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city, that he was chosen Sheriff, and on refusing to serve was fined 

 £300. In 1668 he was elected Mayor of Bristol, and in April 

 1679 he departed this life, and according to his desire was interred 

 in the churchyard of St. Nicholas. By his will he left lands, &c, 

 at Bridge Gate, Wick and Abson in Gloucestershire, to build and 

 endow two large Alms-houses for twelve poor men and women in 

 each ; one in the parish of St. Philip and Jacob, and the other in 

 the parish of Temple ; and at the present time the funds arising 

 from the above mentioned estates are so increased as to enable the 

 Trustees to pay twenty-eight poor women, who must be the widows 

 or daughters of Bristol men, freemen, or born in the city, and mem- 

 bers of the Church of England, in the Alms-houses, and fourteen 

 out at five shillings per week each. Amongst other bequests was 

 one of £10 to the poor of Bishop's Cannings, the interest of which 

 as elsewhere mentioned in this memoir, was every year distributed 

 in bread amongst the second poor on St. Paul's day. Alderman 

 Stevens desired by will to be buried "with his wives and children, 

 suitable to his degree and quality, and according to the usage and 

 course of Bristol." His third wife (Cecil Selfe) survived him : to 

 whom he left (inter alia) " the scabbard of the sword borne before 

 him when he was Mayor, and presented to him by the Sheriff. 



The Charities in the chapelry of St. James, Southbroom, consist 

 of the rents of certain houses on Devizes Green, on a site purchased 

 in 1757, with money given by a donor now unknown. The family 

 of Eyles also gave money for the second poor: but in what way it 

 was applied is not explained in the report of the Commissioners, 

 1834. (Report 28, p. 369.) 



Dr. James Pound. 

 The family of Pound, in this parish, recently extinct in the direct 

 line, was ancient and respectable, and one of the name appears as 

 church warden in the oldest register, viz. 1591; which contains also 

 the names of the forefathers of the present Browns, Slopers, and 

 Huddles, proprietors and occupiers in the parish. Of this family 

 was Dr. James Pound, rector of Wanstcad in Essex, the maternal 

 uncle and early instructor of Dr. James Bradley, the distinguished 



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