The report of the Commissioners concerning charities; containing that part which relates to Devon [With] Appendix and index, Volume 1 |
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acres adjoining aforesaid almshouse amount annuity annum appears applied appointed Ashburton auction Barnstaple bearing date belonging borough boys bread Brixham cent charged charity Christmas churchwardens churchwardens and overseers close of land conveyed Cornworthy corporation Cullompton deed poll Diptford directed distributed Ditto dividends Dodbrooke donation executors expense feoffees feoffment funds gave gift given granted heirs Henry Honiton indenture inhabitants interest Kingsbridge Kingswear Lady-day laid land tax lease and release lessee master mayor and burgesses meadow ment mentioned messuage minister moiety orchard Ottery paid parish church parish lands parishioners parties payable payment Plymouth poor children poor persons premises present profits thereof purchase rack rent received reciting relief rent-charge rental rents and profits repairs residue Richard Robert schoolmaster Sir John Stoke Gabriel Teignmouth tenement term think fit Thomas three lives tion Tiverton Totnes town trust deed trustees vicar widows William yearly rent
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Page 104 - ... sealed and delivered in the presence of and to be attested by two or more credible witnesses...
Page 220 - ... and the survivor of them, and the executors and administrators of such survivor...
Page 205 - ... upon matters in any respect relating to the said meeting-house, make such orders therein as they should think convenient ; such orders to be binding on all parties concerned. That due notice should be given of all such meetings, and a book kept for such orders...
Page 82 - ... born or for the most part before the age of six brought up in the town or parish of Tiverton; and that if the number should not be filled up, the want should be supplied by the children of foreigners, to be admitted with the assent and allowance of such ten householders of Tiverton, as for the time being should be most in the subsidy books of the Queen and her successors ; and that they should choose the children of foreigners, without regarding the rich more than the poor. And the Schoolmaster...
Page 23 - Post (in his Actual Possession now being by Virtue of a Bargain and Sale to him thereof made by the said George Welsh for one whole year by Indenture bearing date the day next Before the day of the date of these Presents and by force of the Statute for Transferring uses into Possession...
Page 311 - Government funds, or elsewhere, standing in the name of the Accountant General of...
Page 332 - AF should pay or cause to be paid to the churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the said parish for the time being, or...
Page 82 - School, and born in the same town, if any be fit, and in default of such, then open to the parishes nearest adjacent that should be fit, and there taught, according to such agreements and compositions as the said feoffees should make with the Master and Fellows of either of the said Colleges. And upon the contingency of his son John succeeding by the death of his brother Robert, to a certain estate in his will mentioned, he gave 1001.
Page 177 - Middlesex, as they, the said trustees, by the advice and assistance of the churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the said parish for the time being, should think fit, and by such proportions as they should also think fit, the yearly sum of 15/.
Page 187 - Hyde without costs; and as to the other parties it was ordered that it should be referred to one of the Masters of the Court to inquire...