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4£0 SIR WILLIAM STAINES'.
respect to the subscription recommended by Sir William
instead of an illumination, we should perhaps be wanting-
if we did not observe that in this, as well as upon all
other occasions, he was one of the first to realize his
precepts by his own example.
During his mayoralty, and for several years before,- Mr.,
Staines had been an inhabitant of Barbican, where he
built a dwelling house adjoining the chapel of the Rev.
J. Towers. About the year 1786, he began to put in
execution the benevolent design of esablishing-some alms-
houses, nine in number. These he built on both sides
of Jacob’s Well Passage, Barbican,; not in the ancient
manner which the facetious Tom Brown has styled Cha-
rity Pigeon-holes. Sir William Staines’s alms-houses, on
the contrary, cannot be distinguished from any other
dwelling houses by any thing in their exterior. Neither
does any stone in the front of them proclaim the poverty
of the inhabitants, or that they were founded in such a
year by such a one, See. but the tenants of them have,
been in the first place Sir William’s aged workmen,
tradesmen, &c. several of whom Sir William had proba-
bly known personally as his neighbours*.
These alms-houses, though Sir William belongs to the
Carpenters Company, we are told, he has put into the gift
of the Parish of Cripplegate; and among the present in-
* One of these, who is since dead, we have heard, frequented the Jacob’S
Well, where Sir-William was in the habit of smoking his pipe of an evening:
this person failing in business, Sir William presented him with one of his
alms-houses to live in. The poor man, after this happening to be at the
house, and going into the kitchen instead of the parlour, Sir William ap-
peared to be much offended at the distinction he made, and insisted upon
his coining again into the room where he had usually sat with his benefactor,
and. assured him, that he had not bestowed that favour upon him to degrade,
but to advance him in life, and would hear of no apologies on the subject..—
In Yorkshire some similar institution has bee* formed under the auspices of
Sir William,
habitants
respect to the subscription recommended by Sir William
instead of an illumination, we should perhaps be wanting-
if we did not observe that in this, as well as upon all
other occasions, he was one of the first to realize his
precepts by his own example.
During his mayoralty, and for several years before,- Mr.,
Staines had been an inhabitant of Barbican, where he
built a dwelling house adjoining the chapel of the Rev.
J. Towers. About the year 1786, he began to put in
execution the benevolent design of esablishing-some alms-
houses, nine in number. These he built on both sides
of Jacob’s Well Passage, Barbican,; not in the ancient
manner which the facetious Tom Brown has styled Cha-
rity Pigeon-holes. Sir William Staines’s alms-houses, on
the contrary, cannot be distinguished from any other
dwelling houses by any thing in their exterior. Neither
does any stone in the front of them proclaim the poverty
of the inhabitants, or that they were founded in such a
year by such a one, See. but the tenants of them have,
been in the first place Sir William’s aged workmen,
tradesmen, &c. several of whom Sir William had proba-
bly known personally as his neighbours*.
These alms-houses, though Sir William belongs to the
Carpenters Company, we are told, he has put into the gift
of the Parish of Cripplegate; and among the present in-
* One of these, who is since dead, we have heard, frequented the Jacob’S
Well, where Sir-William was in the habit of smoking his pipe of an evening:
this person failing in business, Sir William presented him with one of his
alms-houses to live in. The poor man, after this happening to be at the
house, and going into the kitchen instead of the parlour, Sir William ap-
peared to be much offended at the distinction he made, and insisted upon
his coining again into the room where he had usually sat with his benefactor,
and. assured him, that he had not bestowed that favour upon him to degrade,
but to advance him in life, and would hear of no apologies on the subject..—
In Yorkshire some similar institution has bee* formed under the auspices of
Sir William,
habitants