OS1/13/97/15

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WOOD'S HOSPITAL Wood's Hospital Wood's Hospital Wood's Hospital John D. Dundas Esq. Mr Smeal Mr White 025 [situation] In the village of Kirkton of Largo
A large and commodious building in the Elisabethan style of architecture; fitted up for the accommodation of 16 inmates [---] who are supported out of a fund of £68418 Scots bequeathed by a Cadet of the House of Wood. The patrons are the Earl of Wemyss, the proprietor of Largo Lundin & Balfour, and the Kirk Session of Largo.

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Parish of Largo
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"Wood's Hospital._ John Wood, a cadet of Sir Andrew's family, by deed of mortification, dated 7th July 1659, bequeathed £68.418 Scotch, to build and endow an hospital within the Parish. for the maintenance of thirteen indigent and enfeebled persons of the name of Wood, besides a gardener, a porter, and a chaplain, with £17 a year. He then appointed the Earl of Wemyss, the lairds of Largo, Lundin, and Balfour, together with the minister, and [---] members of the Kirk-sessions as patrons. The hospital was built in 1667, at an expense Lamont says of 9000 merks. This hospital was found in a state of great decay in 1830, and the patrons erected a new one, which is not only a commodious, but a very handsome and ornamental building, after a design by Mr James Leslie, Civil-Engineer. It cost in all £2000 It is fitted up for sixteen inmates, Each having a sitting and a sleeping apartment. In the centre is a large hall, where they are [---] prayers, morning and evening; above which is a room for the meetings of the patrons. The annual allowance to each hospitelles is £15 paid monthly and vegetables. The finds arise from the interest of £2000, and a farm, the rent of which averages £280_
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