Oct. 21.]

Gloucestershire.

Richard Aldridge gave the interest of 200l., Three per Cent. Consols, that the dividend should, for ever, be disposed of as follows:—1l. 1s. to the vicar of the parish of St. Nicholas for performing morning service annually in the parish church on the 21st of October, and preaching a sermon in commemoration of the glorious victory obtained by Lord Nelson over the combined fleets of France and Spain off Cape Trafalgar, on the 21st of October 1805; 10s. 6d. equally between the clerk and sexton for their attendance at such service and sermon. The residue of the dividend to be applied to keeping a monument of his friend in good condition, and the surplus after such repair to be given to the poor on the 6th of December each year in coals and garments.—Edwards, Old English Customs and Charities, 1842, p. 170.