the mother-house of the Nazareth
nuns, so that the numbers continually vary, many passing through for
their noviciate. The nuns collect alms for the aged poor and children,
and many of the poor are thus sustained. Besides this, there are a
number of imbecile or paralytic children who live permanently in the
convent. The charity is not confined to Roman Catholics.

The Latymer Foundation School is a plain brick building standing a
little back from the highroad. It bears the Latymer arms, and a cross in
stone over the doorway, as well as the date of the foundation. The
Latymer charity was established in 1824 by the will of Edward Latymer.
He left several pieces of land in the hands of trustees, who were to
apply the rents to the following uses:

"To elect and choose eight poor boys inhabiting Hammersmith within
the age of twelve and above the age of seven, and provide for every
boy a doublet and a pair of breeches of frieze or leather, one
shirt, one pair of stockings, and a pair of shoes on the 1st of
November; and also to provide yearly, against Ascension Day, a
doublet and a pair of breeches of coarse canvas lined, and deliver
the same unto the said boys, and also a shirt, one pair of stockings,
and a pair of shoes; and that on the left sleeve of every poor boy's
doublet a cross of red cloth or baize should be fastened and worn;
and that the feofees should cause the boys to be put to some petty
school to learn to read English till they attain thirteen, and to
instruct them in some part of God's true religion. The allowance of
clothing to cease at thirteen. And that the feofees shall also elect
six poor aged men of honest conversation inhabiting Hammersmith, and
provide for every one of them coats or cassocks of frieze or cloth,
and deliver the same upon the 1st of November in every year, a cross
of red cloth or baize to be fastened on the left sleeve; and that
yearly, on Ascension Day, the feofees should pay to each man ten
shillings in money."

To this charity were added various sums from benefactors from time to
time, and the number of recipients was increased gradually, until in
1855 there were 100 boys and 45 almsmen. At that date the men's clothing
consisted of a body coat, breeches, waistcoat, hat, pair of boots,
stockings, and shirt one year, and the next, great-coat, breeches, pair
of boots, stockings, shirt, and hat. The boys receiv