Mr. Robert Clark of Woodhall gave to the Poor of this town . . . Shillings a year, to be paid the vicar on St. Thomas’s, and by him to be distributed every Christmas-day for ever, out of his lands in Thimbleby, now belonging to John Hutchinson, Gent. Mrs. Ann Smith gave the poor of Horncastle twenty shillings a year out of her lands there, now in the possession of Mr. Thomas Coats: it is given in brown bread every Good Friday. George Acham of Asterby, Gent. gave also one hundred and forty pounds, to purchase lands, the rents thereof to be disposed off yearly to the poor of Horncastle, at the discretion of the governors of the free-school (for the time being,) which lands are in the parish of Burgh in the Marsh. Anno 1639, May the 2nd. Mr. William Hurtscroft gave one house the yearly rent of fifty-two shillings; to be given weekly (viz.) twelve pence in bread every Lord’s day to poor fatherless and motherless children in Horncastle, by the overseers for the poor; the said house now in possession of widow Scamon. The same year. Andrew Kent, gent. gave six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence, to be a stock for the poor of Horncastle, which is applied accordingly in coals for their use. Anno 1661, June the 6th. Thomas Bromley of Conesby gent. left to the poor of this town forty shillings per annum (viz.) twenty shillings every good Friday, and twenty every St. Thomas’s day, to be paid out of his lands in Haltham super Bane; now the said lands belong to Thomas Hamerton, gent. Rutland Snowden, gent. gave to the poor of Horncastle one house of the yearly rent of twenty-six shillings; but being decayed, is now reduced to thirteen, paid in bread six-pence every other Sunday: the said house belongs now to Mr. William Dawson. Anno 1673, December the 5th. Thomas James, gent. gave to the poor of Horncastle twenty shillings yearly in white bread on every Christmas day for ever; payable out of his lands there, which lands are now the estate of Thomas Howgrave, Esquire. Anno 1702, December the 20th. Captain John Francis, gave two chaldern of coals yearly to be given to the poor, appointed by the governors of the school, out of lands in this town now the Rev. Mr. John Francis’s of Sibsey. Anno 1703, December the 14th. Mrs. Douglass Tyrwhitt of Gaiton on the would gave ten shillings yearly to the poor of Horncastle on St. Thomas’s day, out of her lands in Belshford, now the lands of Joseph Sutton of the same. Anno 1696, May the 26th.