adjoin the cemetery of Old St. Chad’s, and were erected in 1409 by
Bennett Tipton, a public brewer, who lived in the College, and died in
1424. The allowance to the eleven poor occupants, “decayed old men and
women,” arises chiefly from a benefaction of £180 by David Ireland,
alderman of the town, and Catharine his wife; which is now commuted to a
rent charge of £8 on the Lythwood estate, the proprietor of which
nominates the alms-folk. Previous to the Reformation the poor people
received one penny a-week from the Mercers’ Company, since which time the
whole annual payment of the Company has been only two shillings and two
pence.