Roe's Church Bread Charity

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

The charity was created by a deed of 1837 and gave £520 consols, augmented by a deed of 1849 to £780 consols, in trust for dividends amounting to £19.10s a year for the distribution on Sundays of six penny loaves at the parish church.

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
• P83/25/40: Charity accounts for various Stotfold Charities including the Stotfold Bread Charity, 1854-1855
• P83/25/41: Charity accounts for various Stotfold Charities including the Stotfold Bread Charity, 1858-1860
• QDC36: Deposited papers and registered returns for Bread Charity, 1854-1855