[227] _E.g., St. Christopher-le-Stocks' Acc'ts_, 38 (Yearly perpetuity of £3 4s. in bread and money to poor. 1602). _St. Michael's in Bedwardine Acc'ts_, 99 (House left to parish, 12s. of whose rental to go to poor, and 1s. to the churchwardens. 1590). [228] Butcher, _Parish of Ashburton_, 46 (Land given to buy shirts and smocks for the poor. 1575). [229] T.P. Wadley, _Notes on Bristol Wills_ (1886), 230 (£20 for a stock of money to remain for ever "in the howse of correction" for the maintenance and "settinge on work of such people as shalbe therevnto co[m]mitted for their mysdemeanors." _Thos. Kelke's will_. 1583). [230] _Wills and Inventories_, Pt. ii, _Surtees Soc_., xxxviii, 83 (Keyper school of Houghton and its endowment of £240. 1582). [231] Examples among many are the Edenbridge, Kent, lands. These bridgewardens held lands in three parishes. _Arch. Cant_., xxi (1895), 110 ff. Also Burton's Charity lands at Loughborough. The "bridgmasteres" here in 1570 collected £33 18s. 6d., and disbursed £16 12s. 11d. Fletcher, _Hist. of Loughborough_, 41-2. Also Hayward bridge lands, _Notes and Quer. for Somer. and Dorset_, iv (1895), 205-7. [232] Legge, _North Elmham Acc'ts_, 87-90. So too at Eltham, Kent, where the "Fifetene peny Lands" have special wardens who account for their revenue. _Archaeologia_, xxxiv, 51 ff. [233] _Statutes of the Realm_, iv, Pt. ii, 968-9. [234] Cardwell, _Doc. Ann_., i, 189 ff. [235] Dr. Pilkington's will, _Surtees Soc_., xxii, Append., p. cxxxviii. For a few other examples of bequests for parish utilities see _ibid_., p. ciii (George Reyd's will, 1559). _Ibid_., p. cx ff. (William Birche's will of 1575 in which are many bequests to poor artificers, to prisoners--a very frequent bequest--to "needfull briggs or highe waies," etc.). See also _Benefactions to Dorset Parishes, Churches_, etc., in _Notes and Quer. for Somer. and Dorset_, x, 164 ff. Also T.P. Wadley, _Notes on Bristol Wills, passim (e.g_., Thos. Kelke's will of 1583, on p. 230. He leaves £13 to Newgate prisoners, a frieze gown to 12 women and 12 men--a frequent bequest--6s. 8d. each to 52 poor maidens for their marriage, etc.). Also _Wills and Inventories, Surtees Soc_., xxxviii, Pt. ii, _passim_. Surrey Wills in _Surrey Arch. Coll_., x (1891), _passim_. [236] _The crie of the poore for the death of the right Honourable Earle of Huntington_ (printed 1596), Joseph Lilly, _A Collection of Seventy-Nine Black-Letter Ballads and Broadsides_, 1559-1597 (1870), 230. [237] _Ibid_., 263. [238] _The poore people's complaynt, Bewayling the death of their famous benefactor, the worthy Earle of Bedford_ (Died 1585). Bedford was described as "a person of such great hospitality that Queen Elizabeth was wont to say of him that he made all the beggars." Clark, _Shirburn Ballads_, 256. [239] J.C. Cox, _Three Centuries of Derbyshire Annals_, i, 136.