continuance for ever by the name of the Governors of the Hospital of King James founded in Hallingbury in the County of Essex at the humble petition and at the only cost and charges of Thomas Sutton Esquire and that they the said Governors may have a perpetual succession and that by that name they and their Successors may for ever hereafter have hold and enjoy the Mannors Lordships Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments hereafter mentioned without any licence or pardon for any alienation of them or any of them and without any licence of or for Mortmain or any other Law or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding That is to say your Suppliants Mannors and Lordships of Southminster Norton Little Hallingbury alias Hallingbury Bouchers and Much Stambridge in the County of Essex with all their and every of their Rights Members and Appurtenances whatsoever And also all those your Suppliants Mannors and Lordships of Buslingthorpe and Dunnesby in the County of Lincoln with their and either of their Rights Members and Appurtenances whatsoever And also all those your Suppliants Mannors of Salthorpe alias Saltrop Chilton and Black-grove with their and every of their Rights Members and Appurtenances in the said County of Wilts And also all those your Suppliants Lands and Pasture Grounds called Blackgrove containing by estimation two hundred Acres of Pasture with the Appurtenances in Blackgrove and Wroughton in the said County of Wilts And also all that your Suppliants Mannor of Mihenden otherwise called the Mannor of Mâ—hunden in the Parishes of Wroughton Lydgerd and Tregoce in the said County of Wilts And all that your Suppliants Mannor of Elcombe and the Park called Elcombe Park in the said County of Wilts And all that your Suppliants Mannor of Wattlescote otherwise called Wigglescote otherwise called Wiglescete otherwise called Wikelscete in the County of Wilts And all that your Suppliants Mannor of Wescote otherwise called Wescete with the Appurtenances in the said County of Wilts And also all those your Suppliants Lands and Pastures containing by estimation one hundred Acres of Land and threescore Acres of Pasture in Wiglescote and Wroughton in the said County of Wilts And also all that your Suppliants Mannor of Uffcote with the Appurtenances in the said County of Wilts And all those your Suppliants two Messuages and one thousand acres of Land two thousand acres of Pasture three hundred acres of Meadow and three hundred acres of Wood with the Appurtenances in Brodehinton in the said County of Wilts And also all those your Suppliants Mannors and Lordships of Campes otherwise called Comps otherwise called Campes-Castle otherwise called Castle-Campes scituate lying being and extending in the Counties of Cambridge and Essex or in either of them or elsewhere within the Realm of England And also all that your Suppliants Mannor of Balsham in the County of Cambridge with all and singular the Rights Members and Appurtenances thereof whatsoever And also all that your Suppliants Messuage and Lands scituate and being in the Parishes of Hackney and Tottenham in the County of Middlesex or in either of them with their and either of their Rights Members and Appurtenances whatsoever which said Messuage was lately purchased of Sir William Bower Knight and the Lands in Tottenham now or late in the tenure or occupation of William Benning Yeoman and also all and singular the Mannors Lordships Messuages Lands Tenements Reversions Services Meadows Pastures Woods Advowsons Patronages of Churches and Hereditaments of your Suppliant whatsoever scituate lying or being within the said Counties of Essex Lincoln Wilts Cambridge and Middlesex or any of them with all and every their Rights Members and Appurtenances whatsoever And also all your Suppliants Letters Patents Indentures Deeds Evidences Bonds and Writings concerning the Premisses or any of them And all such Conditions Warranties Vouchers Actions Suits Entries Benefits and Demands as shall or may be had by any person or persons upon or by reason of them or any of them except those your Suppliants Mannors or Lordships of Littlebury and Hadstock in the said County of Essex And except all your Suppliants Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Littlebury and Hadstock aforesaid or in either of them And that the said Governors and their Successors by the same name shall and may have power ability and capacity to demise lease and grant their Possessions and Hereditaments and every of them And to take acquire and purchase And to sue and be sued And to do perform and execute all and every other lawful act and thing good necessary and profitable for the said incorporation in as full and ample manner and form to all intents constructions and purposes as any other incorporations or body politique or corporate fully and perfectly founded and incorporated may do And that the same Governours and their Successors for the time being may have and use a common Seal for the making granting and demising of such their demises and leases and for the doing of all and every other thing touching or in any wise concerning the said Incorporation In which Seal shall be ingraven the Arms of the said Thomas Sutton your Suppliant And also that it may he further enacted by the Authority aforesaid and be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That your Suppliant during his life and the said Governors and their Successors for the time being or the most part of them after his decease shall and may have full power and lawful authority to break alter and change the said Seal And that your said Orator during his life and the said Governors and their Successors for the time being or the most part of them after his decease shall and may have full power and authority to nominate and appoint and shall and may nominate and appoint when and as often as he and they shall think good such person and persons as he and they shall think meet to be Master Preacher Schoolmaster Vsher poor Men poor Children and Officers of the said Hospital And when any of them by death resignation deprivation or otherwise shall become void shall and may within one month next after such avoidance by writing under their said Common Seal nominate and appoint one or more learned godly discreet and meet men and persons to be Master Preacher Schoolmaster Vsher poor Men poor Children and Officers in the places of them and every of them so deceasing resigning or otherwise becoming void And that in case the said Governors and their Successors for the time being or the most part of them shall not within one month after such avoidance make such nomination and appointment as aforesaid That then and so often and in every such case from and after the decease of your said Orator it shall and may be lawful to your Majesty your Heirs and Successors by your Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England to nominate and appoint some meet godly and learned men in and to the places void by such default of the said Governors and their
tent ' ac deinde usque ad in vicesimum diem Octobris proxime sequen praerogat intitulat ' An Act for the establishing and confirming of the Foundation of the Hospital of King James founded in Charter-house in the County of Middlesex at the humble Petition and only Costs and Charges of Thomas Sutton Esquire and of the Possessions thereof The Return thereof Tibi precipimus quod tenorem Actus predict cum omnibus illum tangerd nobi in cancellariam ' nostram sub Sigillo tuo distincte aperte sine dilatione mittas hoc breve T. meipso apud Westm ' xxviiio. die Junii Anno Regni nostri quarto Cesar Ra. Executio istius brevis patet in Scedula hinc annexat ' H. Elsyinge Cler ' Parl. Inspe'ximus etiam predict The time of the begining and continuance of the Parliament viz. from the 17. day of March in the third of King Charles the First until the 26. of June next following Scedulam eidem brevi annexat ' in Filaciis dict Cancellarie nostre de Recordo similiter residen in in haec verba In Parliamento inchoat ' tent ' apud Westm ' Decimo septimo die Martii Anno Regni Serenissimi Excellentissimi Domini nostri Caroli Dei gratia Anglie Scotie Francie Hibernie Regis Fidei Defensor ' c. tertio ibidem continuat ' usque in Vicesimum sextum diem Mensis Junii tunc propter sequen communi omnium Dominorum tam spiritualium quam temporalium Communium consensu Regie Majestatis assensu inter alia fancitum inactitatum stabilitum fuit hoc sequens Statutum The Title of the Act. An Act for the Establishing and Confirming of the Hospital of King James founded in Charter-house in the County of Middlesex at the humble Petition and only Costs and Charges of Thomas Sutton Esquire and of the Possessions thereof Cujus quidem Statuti tenor sequitur in haec verba viz. The Act. Whereas our late Soveraign Lord King James of blessed memory at the humble suit of Thomas Sutton late of Balsham in the County of Cambridge Esq deceased Recital of the Letters Patents by his Highness Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England hearing date the Two and twentieth day of June in the Ninth year of his Majesties Reign of England did give and grant unto the said Thomas Sutton full power licence and lawful authority to erect and establish at or in the late dissolved Charter-house besides Smithfield in the County of Middlesex an Hospital and Free School in such sort as in and by the said Letters Patents is expressed And did further by the same Letters Patents nominate ordain assign constitute limit and appoint certain persons in the same Letters Patents named to be Governours of the Lands Possessions Revenues and Goods of the said Hospital And did by the same Letters Patents Incorporate the said Governours and their Successors to be a Body Politique and Corporate to have continuance for ever by the Name of the Governours of the Lands Possessions Revenues and Goods of the Hospital of King James founded in Charter-house within the County of Middlesex at the humble Petition and only Costs and Charges of Thomas Sutton Esquire And did further by the same Letters Patents give licence to the said Thomas Sutton to give grant and assure to the said Governours the Mansion-house commonly called Charter-house besides Smithfield in the said County of Middlesex and divers and sundry other Mannors Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments mentioned in the said Letters Patents as in the said Letters Patents more at large appeareth And whereas the said Thomas Sutton Recital of the Founders Deed of Bargain and Sale minding the performance of the said Charitable Work by his Indenture of Bargain and Sale bearing date the First day of November in the Ninth year aforesaid and enrolled in his said late Majesties High Court of Chancery did according to the said licence to him in that behalf given for the consideration in the same Indenture mentioned give bargain sell grant confirm and convey to the said Governours of the Lands Possessions Revenues and Goods of the Hospital of King James founded in Charter-house within the County of Middlesex at the humble Petition and only Costs and Charges of Thomas Sutton Esquire and to their Successors for ever the said Mansion-house commonly called Charter-house besides Smithfield in the said County of Middlesex and divers and sundry other Mannors Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in the same Indenture mentioned and expressed upon especial trust and confidence that all and singular the Rents Issues Revenues Commodities and Profits of all and singular the said Mannors Houses Lands Tenements and Hereditaments should be for ever truly faithfully and wholly distributed converted and imployed to and for the maintenance and continuance of the said Hospital and Free School and other the Charitable uses in the said Deed indented mentioned as by the said Deed indented more at large appeareth Recital of the Heirs Suit in Law against the Foundation And whereas since the death of the said Thomas Sutton one Simon Baxter the Heir of the said Thomas Sutton hath attempted and endeavoured to impeach and overthrow the Incorporation and Foundation of the said Hospital and the endowments thereof and so to obtain and get to himself the Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments that were the said Thomas Suttons and by him conveyed to the Governours of the said Hospital for maintenance of the poor there Howbeit the said Heir drawing the same in question in his said Majesties Courts of Kings Bench and Chancery and the Case being adjorned by the then Iustices of the Kings Bench into the Exchequer Chamber after solemn argument and deliberate advice of all the then Iustices of both Benches and Barons of the Exchequer it was clearly resolved That the said Foundation Incorporation and Endowment of the said Hospital was sufficient good and effectual in the Law And Iudgment was thereupon given accordingly in the said Court of Kings Bench and also a Decree agreeing with the said Iudgment was had in the said Court of Chancery upon consideration whereof and for that the said Foundation and Endowment doth daily maintain Fourscore poor men some maimed in the Wars some undone by Shipwrack and Misfortune on the Seas and Forty poor Scholars with a Master Preacher Teachers and Attendants and other Officers in very ample manner with good and sufficient allowance in all things It is most humbly desired in the behalf of the Governours and poor People of the said Hospital That it may be enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same The body of the Act. And be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the said House called the late dissolved Charter-house besides Smithfield The place of the Hospital and
all the said Houses Edifices Buildings Orchards Gardens Lands Tenements and Hereditaments within the Scite Circuit and Precinct of the same was is and shall be for ever hereafter an Hospital in deed and in name and is and shall be called by the name of the Hospital of King James The name of the Hospital founded in Charter-house within the County of Middlesex at the humble Petition and only Costs and Charges of Thomas Sutton Esquire and that such of the said Governours named or mentioned in the said Letters Patents as are yet living The Governours incorporated by what Name together with such others now living as have sithence been named or elected or mentioned to be elected into the room or place of such of them as are since dead or are removed or have relinquished their places and are now esteemed Governours now are and they and their Successors for ever hereafter shall be and continue And shall be adjudged deemed and taken to be a Body Corporate and Politique by the name of the Governours of the Lands Possessions Revenues and Goods of the Hospital of King James founded in Charter house within the County of Middlesex at the humble Petition and only Costs and Charges of Thomas Sutton Esquire and by that name shall have The Governours capacity and may have and enjoy all and singular such and the like capacity power and ability to all intents constructions and purposes as any other Corporation lawfully Incorporated may or ought to have And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Governours Power given to the Governours to make laws and orders under their Common Seal and their Successors for the time being or the most part of them from time to time and at all times hereafter as to their or the most part of them shall seem fit and convenient shall and may have full power and authority by writing under their Common Seal to make ordain set down and prescribe as occasion shall require such Rules Statutes and Ordinances as they shall from time to time and at all times think fit as well for and concerning the naming and electing of such person and persons as shall succeed into the place and room of any the said Governours when and as often as any of them shall dye or be removed from such place or places of Governour or Governours or voluntarily shall relinquish their places As also for and concerning the Election Order Rule and Government of the Master Preacher Schoolmaster Vsher poor Men poor Children and all other Members Officers or Servants of the said Hospital in their several places offices and rooms and for their and every of their Stipends and Allowances And that the same Rules Orders Statutes and Ordinances so from time to time to be made set down and prescribed as aforesaid shall be and stand in full force and strength in Law and be executed in all things according to the true intent and meaning thereof under the several pains forfeitures and penalties as shall be expressed and contained in the same Ordinances Statutes and Rules respectively Provided always that the said Rules Ordinances and Statutes or any of them be not repugnant or contrary to the Laws or Statutes of this Realm of England nor against the purport or true intent of the recited Letters Patents The Governours henceforth to take the Oaths of Supremacy Allegiance And be it enacted and established by the Authority aforesaid That every person that shall from henceforth be Elected a Governour of the said Hospital shall before he exercise the place of a Governour take the several Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance which any two others of the said Governours for the time being The Master to take the same Oathes henceforth shall have power and authority by this Act to administer unto them And that the Master from henceforth to be elected shall before he exercise or take any benefit of the said place take the said several Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance The Masters other oath And shall also take an Oath that neither he nor any other for him with his privity allowance or consent hath given or shall give directly or indirectly any mony or other gratuity or reward for or in respect of the having or enjoying of the said place All which said Oaths to be taken by such Master any two of the said Governours for the time being shall have power and authority by this Act to administer And that the Preacher Minister Schoolmaster Vsher The oaths of the Preacher Schoolmaster Usher Officers and poor men Officers and poor men and every of them from henceforth to be elected and admitted shall before he exercise or take benefit of any such place take the said several Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance And shall also take an Oath that neither he nor any other for him with his privity allowance or consent hath given or shall give directly or indirectly any mony or other gratuity or reward for or in respect of the having or enjoying of the said place All which said Oaths by the said Preacher Minister Schoolmaster Vsher Officers and poor Men to be taken any one of the said Governours and the said Master for the time being shall have power and authority by vertue of this Act to administer The Governours to hold for ever the Hospital against the King and others And be it further enacted and established by the Authority aforesaid That the said Governours and their Successors shall and may for ever hereafter have hold and enjoy according to the purport true intent and meaning of the said Indenture of Bargain and Sale the said Hospital House and all Buildings Gardens Courts Orchards and Backsides thereto belonging and all and singular the Mannors Messuages Lands Tenements Liberties Franchises and Hereditaments by the aforesaid Letters Patents by the said Indenture of Bargain and Sale given granted conveyed and assured or meant mentioned or intended in or by the said Letters Patents or Indenture to be given granted conveyed or assured to the said Governours against our Soveraign Lord the King's Majesty his Heirs and Successors and against all other Person and Persons of whom the said Hospital House Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments or any of them were holden at the time of the said Indenture made and against their Heirs and Issues notwithstanding any Title accrewing for or by any Alienation in Mortmain And also against all and every other person and persons of whom the said Thomas Sutton did purchase the said Hospital House Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments or any of them respectively and against their Heirs Issues and Assigns And also against all and every other person and persons claiming or that shall claim any Estate Right Title or Interest of in out or unto the said Hospital Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments or any of them by from or under any person or persons of whom the said Thomas Sutton
said Messuages Tenements or Hereditaments of the said now Lord North according to the true meaning of the said several Deeds And that it shall and may be lawful at all times hereafter to and for the said Dudley Lord North his Heirs Tenants and Assigns and all others inhabiting and possessing the said Mansion-house or any other the said Messuages Tenements or Hereditaments of the said Lord North for themselves their servants and workmen to have free ingress and regress into and from the Orchards Gardens or other places of the said Hospital where it shall be needful to survey repair cleanse amend and new make the said Pipes Conduits Cocks Chanels and Water-courses and all other Pipes Conduits Cocks Chanels and Water-courses that hereafter shall be erected or placed within the precinct of the said Hospital for the conveying of Water unto the said Mansion-house or other the Messuages Tenements or Hereditaments of the said now Lord North or any of them and to that purpose to subvert and digg up the Soil of the said Orchards Gardens or other places of the said Hospital where it shall be needful Provided also A Proviso for the Viscountess Maidstone and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that this Act or any thing therein contained shall not in any wise extend unto the Mansion-house of the Right honourable Elizabeth Viscountess of Maidstone scituate and being in Charter-house Church-yard near unto the said Hospital nor to any the Buildings Outhouses Gardens or Grounds therewith used or thereto pertaining nor to any Mansion-houses Buildings or Grounds therewith used of any other person or persons within or near the precinct of the said Church-yard or Hospital and not conveyed or mentioned to be conveyed by the said Thomas Sutton to the said Governours by the said Indenture of Bargain and Sale But that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Viscountess of Maidstone and all and every other person and persons whatsoever to hold and enjoy the said several Mansion houses and Premisses therewith used or thereto pertaining together with all ways and passages with Carts or otherwise and all Liberties Profits Easements Water and Water-courses Pipes Cocks and Passages for Water and liberty to digg cleanse amend and new make such Pipes Cocks and Water-courses as fully and as amply as if this Act had never been had nor made Ego Henricus Elsyinge Armiger ' Clericus Parliamentorum virtute brevis dicti Domini nostri Regis de Certiorando mihi direct ' his annexat ' certifico superius hoc scriptum verum esse tenorem Actus Parliamenti supradicti in eo brevi mencionat ' In cujus rei testimonium Sigillum nomenque meum apposui atque subscripsi Dat' secundo Die Julii Anno regni dict' Domini nostri Regis Caroli quarto H. Elsyinge Cler ' Parl. Nos autem separales tenores brevis scedulae predict ad requisition ' Gubernatorum terrarum possessionum revencionum bonorum Hospitalis predict duximus Exemplificand ' per presentes In cujus rei testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium Decimo octavo die Julii Anno Regni nostri quarto Cesar Car. Examinat ' per nos Rob. Riche Edw. Clarke Clericos Irrotulat ' Rotul ' Patent ' Cur ' Cancellar ' Domini Regis Caroli infra script ' de Anno Regni ejusdem Regis Angliae c. Quarto Now all things are fixed and settled according to the admirable Ends they were designed for every one enjoying the benefit and refreshments of our Noble Founder's Charity Ezra 6.9 Day by day we have our Portions without fail that we may offer Sacrifices of sweet Savour unto the God of Heaven and pray for the Life and Prosperity of our most gracious King and the Happiness of our Noble Governours The Names of the present Governours 1. The most Reverend Father in God Gilbert Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury 2. The Lord Chancellor of England 3. The Duke of Buckingham 4. The Duke of Monmouth 5. The Duke of Ormond 6. Lord Chamberlain 7. Lord Treasurer 8. Earl of Bridgewater 9. Earl of Craven 10. Earl of Shaftsbury 11. Lord Bishop of Winchester 12. Lord Bishop of Rochester 13. Lord Robarts 14. Mr. Secretary Coventry 15. Sir William Wild. 16. Martyn Clifford Esquire Thus the Government of this Foundation is fixed upon the most Honourable Grandees of our State and the most Reverend Prelates of our Church they who sit at the Helm of our Kingdom and are graciously pleased to steer and guide this goodly Ship of Renowned Sutton's Charity And here we may note the great Wisdom of our Founder who made choice of men of Honour and Power who were able to maintain his Foundation by their Interest and to grace it with their Honour When any of these Noble Lord happen to decease another is chosen within two months by the voices of the Major part The Patent runs thus TO all whom these Presents shall come the Governours of the Lands Possessions Revenues and Goods of the Hospital of King James founded in the Charter-house within the County of Middlesex at the humble Petition and only Costs and Charges of Thomas Sutton Esquire send greeting in our Lord GOD everlasting Whereas _____ one of the Governours of the Lands Possessions Revenues and Goods of the Hospital of King James aforesaid lately died and departed this life by means whereof his room and place of a Governour did become and yet is and continueth void Know ye therefore that the said Governours according to the true intent and meaning of the Letters Patent of our late Soveraign Lord King James for the Foundation of the said Hospital bearing date the Two and twentieth day of June in the Ninth year of his Reign do elect nominate and appoint _____ to be henceforth one of the Governours of the Lands Possessions Revenues and Goods of the said Hospital of King James founded in the Charter-house within the County of Middlesex at the humble Petition and only Costs and Charges of Thomas Sutton Esquire in the room and place of a Governour so being void as aforesaid by the death of the said _____ _____ to be and continue in the room and place and to have exercise and enjoy the said room and place of one of the Governours of the Lands Possessions Revenues and Goods of the Hospital aforesaid according to the true intent and meaning of the said Letters Patent In witness whereof the said Governours have hereunto set their Common Seal and every one of them his particular Seal c. The Members that are kept and maintain'd in the Hospital chiefly consist of old Gentlemen and Children 1. FOurscore ancient Men who have been formerly in the Wars and been serviceable to their King and Country or else decay'd Merchants whose Estates have been swallowed up in the Deep or aged and poor Housholders who have formerly lived in a fair esteem in the World who have a long
it is the best way to be early in making application especially for the place of a young Lad Three or four years is but a reasonable time before hand for else ordinarily they will hardly have the benefit of their Warrant which some impute to the unkindness of the Officers For the Governours at an Assembly make a List and nominate their Lad each of them who being approved of is certain to come in though the place should fall after his Governours Death and till the former Nomination and Warrant be served no other can have any claim or vertue The Number now in the House maintained and kept is above 188 Persons besides the 29 Scholars at the Universities and the standing Council to the House which at present are Sir William Jones his Majesty's Attorney General and Mr. Dolben of the Temple have a retaining Fee from the House and several other persons who are mentioned in the first Establishment At the Admission of every Member it is required that they be sober in mind and healthful in body which later information is to be given by the Chriurgion with the Approbation of the Physician by an Order Decemb. 10. 1613. What a mighty benefit this Donation has proved to many hundreds in the space of Threescore and six years is almost incredible for no Estate of the like Revenue has done near so much good in all Europe For some Persons who have been Members of great and considerable Families have been glad to take Relief in this when their own wealthy Relations esteemed them as a burthen I have already given you an Account of the Ancient concerns of the House and now I intend to conclude with a fresh account of the Alterations of Salaries and increase of Revenues by the great wisdom and care of the Right Honourable the Governours As for the particular Orders by which the Ancient Men are to be regulated they are conveniently placed before their Devotions I find an Account of the Lands Mannors and Revenues of the Charter-house set down Alphabetically by Master Fuller but so confusedly by reason of mistakes of Farms for Mannors that I chose rather to set them exactly down as I found them in the Rental at the Charter-house made Anno Dom. 1673. 1. THe Estate about the Charterhouse viz. in the Lane and the Yard before the House and the Backside of the Wilderness called now Sutton's Street These are let out to several Tenants but the Annual Rent of them all amounts to l. s. d. 202 00 00 2. Some Lands at Hackney in the County of Middlesex which bring in per Annum 025 00 00 3. At Southminster in Essex the Lease-hold Rents of the same Mannor per Annum 921 03 04 The Free and Customary Rents of the said Mannor per Annum 038 08 3 ob 4. Cold Norton in Essex Lease-hold Rents 160 00 00 Free and Customary 017 06 09 5. Great Stanbridge in Essex Lease-hold Rents 113 06 08 Free and Customary 012 04 02 6. Little Hallingbury in Essex Lease-hold Rents 267 13 04 Free and Customary 010 16 2 ob 7. Castle-Camps in Cambridge Lease hold 652 14 08 Free and Customary 032 09 3. q. 8. Balsham Mannor in Cambridge Lease-hold 200 00 00 Free and Customary 041 19 5 ob q. 9. Buslingthorpe in Lincolnshire Lease-hold 305 10 00 10. Dunsby in Lincolnshire Farm Rents 408 18 08 11. Elcomb Mannor and Park in Wiltshire containing all these Farms which Mr. Fuller sets down for Mannors 1. Chilton 2. Black-grove 3. Missunden 4. Salthorpe 5. Wescott 6. Uffcott c. The Lease-holds whereof amount to 1063 13 04 Free and Customary 020 15 8 ob These are all the Mannors Lands and Revenues which were setled by the Founder himself upon his Hospital But the Purchases since have been Considerable 1. Thurston and the Marsh in Cold Norton in Essex which brings in per Annum l. s. d. 018 00 00 2. Elmestead Park in Essex Lease-hold 060 00 00 3. Fryans and Jackletts in Essex 60 00 00 4. Little Wigborow in Essex Farm Rents 200 00 00 Free and Customary 005 05 04 5. Higney Grange and Isle in Hungtingtonshire 220 00 00 6. Fulstow-Marsh-Chappel and Tetney in Linc. 50 00 00 7. Hartland in Devonshire 36 00 00 Small Tithes 25 00 00 8. West-black loft Saddlethorpe Yokfleet and Bellasis in Yorkshire 070 00 00 Free-hold 011 03 0 ob 9. Bockleton in Shropshire 060 00 00 10. Thickwood in Wiltshire 078 06 04 Another Rent 003 69 01 The Ancient Revenue comes to 4493 19 10 ob The new Purchased Lands to 0897 13 9 ob Both together amount to 5391 13 08 Although the House lost near 8000 l. in Beaumont's and Heyward's time in the years 1623 and 1624 and was robbed of 1600 l. in the year 1649. and was set behind hand in Mr. Gerard's time when he was Master yet during these Wars as well as formerly there have been considerable Additions since the year 1614. First of all 24 Boys were allowed at the University 20 pounds per Annum a piece out of Lands purchased by the good Providence of Sir Richard Sutton one of the Founders faithful Executors Secondly Five Scholars added since to the number of the University Youths who are now 29 by the good care and providence of Mr. Gresset And Four Scholars more added to the first Foundation of 40 maintained in the House The Masters Salary has been raised from 50 l. per Annum to a 100 l. and lately increased to 200 l. The Preachers from 40 l. per Annum to a 100 l. The Schoolmasters from 30 l. to a 100 marks The Readers from 20 l. to 30 l. per Annum The Gardiners place is also considerably encreast And the Apprentices have their 20 l. doubled For now the Lands amount to as before mentioned in the Rental l. s. d. 5391 13 08 A very fair Estate for a private man to get and to bestow to such Excellent Purposes whose praise ought to be celebrated in all Ages Thus we may observe how just and regular Affairs stand in this House that the Revenues are no way embezel'd 'T is true not many years since a lamentable sire happened which occasioned the taking out the famous 1000 l. so long kept prisoner in the Chest but yet in time it is to be hoped it may be gathered up and return to its old habitation and in truth it lay there to be a reserve for extraordinary Emergencies So neither is the Estate diverted to any other use than what the Founder design'd viz. decay'd Souldiers and English Gentlemen and others who formerly have been well educated These have every one a handsome and convenient Apartment Likewise it is laid out on the maintenance of decay'd Gentlemens Children who have a Chamber to two of them wholsom dyet admirable conveniences and all accommodations imaginable so that they are no burthen at all to their Parents after their first years admission into the House I have nothing now to say