The account above referred to mentions a rent-charge of one pound a-year, given by Thomas Johnson, merchant-tailor, of London, issuing out of three houses on the east side of Paddington Green, and payable on St. Thomas’s-day in every year, in the following proportions:— Out of a house in the occupation of the Rev. „ 10 „ Basil Wood Ditto in the occupation of Benjamin Edward „ 5 „ Hall, esq. Ditto in the occupation of Miss Morel „ 5 „ It is not stated when this benefaction was given, nor to what purposes it was appropriated. In the returns of 1786, it is said that this, and Mrs. Robertson’s benefaction after mentioned were given for apprenticing poor children; but they are not now so applied. It appears indeed that Johnson’s rent-charge goes into the churchwarden’s general account, and it is not the subject of any particular application. This seems to have arisen from inadvertence, as it is understood to have been a charitable gift; and we are assured that it shall in future be corrected. Dr. Compton’s Charity. There is a copyhold estate in the Harrow-road, held of the manor of Paddington, and which is stated in the account to have been the gift of Dr. Compton, bishop of London, lord of the said manor, by the description of “one cottage and a piece of land.” The estate now consists of six houses: one of these is at present occupied as a poor house, the rest are let and occupied in the following manner:— _£_ _s._ _d._ 1.—A public house, called the 28 „ „ “Running-horse,” held by Robert Cuthbertson, under a lease granted to Robert Hullah, for twenty-one years, from lady-day, 1806, at the rent of In 1802, the rent was £14. It is a very old house, but to be let as a public-house its value would be considerably beyond the present rent, if it were out of lease.