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On way back he was delighted to see his almsman in front of your-picture-for-a-dime camera having photograph taken.
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Johnson, an almsman at Bonds Hospital in Hill Street, anxious to become the senior inmate poisoned his five older rivals with rat-poison.
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One was of the almsman or beggar William Howson, age unknown, who might have died from any number of causes at the end of December.
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A bedesman carved on the tomb of thumb Bedesman, or beadsman (Med. Eng. bede, prayer, from O. Eng. biddan, to pray; literally "a man of prayer"; and from Anglo Saxon "bed"), was generally a pensioner or almsman whose duty it was to pray for his benefactor.
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At the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries the Hospital was despoiled, not as was usual by the crown, but by a prebendary of Windsor named Johnson, who gave each almsman in compensation for the loss of his room a weekly pension of 1 shilling. During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603) the church was let to French Protestants.
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Victorian engraving of the gateway, with almsman William Bramhall in the traditional dress The Wright's Almshouses were built in 1638 by Edmund Wright, later Sir Edmund Wright, and were the town's second almshouses (after those on Welsh Row founded in 1613 by Sir Roger Wilbraham). Born in Nantwich, Wright became a successful London merchant, serving as an alderman and then as Lord Mayor of London in 1640–41.Blacklay, p. 11 The deed of 20 August 1638 establishing the almshouses stated that they were founded "out of his pious intention and charitable disposition towards the poor inhabitants of Wich Malbank".
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12 Four of the six almsmen were to be chosen from Nantwich, and two from the parish of Acton. Each almsman originally received four marks (£2 13s 4d) annually (according to William Webb, five marks, or £3 6s 8d), as well as a gown every two years. The same year, he also founded a pair of almshouses in the village of Acton.Lamberton & Gray, pp. 11–12Simpson, plate 113 The original Nantwich almshouse was: It might have been more similar to the existing appearance of the Acton almshouses than to the much-altered building surviving on Welsh Row. Webb described each almshouse in 1622 as "an handsome lodging" with "a little garden".
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