508), who founded the almshouses outside, and fine effigies of Sir Thomas Essex and his wife (1558). The almshouses were established by an Act of...
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  • Lords refused. In 1892 his widow, Frances Louisa Tollemache, founded six almshouses in Ham, London in his memory, with an endowment of £16,000 to support...
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    Livery Dole (category Almshouses in Devon)
    to the chapel and almshouses 1849 sculpted escutcheon of arms of Denys of Holcombe Burnell & Bicton on the new Livery Dole Almshouses. Arms of Denys: Ermine...
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    almshouses and the Warden's House which has a plaque recording Lady Hewley's bequest and her preference for Unitarians to benefit from the almshouses...
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    practices. In 1511, Jakob deposited 15,000 florins as an endowment for some almshouses. In 1514, he bought up part of Augsburg and in 1516 came to an agreement...
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    row of almshouses, built in 1622 for Richard Wyatt, the Master Carpenter of the Carpenters' Company in London. Farncombe Infants' School, on Grays Road...
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    Prebendal School, Oxford University and Gray's Inn. In 1625, he provided funds for the erection of almshouses on the east side of New Broyle Road. They...
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  • granted to John Cokke 1544/5; residence built on site 1585; converted to almshouses c.1812 St Saviour ____________________ Hitchin Nunnery Redbourn Priory...
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    side) to Holcombe Burnell. In March 1591, he founded the Livery Dole Almshouses in Heavitree Road, to the east of Exeter, near which site in 1531/32 his...
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    extensive historical notices and a view of the original almshouses. Built in a single terrace, the almshouses consisted of six houses with attics over, each to...
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  • Richard Amhurst (category Members of Gray's Inn)
    1621. He went out on 2 August 1623 as serjeant-at-law. He founded the almshouses at Pembury. Amhurst died between 8 August 1630 when he made his will and...
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    1600s, it was officially founded on the second floor of the New York City Almshouse in 1736, 40 years before the American Revolution." "New York City Health...
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    works locally, including founding two sets of almshouses for impoverished men. He also founded almshouses in Monken Hadley, Middlesex, where he is buried...
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    (2012). "Kellaway and the almshouses". The Sherborne Page. Retrieved 29 December 2020. Carter, Blanche LH (1931). "Sherborne Almshouse". Dorset Year Book: 19...
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  • travels to Ashmore, Illinois, to investigate the Ashmore Estates, a former almshouse built in 1916 and then converted into a private psychiatric facility in...
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    16th-century almshouse chapel built with monies left by Michael MacQueen in 1537. Work was completed in 1544 and it operated as a hospital almshouse (dedicated...
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    Robert Hitcham (category Members of Gray's Inn)
    and later Pembroke College, Cambridge, studying law. He was admitted to Gray's Inn on 3 November 1589 from Barnard's Inn and was called to the Bar in 1595...
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    erected almshouses for eight or nine poor single men and women aged over 64, with small pensions for their maintenance. Both school and almshouses were to...
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    blind founded in 1329, and earlier still by a nunnery. They comprised the almshouses, a hall and chapel, and the library added to the foundation by John Simson...
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    John Freeston (category Members of Gray's Inn)
    (1512–1594) was a barrister from Altofts, West Yorkshire, admitted in 1544 to Gray's Inn in London. Possibly inspired by Walter Midway, Freeston posthumously...
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  • which burnt down in 1931, now flats and offices. 1899: Terry Memorial almshouses in Skeldergate. 1900–02: Buildings in River Street, Colenso Street and...
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  • this is a large transaction, coming just 2 or 3 months before Gray's further sale of Gray's Inn or Portpool Manor, Holborn, to Denys as well. It may, therefore...
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