The value of public-houses is rather of a fluctuating nature; but even for any other mode of occupation, it seems probable that a few pounds more a year might be obtained. 2.—A house in the possession of Thomas 16 ,, „ Seabrook, as tenant from year to year, at the rent of The rent of this house also, in 1802, was £14. It is a very old house, and the present rent seems a fair one. 3 and 4.—Two houses in the respective 32 ,, „ occupation, in 1802, of Joseph Mansell, and John Dyke, one at the rent of £11, and the other of £14; now on lease to Mr. William Smith, for twenty-one years, from Lady-day, 1806, at the rent of The lease is stated to have been granted in consideration of the costs and expenses which the said William Smith had been put to in enlarging and repairing the messuages. 5.—A house in the occupation of Mr. John 30 ,, ,, Bucquet, as tenant from year to year, at the rent of The occupier has laid out money in repairing these premises. The house is stated in the account to have been intended to be leased as a school-house for the charity-children, and in fact a schoolroom was built in the garden belonging to it; but the charity-school has now been established in another part of the parish, and this room has been annexed to the sixth messuage now used as a workhouse. £106 „ ,, It does not appear from “the account” what specific application was directed to be made of this property by Dr. Compton. The rents are now applied, under a recent resolution of the vestry, towards the maintenance of the charity-school in this parish. Before this resolution, the rents were carried to the overseers’ general account, and an annual sum of fifty-pounds was paid by the parish towards the maintenance of the charity-school. The school is large containing two hundred or three hundred children. The expense of it far exceeds the amount of all the rents now applied to its support. Successive admissions are found on the court-rolls of the manor of Paddington, of certain parishioners as tenants of this and the other copyhold property mentioned below, to the use of them, their heirs and assigns, in trust for the use and benefit of the poor of the parish of Paddington. The last of these entries bears date the ___ 1822, when the late Francis Maseres, esq., John Symmons, esq., the Rev. Charles Crane, D.D., Samuel Pepys Cockerell, esq., Joseph Neild, the younger, esq., John White, esq., and Benjamin Hall, esq., were admitted tenants in trust in the form above stated. Margaret Robertson’s Charity. It appears from “the account” that Mrs. Margaret Robertson, by will, dated sixteenth September, 1720, gave for the use of the poor of this parish, a copyhold estate, on the west side of the Edgeware-road, consisting of a messuage and garden.