80 Facts relating to Wokingham. 



well ordinary as extraordinary whatsoever, due or to be due out 



of or for the Premisses. 

 Exr. p. wm Henry Barker, aged two and twenty only liveing. 

 supvisor genl. " Ch. WeaeE, \ 



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Esr. Ka. Hall Jo. SaUIBB, ( ^^^^7°^^- 



Regist. Dept : GeOK. FaUIEY, J 



Charities. 

 Lucas's Hospital, [from Ashmole's Berks, i.,p. 44.] 

 "In this Parish is Luckley Green, wherein is a fair Hospital, 

 being a front and two sides, founded by Henry Lucas, Esq., Secre- 

 tary to the Earl of Holland, Lord Chief Justice in Eyre, during 

 some part of the reign of King Charles I. of blessed memory, 

 the endowment is for 16 Pensioners, who have each Ten Pounds 

 per annum, and for Divine Ofl&ces a Chaplain, (not subject to the 

 Bishop's Visitation) who preaches once on every Sunday, and reads 

 the morning and evening prayers of the church of England daily for 

 which he is allowed Fifty pounds per annum and is termed Master. 

 The estate with which this Hospital is endowed, lyes at Harliugton 

 and thereabouts, near Ampthill in Bedfordshire. The Trustees of 

 this Charity are the Company of Drapers in London, who elect and 

 confirm the Chaplain or Master and Pensioners, the last of which 

 are presented to them by the following parishes of Berks and Surrey 

 alternately as they became vacant. 



Beekshiee, OcJiingham Parish, Ockingham Town, Arborfield, Finchamstead, 

 New Windsor, East Hamstead, Cluer, Old Windsor, Barkham, Sinjleld, 

 Hurst, Ruscotnb, Bray, Sandhurst, Winyjield, Swallowjield, Sunning Hill. 



StJEBET, Cobham, Chertsey, Bisley, Purford, Waineburough, Egham, Newdigate, 

 Frimley, Bageshot, Windlesham, Stoke, Thorp, Piirbright, Worplestone, 

 Byfiet, Woking, Horshill. 



Over the inward door, in gold capitals, on a black marble stone, 

 is this inscription: — 



" Henry Lucas, Esq. ; among other Monuments of Piety and Charity, did 

 devote this Hospitall to the Glory of God, and Comfort of the Poore, for the 

 Benefitt and Example of Posterity. 



1663. 

 Has ^des Structor divino vovit honori : 



Vestro Posteritas vovit amica bono ; 

 Litibus exemplum preebens, solamen egenis, 

 Utere qui pauper, qui locuples seqiiere." 



