Margaret Leech, a lady residing in Kensington Square, by her will dated in the year 1799, gave £1000 6 per cent. bank annuities to five trustees, of whom the then Vicar was one, in trust to apply the interest thereof “in the maintenance, clothing, and instruction of so many female children as it would be sufficient to so provide for; such children being parishioners of Kensington whose fathers and mothers, and grandfathers and grandmothers should have been seven years successively housekeepers, or employed as servants in the parish, and have been three years in the same service.” The children to be appointed by the trustees, and not to be less than seven years of age when admitted, nor to be continued after attaining fifteen years. The interest always to remain a separate stock, and not to be applied to any other purpose, and the charity always to remain a distinct foundation, but the children might be placed in any other charitable institution, but so as always to be distinguished as children of this foundation. This charity, as you have perceived, is for the benefit of girls. Stephen Aisley, by his will dated 1805, gave so much money arising from the realisation on his personal estate as would, when invested in accordance with the directions in the will, produce an annual income of £30 a year, to five trustees, of whom the Vicar was one, “in trust for the apprenticing of boys from the Charity School of Kensington, of the boarding establishment only, to be selected by the trustees of his will. The £30 a year to be considered a separate fund, and not to be applied to any other purpose.” You will notice the resemblance of these two bequests. It would seem as though the respective testators had been acquaintances, and had talked the matter over between themselves; and that Mrs. Leech had resolved to benefit some of the poor girls of the parish, while Mr. Aisley, on the other hand, determined in a similar manner to benefit some poor boys. You will also notice how strongly both testators insisted that these funds should for ever remain separate foundations, and should never be mixed with any other. If their intention was to keep up the memory of their names it has succeeded, for the Leech and Aisley Charity, established so long ago, remains to this day under the same name, and the funds are still applied as the testators directed. These bequests were the subject of an order of the Charity Commissioners of the 13th July, 1880, by which the funds of both were vested in the Official Trustees of Charitable Funds, and which regulates their present application. It appears from this order that the property of Leech’s Charity then consisted of £1,477 19_s._ 10_d._ new 3 per cents. and that of Aisley’s Charity of £1,352 12_s._ 11_d._ consols.