are less capable of Learning and sittest to be put to Trades He and the Usher shall be diligent in the daily attendance on their Charge and shall not Journey into the Country without the Masters leave Nor shall they take into their Tuition above Sixty other Scholars unless they entertain another under Usher out of their own Means and to be dyeted and lodged out of the Hospital Nor shall they receive for teaching those of the Foundation any Fee or Wages from their Friends They shall be careful and discreet to observe the Nature and Ingeny of their Scholars and accordingly instruct and correct them In Correction they shall be moderate in Instruction diligent Correcting according to the quality of the Fault in matter of Manners and according to the capacity of the Fault in matter of Learning All other Duties of their place they shall faithfully perform namely to see that the Scholars be of modest and mannerly behaviour well and decently clothed orderly and seasonably dyeted cleanly and wholesomly lodged And that the Matron Butler Taylor and Groom perform their duties to these purposes otherwise their Tutors to be censured by Us the Governours and their Servants to be punished by the Master of the Hospital Schoolmasters 1. Mr. Nicholas Grey 2. Mr. Robert Grey his Brother 3. Mr. William Middleton 4. Mr. Robert Brooks 5. Mr. Samuel Wilson 6. Mr. John Bonchee 7. Mr. Norris Wood. 8. Mr. Thomas Watson Vshers 1. Mr. Bagley 2. Mr. Robert Grey 3. Mr. Middleton 4. Mr Brooks 5. Mr. Anthony Andrews 6. Mr. John Byrch 7. Mr. Samuel Wilson 8. Mr. John Martyn 9. Mr. Norris Wood. 10. Mr. John Stephens 11. Mr. Edmund Sly 12. Mr. Thomas Watson 13. Mr. Rowland Buckeridge 14. Mr. Thomas Walker Officers of the Revenues Steward of Courts NO Steward of Courts shall take any greater Fee than Five shillings for his Copy and entring it into the Roll unless it express uses made over by Will in which Case his Fee shall be Ten Shillings All Stewards of Courts shall bring or send into the Charter-house within three months after the Court holden the Roll thereof fairly written in Parchment with the Fine set down in the Margent and signed with his own hand They shall also deliver the Tenant his Copy within forty days after the Court holden if the Tenant demand it and pay for it according to the Rate aforesaid Stewards 1. Mr. John Mocket 2. Mr. Joseph Ward 3. Mr. Abell Allen. This Office is now turned into the Manciple's Auditor HE Shall quarterly examine the Receivers Book of Receipts of the Revenues and Disbursments for the Hospital to see if the one agree with the Rental and the other be disbursed by the Masters warrant and upon proof by Examination under his hand of every particular the Book shall be signed by the Master He shall weekly examine the Manciple's Book of Disbursments for Dyets and what else he lays out to see if the one agree with the Establishment and the other be done by warrant and upon due Examination to approve them under his hand before they be signed by the Master Upon Balancing all Accompts of Receipts and Disbursment at the years end he shall draw the Declaration by us formerly enjoyed in these our Orders that at the Assembly in Decemb. a perfect and yearly view may be taken of the state of the Hospital Auditors 1. Mr. John Wotton 2. Mr. Henry Wotton 3. Mr. Henry Playford 4. Mr. Spour Bailiffs NO Bailiff shall be chosen of any Mannor or Mannors unless he dwell there or within five miles distance at the farthest All Bailiffs shall put in Bond of Two hundred pounds apiece with two Sureties for paying in the monies by them levied either for free Rents or Profits of Courts and they shall not meddle with the Receipt of any Farm-rents upon pain of forfeiting their Bond. All Bailiffs shall bring in all free and customary Rents within forty days after the Quarter day also all Profits and Perquisits of Courts within the said time of forty days after the day assigned by the Steward for payment thereof Leases UPon a Lease hereafter to be granted no Tenant shall have respit for payment of his Rent above Forty days after the Quarter-day wherein he ought to pay it by his Lease All Lease Rents shall be paid by Tenants at the Charter-house so shall all free and customary Rents with Profits and Perquisits of Courts be there likewise paid by the Bailiffs All Lessees shall be tied by Covenant to dwell upon their Farms and not to put them over but to Wife and Children without Licence procured by Petition at the Table and signed by the Major part of the Governours there present and no Licence shall be granted them but for the remainder of years limited by the former Lease and at the same Rent and enjoyning the under Tenants to dwell thereupon In every Lease hereafter to be granted of any of the Hospital Lands or Tenements in any Mannor where a Court Baron is used to be kept there shall be comprised in every such Lease a Covenant on the Lessees part To do suit of Court there and to be obedient to the Orders therein to be made touching or by reason of the Lands and Tenements No Lease shall be made till within Three years before the expiration of the old Lease unless it be upon surrender of the old Lease Nor shall it be granted for Lives or longer time than One and twenty years No Fine shall be taken upon letting or renewing any Lease but such an Improvement of Rent as shall seem best to the Governours and for the good of the Hospital Surveys THere shall be two Surveys made of all such Lands belonging to the Hospital as are not already surveyed and the same shall be faithfully transcribed into a Book expressing the yearly Rent now paid and the yearly value by Survey which Book shall be brought to the Table at every Asssembly that upon the expiring or renewing of Leases the Governours may increase or abate the Rents as to their Wisdoms shall seem best for the good of the Hospital An Establishment for the Dyets Liveries Stipends Wages and other Charges and Expences 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 to be strictly observed and not any way exceeded viz. For weekly Dyet  l. s. d. EIght at the Master's Table allowed for Bread Beer Dyet and Detriments iiii   Fourscore at the Brothers Table allowed for Bread Beer Dyet and Detriments vii xiii iiii Forty two at the Scholars Table allowed for Bread Beer Dyet and Detriments vi xviii iii. ob Ten at the Manciples Table allowed for Bread Beer Dyet and Detrements  xliiii ii Two of the Kitchin and one Porter  xiii  Five Attendants for the Masters Table for Bread and Beer  v. x. For weakly Beavors  l. s. d. Eight
Cambray's Lord The bravest man that blind Age could afford Didst take compassion on the wandring Ghosts Of thy departed Friends Did'st consecrate to th' Lord of Hosts Thy Substance for Religious Ends. Thy Bounty at the best Gave only scatter'd ashes rest Sutton took care o' th' better part And did consummate it with wondrous Art By the large Issues of his boundless heart We grant ye both to us from heaven were sent Yet one 's a dead t'other a living Monument 2. Where sorrow dwelt and tears bedew'd the earth From whence the bitterest weeds deriv'd their birth Where grief and sighs were thickest found And Death had Chambers under ground Where sad Relations sorrow'd all around In that very House of mourning now The sweetest Charms of life do grow Therefore no more can we Call this a Vale of Misery No more let History say It is a Charnel house or Golgotha Unless we mean where skulls with cost and pains Have been enrich'd with wisdom and with brains 3. Vain-glorious Rome Could Heaven be purchas'd and the Joys above By what you dream will meritorious prove We have the noblest Instance here at home Sutton the best of Givers whose large mind By no Red-letter'd Model was confin'd He has erected in the Highest Sphear The largest and the noblest Mansion there Where thy great Babel never will appear 4. We heard and read of Charity before That England was its magazine and store When our Forefathers strove Religiously who should exceed in Love Who should attempt the greatest Good Till a mis-guided Zeal did so abound And cover all the richer ground That numerous streams did swell into a Floud They broke the Banks which should their force withstand And prov'd injurious to the neighbouring Land 5. Then the Reformation came and drain'd our Channels dry It gave Religion a new Name and serv'd to clear our sky A while few kind showers were found To fall upon the Brittish ground The late abuse of Charity withheld Some time its useful growth That Superstition might not yield A Nursery of Ignorance and Sloth The ground was rank and therefore all that fell Of rain and moisture here below About the Convent and the lazy Cell Did into useless Thorns and Thistles grow 6. But since we hear that Charity Just like the Orange Tree From a distant Climate come Leaving a warmer Air at home Ventur'd on our Inhospitable Isle Before she knew we had so clean a Soyl. At first this Stranger was scarce known In City Country Camp or Town She liv'd abroad she stood aloof Far from any Mansion-house She found the searching Air unkind and cold She seem'd to languish in the stiffer Mould This wa'nt a place for her to thrive No not a place to live All over shivering and timorous Therefore she beg'd the favour of a warmer Roof 7. All pale and wan she lay upon the ground Gasping for want of breath Her Eyes began to close her Pulse to cease Her trembling Soul to steal away in peace The common symptomes of approaching death Yet when the Searchers came they found That she was only in a swound Chasing her Limâ—… benum'd with cold The Native heat Appâ—â—â—d and kindly did great She woâ—ksâ— And in a pleaâ—â— honor told All she had seen above How every Region there is fill'd with love She saw the Throne And Him that sate thereon The eternal Springs from whence doth flow All the good we find below Spying poor Lazarus in the Patriarch's breast She knew 't was Heaven the place of everlasting rest Then from a tedious Trance she did revive And iâ— a Demonstration that we live 8. Rome's blind Devotion like the Mole Before did work and labour under ground As if Religion had its birth From the hollow Caverns of the Earth Where you may find the Cloyster'd Soul In Superstitious fetters bound The purest Lamp of Life they place In solitary shade below In the dark enteries of Hell Those dens and vaults where Snakes and Adders dwell As if the greatest part of Christian Race Were born to shameful misery and wo. These Romish Batts live in a daily fright Ever avoiding human sight A strange Religion which abhors the light 9. But our Great Patron void of all The trifling Fopperies of Rome Their sly Reserves and whispering Wall The grand Reproach of Christendom He bravely has secur'd our just Retreat The Reputation of the Brittish State And plac'd Religion in its proper Seat And now Triumphant Arches may be spar'd When such a lasting Monument is rear'd So God has plac'd the Rainbow in the sky A memorandum of the Floud To advertise Mortality At once that he is just and good 10. The Youth and Aged as they lay Objects of pitty in thy way Besought a helping hand Children untaught to make their moan And old Age almost speechless grown When succour they demand Point not to Thee in vain To read those lines of sorrow which complain With Lazarus they begg'd a Crum Or Belizarius a small Sum But thy large Alms did an Exchequer drain Alas thy free and generous mind Disdain'd to be confin'd When thou dost give 'T is that whereon whole Nations might live Like Macedon's great Man when thou dost pitty Thou stretchest out thy hand and giv'st a City 11. What Argument could draw Thee hence To gratifie the Reason or the Sense What pure and endless joys must that man find Who freely left to us a Paradise behind A Paradise wherein we see No tempting Eve and no forbidden Tree All things are open all are free to taste All masculine and innocent and chaste Here 's nothing naked and forlorn Expos'd to punishment or scorn All things are clad and thus it Paradise exceeds Instead of Figleaves we have nobler Weeds 12. Plenty here has chose her seat Here all things needful and convenient meet Every week are hither sent Inhabitants o' th' watry Element When I met Creatures in a throng And found they hither came Seeing so vast a number croud along Methought they went to Eden for a Name 13. Thy very Wilderness is fruitful too Every Walk and every Grove Bears the fresh characters of Love Here 's nothing wild all things encrease and thrive In just obedience to you That which was barren now has learn't to give O bounteous Heaven at thy Command Fourscore Patriarchs here Wander many a year Until they move unto the promis'd Land 14. Here they from Heaven are sed By an Almighty hand are led No Pharaoh them to trouble Yet still they have the Pillar and the Cloud All that is useful and 〈◊〉 good Only their Tents a' nt Portable Their greener years were spent in war Each Nestor bears a loyal scar But now the field is won All war's noise and tumults cease They all retire no clashing's heard But from each grey and reverend beard The sacred Oyl doth in abundance run Like Brethren they live long lives in peace 15. Here Crashaw's pious Muse was bred In this Religious place liv'd she
who taught us to speak to proclaim his Charity by which we live to commend that Temperance which affords us affluence and plenty to admire his Self-denyal who was to do little less than a Miracle to feed a Multitude There are few such Usurers who design to receive their interest in Heaven few such Benefactors whose comprehensive Bounty embraces all Mankind from the Cradle almost to the grayest Head from the tender and helpless Youth to the most Impotent and Infirm old Age. Had our Founder gained that by unlawful Usury which he disposed to pious uses which is a sin almost to suppose unless we had evidence yet Restitution is the best sign and the greatest testimonial of sincere Repentance and where particular Restitution cannot be made to the parties wronged God requires it should be given to relieve the poor Thus Zacheus Luke 19.8 upon his Repentance and Conversion made an Overture of Restauration to all that he had wronged nay fourfold and gave half of his Estate to Souls that were in want this is recorded for our Example But this Accusation can lay no hold on Mr. Sutton for his Estate was gotten by Trade and Offices and never laid out for Interest until his years admonished him to quit his business and leave it for younger and more active people who could not undertake it unless he lent them mony and what Injury did he to any man to let him have that at 6 l. per Cent. which he was able to improve to 30 or 40 per Cent. Besides in his latter time his mony was chiefly laid out upon Annuities It was observed that when he lent mony he would enquire how it was spent and if he found that it was laid out for Necessaries Food and Rayment he never could be perswaded to take any Use No doubt but he rose by the Steps of Thrift and Frugality by being diligent in a lawful Calling nor was he Prodigal because he intended to be Magnificent Observe this Story which is told of his Parsimony Whilst he was busied in Forreign Trade and Commerce with other Nations he contracted a Familiar Acquaintance with a Merchant his Companion in Travel who though he did equal Sutton in Trade yet had not so well learned the Elements of Thrift For when on a Journey he called for his Pint of Wine Sutton called for a Gill and for every other Liquor doubled the Quantity At length this Merchant dyes and by Computation leaves an Estate of Fifty thousand pounds which Report coming to Sutton's Ears he said Alas I alwaies pitied him I thought he would dye no rich man This was in the person of his Friend to correct the Surfets and Extravagancies of a Profuse Age For a rich man is no way happier than another man but that he has more Opportunities ministred unto him of doing more good than his Neighbours Therefore Diogenes ask't of the Thrifty man but a half penny of the Prodigal a pound the former he said might give him often but the latter would shortly have nothing to give Good Husbandry is the fuel of Liberality He chose rather to deny himself in his Superfluities to retrench vain Expences that he might be able to refresh others in their day of sorrow not to rake from others wants that he might riot and rejoyce in their miseries The Fame and Credit of our Generous Founder brought him to share in many Offices at the Court and at the Custom-house where they had occasion for his mony for when an Industrious man has once rais'd his Fortunes to a considerable pitch he there grows rich apace by sharing in the constant Labours of many of the under sort of men He was a sharer in several publick Farms a Partner in Forreign Adventures especially in Muscovy and Hamburgh insomuch that he had no less than Thirty Agents abroad Thus he toyl'd and wrought as if he coveted all and gave away and he desired nothing He looked upon himself aâ— if he desired Steward of the Great God thriving as all should not for himself but others unwilling to lavish what he could spare from his own occasions on Pride or Ambition the Luxury and Vanity of a trifling World when God appointed it to be the Portion of his Fellow-Creatures Mr. Sutton according to the Methods of Wise men who mean to be wealthy appointed his Ordinary Expences to be but half of his Incomes when they were at the lowest and when they increased he ordered a third part and at the highest he determined to be charitable to an eighth part or thereabouts while living When his Estate was Two thousand pound per Ann. he designed one Thousand for himself and Family in House-keeping and Board-wages Two or Three hundred pounds for Charity Four hundred pounds for Law and Physick and many other necessaries the rest for extraordinary Emergencies not thinking it any way dishonourable to have a Personal Inspection over his own Affairs He was happy in a Wife as well as Estate which was advanced by her near Twenty thousand pounds She was the Lady Popham and so enjoyed the Wealth of great Rich Popham He had no Issue by his Beloved Wife for God Almighty had designed him a numerous train of Children to be adopted into his Family and nursed up tenderly as if they came from his own Loyns His Addresses were manly and taking his Discourse clear and full of Eloquence He did not interrupt his Resolutions with fearfulness and too much caution nor deprive himself of the great Instrument of Action Trust or Belief These good Qualifications with the glad Circumstances of a large Fortune and a long Age near 80 years in a Peaceable and Flourishing Reign after the troublesome days of Queen Mary and before the late unhappy Rebellion could not but conspire to make him Considerable The Benefices that were in his Patronage he dearly bought that he might bestow them upon men fit to be burning and shining Lights in the Church of God One of which Divines was Dr. Fish of Hallingbury in Essex who has often testified Mr. Sutton's Integrity in this point He received his Presentation of Him Ann. Dom. 1610. and heard him say That he never desired any thing of a Minister of Gods Word but his Prayers and the due performance of his Office He was a good Parishioner where he had Land and no Living as well as a good Patron where he had both encouraging all People by his early presence at Church doing good Offices as repairing Churches and decently adorning those holy Places where God has said his Name shall dwell He was remarkable for the Compassion and Relief he bestowed on the Widows and Children of good Ministers and this more particularly incited to by the excellent Examples he had seen of Charity of this Nature in the Low-Countries He was very Temperate moderating his natural Appetite by Abstinence he was sober and vigilant and moderate in all his Recreations The outward Ornaments of his Body were clean and becoming neither
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
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