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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 7 March 1912, Page 7

\ quaint Case came before the couits this week (writes our London cprrcsponclent under elate ot January 24th), in U.e reign of Elizabeth, 1580, one Nicholas Avenon. a city merchant left a sum (J money to give a penny loaf each week to 24 poor people ot the parish-of VUbt Ham, and to provide for the prcachnij, of one special sermon per year, W eil, the value of the endowment has now increased to something like pei annum, and the Attorney-General lias brought a case for the courts t,p decide how this income should be applied. Canon Pel'lV, vicar of the parish, has been m tho habit of using the balance towards the provision of curates and so forth, bu it is contended that the object ot the trust \s. iriuch'.-wicleri than - this. and. tnat, the- sum '*niav. reasonably be applied to the education of the people of the whole district which was in 1580 embraced by thei pariah. The judge held that the surplus income which was not retailedfor the loaves of broad and the preaching of the sermon must be applied to an ob-i jeet as nearly as possible similar to that originally stated. The court' will laten decide what that-object shall be.