and the women’s needlework produced 2822.

” the ” Charity Boxes,” in one year, received 4582. per annum ” Will’s Coffee-house, Lincoln’s Inn, 162. In the list of contributors we find ” A Lady unknown, a Lottery. William Dodd, ” the unfortunate,” who, in 1759, preached a sermon for the benefit of the charity and again in 1760, before Prince Edward, Duke of York: both sermons are eloquent compositions, were printed, and large editions sold.f The Magdalens wore a grey uniform dress, high in the neck, long black mittens, mob-cap, and a broad black chip hat. Unfortunately, however, ” a portion only of this munificent legacy could be extracted from the grasp of Hurzorimal, his executor, notwithstanding the zealous interference of the Governor-general Warren Hastings) and other eminent functionaries.”- Brownlow.Īnother early promoter was the Rev. He bequeathed between this and the Foundling Hospital 37,500 current rupees, to be equally divided. 26, 1761, there were received into “Magdalen-house” 281: of a hundred inmates, not a seventh were 15 years old.Īmong the names of the earliest benefactors occurs that of Omychund, the black merchant of Calcutta. In 1758 j* and opened at a house in Prescot-street, Goodman’s-fields, when eight unhappy objects were admitted and from thence to Feb. GEORGE’S FIELDS, for the relief and reformation of unfortunate women andpeni-tent prostitutes, was projected by Robert Dingley, Jonas Hanway, and a few others, This was scanned in from an old document which has caused numerous misreadings of words.

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