Gillingwater's History of Lowestoft: a reprint: with a chapter of more recent eventsGillingwater, Edmund
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Gillingwater's History of Lowestoft: a reprint: with a chapter of more recent events
Gillingwater, Edmund
Lothingland (England); Lowestoft (England)
virtue, religion, and merit chiefly in view. And my mind and will
further is, that when all the said bequests, before by me given and
bequeathed to the said town of Lowestoft, shall become due to the
said (then, and not before), the salary of the said schoolmaster
shall be forty pounds per annum; which I will be paid half-yearly to
the said schoolmaster, upon the feasts of St. Michael, the Archangel,
and the annunciation of the blessed Lady Mary the Virgin, by equal
portions in every year. And my mind and will is, that until the
death of the said Elizabeth Smithson, the profits of the other
bequests before by me given and devised to the said town of Lowestoft
shall be at their own discretion, so as the same be expended towards
the encouraging of learning; and therefore would have it employed, as
far as the rents will go, towards educating children in manner
aforesaid. And my mind and will further is, and I do hereby give and
devise unto the Minister of the said parish of Lowestoft for the time
being, for ever, the sum of one pound and one shilling; and unto the
clerk of the said parish, for ever, the sum of ten shillings; and
unto the sexton of the said parish, for ever, the sum of five
shillings. All which said sums of one pound and one shilling, ten
shillings, and five shillings, I will shall be paid out of the rents
and profits of all the messuages, lands, tenements, hereditaments,
and premises, before by me given and devised, in this my will, to the
said town of Lowestoft, for the purposes aforesaid. And I bind all
the same for the payment thereof. And my mind and will is, that the
said several sums shall be paid to the several persons always yearly
upon the twenty-third day of December, in every year; but upon this
condition, nevertheless, that the minister of the said parish of
Lowestoft for the time being, shall always yearly upon the
twenty-third day of December in every year, sometime in the forenoon,
preach a sermon (except the said day should fall on a Sunday, and
then my mind and will is, that the said sermon should be preached on
the Monday next following); and his text I desire should be these
express words—“Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he
is old he will not depart from it.” And my mind and will further is,
that the said sermon should chiefly tend upon the great necessity of
the good education of children, and the ill consequence that attends
the neglect of it. And in case any overplus should arise out of the
said several bequests before by me given and devised to the said town
of Lowestoft, after the said salary of forty pounds to be paid to the
said schoolmaster, in manner aforesaid; and the said several sums of
one pound one shilling, ten shillings, and five shillings, to be paid
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