his Assistants for the time being to this end and purpose That they shall distribute or cause to be distributed the yearly profit arising of the same over and above the yearly Rent payable to the Kings most Excellent Majesty amongst the poorest people dwelling within the said Town of Beverly Also I give to the Maior and Aldermen of the City of Lincoln for the time being all such Profits and Revenues as shall arise and grow of the Parsonage of Glentham within the County of Lincoln and all the residue of the years that shall remain after my decease to this intent that they shall distribute and bestow or cause to be distributed and bestowed the same amongst twenty of the poorest people that shall then be dwelling in the said City with the consent and privity of the Dean of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln or the Recorder of the same for the time being they the said Maior Aldermen Dean and Recorder foreseeing that the Parsonage be letten for their most benefit Item I give into the Treasury or Store-house of mine intended Hospital to begin their Stock with and to defend the Rights of the House One thousand pounds of lawful English mony And I give to every one of my Feoffees whom I have put in trust about my intended Hospital to whom I have not given any thing in this my last Will the Sum of Twenty six pounds thirty shillings and four pence of lawful mony of England Item I give to Amy Popham if it please God she live to keep House three Feather-beds and so many pair of Holland Sheets with the Boulsters to them and so many Hangings of Tapestry as furnish her a Bed-chamber The rest of my Housholdstuff I will shall be sold by mine Executors for the speedier payment of my Legacies and performance of this my last Will. Item I give to the Widow Tassel of Balsham the Sum of Five pounds of lawful mony of England and to Thomas Lawrence the elder of the same Town Five pounds of lawful mony of England Item I give and bequeath unto the Brother of Percival Graung my late Servant deceased the Sum of Twenty pounds of like lawful mony of England And of this my last Will and Testament I make and ordain Richard Sutton of London Esquire and John Law one of the Procurators of the Arches London my Executors charging them as they will answer at the last Day of Judgment that they or one of them in the absence of the other endeavor themselves with all earnestness and diligence to see this my Will performed according to my true meaning and charitable intent And I make Overseers of this my last Will and Testament the Reverend Father in God George Abbot Arch bishop of Canterbury unto whom I give and bequeath the Sum of Forty Marks of lawful mony of England or a piece of Plate of that value at his election and choice And also Launcelot Andrews Almonizer to the Kings Majesty my other Supervisor and Overseer of this my last Will and Testament unto whom I give and bequeath the Sum of Twenty pounds of lawful mony of England or a piece of Plate of that value at his election and choice Item My will and full intent and meaning is That if any person or persons whosoever to whom I have in and by this my last Will and Testament given and bequeathed any Legacy or Sum or Sums of mony shall any ways gainsay impugn contradict or impeach this my last Will and Testament that then all and every one so impugning contradicting impeaching or gainsaying this my last Will and Testament and every of their Children and Kinsfolks to whom I have in and by this my last Will and Testament given and bequeathed any Legacy or Sum or Sums of mony shall have no part nor portion of any such Gift Legacy or Bequest but shall utterly lose the same and be utterly barred thereof as if no such Legacy Gift or Bequest had been given unto him her or them by this my last Will and Testament any thing before in these presents mentioned or contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Item I give and bequeath to Richard Sutton one of my Executors before named the Sum of One hundred pounds and to Mrs. Law over and besides the Legacy before to her given I give the Sum of Forty pounds to make her a Gown withal Item I give to Master Hutton the Vicar of Littlebury Twenty pounds To the Town of Camps Castle where I dwell to be distributed amongst the poor of the same Parish Ten pounds Also to the poor of the Town of Elcomb to be equally distributed amongst them the Sum of Ten pounds Item I give and bequeath those my Mannors of Littlebury and Hadstock in the County of Essex to the Right Honourable the Lord Thomas Howard Earl of Suffolk and to his Heirs for ever upon Condition that he do well and truly pay or cause to be paid to my Executors before named or to the Survivor of them the Sum of Ten thousand pounds of lawful mony of England within One year next after my decease And if he shall refuse to pay the said Sum of Ten thousand pounds for the said Mannors then I give and bequeath the said Mannors of Littlebury and Hadstock to my said Executors and to their Heirs for ever And then I will and devise that the said Mannors of Littlebury and Hadstock shall be sold by my said Executors or the Survivor of them to the uttermost price and value that they may be sold for and the mony coming of the sale thereof together with as much more as shall make up the same Sum the full Sum of Twenty thousand pounds I will shall be imployed and bestowed by my said Executors or the Survivor of them with the advise of my Supervisors aforenamed in some good works and charitable uses for mine intended Hospital and for poor people or otherwise as they in their wisdoms and discretions shall think fit Item I give to Mr. Flud Parson of Newington the Sum of Thirteen pounds six shillings eight pence And to the wife of Benjamin King of Southminster Six pounds thirteen shillings four pence Item I give to Thomas Averell if it shall be found that he hath dealt faithfully and plainly with me in my business the Sum of Ten pounds which he oweth me Item I give unto the wife of Mr. Ingry of Littlebury Three pounds six shillings eight pence Item I give to Sir Henry Hubberd Knight the King's Majesties Attorney General a piece of Plate of the value of Ten pounds And to Mr Locksmith his Clerk the Sum of Ten pounds Item I give to the poor of the Parish of Hackney Ten pounds Item I give to Bridget Law the Sum of Ten pounds And to the Lady Altham daughter to Mr. Auditor Sutton the Sum of Twenty pounds Item I give to Sir Edward Philips Master of the Rolls a piece of Plate of the value of Twenty pounds And to
possessionem inducendi defendendi Inductos amotis quibuslibet detentoribus ab iisdem ac faciendi ipsis Priori Conventui de ipsorum Beneficiorum Fructibus redditibus proventibus congruas portiones ad ipsius Archiepiscopi vel Ordinarii arbitrium super quo ipsius Archiepiscopi Ordinarii conscientiam oneramus taxandas ex quibus si sint Ecclesiae Parochiales perpetuiâ—l icarii per Priorem qui erit pro tempore conventum dictae domus ad Beneficia eadem praesentandi commodè sustentari jura Episcopalia solvere alia iis incumbentia onera sustentare Contradictores Authoritate nostrâ appellatione postposita compescendo non obstantibus si aliquis super provisionibus sibi faciendis de hujusmodi vel aliis Beneficiis Ecclesiasticis in illis partibus Speciales vel Generales Apostolicae Sedis vel Legatorum ejus Literas impetravit estamsi per eas ad inhibitionem reservationem decretum vel alià s quomodolibet sit processam Quas Literas Processus habttos quos per eos post unionem hujusmodi habert conttgerit ad dicta Beneficia volumus extendi Sed nullum per hoc iis quoad assecutionem aliorum beneficiorum praejudicium generari quibuslibet Privilegits Indulgentiis Literis Apostolicis Generalibus vel Specialibus quorumcunque tenerum existant per quae praesentibus non expressa vel totaliter non inserta effectus earum impediri valeat quom â—olibet vel differri de quibus quorumque totis tenoribus habenda sit in Literis nostris mentis specialis plenam liberam tenore praesentium potestatem concedimus Datum Romae Apud Sanctam Marinum trans Tyberim pridié Idus Decembris Pontificatûs nostri Anno primo An Account of Sutton's Foundation with his Life and Death THOMAS SUTTON Esquire Founder of King James his Hospital in the Charter-house was born at Knaith in Lincolnshire in the year of our Lord 1531. which was the Four and twentieth year of Henry the Eighth Though he was born rather to give Honour to his Family than to borrow any from it yet his Blood was conveighed to him through many noble Saxon Veins in Cheshire Lancashire and Worcestershire For notwithstanding the Danish and the Norman Conquests yet in the time of the latter we find one of this Family Sherif in those Parts a Person of a fair and honourable esteem in the World And this advantage a Man well descended has above all others unless he degenerate that the Great Actions of his Ancestors will not let him sleep until he has outdone the Original The Course of this Ancient Family like the River Alpheus a while ran silently under Ground while at last it sprang up in Lincolnshire in the time of Henry the Seventh under Dudley as notorious for Cruelty and Exactions as our Founder is for Mercy and Compassion His Father was Edward Sutton Son of Thomas Sutton Servant to Edward the Fourth His Mother was Jane Stapleton the Daughter of Robert Stapleton Esquire of the most Generous and Worthy Family of the Stapleton's in Yorkshire Ancestours not so low that his Descent should be a shame to his Vertues nor yet so great but that his Vertue might be an Ornament to his Birth Mr. Cox afterwards Dr. Cox Almoner to King Edward the Sixth and Bishop of Ely under Queen Elizabeth brought him up three years at Eaton four years in Magdalen and Jesus Colledges in Cambridge to each of whose Children surviving at his Death Mr. Sutton gave 10 l. for a Legacy and as a thankful Acknowledgment of the Benefits he received from those places of good Learning he nobly bequeathed 500 to each Colledge Soon after he was placed in Lincolns-Inne as a Student that he might want no part of Learning becoming a Gentleman Not long after almost tired with a Sedentary life desire of Travel increasing with his Knowledge he went to visit Forreign Nations and obtained the perfection of several Languages Half of a year he tarries in Spain two in Italy one in France and then he passes into Holland and the Low-Countries from whence after a year or two spent in the Italian Wars for he was at the Sacking of Rome under the Duke of Bourbon he returned accomplish't with experience and observation Then he was admitted to the Earl of Warwick and the Earl of Leicester's service To the former he was a Steward to the latter a Secretary and to both he approved himself so able and faithful that they declared him fit for more Publique Imployments as after appear'd by their helping him to Farm the Northern Coal-mines and that upon no other Security than his own Word He was quickly spy'd out by his wise and noble Soveraign Queen Elizabeth one who knew where to bestow her Favours and who deserved her Bounty by her he was made Master of the Ordnance at Barwick which Office he enjoyed Fourteen years in token whereof there are two Pieces of Ordnance carved in Stone and set upon the Chimney-piece in the great Hall in the Charter-house Then he was chosen Pay-Master to the Northern Army and afterwards one of the Commissioners for the Sequestration of the Lands of the Northern Rebels in opposition to whom he shewed himself a wise Man in disposing so advantageously of the Berwick Forces And a valiant Man in his Actions and Conduct Some years after he became Victualler to the Navy and some Garrisons in the Low-Countries one of which was Ostend which by the help of some Fishermen he relieved very strangely and to his own great Advantage to which Town he left in his Will 100 l. Lastly he was a Commissioner for Prizes under the Earl of Nottingham Lord High Admiral of England who gave him Letters of Mart against the Spaniard from whom he took a Ship richly laden worth Twenty thousand pounds Having by these profitable Imploys laid the Foundation of a good Estate upon some mis-understanding between him and the Northern Nobility he retires to London to enjoy and improve it where his Riches increased and came upon him like a Tyde by the just Arts and Methods which he used He brought with him to London the Reputation of a mighty monied Man insomuch that it was reported That his Purse returned from the North fuller than Queen Elizabeth's Exchequer here he was made a Freeman Citizen and Girdler of London His Payments were thought as sure as her Pensions the readiness of his money and the fairness of his dealing laid the grounds of a mighty Reputation for now he is look't upon by all men he has the first refusal of the best Bargains of Sales and Mortgages which were more frequent in a dead time of Money as that was Here possibly he got acquaintance with several Lords Servants whom he remembers in his last Will and piously relieves them He was also resorted to by Citizens for mony and indeed Mr. Sutton became the Banker of London being called upon so much that he was perswaded to help
your memorial both eternal and blessed or if you had rather the whole Common-wealth But now I find my self too hold and too busie in thus looking to particularities God shall direct you and if you follow him shall Crown you Howsoever if good be done and that betimes He hath what he desired and your Soul shall have more than you can desire The Success of my weak yet hearty Counsel shall make me as rich as God hath made you with all your abundance God bless it to you and make both our Reckonings cheerful in the Day of our Common Audit Never man received Advice more kindly than Mr. Sutton and blessed God for the return of his Prayers in the Garden He never was inclinable to Dr. Willet's former Proposal upon these accounts he understood the Patrons of Chelsey Colledge were few nor was his design to be an additional Benefactor but a Founder Besides he plainly saw those Enemies to the work who thought they lay in secret and what was more he perceived it was look't upon with a jealous Eye by the Universities as a disparagement to them Then other Divines and Churchmen thought they were undervalued because the Fellows of this Foundation were likely to gain Priviledges prejudicial to them And lastly the Politick States-men did dislike the Project suspecting Court Divinity and History from a Colledge This is supposed to be the place meant by the Incomparable Cowley in his excellent Instructions towards the Institution of a Colledge Nor to add a City-Hospital could he be induced though much solicited the poor of those places being likely to be well provided for by the daily Legacies of such who were not in any capacity to do so great things as himself Being thus solicited by others to perform that which he had long since resolved within himself and having observed how many hopeful Youths miscarried for want of competent Means for their Education and how many ancient Gentlemen having the same tender Breeding with their Elder Brothers yet have but the slender Fortunes of a Younger Brother that they were too generous to begg not made for work whose ingenuous Natures were most sensible of want and least able to relieve it but were cast away and brought to misery for want of a comfortable Subsistence in their Old Age Therefore he resolved to prevent by his memorable Charity as far as he could these growing inconveniences The blind Devotion of former Ages had so abused the ends and designs of Charitable Works that King Edward the First as well as Theodosius the Emperour made a Law of Mortmain whereby it is made unlawful for any man to bestow Land of such a value to any Religious or Charitable use without licence from the King of Mortmain in Parliament This Law of Amortization in the Emperor's time much grieved many good men For St. Jerome thus complains to Nepotian I am ashamed to say it the Priests of Idols Stage-players and Common Harlots are made capable of Inheritance and receiving Legacies only Ministers of the Gospel are barred by the Law thus to do and that not by Persecutors but Christian Princes neither do I complain of the Law but am sorry we have deserved it To the same purpose is that of St. Ambrose Ep. 31. deploring the State of the Clergy Upon the account of this Law Mr. Sutton was forced to petition his Majesty K. James and the Parliament March 10. 1609. for leave and licence to erect and endow an Hospital in the Town of Hallingbury Bouchers in the County of Essex An Act of Parliament granted to Thomas Sutton Esq to erect an Hospital at Hallingbury in Essex c. HVmbly beseecheth your Majesty your loyal and dutiful Subject Thomas Sutton of Balsham in the County of Cambridge Esquire That it may please your most excellent Majesty and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled to enact ordain and establish And be it enacted ordained and established by the Authority aforesaid That in the Town of Hallingbury otherwise called Hallingbury Bouchers in the County of Essex there may be builded and erected at the costs and charges of your Suppliant one meet fit and convenient House Buildings and Rooms for the abiding and dwelling of such a number of poor people men and children as your Suppliant shall name limit and appoint to be lodged harboured abide and be relieved there And for the abiding dwelling and necessary use of one Schoolmaster and Vsher to instruct the sâ—m children in reading writing and Latin and Greek Grammar and of one Divine and godly Preacher to instruct and reach all the rest of the same House in the knowledge of God and his Word And of one Master to govern all these persons of in or belonging to the same House And that the same shall and may be called and named the Hospital of King James founded in Hallingbury in the County of Essex at the humble petition and at the only costs and charges of Thomas Sutton Esquire And that the right reverend Father in God Richard now Archbishop of Canterbury and his Successors Archbishops there Thomas Lord Ellesmere Lord Chancellor of England and such as after him shall succeed to be Lord Chancellors or Lord Keepers of the great Seal of England for and during the time they shall so continue or be in the same office Robert Earl of Salisbury Lord High Treasurer of England and such as after him shall succeed to be Lord Treasurers of England for and during the time they shall continue or be in the same Office The Reverend Father in God Launcelot Bishop of Ely and his Successors Bishops there Richard Bishop of Rochester and Dean of the Cathedral Church of Westminster and his Successors of and in the same Deanery of Westminster Sir Thomas Foster Knight one of the Iustices of your Majesties Court of Common Pleas usually holden at Westminster Sir Henry Hobart Knight your Majesties Attorney General John Overall Doctor of Divinity Dean of the Cathedral Church of Saint Paul in London and his Successors Deans there Henry Thursby Esquire one of the Masters of your Majesties Court of Chancery Thomas Fortescue Thomas Paget Geffrey Nightingale and Richard Sutton Esquires John Lawe and Thomas Browne Gentlemen and such others as shall be from time to time for ever hereafter chosen and nominated in and to the places and steads of such of them as shall decease by your Suppliant during his life And after his decease by the most part of them which then shall be Governors of the said Hospital to be and succeed in and to the place and places of him and them deceasing shall and may be the Governors of the said Hospital and of the Members Goods Lands Revenues and Hereditaments of the same at all times hereafter for ever And that the same Governors and Hospital shall for ever hereafter stand and be incorporated established and founded in name and in deed a body politique and corporate to have
his Noble and Magnificent Benefaction Edv. 3. Anno 11o. He was sent Ambassadour to the French King which was no mean Imployment for him either as he was a Gentleman or a Stranger In this Voyage he couragiously lands his men on the Isle of Agnes on purpose to revenge the Death of some English men who not long before were slain by the Inhabitants when they came for fresh water Here he made a general slaughter and takes the Earl of Flanders his Brother Captain of the Island Prisoner His next martial performance was in company of Henry Earl of Derby Duke of Lancaster into Gascoign and Guyen where these two only attended with Five hundred men at Arms and some few Archers did mighty things vanquisht the Enemy and recover'd many walled Towns and Castles It chanced that the Countess of Montfort Sister to Louis Earl of Flanders like an undaunted Virago put on Armour and leads and encourages her People to repell the common Foe She desires aid of the King of England and hath it granted under the conduct of no less a man than the Lord Walter de Manny Not long after the King himself fighting with the French that he might not be known in Person puts himself and the Prince under the Colours and Defence of the same Invincible Warriour This may suffice for a small description of his Strength and Valour I shall now proceed to the occasion of this singular Instance of his Piety and Beneficence He lived in an Age wherein all things seemed as wonderful as himself Ann. 1345. on the Conversion of St. Paul a great Earthquake shook Germany wherewith many Villages and Castles fell down likewise Stones mixt with Rain fell out of the Air Moreover the same day many publick and private Houses fell at Venice afterwards the Earth was shaken more or less fifteen days whereof it hapned that almost all Women with Child were delivered before their time And after this a noysom Pestilence called Inguinaria invaded the People the venom of the Disease was so deadly that scarce one in an hundred escaped alive It began first in Scythia there raged along the Coasts of the Sea Pontus and Hellespont at length through Greece and Illyria it came into Italy 1346. A great Vapour coming from the North-part to the great fear of the Beholders was seen in the Air and fell on the Earth And the same year certain small Beasts in great number fell from the Element in the East through whose corruption and stench there ensued a great Plague which for three years reigned over the whole World First creeping into Asia from India was vehement in England Florence Germany and all Europe The Jews were thought guilty of it by poisoning Fountains and therefore they were burned every where 1349. The Eighth of the Calends of Febr in Noricum on that side it is joyned with Pannonia Illyrium Dalmatia Carinthia and Istria there was a great Earthquake in the Evening which lasted forty days Six Cities and Castles were overthrown and swallowed up In London the Plague was so vehement that in a place called Charter-house-yard were buried of the better sort of People Sixty thousand says Cambden in his Britannia Middlesex p. 311. Ibi floruit opulenta Carthusianorum aedes à Gualtero Manny Hannonio posita Qui summa cum laude sub Edv. 3. bello Gallico meruit Celeberrimúmque fuit eo loco ante Caemeterium in quo grassante peste 1349. Londino sepulta fuerunt plusquam quinquaginta hominum millia quod inscriptione ibi in aere pâ—steris fuit testatum In this dismal time it pleased God to stir â—p the heart of this Noble Knight to have respect to the danger that might fall in the time of this Pestilence then begun in England if the Churches and Church-yards in London might not suffice to bury the multitude Wherefore he purchased a piece of ground near St. John's street called Spittle-Croft without the Barrs in West-Smithfield of the Master and Brethren of St. Bartholomew Spittle containing Thirteen Acres and a Rod and caused the same to be Enclosed and Consecrated by Ralph Stratford Bishop of London at his own proper Cost and Charges In which place in the year following Stow reports were buried more than Fifty thousand Persons as is affirmed by the King's Charter and by this following Inscription which he read upon a Stone Cross sometime standing in the Charter-house-yard An. Dom. M. CCC XL. IX Regnante magna Pestilentiâ consecratum fuit hoc coemeterium In quo infra septa praesentis Monasterii sepulta fuerunt mortuorum corpora plusquam quinquaginta millia praeter alia multa abhinc usque ad praesens Quorum animabus propitietur Deus Amen Here not long after he caused a Chappel to be built wherein Offerings were made and Masses said for the Souls of so many Christians departed And afterwards Ann. 1371. he founded an House of Carthusian Monks which he built in Honour of the Salutation of the Mother of God as may be seen at large in the King's Charter and the Pope's Bull which I have annexed This Pestilent Disease continued in one place or another till the Year 1357. at which cessation the Bishop of Norwich the Earl of Northampton Earl of Stafford Sir Richard Talbot and Sir Walter de Manny sailed over into France to make a Peace which they did for a year only But after many long and happy years when the Prince of Wales eldest Son to Edward the Third dy'd at Bourdeaux the Prince with his Wife and other Son Richard came over into England then in the year 1371. dy'd our worthy Heroe at London and was buried in the Monastery of the Chartreux which he had built leaving behind him only one Daughter married to John Earl of Pembroke Thus departed the generous Soul of this pious Founder thus he desired to sleep in peace among his Carthusians in the Fields as 〈◊〉 M. ss terms them in the Cott. Libr. and left such a Monument of his Bounty to Posterity that I suppose it no Crime to make this Honourable mention of Him For at the Dissolution of Religious Houses this was valued at Six hundred forty two pounds four pence half penny If any person be offended at what is said because he lived in a dark and gloomy Age I refer him to the Preface of that great Man Cambden in his Britannia Sunt ut audio qui Monasteria eorum Fundatores à me memorari indignantur dolentuâ— audio sed cum bonâ illorum gratiâ dixerim iidem indignentur imo forsan oblivisci vèlint majores nostros Christianos fuisse nos esse cum non alia Christianae eor um pietatis in Deum devotionis certiora illustriora uspiam extiterint monumenta nec alia fuere plantaria unde Christiana Religio bonae literae apud nos propagentur utcunque saeculo corrupto averruncanda filix in illis plus nimio succreverit CHAP. V. Of their Fabulous Miracles AS we
but to recommend this Great Example to the Christian World The Poets feign that at the end of the thred or web of every mans life there is a little Medal containing the person's name and that Time waiting upon the Shears as soon as the thred was cut caught the Medals and carried them to the River Lethe about whose Banks there were many Birds flying up and down that would get the Medals and carry them in their Beaks a little while and then let them fall into the River only there were a few Swans which if they got a Name would carry it to a Temple where it was Consecrated May the memory of this great Man long endure and in this Temple dwell for ever The last WILL AND TESTAMENT OF Thomas Sutton Esquire IN the Name of God Amen The Second day of November in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred and eleven I Thomas Sutton of Camp Castle in the County of Cambridge Esquire being weak in body and of good and perfect mind and memory thanks be given to Almighty God for the same Do make and declare this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following that is to say First and principally I commend my Soul into the hands of Almighty God trusting through his mercy and by the precious death and passion of my Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ to be saved and to inherit the Kingdom of Heaven for ever And my Body I will to be buried where and in what sort it shall seem meet and convenient to mine Executor or Executors and Supervisor or Supervisors of this my last Will and Testament with the least pomp and charge that may be Item I give to every one of the Children of Richard Coxe late Bishop of Ely who shall be living at the time of my death Ten pounds apiece of lawful mony of England Item I give to the Children of Eleanor Aske late wife of Robert Aske of Aughton in the County of York Esquire the Sum of One hundred pounds of good and lawful mony of England to be equally distributed amongst them Item I give to the poor Town of Berwick upon Tweed One hundred Marks of lawful mony of England to be distributed amongst the Poor there by the discretion of the chief Governour and Preacher there for the time being to be paid within one year after my decease Also I give to Andrew Westwood's wife of Newcastle upon Tyne or to her Children or to so many of them as shall be living at my death Ten pounds to be bestowed equally amongst them And I give to the poor people of Stoke-Newinton in the County of Middlesex Ten pounds to be distributed by the Constables Church-wardens and Parson of the same Town for the time being to the most needy people there Also I give to Mr. Gray dwelling in Yorkshire sometimes servant to Ambrose Earl of Warwick or to his Children if any of them be living at my decease Forty pounds of good and lawful mony of England to be distributed equally amongst them within six months after my decease Also I give to the Children of my Aunt White or to so many of them as shall be living at my decease One hundred Marks to be equally distributed amongst them within six months next after my decease Also I give to William Cocket Son to William Cocket late Alderman of the City of Lincolne One hundred pounds of lawful mony of England Also I give to the Children of John Copeland late of Skillingthorp in the County of Lincoln or to so many of them as shall be living at the time of my decease One hundred pounds of lawful mony of England to be equally distributed amongst them saving unto Elizabeth Copeland for my meaning is that she shall not have any part of the said Legacy of One hundred pounds And unto the said Elizabeth Copeland I give the Sum of One hundred pounds of lawful mony of England to be paid unto her at the day of her marriage or within one year after my decease Item I give unto Jane Upton one of the Daughters of Elizabeth Upton late wife of Hamond Upton of Wamfleet in the County of Lincoln Esquire the Sum of fifty pounds of lawful mony of England And to every other of the Children of the said Elizabeth who shall be living at the time of my decease Twenty pounds apiece of lawful mony of England to be paid within six months next after my decease Also I give to the Children of one Skelton late of Lowth in the County of Lincoln and sometimes towards the Henneages of Heniton in the said County Ten pounds to be equally divided amongst them Item I give to the Children of Thomas Pynner late of Micham in the County of Surrey Esquire or to so many of them as shall be living at my decease Twenty pounds to be equally distributed amongst them Item I give to the Children of Henry Tutty late Gunner in Barwick or to so many of them as shall be living at my decease Ten pounds of lawful mony of England to be equally distributed amongst them Also I give to my Neece Elizabeth Allen Two hundred pounds of lawful mony of England And to every of her Children which shall be living at my decease One hundred Marks apiece Item I give to Simon Baxter if he be living at my decease Three hundred pounds of lawful mony of England if not then I give the same Sum to his Child or Children to be equally divided amongst them Item I give unto Francis Baxter if he be living at my death Five hundred Marks of lawful mony of England if not I give the same Sum to his Child or Children to be equally divided amongst them Item I give unto each of my Serving-men to whom I give wages with my Cook that shall be alive at my decease Thirteen pounds six shillings and eight pence over and above their wages then due Item I give to so many of my Maid-servants as I have in my house at the time of my decease five Marks apiece over and above their wages Item I give unto the Children of Reynold Tomps my late Servant if any of them be alive at my death Ten pounds to be distributed amongst them Item I give to the Fishermen of the Town of Ostend in the Low-Countries One hundred pounds of lawful English mony to be given and distributed amongst the poorest Fishermen of that Town or for want of a competent number of them to call in some other of that Town to have a share of the said one hundred pounds by the discretion of the Governours of that Town and his Assistants and the Parson and Minister there for the time being the same to be paid within one year after my decease Item I give towards the mending of the Highways between Islington and Newington in the County of Middlesex Twenty six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence of lawful mony of England to be imployed and bestowed by