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Broadstreet Ward. Mr. Kendrick's Will.
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by them and their Successors for ever imployed, bestowed and used in like
manner, as
I have by this my Will devised and appointed another Stocke common for the Poore
in
the same Town of Reading: As by my said Devise and Disposition (before herein
more
at large expressed) doth and may appeare.
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In the like manner also my Will and Meaning is, that in case of such
Non-performance
of my Will and Intent, by the said Maior, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Towne of
Newbury, the House and Garden by them so to bee purchased and built, as
aforesaid:
Shall be by the said Maior, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Towne of Newbury, and
their Successors; conveyed and made over by their Deed sufficient in Law, unto
the
Maior and Burgesses of the said Towne of Reading, and their Successors for ever;
to
be by them sold and converted into Money, and the same Money to be used and
imployed in their common Stocke for the Poore im the said Towne of Reading
aforesaid, in such sort, as I have formerly hereby expressed.
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For non-performance of the Testators Will and
Intent in the Towne of Newbury.
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And for the performance of the said Trust and Uses, by the said Maior, Aldermen
and
Burgesses of the Towne of Newbury aforesaid, my will and meaning is: That the
said
Summe of foure thousand Pounds so to them bequeathed and devised as aforesaid;
shall be paid unto them, or their Successors, in manner as followeth; that is to
say, one
thousand Pounds thereof at the end of one yeere, next ensuing after the Day of
my
decease: One other thousand Pounds thereof, at the end of two Yeers from and
after my
said decease. And the residue (being two thousand Pounds) shall be paid them,
at the
end of three Yeeres next after my decease.
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In what manner the foure thousand pounds is to
be paid to the Town of Newbury.
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Item, I give and bequeath to the Company of Drapers of the City of London (of
which
Company I am free) the Summe of two thousand and foure hundred Pounds, to
purchase Lands and Hereditaments, to the cleare yeerly value of one hundred
Pounds
for ever: Over and above all Charges and Reprises. And with the same to
performe
these good Uses hereafter mentioned; that is to say:
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Two thousand foure hundred pounds given to the
Company of Drapers London.
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The Summe of twenty foure Pounds thereof yeerly for ever, to be bestowed in the
Moneth of December, for the releasing of sixe poore Prisoners, out of these
Prisons in
London, to wit, the two Compters, Ludgate, Newgate and the Fleet, by foure
Pounds
for each Prisoner.
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For the yeerely releasing of six poore
Prisoners.
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Or if such cannot bee found in the said Prisons, or some of them to be released
for
these Sums: Then the same (or the residue thereof) to be bestowed in like
releasing of
other Prisoners, out of some Prisons neere London, and out of the Liberties
thereof; as
to the Wardens of the said Company (for the time being) shal seeme meet.
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For releasing Prisoners in other Prisons,
&c.
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More, twenty Pounds yeerely for ever, to the Curate of the Parish of St.
Christopher,
wherein I now dwell: To read divine Service in the said Parish Church at sixe a
Clock
in the Morning every Day of the Weeke for ever. In like manner as is now used
in the
Chapell at the great North Gate of St. Pauls Church in London.
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To the Curate of the Parish Church of S.
Christophers.
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More, to the Clerke and Sexton of the said Parish of Saint Christopher, to each
of them
fifty Shillings yeerely for ever: To doe their severall attendance and
assistance at the
time of divine Service every Morning.
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To the Clerk and Sexton of S.
Christopher.
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More, to the Churchwardens of the same Parish of Saint Christopher: Five Pounds
yeerely for ever, for the maintenance of Lights in the Winter time.
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For Lights in the Winter.
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More, three Pounds yeerely for ever, to the Poore of the said Parish of Saint
Christopher.
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To the poore of the Parish.
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More, to the poor Prisoners in London ten Pounds yeerely for ever: Namely, to
the
Prisoners of the Compters in the Poultry and Woodstreet, and in Newgate; to each
of
these Prisons forty Shillings yeerely for ever.
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To the Compters and Newgate.
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To the poore Prisoners in Ludgate and in the Fleet; to each House thirty
Shillings for
ever.
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To Ludgate and the Fleet.
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And to the poore Prisoners in Bethlem, or Bedlem, twenty Shillings yeerely.
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To Bedlem.
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More, to the Clerke of the Company of the Drapers, for the time being: for his
paines
herein, forty Shillings for ever.
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To the Clerk of the Drapers.
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More, to the Beadle of the said Company; thirty Shillings for ever.
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To the Beadles of the Livery and
Yeomanry.
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More, to the Beadle of the Yeomanry of the same Company; ten Shillings yeerely
for
ever.
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More, five and twenty Pounds yeerely for ever to be distributed by the said
Wardens,
among poore and religious Men and Women in the City of London; to some more and
to some lesse, as the said Wardens shall find their necessity and desert to be:
Wherein
my desire is, that poore Clothworkers and their Widdowes shall bee first
preferred; and
next, the poore of the Drapers Company. The residue of the same Sum of one
hundred
Pounds a yeere, being foure Pounds yeerely for ever, I entreat the foure Wardens
of the
said Company, to accept for their paines, to bee equally divided between them by
twenty Shillings to each of them, for the time being for ever.
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For poore Clothworkers and their
Widdowes.
A remembrance to the foure Wardens.
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And if the said Company of Drapers, doe either of purpose or negligence, omit
and not
performe the Premisses; but shall leave the same unperformed one whole Yeere,
after
they shall have received this my Legacy of two thousand and foure hundred Pounds
(which I will shall be paid them at the end of one yeer next after my decease:)
Then my
will and minde is, that the Governours of Christs Hospitall in London, shall
recover
the whole two thousand and foure hundred Pounds, before specified, or the Lands
and
the Hereditaments, that the said Company shall have bought with the same Money:
And
keepe twenty Pounds yeerely for ever of the same rent, for the maintenance of
the poore
Children in the said Hospitall, as if the same had been first given them. And
the
Drapers Company to have nothing to doe with it,or the rest of the said hundred
Pounds
yeerely for ever.
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If the Drapers omit Performance of this Legacy
of two thousand and four hundred Pounds.
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And that in this case, the yeerely payment of eight Pounds unto the Clerke,
Beadles,
and Wardens of the said Company, as also twelve Pounds, parcell of the said five
and
twenty Pounds a Yeere before devised, to be paid and distributed by the said
Company,
among the poore and religious Men and Women in the City of London, utterly and
for
ever to cease.
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A restraint of the other Legacies given and
bequeathed to the Company.
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But this twenty Pounds a Yeere, being so converted (as aforesaid) to the use of
the
Hospitall, the residue of the said yeerly Rent of one hundred Pounds a Yeere, I
will that
the Governours of the said Hospitall, shall pay and distribute yeerely for ever,
in
manner and forme as the said Company of Drapers should have done.
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Concerning the Residue of the yeerely
Rent.
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Item, I give and bequeath to the said Company of Drapers, one hundred Pounds, to
be
paid within a Yeere after my decease; and by the Warden of the said Company to
be
bestowed in Plate: Such as they shall thinke good, for the use of their common
Hall in
London, at their Meetings and Dinners there.
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An hundred pounds to be bestowed in
Plate.
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Item, I give and bequeath to the poore of Christs Hospitall in London, five
hundred
Pounds, to be by the Governours thereof bestowed in Lands and Hereditaments, for
and towards the yeerely maintenance of the Children of the said Hospital for
ever. This
Summe to bee paid to
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Five hundred pounds given to Christs Hospital
in London.
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