STOCK IN THE FUNDS Belonging to this Charity, in the names of the President, and Vice President of the Corporation for the Relief of poor Widows and Children of Clergymen, viz. £. s. d. 500 0 0 In the 3 per Cent. Consolidated Bank Annuities.... 2079 14 1 In the 4 per Cent. Consolidated Bank Annuities, Long Annuities... 359 10 10 125 0 0 £5 per ann. The Dividends on which are annually added to the Collection made at Merchant Taylor's Hall. FEAST OF THE SONS OF THE CLERGY. THE Collections both at St. Paul's Cathedral and Merchant Taylor's Hall, are appropriated to the apprenticing of the Sons and Daughters of the necessitous Clergy; the whole of the expences, at both these places, being defrayed by the Stewards: and although the primary Object of the STEWARDS of this excellent Charity has ever been to afford Relief to the Orphan Children of the Clergy, by granting them Sums to put them out Apprentices, in Situations of Credit and Respectability, yet the Benefits of the Institution are not altogether withholden from the Children of necessitous and deserving Clergymen, although their Parents be living. The Committee, to whom the Superintendence and Management of the Charity are entrusted, have to regret that their Funds, liberally as they are supported by the public, are still inadequate to the various Cases of Distress brought before them. Inner Temple, April, 1826. J. H. MARKLAND, Treasurer and Secretary. Benefactions in aid of the Funds of this Charity, are received by the Treasurer, and at the First Fruits Office, Temple. INCORPORATED CLERGY ORPHAN SOCIETY. Under the Patronage of His Majesty. PRESIDENT, THE LORD BISHOP OF LONDON. A SOCIETY of Stewards and Subscribers for MAINTAINING and EDUCATING POOR ORPHANS OF CLERGYMEN till of age to be put APPRENTICE, was formed in the Year 1749. The Establishment happily increasing as it became more generally known, has now attained a considerable degree of prosperity; and a spacious and healthy Mansion has within the last few Years been erected in the neighbourhood of the Regent's Park, for the reception of 160 Children to be clothed, maintained, and educated; and it cannot be doubted but that the same liberal Support will be continued to it, even with additional Assistance, when it is known that such is still wanting to enable the Society to afford full relief to all the Objects intended to be benefited by it. This Society, since its Institution, has received into its Schools (from the several Counties of England and Wales) more than 600 Children of both Sexes; most of whom have been placed out as Apprentices to useful employments, and are thereby provided with the means of becoming serviceable to themselves and to the Community. The number at present on the Establishment owing to the inadequacy of the fund, does not exceed 100, and the painful necessity of passing over applications of the most urgent distress recurs at almost every election SUBSCRIPTIONS and BENEFACTIONS to this humane and excellent Institution are thankfully received for the Treasurers, the Rev. Archdeacon CAMBRIDGE, and JOSHUA WATSON, Esq. at Messrs. Drummond's, Charing Cross; by the Rev. GEORGE A. E. MARSH, Secretary, Green Street, Grosvenor Square, and by the Collector, Mr. Stretton, No. 67, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Extract from the Charge of the Bishop of London, 1818, in which his Lordship justly ascribes "this failure of support to the general ignorance of the necessities, perhaps of the existence of this charitable Institution." Printed by R. Gilbert, St. John's Square, London. | 2 A SERMON PREACHED IN THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. PAUL, REV. CHRISTOPHER BENSON, M.A. PREBENDARY OF WORCESTER, AND RECTOR OF ST. GILES IN THE FIELDS, IN THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, LISTS OF THE NOBILITY, CLERGY, AND GENTRY, WHO HAVE BEEN STEWARDS FOR THE FEAST OF THE SONS OF THE CLERGY, TOGETHER WITH THE NAMES OF THE PREACHERS, AND THE SUMS COLLECTED AT THE ANNIVERSARY MEETINGS SINCE THE YEAR 1797. LONDON: PRINTED BY R. GILBERT, AND SOLD BY C. AND J. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD, WATERLOO-PLACE, AND 148, STRAND. |