the good oversight of mine Executor or Executors the Constable of Newington and the Church-wardens there for the time being the same High-ways to be amended made and holpen within one year after my decease Item I give towards the amending of the Highways between Ashden and Walden in the County of Essex called Walden-lane One hundred pounds of lawful mony of England And towards the amending of the Highways between Great Lynton in the County of Cambridge and the said Town of Walden Threescore and six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence of lawful mony of England And I also give towards the amending of Horsheath-lane Threescore pounds of lawful mony of England All these works next before recited I will shall be overseen and guided by the two head-Constables thereunto next adjoyning the Treasurer of Walden and the Parsons of Ashden Hadstock and Horsheath and the Constables of the same Parishes for the time being And the same several Sums to be imployed and the said Highways so to be amended so far as the same Sums will extend within One year after my decease Also I give towards the amending of the Bridges and the ordinary Highways between Southminster and Maldon in the said County of Essex the Sum of One hundred pounds of lawful mony of England and the same Work to be overseen and guided by the two head-Constables thereunto next adjoyning and the Parsons or Vicars of Southminster and Maldon for the time being and the same mony to be so imployed and the Highways so amended within one year after my decease Item I give to Mr. Robert Dudley Alderman of Newcastle upon Tine or to his Children or to so many of his Children as shall be living at the time of my decease Thirty pounds of lawful mony of England which he oweth me And I will and do earnestly charge mine Executor or Executors to deliver into the Treasury or Chamber of the City of London One thousand pounds in currant mony of England with such care and foresight to be had that such Bonds or Assurances be taken of the Lord Maior and Aldermen of the same City that for the time shall be by learned Counsel in the Law as the same may be safe and for ever go and be converted to these uses following That is to say That the said thousand pounds be yearly lent and put forth to Ten young Merchant men not having any great Stocks of their own being young men and of honest life and conversation and towardly in their Trades that is to every one of them One hundred pounds for a year without paying any thing for the same And these Ten young Merchants to be chosen and appointed by the Lord Maior and Aldermen of the said City that for the time shall be and the Dean of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in London for the time being Provided as before that none have or continue the said hundred pounds so appointed above one year Item I will and give to the Children of Justinian Crome Draper sometimes dwelling in the City of Lincoln or to his Childrens children if any of them shall be living at my decease Twenty pounds of lawful mony of England to be equally divided amongst them I give also to the Wife and Children or Child of Martin Wathersine Dutchman sometime dwelling at the Sign of the White-Bear in Buttolph-lane London if any of them be living at the time of my death Ten pounds to be equally divided amongst them Item I give to the next Kinsman or Kinswoman of Henry Vavering Dutchman Smith sometimes dwelling in Barwick three pounds six shillings eight pence Item I give and bequeath unto Sir Francis Popham Knight as well in respect and good will which I bear unto his Wife being the Daughter of my late deceased dear Wife the Sum of Two thousand Marks of lawful mony of England upon condition nevertheless and so that the said Sir Francis Popham and the said Lady Anne his Wife give a sufficient discharge and a generall release to mine Executor or Executors as well for that summe as also for the receipt of all the rest of her part of portion of the plate money and houshould stuffe already paid and delivered to them or to their use as appeareth by severall bills or notes subscribed with my own hand which I do think to be the very true half and better half of the said plate mony and houshold-stuff part whereof was delivered by one John Fishborne my late Servant to Sir John Popham Knight late Lord Chief Justice of England at his late House in Chancery-lane The rest of the Houshold-stuff as Chairs Stools Bedsteeds Kitchin stuff Tables and such like was delivered by the said Fishborne to the said Sir John Popham's Servants at Newington One thousand pounds in mony paid in this sort viz. To Sir John Popham by his Servant Straker upon the said Sir John's Bill before marriage Three hundred pounds which Bill after the marriage I returned to the said Sir John Popham seven hundred pounds were paid to the said Sir John Popham upon the marriage by one Mr. Anthony Law late dwelling in Pater-noster-row London the better moiety of the plate due to Sir Francis Popham was by the appointment of the said Sir John Popham received by one Mr. Clark sometimes towards the said Sir John and now a Counsellor at the Law of the Middle-Temple as I ghess Item I give to my well-beloved friend Amy Popham Two hundred pounds to be paid to her at the day of her marriage or when she shall accomplish the age of Eighteen years Item I give to Francis Popham Mary Popham Elizabeth Popham Jane Popham and Anne Popham all Daughters of the said Lady Anne Popham One hundred pounds apiece which several Sums I will shall be paid them at the days of their marriage or when they shall accomplish the age of eighteen years And my will and meaning is that unless the said Sir Francis Popham and the said Lady Anne his wife do or shall give to mine Executor or Executors a general Acquittance or Release to the effect above-mentioned that then as well the said Legacy of Two thousand Marks so willed to be given to the said Sir Francis Popham and the Lady Anne his wife as also the other several Legacies given and bequeathed to every of the said Children of the said Sir Francis Popham and the Lady his wife shall remain and be to the use of mine Executor or Executors to be wholly disposed and given by them within one year after my decease partly to the amending of High-ways and partly to poor Maidens marriages and partly to the releasing of poor men that lie in Prison for Debt and partly to the poor people of mine intended Hospital when it shall please God that it shall be established and erected And where perhaps it is or may be supposed that the said Sir John Popham hath paid Three hundred pounds to Sir Rowland Hayward of the City of London
Mount Carmel The ascent to this Hill is so difficult that it is reckon'd an Emblem of the way to Heaven so high so steep it is and craggy Nature has bestowed upon this Monastery a double Entrance the one is call'd the Carthusian Bridge where two hilly Banks raise themselves to an incredible height and joyn at the top The other is full of danger and wonders being a wearysome and uneasie passage four miles long between two rocky and mountainous risings Hither came these seven Converts with much pains and difficulty under the happy conduct of the aforesaid Bishop and here was to be the Plantation of Bruno's Piety and Holiness The Bishop gravely pronounces En Vester hic locus And then they kneel down and offer up the Sacrifice of Praise and Thanksgiving to Almighty God The Reasons why a Mountain was made choice of rather than a Valley to be the Habitation of this Order are many for say they we are now nearer Heaven here the Patriarchs of old did inhabit when Abram went to Sacrifice he ascended the Mountain and thus did Lot when he escap't the anger of the Lord Moses went up to the Mountain to receive the Law here lived Elias and the Sons of the Prophets This Mountain they compare to Mount Sinai because here Bruno gave them their Rules and Constitution sometimes to Mount Oreb for the renown of their Zeal and Charity to Seir because they are fortunate and have spread over most parts of Christendom to Moriah mons visionis because there the Holy Father beheld the Seven Stars to Mirre mons amaritudinis because of their severe discipline and rigour of life to Mount Sion Tabor and Olivet c. These are the usual Comparisons chiefly founded upon their Marginal Notes of Humour and Fancy As for the number Seven it must not pass without some figurative Comment These are the Seven Angels with the Seven Trumpets Rev. 8.6 to declare War and Destruction to the sinful World The Seven Steps that were seen in Ezekiel's Vision the Seven Candlesticks to enlighten the World and lastly the Eyes of the Lamb. I shall not farther take notice of their playing with this wise number but proceed to their Orders They are obliged to wear Shirts made of Hair never to feed upon flesh on Fridays to eat nothing but bread and water to live asunder in particular Cells and thither to have their Diet singly brought them except on some certain Festival days when they dine together not to entertain any Converse with each other but upon statutable times none to go out of the Monastery but the Superior and Procurator and they only to solicit the concerns of the Covent from this rigorous way of Life some imagine the name of their Order to be derived from Caro tusa now Cartuse from their Austerities and Mortification of the Flesh Their Habit is a white loose Coat with a Cowl of the same but when they go abroad they have a Case of black Stuff over it their Heads are shaved just as the Benedictines are Their particular Cells are low built and do contain three or four several Rooms on the ground-floor only having behind each of them a little Garden environed with a high Wall their Diet is brought to them by Lay-brothers and put in at a little Door in the Wall near the entrance thereof unto which there is a Lock the Key whereof is kept by him that serves them At the Hours of Publick Prayers they meet in the Quire Women are not permitted to come within the Precincts of their Monastery nor a man to speak with any of them without special license given by the Superior The Lay Brothers are not shaven but their Hair on the Head is cut short and round their Habit being the same with the Monks saving the Scapular which reacheth but a little below the middle and is girt close to them Which Institution by Bruno was as Polydore affirms in the Year 1080. but others upon better grounds affirm in 1084. As to their Diurnal and Nocturnal Offices they observe the Rule of St. Benedict As for their Number they have not anciently exceeded Thirteen in any one Convent they often glory in this Number upon these Accounts As first because it includes the Decalogue and Trinity then it bears an allusion to Jacob and his Sons as also to our Blessed Saviour and his twelve Disciples This Order frequently I find listed under the Patronage of St. John the Baptist CHAP. III. Of their Transplantation and Number in England 1. Coenobium Withamense THey first were brought hither by King Henry the Second Anno 1181. and the Seven and twentieth year of his Reign at which time he founded a Monastery for them at Witham in Somersetshire whereof Hugh Bishop of London was the first Prior. This Convent was founded to the Honour of the Blessed Virgin St. John the Baptist and All Saints 2. Hentonense In the Four and twentieth of Henry the Third the Lady Ela Countess of Salisbury at Henton in Wiltshire 3. La Salutation Mere Dieu That at the Charter-house For this I design a particular Chapter 4. Beauvaleense In the time of Edward the Third 1343. Nicholas Cantilupe Lord of Ilkeston founded a Religious House for Carthusian Friers at a place called Fair valley in Nottinghamshire 5. Coenobium Sanctae Annae In the Reign of Richard the Second 1381. we find another founded by William de la Souche called the Monastery of St. Anne near Coventry 6. Kingstonense In the same Kings Reign Michael de la Pool Lord of Wingfield Founded another of these Convents at Kingston upon Hull in Yorkshire 1378. 7. Mont-Gracense In the time of Richard the Second Thomas de Holland Duke of Surrey Earl of Kent and Lord of Wake founded another at a place called Mount-grace in Yorkshire And dedicated it to the Assumption of the Mother of God 8. Eppeworthense At Eppeworth beyond the Isle of Axiholme in Lincolnshire was erected the fourth Carthusian Monastery of this King's Reign wherein they did most flourish it was built for the Honour of the Visitation of the Mother of God 9. Sheenense Anno Dom. 1514. Henry the Eighth erected the last Monastery of the Carthusians hard by his own Mannor House Sheen in the County of Surrey and called it The House of Jesus of Bethlehem of Sheen CHAP. IV. Of the Charter-house or Carthusian Monastery near Smithfield With an Account of the particular occasion and Author of the Foundation THE Founder hereof was the brave and renowned Man at Arms Sir Walter de Manny Lord of the same place and born in the Diocess of Cambray now one of the Seventeen United Provinces He was first Banneret and then made by King Edward the Third the 46 th Ashmole Inst Gart. Knight of the Garter not as Speed one of the Founders His Arms three Cheverons Sable the Field Or. I shall begin with the first mention of him in our Chronicles and so trace him down to this
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
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
Alderman as a Debt due unto him upon the Bonds of John Dudley and Thomas Dudley I protest before God that I paid the whole three hundred pounds to the said Sir John Popham in this sort to be paid over to the said Sir Rowland Heyward viz. Two hundred pounds by my Servant John Fishborne and One hundred pounds by one Henry Best Scrivener near Temple bar There was a demand made by Alderman Duckets Executors for Four hundred pounds owing to the said Alderman upon the Bonds of John Dudley and Thomas Dudley for Copper for the use of the Earl of Leicester which the said Earl transported into Spain which Debt was paid to the said Alderman For I my self was a Messenger from the said Earl to the said Alderman to let him understand that Mr. Bainham my Lords special Officer and Receiver should discharge them presently after it was discharged the said Alderman demanded interest for the forbearing of the 400 l. which as I remember Thomas Dudley discharged Mr. Justice Owen as I remember who had the doing in the Testament of Ald. Ducket promised to deliver in the said Bond to Sir John Popham then being Attorney which I do believe he did And whereas Mr. John Gardiner brother to my late wife by his last Will and Testament did give unto Anne Dudley now wife to Sir Francis Popham one hundred pounds to be paid to her at the day of her marriage the same hundred pounds was and is paid by me at or before the day of her marriage viz. In a Chain of Gold being fourscore and seventeen pounds ten shillings in Gold and for the fashion paid to Master Padmore Goldsmith in London fifty shillings which compleats the hundred pounds for the which amongst other things which I delivered in trust I have no acquittance Item I give to Mr. Jeffery Nightingale Esquire the Sum of Forty pounds of lawful mony of England Also I give to my Cosen William Stapleton Son of Sir Richard Stapleton Knight One hundred Marks Item I give unto the Children of Sir Francis Willoughby Knight One hundred pounds of lawful mony of England to be equally distributed amongst them Item I give unto John Law one of the Procurators of the Arches London Two hundred pounds And to Mr. Tbomas Brown Ten pounds to make him a Ring Item I give to the Wife and Children of John Gardiner my late Wifes Nephew if they be living after my decease being the Mother and two Sons Two hundred Marks to be equally divided amongst them Item I give to the poor people of Hadstock to be distributed amongst them by the Churchwardens and Constables there for the time being Twenty pounds Item I give to the poor people of Littlebury and to the poor people of Balsham to be distributed as afore to either Town Twenty pounds Item I give to the Parson and Church-wardens of Balsham aforesaid for the time being to buy a Bell withal to be hanged up in the Steeple to amend the Ring there Twenty pounds Item To the poor of Southminster Twenty pounds Item To the poor of Little Hallingbury Twenty pounds Item To the poor of Dunsby in the County of Lincoln Twenty pounds Item I give to Robert Wright Poulterer of Little Hallingbury Five pounds Item I give to Widow Aske late Wife of Robert Aske of London Goldsmith Twenty pounds which she oweth me Item My will and meaning is that there shall no Interest or Increase for mony be taken after my decease so as he or they by whom any Sums of mony are or shall be owing do pay the principal Debt within one half year next after my decease Item I give and bequeath to the poor Prisoners within the Prisons of Ludgate New-gate the two Compters in London the Kings Bench and the Marshalsea the Sum of two hundred pounds to be paid and divided among the same Prisoners by even and equal portions Item I give to Susan Price at the day of her marriage Forty pounds Item I give to one Collins of the Town of Cursal in Essex Five pounds Item I give to my good friends Mrs. Heyward and Mrs. Low either of them Ten pounds Item I give to Margaret Woodhal my God-daughter the Sum of Twenty pounds Item I give to all other my God-children Five pounds a piece Item I give and bequeath to the Master and Fellows as the Corporation of Jesus Colledge in Cambridge the Sum of Five hundred Marks of lawful mony of England to be imployed used and bestowed for or in some perpetuity for and to the use benefit and behalf of the said Colledge Master Fellows and Scholars in such sort manner and form as by the discretion of the Bishop of Ely for the time being the Vice-chancellor of Cambridge for the time being the Master and Fellows of the said Colledge for the time being and my Executors hereafter named or the Survivor or Survivors of them if they be living when the bestowing of the said Sum shall come in question shall be thought best and most convenient Item I give and bequeath the Master and Fellows as thâ—â—â—…oration of Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge the Sum of Five hundred pounds to be imployed used or bestowed for or in some perpetuity for and to the use benefit and behalf of the said Colledge Master and Fellows and Scholars there in such sort manner and form as by the discretion privity and consent of the Vicechancellor in Cambridge for the time being the Master of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge for the time being and the Master and Fellows of the said Magdalen Colledge for the time being shall be thought best and most convenient And I will that my great Chain of Gold and all my Jewels of what kind soever they be shall be sold by mine Executors and Supervisors hereafter named towards the better and speedier payment of my Legacies and performance of this my last Will and Testament And my will and meaning is that all the Legacies by me in this my Testament and last Will given and bequeathed and for the payment of much whereof there is no certain time set down shall be paid within Two years next after my decease at the furthest Also I give for and towards the building of mine intended Hospital Chappel and School-house the Sum of Five thousand pounds if I do not live to see it performed in my life time And I desire in the Name of God my Feoffees and my Executor or Executors within two years after my decease or sooner if they may conveniently if it please not God I live to see and cause the same my determination to be performed and accomplished to see and cause the same to be performed and accomplished Also I give the residue of the years which I shall have at the time of my decease in one Close called the Withies lying within the Town and Fields of Cottingham in the County of York to the Maior and Aldermen of Beverly or to the Governour of the same Town and