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Fyve Poundes unto Joyce Marshall & lyke sume 

 To Margaret Plimer by his guift should come. 

 Emme Fenton fourtie shillinges should receive, 

 To Ellen Abell he lyke sume did leave, 

 Joane Palmer had as much & Susan Downe, 

 Who had in lewe thereof, a Mourninge Gowne. 

 Anthony Hyde had fourtie shillings payd, 

 As much to Humphry Gellyve was defraid. 



POORE OF SUDBURYE. 



He further shew'd it was his full intent, 

 There should be granted out a yearlie rent 

 For ever : \v ch should issue equallye 

 From Marston Lordship & from Sudburye 

 And y' the same should be distributed 

 To such poore people as inhabited 

 The later of these Lordships now rehers't 

 But y' Decree was afterwards reversed : 

 Yet there was granted out to this intent 

 For ever to endure, a yearlie rent 

 Of Twentie nobles paid them quarterly 

 W ch issues onelie out of Sudburie.* 



* Against the west wall of the addition to the nortli aisle of Sudbury Church 

 is a tablet bearing the following interesting inscription as to John Vernon's 

 bequests to the poor : — 



"Amongst the many memorablie good acts performed and executed by the 

 will and appoyntment of that worthy Gentlem?n John Vernon Esq whose 

 body is here interred there was given and granted to bee issuing yearley out of 

 the Mannor of Sudbury a rent charge of sixe pounds thirteene shillings foure- 

 pence unto sixe parishioners that is to say unto Edward Banks Thomas Banks 

 William Allin Richard Scatergood John Turton and Thomas Witherings and 

 to their Heires and assignes for ever to the use maintenance and reiiefe of 

 the poore inhabitants of this Parish payable yearley to them or some of them 

 at Sudbury Hall, at the feasts of Easter, Pentecost, All Saints and Christmas 

 by even portions, the first payment whereof was to be gin and soe did accord- 

 ingly at Easter one thousand sixe hundred and nine with a clause of distresse 

 upon any part of the Mannor aforesaid, if the same be unpaid by the space of 

 ten dayes after any of the said feasts beinge Lawfully demanded at the place 

 aforesaid to be distributed accordinge to the direction and appoyntment of 

 Mistris Mary Vernon widow during her life, and after her desease to the 

 direction of Edward Vernon Esq her sonn and of his Heires for Ever this 

 Grant made by Indenture tripartite is dated the first day of June 1608 and 



