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Bishop Porteus's Annual Donations to Poor Clergymen

Bishop Porteus's Annual Donations to Poor Clergymen, founded 1805. Consists of dividends arising from £7,000 consols, distributed by the archdeacons of London in the month of February, in average payments of £10, among such of the clergy resident in London as they shall deem poor and of good character. An annual statement is required by the trust deed to be made by the Archdeacons to the Bishop of London.

SOURCE: The Charities of London, by Samuel Low, Jun., London: Sampson Low, Son,
and Marston, Milton House, Ludgate Hill. 1861.