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Poors. In the Testament or last Will
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of
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Robert Bowers
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late of East Smith feild in
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the Parish of
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St. Buttolph without Aldgate
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London
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deceased bearing date
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the 30th. of October 1633. remaining in the
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Registry of this Court among other things
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therein is contained as follows to wit.
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Item I do give and grant unto ye. Churchwardens of
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the Parish of
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aforesaid and to their
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Successors for ever to ye use of ye. Poor of ye. same
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Parish and for Four Sermons at ten Shillings a
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Sermon to be preached in ye Church Yearly for ever
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One Annuity or Yearly Rent charge of ten Pounds of
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law full money of England to be Issueing out of all
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the said Chappells Mill Messuages and other the
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premisses in the said Countyes of York and Bedford
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to be paid at the Feasts of the Annunciation of the
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blessed Virgin Mary and
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St. Michael
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the Archangel
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or within Fourteen days after each of the same
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Feasts in every Year by even portions and to be
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imployed in buying of Coles for the Poor of the
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same Parish to be distributed at the discretion of
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the Churchwardens of the said Parish for the time
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being and in the said Four Sermons the First paymt.
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thereof to begin and be made at such of the same
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Feasts as shall next happen after the decease of
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the said
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Elizabeth
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or within Fourteen days.
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next after the same Feast And if it shall happen
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the
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