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A63937	A compleat history of the most remarkable providences both of judgment and mercy, which have hapned in this present age extracted from the best writers, the author's own observations, and the numerous relations sent him from divers parts of the three kingdoms : to which is added, whatever is curious in the works of nature and art / the whole digested into one volume, under proper heads, being a work set on foot thirty years ago, by the Reverend Mr. Pool, author of the Synopsis criticorum ; and since undertaken and finish'd, by William Turner...	Turner, William, 1653-1701.	1697 (1697)	Wing T3345; ESTC R38921	1,324,643	657

hundred pounds to the Mayor and Commonalty of Chester to be lent to young Tradesmen and for the relief of Poor and Prisons and other such charitable Uses Two hundred pounds He gave to the Company of Haberdashers to be lent to Freemen gratis Two hundred pounds more to pay Ten pound yearly to the Poor of the Company two hundred pounds more to give Ten pounds per Annum to two Scholars in each University one to Bethlehem One hundred pounds to other Hospitals Prisons and Poor One hundred and fifty pounds more In toto One thousand four hundred and fifty pounds 12. The Lady Mary Ramscy who in the life-time of Sir Thomas Ramsey joining with him and after his Death assured in Land Two hundred forty three pounds per Annum to Christ's-Hostital in London to these Uses following To the School-master of Hawstead annually Twenty pounds to the Master and Usher in Christ's-Church by the year Twenty pounds to Ten poor Widows besides Apparel and Houses yearly Twenty pounds to two Poor a Man and a Woman during Life to each Fifty three shillings four pence to two Fellows in Peter-house in Chambridge and four Scholars yearly Forty pounds to St. Bartholomew's Hospital Ten pounds to Newgate Ludgate Compters Ten pounds to Christ's Hospital after the Expiration of certain Leases there will come per Annum Ore hundred and twenty pounds to St. Peters the Poor in London St. Andrew Vndershaft St. Mary W●olnoth Ten pounds to six Schools in Cambridge Twenty pounds to six Scholars in Oxford Twenty pounds to ten maimed Soldiers Twenty pounds for two Sermons Forty shillings to the Poor of Christ-Church Parish Fifty shillings to the Poor of the Company of Drapers yearly Ten pounds ten poor Womens Gows ten poor Soldiers Coats Shooes and Caps All these Gifts aforesaid are to continue yearly 13. Mr. George Blundel Clothier of London by his last Will and Testament Anno 1599. bequeathed as followeth To Christ's Hospital Five hundred pounds to St. Bartholomew's Two hundred and fifty pounds to St. Thomas's Hospital Two hundred and fifty pounds to Bridewel yearly eight pounds towards Tiverton-Church fifty pounds to mend the High-ways there One hundred pounds to the Twelve chief Companies in London to each One hundred and fifty pounds towards the relieving of poor Prisoners and other charitable Uses in toto One thousand eight hundred pounds For poor Maids Martiages in Tiverton Four hundred pounds to the City of Exeter to be lent unto poor Artificers Nine hundred pounds towards the Building of the Free-Grammar School in Tiverton Two thousand four hundred pounds laid out since by his Executors Sir William Craven and others One thousand pounds to the School-master yearly fifty pounds to the Usher Thirteen pounds six shillings eight pence to the Clark forty shillings for Reparations eight pounds to place four Boys Apprentices in Husbandry yearly twenty pounds to maintain six Scholars three in Cambridge and three in Oxford the Sum of Two thousand pounds The Sum of all counting the yearly Pensions at a valueable rate together with the Legacies of Money maketh Twelve thousand pounds or thereabouts 14. Mr. Rogers of the Company of Leather-sellers gave by his Will as followeth To the Prisons about London Twelve pounds to the Poor of two Towns in the West-Country Thirteen pounds six shillings eight pence to the Poor of the Town of Pool where he was born Ten pounds to build Alms-houses there Three hundred thirty three pounds to relieve poor Prisoners being neither Papists nor Atheists that may be set free for twenty Nobles a Man One hundred and fifty pounds to poor Preachers ten pounds a Man One hundred pounds to poor decayed Artificers that have Wife and Children One hundred pounds to the Company of Merchants-Adventurers to relieve poor decayed People and for young Free-men Four hundred pounds to Christ's-Hospital to purchase Land for the relief of that House Five hundred pounds to erect Alms-houses about London and to maintain Twelve poor People threescore pounds to the Parish where he dwelt ten pounds and for two dozen of Bread every Lord's-day to be distributed One hundred pounds to Christ's-Church Parish fifteen pounds to the Poor in divers Parishes without Newgate Cripplegate Bishops-gate and St. Georges in Southwark Twenty six pounds thirteen shillings four pence to each alike To St. Georges Parish in Southwark St. Sepulchres St. Olaves St. Giles St. Leonards to each thirty pounds One hundred and fifty pounds to St. Botolphs without Aldgate and Bishops-gate to each twenty pounds forty pounds Given to maintain two Scholars in Oxford two in Cambridge Students in Divinity to the Company of Leather-sellers which is carefully by them employed and augmented Four hundred pounds The whole Sum amounteth to Two thousand nine hundred and sixty pound six shillings eight pence 15. Mr. George Palyn by his last Will and Testament gave unto these charitable Uses To erect an Alms-house about London and to allow unto six poor People yearly Six pounds thirteen shillings four pence he gave Nine hundred pounds Given to the Chime and Bow-Church One hundred pounds Gives to St. John Baptists and Brazen-Nose Colledge in Oxford to maintain four Scholars to each four pounds yearly to each Colledge three hundred pounds in toto Six hundred pounds given to the like Use of Trinity and St. Johns-Colledge in Cambridge to each three hundred pounds in toto Six hundred pounds To fix Prisons about London sixty pounds to Christ's-Hospital to purchase twenty pounds per Annum Three hundred pounds to St. Thomas-Hospital fifty pounds to Preachers at Pauls-Cross to bear their Charges two hundred pounds to divets Parishes in London to some ten pounds to some twenty pounds One hundred thirty two pounds To the Poor in Wrenbury in Cheshire to purchase twenty Marks per Annum two hundred pounds to the Use of the Church there thirty pounds for forty Poor Gowns forty pounds The Sum is Three thousand two hundred twelve pounds or thereabouts 16. Mr. Dove gave unto the Company of the Merchant-Taylors the Sum of Two thousand nine hundred fifty eight pounds ten shillings to pay One hundred seventy nine pounds to these Uses following To maintain Thirteen poor Alms-men and six in reversion per Annum One hundred and seventy pounds to a School-master eight pounds to the poor of St. Botolphs Twenty pounds nine shillings to the Prisoners in both Compters Ludgate and Newgate twenty pounds given to St. John's-Colledge in Cambridge One hundred pounds to Christ's-Hospital to purchase sixteen pounds per Annum for one to teach the Boys to sing Two hundred and forty pounds to tole the Bell at St. Sepulchres when the Prisoners go to execution fifty pounds 17. Sir William Craven Alderman of London hath given a thousand pounds to Christ's-Hospital in London to purchase Land for the Maintenance of that House He hath also been a worthy Benefactor to St. John's-Colledge in Oxford He hath built at Burnsall in York-shire a Church compassing it with a Wall at the charge

of near three Months till the return of the Mayor into the City Besides his great Care to supply the Want of such as came to him for Relief he had a special Respect to poor House-keepers and Trades-men such as were unwilling and ashamed to make their sad and necessious Considition known He bequeathed thus his Will I give to all the Poor of this City and Country that receive Pay of Parishes and also to those that dwell in Alms-houses five Shillings to each of them to be paid at my Burial I give to one hundred more of poor People ten Shillings apiece to be given to such as my Overseers shall think to have most need the honest Poor to be chiefly regarded I give to the Poor of Lime where I was born and to tho Poor of Guernsey where I was new-born five Pounds to each place I forgive all the Monies owing to me if it be under the Value of twenty Shillings to each I give more to fifty poor People of this City and County twenty Shillings each to be appointed by my Overseers Ibid. 11. Mr. Richard Greenham was eminent for his Charity to the Poor In a time of Scarcity when Barley was at ten Groats the Bushel which in those days was an extraordinary Price he by his Prudence brought it to pass that the Poor had it sold to them for four Groats the Bushel by every Husbandman in the Town and thus he effected it There were about twenty Plough-holders in the Town all whom he drew to Agreement among themselves to hire a common Granary and therein to lay up Corn for the Poor some more some less So that some laid up one Coom some a quarter some three Cooms and himself laid in five Cooms all which was delivered out to the Poor at a Groat a Peck One day in the Week was appointed for all the Poor to come and served in at which time every one received according to their Charge Where there were but two in a Family they received one Peck a Week and so more according to that Proportion Only no Family had above three Pecks a Week He kept but two Beasts himself that the Poor might have his Straw and when other Men sold their Straw for two Shillings a days thresh he sold his for ten Pence Tho' his Bushel was bigger than other Mens yet he would often charge his Man not to strike off all the Corn. Yea his Charity was not only extended to the Poor of his own Parish but to others also As he rode abroad if he had seen a poor Boy at a distance from him he would send him some Money by his Man Whensoever he rode by the Castle of Cambridge the Prisoners would never ask him for any thing for if he had any Money in his Purse they were sure to have part of it 12. The Right Honourable Mary Countess Dowager of Warwick as a Neighbour was so kind and courteous it advanced the Rent of adjacent Houses to be so near situated to her nor only her House and Table but her Countenance and very Heart were open to all Persons of Quality in a considerable Circuit and for the inferiour sort if they were sick or tempted or in any distress of Body or Mind whither should they go but to the good Countess whose Closet and Still-house was their Shop for Chyrurgery and Physick and her Self for she would visit the meanest of them personally and Ministers whom she would send to them their Spiritual Physicians But as her Love to God was the Soul of her Religion so the Exuberancy of her Charity towards those who needed her abundant Liberality was the conspicuous Crown which beautifie● all her Sweetness and Goodness towards Men for in this she was forward I bear her Record to her Power yea and beyond her Power for she would even anticipate her Revenue and Encoms rather than want wherewith to be liberal S. Jerom placed in the highest rank of the Praises of his admired Paula that she not only made her self poor to relieve but died in magno Aere alieno And I am sure it used to be said of our Excellent Lady That was the Lady that would borrow Money to give away She would not live poor in good Works to die rich yea though she had chosen Executors in whom her Heart could trust as safely as ever her Husband 's did in her yet she would make her own Hands her Executors and they were very faithful to her inlarged Heart But to be more particular When she had in her Lord and Husband's life-time a separate Maintenance or Allowance settled by Marriage-Articles she was pleased to ask me my Opinion concerning the quota part What Proportion one is obliged to consecrate to God of our Estates And when I told her it was hard if not impossible to fix a Rule which might hold universally but the Circumstances must be considered in which Persons stood their Qualities their Encoms their Dependences necessary and emergent Occasions inevitably occurring But she persisting to urge a more particular Answer as to her self what would be fit and becoming her to do I not being ignorant of her Circumstances I must bear my own Shame in acknowledging the Straitness of my own Heart told her I supposed a seventh part But before I could suggest the Reasons she preventingly replied She would never give less than the third part And she kept her Resolution to the full and with Advantage laying aside constantly the third part for charitable uses and would sometimes borrow of that which remained to add to it but never defaulk from that to serve her own Occasions though sometimes pressing enough When she came to the Possession of so large an Estate as her Lord bequeathed her for her Life she in good measure made it true what a great Person was reported to say That the Earl of Warwick had gave all his Estate to pious Vses Meaning thereby that he had given it to this Noble Lady who would so convert it And 't is a great Truth which I have had from her own Mouth that all the Satisfaction she took in it was the Opportunity it afforded her of doing Good And I have heard her earnestly aver that she should not accept of or be incumbred with the greatest Estate in England if it should be offered her clog'd with this Condition not to do Good to others with it But some may say were her Eyes as open as her Hands did she not scatter it as carelesly as prosusely Nothing less her liberal Soul devised liberal Things I will point at some few of many There are some Objects of real Charity which are not so to vulgar Eyes or Purses on whom she would confer and whom she would surprize with noble and suitable Assistances thus she struck deep drew an whole Bag at once but made no noise Some scarcely to any but my self and it may be had not been to me but to ask my Judgment whether it

without Covering The whole Countrey round about where she dwelt will bear her Witness that she visited and relieved the Sick and cloathed the Naked She fed the Hungry and healed the Wounded Her Purse her Hand her Heart were all open for their Relief She bought many Precious Drugs and Cordial Waters She made several precious Salves and gave them all away to such as stood in need of them She spared not her best Pains being never weary of well-doing insomuch that in the extremity of her great Sickness such bowels of Compassion yearned in her she compounded several Medicines with her own Hands and applied them Thus will her Works praise her in the Gate and being dead she yet speaks Prov. 31.31 Heb. 11.14 for her precious Name lives The Lord will have the Name of the Righteous to be in everlasting Remembrance Psalm 112.6 and the Memory of the Just is blessed Clark's Examp. Vol. 2. c. 15. 4. Mr. John Bruen of Bruen-Stapleford for three years together whilst he lived in Chester maintained the Poor of his own Parish in the County allowing them all the Profit of his two Mills He relieved the Poor in Chester both daily at his Gate and otherwise Weekly as he was rated Ibid. 5. Mr. John Dod though his Means was very small yet was much given to Hospitality Scarce any Sabbath in the year but he dined both Poor and Rich commonly three or four Poor besides Strangers that came to hear him He had so large a Heart that upon occasion he hath given to some three Shillings to some five Shillings to some ten Shillings yea to some twenty Shillings and when the Poor came to buy Butter or Cheese he would command his Maid to take no Money of them Ibid. 6. Mr. Samuel Crook of Wrington in Sommersetshire was very bountiful to his Kindred that needed it and then he shewed it most when their Necessities swelled highest He was very charitable and open-handed to the poor Members of Jesus Christ And albeit his Charity shined most to those of his own Flock yet was it not shut up from Strangers but he was very liberal to them also upon good Occasions Yea when he went abroad to bestow the Gospel freely upon other Congregations adjacent such Poor as he found to be Hearers unless they were known to him to take up Hearing as a Cloak to cover their Idleness and Neglect of their Callings never went home empty-handed but he always warmed and cheered them with his Bounty as well as instructed them with his Doctrine Ibid. 7. Mr. John Carter sometime Minister of Delstead was very diligent in Visiting the Sick especily the poorer sort and he never went to the House of any poor Creature but he lest a Purse-Alms as well as a Spiritual-Alms of good and heavenly Advice and Prayer No poor body ever came to his Door that went away unhanded his Wife also looking unto that as well as himself Ibid. 8. Dr. William Gouge was very charitable especially to the Houshold of Faith He maintained some poor Schollars in the University wholly at his own Charge and contributed liberally towards the Maintenance of others He set a-part a Sacred Stock as he called it a Portion for the Poor proportionable to his Encoms which also he faithfully distributed Ibid. 9. Dr. Harris in his Works of Charity to the Poor was no less discreet than private When he met with fit Objects his Hand was more ready to give then his Tongue to proclaim it Indeed he was no Friend to idle lazy canting Persons who live on the Sweat of other Mens Brows Whosoever shall survey his Large Bills of Weekly and Quarterly Allowances besides considerable Sums given to poor Ministers and especially to poor Widows and Orphans who never knew whence it came and shall add thereunto his Legacies bequeathed in his Will to charitable Uses cannot but judge that his Charity exceeded the ordinary Proportions of his Revenues Ibid. 10. Mr. Ignatius Jordan of Exeter was famous for his Charity both in his Life and at his Death In his Life he was a free-hearted and open-handed Man He was a great Patron of the Poor another Job in that respect He could truly say with him as Job 30.25 Was not my Soul grieved for the Poor No doubt it was and did earnestly plead for them and especially for God's Poor honest poor Persons whose Hearts and Faces were set God-ward and Heaven-ward and his Hands were very open to relieve them He did that for them which many that had far greater Estates had not Hearts to do Ibid. He would often say That he wondred what rich Men meant that they gave so little to the Poor and raked so much together for their Children Do you not see quoth he what comes of it And hereupon he would reckon up divers Examples of such as heaped up much for their Children who within a short time had scattered and consumed all And on the Morth-side he often spake of such as had small beginnings and afterwards became rich or of a competent Estate giving a particular Instance in himself I came said he but with a Groat or Six pence in my Purse Had I had a Shilling in my Purse I had never been Mayor of Exeter Therefore leave Children but a little and they by God's Blessing upon their Labours and Industry may become Rich but leave them a great deal and they are in danger to become Beggars His Care for the Poor was most remarkable in the time of a great Plague in that City which was Anno Christi 1625. For in the absence of the Mayor he was chosen his Deputy and he seeing the sad and deplorable Condition of the City accepted of it and wrote his Letters to divers Towns in Devonshire and to some in Dorcet and Somersetshire by which means he procured several Sums of Money for the Supplial of the Wants of many Hundred of Poor that in that time were in a distressed Condition One that was an Eye-witness Related that he had seen Morning after Morning coming to his Door sometimes Thirty sometimes Forty yea Fifty Sixty or more wringing their Hands Some crying that their Husbands are Dead others that their Wives were Dead others that their Children are Dead and all that they had not wherewith to Bury them Some again cryed that their Families are Sick and they had not wherewithal to Relieve them others that they had divers Children but had neither Bread nor Money to Buy it for them Some cryed for Bread some for Physick others for Shrouds for their Dead and he not only heard them patiently but his Bowels yearned towards them and his Hands were stretched out for their Relief For standing in his Shop with his own Hands he ministred Supplies unto them all and so dismissed them for the present The next Morning when there was a renewal of their sad Complaints his charitable Care of them was renewed also And thus he continued Morning by Morning even for the space

and thereupon putting off his Apparel he gave it to his Deacons wishing them to give to his Executioner 25 pieces of Gold in testimony of his Love to him and so kneeling down cover'd his Eyes and submitted willingly to the stroke of the Sword A. C. 259. Ibid. 2. Cyril Bishop of Alexandria when in a great Famine many poor People came to him for Relief gave them all he had and sold the Vessels and Church-Ornaments to relieve their Wants Ibid. 3. Ephrem Syrus upon a Famine happening at Edessa assembling the Rich Men together complained that the Poor were almost starved whilst they covetously kept their Riches by them to their future Hazard and Torment of their Souls and perswading them to a charitable Contribution they chose him for their Almoner who thereupon took their Money provided 300 Beds for the Sick and Strangers and relieved them all the time of the Famine Ibid. 4. Basil the Great in a great Famine sold his Lands and all his other Goods to relieve the Poor and stil'd up other rich Merchants to contribute and caused publick Places to be erected for their Maintenance and would often not only visit them but administer to their Necessities Ibid. 5. Epiphanius spent all his Estate in relieving the Poor Ibid. 6. Theoderet was wonderfully charitable visiting and refreshing the Bowels of the Poor Ibid. 7. Chrysotom when banished to Cucusus in Armenia had much Money sent him by his Friends which he wholly employed for the Redemption of Captives and the Relief of poor Prisoners Ibid. 8. S. Augustine was very careful for the Poor and in case of great want would sell the Ornaments of the Church for their Relief and when the Church-Stock was spent he used to declare to the People that he had nothing left wherewith to relieve the Poor that thereby he might stir up their Charity to contribute to so good a work ibid. He always kept Scholars in his House whom he Fed and Cloathed ibid. At his Death he made no Will as having nothing to bestow ibid. 9. Cyril Bishop of Alexandria used to say 't is the best way for a Rich Man to make the Bellies of the Poor his Barns and thereby to lay up Treasure in Heaven Ibid. 10. Prosper Bishop of Rhegium in France distributed his Goods freely to the Poor and was a Father to all Ages and Sexes in the City Ibid. p. 89. 11. Fulgentius just before his Death called for a Sum of Money which as a Faithful Steward he daily used to distribute a mongst the Poor willing it all to be presently divided and recited by name the Widows Orphans and Poor he allotted to every one his Portion Ibid. p. 95. 12. Gregory the Great after his Fathers Death having more Liberty to dispose of himself and his Estate gave all his Estate towards the Relief of the Poor Ibid. p. 96. 13. S. Bernard What Money he had given him whilst Young he privately gave away to the Poor Ibid. p. 95. 14. Our late most Excellent Queen Mary distributed Annually to the distressed French Protestants 40000 Pounds English Spanhemius in his Funeral Oration She sent some Thousands of Pounds into this Land to be distributed among the Relicks of those that were killed Perizonius 15. Luther was very liberal to the Poor a poor Student asking him some Money he bid his Wife give him some but she pleading Penury he look't up a Silver Cup and gave that to him Clark's Marr. of Eccl. Hist. p. 144. 16. John Picus of Mirandula Relieved the Poor every Day gave much Money to poor Maids to prefer them in Marriage and employed an intimate Friend to enquire out the Wants and Necessities of poor House-keepers whom he bountifully Relieved Clark in his Life 17. Edward VIth King of England in a Sermon Preached by Dr. Ridley about Charity ordered Gray-Fryars-Church to be a House for Orphans St. Bartholomews to be an Hospital and his own House at Bridewel to be a place of Correction Hist of the Reform 18. Arch-Bishop Cranmer laid out all his Wealth on the Poor and pious Uses Ibid. 19. Queen Ann Bullen ever used to carry a little Purse about her for the Poor thinking no Day well spent wherein some had not fared the better at her Hand She kept her Maids and such as were about her so employed in Working and sewing Garments for the Poor that neither was there seen any idleness amongst them or any Leisure to follow foolish Pastimes Acts and Mon. 20. King Henry IId of England Sirnamed Beauclerk was very Charitable and Merciful to the Poor and Anno Christi 1176. in a great Dearth in his Countries of Anjou and Maine he fed every Day with sufficient Sustenance Ten Thousand Persons from the beginning of April till the time that new Corn was inned And whatsoever was laid up in his Granaries and Store-houses he employed the same for Relief of religious and poor People Pet. Blesensis 21. Francis Russel Second Earl of Bedford of that Sirname was so bountiful to the Poor that Queen Elizabeth would merrily complain of him that he made all the Beggars And sure it 's more Honourable for Noblemen to make Beggars by their Liberality then by their Oppression Holy State p. 297. 22. Holy Master Bradford in a hard time sold his Chains Rings and Jewels to Relieve those that were in Want Acts and Mon. 23. George Wiseheart a Scottish Martyr forbore one Meal in three or one Day in four that he might have wherewithal to Relieve the Poor He lay also hard upon Straw with new coarse Canvas Sheets which whenever he changed he gave away to the Poor See his Life in Clark's General Martyrology 24. Mr. John Eliot went much beyond the Proportions of his little Estate in the World bestowing freely upon the poor many hundreds of Pounds and he would with a very forcible Importunity press his Neighbours to join with him in such Beneficences Cott. Mather in his Life p. 39. Roxbury the Town where he lived could not live quietly without a Free School in the Town and the Issue of it hath been one thing which hath made me almost put the Title of Schola Illustris upon that little Nursery that is that Roxbury hath afforded more Scholars first for the Colledge and then for the Publick then any Town of its bigness or if I mistake not of twice its bigness in New England Ibid. p. 66. 25. Mr. Eliot learned the Indian Tongue with some Pains and Charge Translated the whole Bible into it and several English Treatises gathered a Church of Converted Indians about Natick and another about Mashippang and above these Five Assemblies more and set Pastors over them who meet together twice every Lord's Day and sometimes solemnly set a part whole Days either for Thanksgiving or Humiliation c. Ibid. p. 97 98. 26. Giles of Bruxels Martyr gave to the Poor all that he had that necessity could spare and lived by his Trade which was of a Cutler Some he

20. Wroughton-Mannor in Wiltshire It was founded finished and endowed by himself alone disbursing Thirteen thousand Pounds paid down before the ensealing of the Conveyance for the Ground whereon it stood with some other Appurtenances besides Six thousand pound expended in the Building thereof and that vast yearly Endowment whereof heretofore not to mention the large Sums bequeathed by him to the Poor to Prisons to Colledges to mending High-ways to the Chamber of London besides the Twenty thousand Pounds left to the Discretion of his Executors He died 1611. in the Ninth Year of King James's Reign 3. Anno Dom. 1552. King Edward the Sixth in the Sixth Year of his Reign founded the Hospitals of Christ-Church in London and of St. Thomas in Southwark and the next Year of Bridewel for the Maintenance of three sorts of Poor The first for the Education of poor Children the second for impotent and lame Persons the third for idle Persons to imploy and set them on work A Princely Gift whereby Provision was made for all sorts of poor People such as were poor either by Birth or Casualty or else wilfully poor Besides by the said vertuous Prince were founded two Free-Schools in Louth in Lincolnshire with liberal Maintenance for a School-master and Usher in them both Likewise Christ's-Colledge in the University of Cambridge enjoyeth a Fellowship and three Scholars by the Gift of the said Excellent Prince 4. Sir William Cecil not long since Lord Treasurer in his Life-time gave thirty Pounds a year to ●t John's-Colledge in Cambridge he founded also an Hospital at Stamford for twelve poor People allowing to each of them six Pounds per Annum He also left great Sums of Money in trust in the hands of Mr. John Billet one of his Executors who has as carefully performed that Trust and partly by this Means and partly out of his own Estate hath done those excellent Works He repaired at the expence of divers hundred Pounds the Great Church in the City of Bath he enlarged the Hot and Cross-Bath there walling them about He built an Hospital there to entertain twelve poor People for a Month at the Spring and three Months at the Fall of the Leaf with Allowance of Four Pence a day he gave Two hundred Pounds to the Repairs of St. Martins-Church an hundred Marks to St. Clements to build a Window five Pounds to each of the four Parishes in Westminster for twelve years Upon the Building of the Market-House there he bestowed Three hundred Pounds whereof it made ten Pounds a year for the Benefit of the Poor He also gave twenty Pounds per Annum to Christ's Hospital till two hundred Pounds came out 5. Robert Earl of Dorchester Anno 1609. by his last Will and Testament ordained an Hospital to be built in East Green-street in Sussex allowing to the Building thereof a thousand Pounds to the which the Executors have added a thousand Pounds more and three hundred and thirty Pounds of yearly Revenue to maintain twenty poor Men and ten poor Women to each of them ten Pounds by the Year and besides to a Warden twenty Pounds and to two Assistants out of the Town to be chosen three Pounds six Shillings eight Pence a-piece per Annum 6. John Whitgift Arch-Bishop of Canterbury at his own proper Charge caused an Hospital to be built at Croyden for the Maintenance of Thirty poor People with a Free-School having a Master and an Usher and laid unto it Two hundred Pounds per Annum besides the Charge of the Building which is supposed to have cost Two thousand Pounds more 7. William Lamb Clothworker gave to these charitable Uses following He built the Conduit near Holborn with the Cock at Holborn-Bridge bringing the Water more than Two thousand Yards in Pipes of Lead at the Charge of Fifteen hundred Pounds He gave also to these Uses following To Twelve poor People of St. Faiths Parish Weekly Two pence a-piece To the Company of Clothworkers four Pounds per Annum For Reading Divine Service in St. James's Church Sundays Wednesdays and Fridays and for four Yearly Sermons and for Twelve poor Men and Twelve poor Women so many Gowns Shirts Smocks Shooes he gave Lands to the Yearly Value of thirty Pounds to each of the Towns of Ludlew and Bridgnorth One hundred Pounds to Christ's-Hospital Yearly six Pounds and to purchase Lands ten Pounds to St. Thomas's Hospital Yearly four Pounds to the Savoy to buy Bedding ten Pounds He erected a Free-School at Sutton Valens in Kent with Allowance to the Master of twenty Pounds to the Usher eight Pounds He built six Alms-Houses there with the Yearly Maintenance of ten Pounds He gave also toward the Free-School at Maidstone in Kent to set the poor Clothiers on work in Suffolk he gave One hundred Pounds 8. Sir Wolston Dixy Mayor free of the Skinners gave as followeth To the Maintenance of a Free-School in Dosworth yearly twenty Pounds to Christ's-Hospital in London yearly for ever Forty two Pounds for a Lecture in St. Michael Bassings-Hall yearly ten Pounds to the Poor of Newgate twenty Pounds to the two Compters of Ludgate and Bethlehem to each of them ten pounds to the four Prisons in Southwark twenty pounds thirteen shillings four pence to the Poor of Bassing-Hall ten pounds to Emanuel-Colledge in Cambridge to buy Lands to maintain two Fellows and two Scholats Six hundred pounds to the Building of the Colledge fifty pounds to be lent unto poor Merchants Five hundred pounds to the Hospital of St. Bartholomew and St. Thomas each of them Fifty pounds to the Poor of Bridewel twenty pounds to poor Maids Marriages One hundred pound to poor Strangers of the Dutch and French Churches fifty pounds towards the Building of the Pest-house Two hundred pounds The Sum of these Gifts in money amounted to more than Seventeen hundred pounds and the yearly Annuities to Seventy two pounds 9. Sir John Gresham Mercer and Mayor of London Anno 1548. in the Second Year of King Edward the Sixth gave ten pounds to the Poor to every Ward in London which was Twenty four within the City And to One hundred and twenty poor Men and Women to every one of them three Yards of Cloth for a Gown of eight or nine Shillings a yard to Maids Marriages and the Hospitals in London above Two hundred pounds He also founded a Free-School at Holt a Market-Town in Norfolk 10. Mr. Thomas Ridge Grocer gave to charitable Uses One thousand one hundred sixty three pounds Six shillings and eight pence viz. To the Company of Grocers to be lent to two young Men free of the Company an hundred pounds to his Men and Maid-Servants Sixty three pounds six shilling eight pence unto the Hospitals about London One hundred pounds unto Preachers Four hundred pounds to poor Tradesmen in and about London Three hundred pounds for a Lecture in Grace-Church One hundred pounds and in Gowns for poor Men One hundred pounds 11. Mr. Robert Offley Haberdasher gave Six