Roe's Bread, Fuel and Clothes Charity

Information taken from Victoria County History, Vol. II, 1908.

The charity was created by a deed of 1849 and consists of £640 consols, income of £16 a year, applied usually in payment of £10 a year to a clothing club and remainder in distribution of coal irrespective of creed of recipients.

List of sources from Bedfordshire Archives: 

• P83/25/29 – Declaration of trust of £2,500 and £200 stock, 1843
• P83/25/31 – Declaration of trust regarding £6,100 stock, 1849