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)
Except such persons as shall enjoy
the same, after the payment of the aforesaid fifty pounds to my
grandchild, shall give any other security to the churchwardens and
trustees of Lowestoft aforesaid, for the continuance of the payment
of two and fifty shillings yearly, for ever, as they, the said
churchwardens and trustees, shall think fit to accept. {134a}
This is a true copy of the clause of Mr. John Hayward’s will, which
was proved at the Bishop of Norwich’s principal office (19th of
August 1719), holden in the precinct of the cathedral church of
Norwich; where the original will may at any time be seen.
JOHN TANNER,
Vicar of Lowestoft, and one of the executors of the said John
Hayward.
* * * * *
A decree, judgment, and orders made sett down by Sir Arthur Heveningham,
Sir Miles Corbett, knts., Henry Gawdy, Esq., and Mr. Dr. Sucklinge,
doctor in divinity; by virtue of her Majesty’s commission to them and
others, out of her Majesty’s High Court of Chancery, under the great
seale of England, directed and hereunto annexed, upon a verdict by force
of the like commission, to them and others directed by them, the second
day of October, in the four and fortieth year of her Majesty’s most
gracious and happy reign, taken and returned unto the said Court of
Chancery upon the statute made in the High Court of Parliament holden the
seven and twentieth day of October, in the three and fortieth year of her
Majesty’s reign, intituled an Act to redresse the misemployments of
lands, goods, and stocks of money, before the making thereof, given to
charitable uses, as followeth:
IMPRIMIS. We do order, adjudge, and decree that the free grammar
schoole mentioned in the said verdict shall be and remain a free
grammar-schoole, and shall have continuance for ever within the said
town of Lowestoft; and the same schoole shall consist of a
schoolmaster learn’d in the art and knowledge of grammar, and able to
instruct and teach the rules and principles thereof and the Latin
tongue, and other things incident, necessary, and belonging to the
said art, to be master, tutor, and teacher of the schollars in the
said schoole, consisting of forty schollars, and not above, to be
taught and instructed within the said schoole.
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