We may charitably believe that the Parish Authorites of 1743 rightly applied the money to the purposes for which it was left, though Parish Accounts might not have existed, after 70 years, to prove the same.

WIDOWS.

We have experienced a little difficulty in identifying some of the churches and chapels specified in the Will. They, doubtless, were well known to Povey's executrixes.

St. Thomas.-There not being any church so named in Newington Butts, we have had to seek for one elsewhere, and have concluded that St. Thomas, Southwark, in St. Thomas Street, is the church intended, though we are not aware of any circumstances which should have induced Povey to bequeath legacies to widows of that parish, or to be selected by the Minister of that parish.

That such opinion is correct is rendered probable from the fact that one of the Dissenting Ministers nominated by Povey was Mr. Read, near Guy's Hospital.

St. George's.-Mr. Cuming suggested that this might be St. George the Martyr, Southwark, a few paces out of the parish of St. Mary, Newington Butts.

We have no knowledge why Povey should have selected that parish.

We at first inclined to the opinion that St. George's-in-theEast was intended, not far from which parish he resided at the time of making his Will.

St. George's-in-East, Middlesex, was one of Queen Anne's 50 churches, and was not finished until 1729.

St. George the Martyr is also St. George's-in-the-Fields, and that parish was selected by Povey as a place for one of his projected Hospitals of Industry.

Under these circumstances there can, we think, be no doubt that St. George's, Southwark, was the church intended.

There is another circumstance which tends to confirm this view. The Minister of Dr. Oldfield's Chapel, near Deadman's Place, Southwark, was to choose some of the widows mentioned in the Will.

In Deadman's Place was a Hospital for the poor of St. Saviour's, Southwark-16 rooms for poor men and women.

Deadman's Place is described in an old book as at the east end of Bankside, and north of New Rents, easterly.

Park Street now apparently occupies the site.

St. George's Fields were in close proximity to Deadman's Place.

It would seem therefore that Povey selected a church and chapel in St. George's Fields, as he had done a church and chapel in the parish of St. Thomas.