Catalogue description COLLETT'S CHARITY

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Reference: D/CCW
Title: COLLETT'S CHARITY
Description:

Deeds, accounts, legal and other papers relating Joseph Collet's Charity
Date: 1580 - 1945
Held by: Dorset History Centre, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Collett's Charity, Wimborne Minster, Dorset
Physical description: 27 files
Physical condition: Many of the documents have in the past suffered severely from damp, and several of the deeds are illegible in places.
Administrative / biographical background:

Joseph Collett founded a charity in 1621 for ten poor people (five men and five women) of Wimborne Minster, to be distributed yearly out of the profits of land and property in Corfe Castle. (Charity Commission Report, 1835, pp 168-169).
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