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WALTONIANA. 



ataine the age of twentie and one yeare, to difpofe 

 otherwayes of it, then I give the faide farme or 

 land to the towne or corperation of Stafford (in 

 which I was borne,) for the good and benifit of 

 fome of the faide towne, as I fhall dired; and as fol- 

 loweth. but firft note, that it is at this prefant time 

 rented for 21^' 10^ a yeare (and is like to hold the 

 faid rent, if care be taken to keipe the barne and 

 howfing in repaire) and I wood have and doe give 

 ten pownd of the faide rent, to binde out yearely 

 two boyes, the fons of honeft and pore parents to 

 be apprentices to fom tradefmen or handy-craft- 

 men, to the intent the faide boyes [may] the better 

 afterward get their owne hving. — And I doe alfo 

 give five pownd yearly, out of the faid rent to be 

 given to fome meade-fervant, that hath atain'd the 

 age of twenty and [one] yeare (not Jes), and dwelt 

 long in one fervis, or to fom honeft pore man's 

 daughter, that hath atain'd to that age, to [be] 

 paide her, at or on the day of her marriage. 



And 



