benefaction

These chests were a kind of Mont de Piété, and to found them was at first the favourite form of benefaction.

A second chaplain was subsequently added by the benefaction of one William de Homelyn.

But though the most rigid economist might not have objected, would Burns have accepted such a benefaction, had it been offered?

The history of the Philharmonic Societys benefaction may properly be completed at this point.