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A18327 Ordinances made by Sir William Cecill Knight of the Order of the Garter, Baron of Burghley, for the order and gouernement of xiij. poore men, whereof one to be the warden of the hospitall at Stanford Baron in the countie of Northampton, to remaine in a chest in a chamber in the sayd hospitall, locked vp in a chest with two seuerall locks, the keyes whereof to be in the custodie of the Vicar of S. Martins and the bailiffe of the manour. xx. Augusti Anno xxxix. Elizabethae Reginæ, & anno domini 1597. Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598. 1597 (1597) STC 4908; ESTC S116716 5,382 2

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Item euery of these poore men shall resort in their Liuery gownes to Common prayer euery Sunday Wednesday Friday and Holyday to S. Martins Church at Morning and Euening prayer and shall sit or kneele in some place appointed by the Churchwardens Neither shall any of them be absent from the Church at such times without iust cause by sicknesse to be notified to the Vicar and to be allowed by him And for euery such default not excusable the Parish Clerke shall haue vi d. out of the weekes wages allowed to the poore man that shall make such default Item there shal be paid to the said Warden and to the other xii by the Vicar of S. Martins and the Bailife of the Manour in S. Martins Church or by one of them euery Sunday after Euening praier these summes following viz. To the Warden of the Hospitall the summe of iii. s. for the weeke folowing and to euery of the other twelue the summe of ii s. iiii d. for the weeke following sauing to the parish Clerke his due for the default afore committed if any shal be as aboue is expressed which he shall also receiue at the same time Item all these poore men that shall bee vnmaried and not notoriously sicke shall lodge euery night in the common house without some special impediment to be allowed by the Vicar or by the Bailiffe of the Manour of Stanford Baron and such as shal be maried may liue with their wiues out of the common house so the same bee within S. Martins Parish or within the Borough of Stanford but yet they shall be bound one night in a moneth to lodge with their fellowes in the common house vpon paine of losse of one weekes wages which shal be paide to the poore mens boxe in S. Martins Church Item none of them shall goe abroade in their gownes out of the bounds of S. Martins Parish or out of the Borough of Stanford and the liberties thereof Item the Vicar of S. Martins or Minister shall vpon the first Sunday of euery quarter of the yeere assemble them together in the Church before Euening praier and seuering them asunder shall heare them say the Lords praier and the Creede and to answere to the Commandements and such as will not in conuenient time learne and be able to say the same shal be auoided from his roome after fourteene dayes space giuen him to learne the same and the Vicar or Minister shall haue for his labour v. s. euerie such Sunday and the Parish Clearke twelue pence for attending on the Vicar Item they shall euery first Sunday of euery quarter goe to Burghley house if the Lord of Burghley or the Ladie his wife shall there keepe houshold and there shall dine at one table together in the hall where they shall haue two mease of meate euery mease of two dishes one with pottage and boiled meate the other roste if it bee no fasting d●y and if it be a fish day then they shall haue two like meases of white meate and fish For the charges whereof he that shall dwell at Burghley as the heire of the house shall defray the same or els in case of the absence of the said Lord Burghley or the Ladie his wife from the house paiment shal be made out of the yeerely summe of the annuitie to the said thirteene poore men after the rate of iiii d. a peece to be paide by the Bailiffe of the Manour or by such as shal be authorised to receiue the annuitie and to distribute it according to these orders and the same to be allowed vpon the account Item if at any time he that shal be mine heire of my house at Theobalds in Hartfordshire shal come to Burghley or Stanford the said poore men shall present themselues duetifully vnto him and shall offer any seruice they can doe to him in memorie of the Founder William Lord Burghley Auncestor of the said Owner of Theobalds Item if any doubt or question shall hereafter arise vpon the wordes or meaning of these former Articles or Ordinances the resolution or determination thereof shall bee made and in writing deliuered to the Vicar of S. Martins by the Bishop of Peterborough or by the Deane and any one Prebendarie of the Church of Peterborough whereunto all parties shall yeeld and obey Item as these poore men shall at the first haue their seuerall roomes allowed vnto them in the Almes house so shall they during their liues or their continuance in their places continue their lodgings and euery one as he shall succeede to the voyde place so shall he succeed in the lodging without any change Item all the twelue shall at their entries openly in S. Martins Church promise to be obedient to the Warden of the house in all things that he shall aduise them for the obseruation of the orders by these Articles prescribed And if any of them shall wilfully refuse to obserue the same he shal complaine therof to the Lord Burghley for the time being or in his absence to the Vicar and Bailiffe of the Manour who shall remoue such a wilfull person from the place whereunto they that did first name him shall appoint another Item during the life of me the Lord Burghley he that is shal be my Bailiffe of my Manour of Stanford Baron shal receiue the said annuitie of one hundreth pounds out of my lands heretofore called Cliffe Parke in the Countie of Northampton and shall with the priuitie of the Alderman of Stanford or the Vicar of S. Martins make payment thereof according to these orders and the rest that shal remaine vpon his yeerely accompt to be employed on the repayre of the house or vpon the poore prisoners in any Gaole in the Borough of Stanford by the appointment of the Alderman and the said Vicar for the time being before whom the saide Bailiffe shall make yeerely his account the second day of Nouember And after my decease if the said Alderman Vicar and Recorder of Stanford for the time being shal not like to continue the saide Bailiffe for the saide seruice they shall name and appoint either such as shall bee Bailiffe of the Borough of Stanford or such as shal be Inhabitants in the Inne or house called the George of Stanford Baron or in the scite of S. Michaels Nunrie or in default of them such other as shal be meete for that seruice with the consent of the L. Burghley for the time being or any of two the Feoffees which account shal be also yeerely afore the last of Nouember presented to the Lorde Burghley if he shall then be residing at Burghley or in his absence from thence to some one of the Feoffees Item the said annuitie shal be paid by the Bailiffe or Farmors of Cliffe euery quarter of the yeere to the Bailiffe of the Manour of Stanford Baron that is to say xxv pounds at or before the feast of S. Michael the Archangel and so quarterly by equall portions with which money the Bailiffe shall weekely make paiment of the foresayde summes as afore is expressed And now for the first paiment he shall begin the first Sunday after the feast of S. Michael and so continue weekely There shal be also prouided by the said Bailiffe with the priuitie and allowance of the Alderman of Stanford and the Vicar of S. Martins gownes for euery of them according to the value aboue mentioned which shal be deliuered to them yeerely the Saterday afore the first Sunday after Michaelmas There shal be also during the terme of twenty and one yeeres from the feast of S. Michael the Archangel last past yeerely deliuered out of the woods of Cliffe Parke thirteene loades of fire wood for the said thirteene poore people abiding in the said Hospital by Roger Dale gent. the Farmer or Tenant at Cliffe Parke his executors or assignes which thirteene loades the said Roger Dale his Executors or Assignes are bound by couenant to cause yeerely to be caried to the said Hospitall at some conuentient time before the feast of all Saints and after the end of the said xxi yeeres the said quantity of wood shal be prouided by the Bailiffe of the said Mannor of Stanford Baron for the time being William Burghley
Ordinances made by Sir William Cecill Knight of the Order of the Garter Baron of Burghley for the order and gouernement of xiij poore men whereof one to be the Warden of the Hospitall at Stanford Baron in the Countie of Northampton to remaine in a Chest in a Chamber in the sayd Hospitall locked vp in a Chest with two seuerall locks the keyes whereof to be in the custodie of the Vicar of S. Martins and the Bailiffe of the Manour xx Augusti Anno xxxix ELIZABETHAE Reginae Anno Domini 1597. THe first fiue shall be named chosen and admitted alwayes by me William Lord Burghley during my life and after by mine heire male that shal be owner of mine house and Lord of Burghley whereof the formost shal be called the Warden of the Almeshouse of the Lord Burghley The next foure which is the vi vii viii and ix shall be named and admitted by the Vicar of S. Martins for the time being and the Bailiffe of the Manour of Stanford Baron in the County of Northampton and the eldest Churchwarden of S. Martins and by them that shall be dwellers in the Nunry otherwise called S. Michaels and in the Inne called the George of Stanford Baron or by the greater number of them The last foure viz. the x. xi xii and xiii shal be named and admitted by him that shal be for the time Alderman of the Borough of Stanford in the County of Lincolne and by the Recorder of that Towne the Steward and Bailife of the sayd Manour of Stanford or the more part of them whereof the Alderman to be one Item the Vicar of S. Martins or the Curate of the Church for the time being shall keepe a Register in writing of the names and sirnames of all the sayd poore men which booke shall be kept in the Vestry within the Chancell of S. Martins Church and shall be written in order beginning with the name of the Warden and then of the first foure and so following the second foure and lastly the last foure and shall be signed with the hands of the Bailife of the Manour of Stanford Baron and of the Steward of that Manour and so yerely renued as cause shall require vpon the decease or change of any of the sayd poore men and a double of this booke shall be deliuered to the Alderman of Stanford to be kept with the Records of the Towne thereby to know how the number shall continue Item when the warden and any other of the xii shall die or any of their places become voide the place of such as shall die or become void being either the Warden or of the number of the first foure shall be supplied by the Lord of Burghley for the time being and so the place of any of the second foure dying or becomming void shall be supplied by the foresayd Vicar and the persons that are authorised to name the second company of foure and the like shal be obserued by the Alderman of Stanford and the others ioyned with him for the supplying of such places of the last foure as shall from time to time become void Item if the parties aforenamed or the more part of them shall not supply the void places of such as haue bene first chosen by them within xxviii dayes after the same shal be voide the same shall be supplied by any two others of them that are authorised to nominate any of the sayd xii and in default of such nomination the Lord of the house of Burghley and his heires male shall supply the same within two moneths and in default thereof some one or two of the Feoffees or their heires to whom the annuitie of one hundreth pounds is granted that shall dwell nere to Burghley shall supply the same Item the Warden of the house shall haue yeerely a gowncloth of three yards and of viii s. the yard and euery of the other shall haue euery yere a gownecloth of three yards at vi s. viii d. the yard of such colour as the Liuerie coats of the Lord Burghley or his heires shall be for the time which shal be prouided and bought by the Balife of the Manour of Stanford Baron and by the ouersight of the Vicar of S. Martins and the Alderman of Stanford Item in the nomination of the sayd Warden and xii poore men these circumstances following shall be obserued or els none otherwise named shall be allowed FIrst euery one so to be named shall be presented in the Church of S. Martins vpon a Sunday in the forenoone to the Vicar of the sayd Church and by him allowed to be of honest Christian profession and able and well disposed to say the Lords prayer the Creede and to learne to answere to the Ten commandements as are prescribed to such as are Catechised Item none shal be thereto admitted but such as haue bene borne in the Counties of Northampton Lincolne or Rutland or that haue dwelt for the space of vii yeeres within the space of vii miles of the Borough of Stanford except the Lord of Burghley house shall for some reasonable cause dispense therewith neither shall any be thereto allowed that is vnder xxx yeres of age or that hath any certeinty of liuing aboue the value of liii s. iiii d. by the yeere nor any that is knowen to be diseased of any Leprosie or of the Pocks called the French pocks or of any Lunacy or to be a common Drunkard Barretor or infamous for adulterie theft or such like fault Item the sayd poore men shall be as nere as may be chosen out of such as haue bene either honest souldiers or workemen as Masons Carpenters or other Artizans of handy crafts or Labourers in any works or in Husbandry or seruants that are by sicknesse age or other impediment vnable to get their liuing by their handy worke or by dayly seruice as beforetime they haue done And if after that they shal be chosen to the places any of them shall fall into such infirmities of infectious diseases or to be iustly infamed and conuinced of such notable vices as aboue is in the next former Article mentioned they shal be displaced by them by whose authority they were placed and their allowance to cease within xiiii dayes after their displacing against which time their places shal be supplied by such as haue displaced them Item none of the sayd xiii poore men shall in Alehouses or other places play at Cards Dice or any vnlawful game but if after once warning giuen to them by the Vicar of S. Martins or the Bailife of Stanford Baron or of the Manour of the Borough of Stanford to forbeare from such vnlawfull play shall a second time commit any such offence prohibited he shal be remoued from his place and shall receiue no more weekly reliefe except vpon knowledge of his fault and promise of amendment he shal be restored by the sayd Vicar and Bailife and two others of the number that did first place him