Not only the City Companies but also the town rulers of most provincial towns and sometimes parish authorities were trustees for such charities. At Ipswich bequests of this kind are especially numerous; they are much smaller in amount than those of London, but they are typical of the kind of charity that once existed in almost every town in which old records remain. In common with twenty-three other towns, Ipswich had an interest in Sir Thomas White's will and received in its turn £100 to be lent to four poor tradesmen. Besides this no less than eleven other legacies of this sort were received before 1635. Amongst these Mrs Alice Scrivener gave £100 to be lent gratis to ten people for four years, Christopher Cock gave £100 to be lent to four clothiers for five years, and John Barrett £20 to four shoemakers without interest[569]. At Reading the same kind of thing was done; in 1626 Mr Ironside left £100 to be lent gratis to two clothiers and two shopkeepers, and in 1633 Richard Johnson gave £100 for four tradesmen for twelve years[570]. At Oxford there were once many sums for such loans, but these have most of them either been lost or are used for other purposes[571]. [569] _Legacies to charitable uses in Ipswich_, p. 74 seq. Other Cash Charities of the same kind for the benefit of the inhabitants of Ipswich were as follows:-- 1579. Mrs Rose Bloise £20 to four handicraftsmen for two or three years. 1583. Mr John Tye £25 to five or more persons who are inhabitants for not longer than three years without interest. 1595. Mr Thos. Goodwin £40 for four poor occupiers for two years without interest. 1608. Mrs Alice Bloise £40 to six young men, being freemen for three years. 1616. Mr Willm. Birden £20 to four poor occupiers for four years. 1616. Mr Willm. Acton £80 to four clothiers for four years. Mr J. Acton added £20 to be lent in the same manner. 1621. Mr Rich. Martin left overplus of certain revenues to be lent to clothiers. [570] _Char. Com. Report_, 32, Pt. 1, p. 43. Ironside's Charity. _Reading Records_, Vol. III., p. 170. Richard Johnson. Other charities of the kind existed in Reading. See Barbor's and Winche's _Charities Rep._, 32. Pt. 1, p. 43. [571] _Rep._ VI., p. 397 seq. Among the lost charities of Oxford are the following:-- Jane Fulsey, 1603. £40 to be lent to four poor tradesmen for three years. Robert Wilson, 1640. £20 to be lent in two, three or four equal portions for seven years. _Ib._ p. 404. There are sixteen other lost charities of the kind either without date or of later date than 1640, and three or four other lending charities which are still wholly or partially in existence.