2. _Finkel-Row Almshouse_, or _Valenger’s Hospital_, in South Lynn. This house was founded in 1605. by _Thomas Valenger_, gent. then Town-Clerk of Lynn, for _four poor men_ to dwell in gratis. We cannot learn that he endowed it with any land or money, though it is said that some land does now belong to it, an advance in the rent of which, two years ago, occasioned an addition of 3_d._ a week to be made to the allowance of each pensioner. Last year there was a more considerable addition, of no less than _one shilling_ a week, made to that allowance; making it in the whole 4_s._ a week, which is the amount of the present weekly allowance of each of them: and this sum is paid them weekly by the overseers of the parish. As _Mr. Cook_, mentioned under the preceding article, has left 700_l._ in the 3 per cents to this charity, each pensioner, it is supposed, may shortly expect a further addition of 2_s._ a week or more to their present allowance. Like the Gaywood hospital, this house was originally designed for _men_; but it has been now for a good many years converted to the use of the other sex, and has been ever since occupied by _four_ poor _women_, who have in it now very comfortable dwellings, the house having been rebuilt in 1806. 3. _Paradise Hospital_, or _Broad Street Almshouse_. This house appears to have been founded in 1676, by one _John Heathcote_, _otherwise Helcote_, of whom some mention has been already made, at page 827. He dying while the work was unfinished, the completion of it was undertaken and effected the year following by the famous _Henry Framingham_. Of him also some mention is made in the page last referred to, as well as in page 861. It is probable that the former died intestate, without having made any provision for the endowment of the almshouse, and that his heirs were not disposed to complete the plan which he had formed. However that was, Framingham appears to have then stept forward and purchased the premises, for the laudable purpose of completing the benevolent institution which the other had projected. This house is pleasantly situated, in the field called Paradise, on the east side of Broad Street, with which it communicates, and from which is its only entrance. It consists of a chapel and twelve apartments or dwellings, all opening into a quadrangular court, to which there is an entrance by a gateway from the street. Those dwellings are occupied by 12 poor men, one of whom officiates as chaplain, and is called _The Reader_; in consideration of which he has an additional pension or allowance. Attached to those 12 apartments are as many little gardens, which lie on each side of the entrance from the street. Framingham, it seems, endowed only 11 of these dwellings: the other endowed a long while after, by one of our alderman, whose was _John Goodwyn_. The present weekly allowance of each of these 12 pensioners is 3_s._ 6_d._ with the addition of 15_d._ to the chaplain,