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even as works of occasional reference, yet there can be no 

 doubt that they add, in their present chained condition, to the 

 interest of a most interesting church which has been aptly 

 described as one of the chief glories of Dorset. 



ADDENDA. 



WILL OF WILLIAM STONE (THE ELDER). 

 (Somerset House, P.C.C., 113 Harvey). 



Abstract of ( . . ) the Will of William Stone, of Wimborne Minster 

 in the county of Dorset Schoolemaster. 



Imp : I give to my daughter 200. Item my will is that my sonne 

 Samuell shall enjoy dureing his natural life that 20 a yeare in which 

 Fir George Hastings is by acknowledgement of a Statute of 500 bound 

 to estate whomsoever I shall nominate & I doe hereby nominate 

 my said sonne Samuel thereunto. Item to my daughter Mary 100. 

 Item to my daughter Sara 100. Item I give all my land to my sonne 

 William & his heires. Item I give 10/- to the Minister who shall 

 preach at my funerall. Item I give 20/- a peece to my naturale brother 

 & sister for a remembrance if soe be they shall demande the same. 

 Item I give 20/- to the poore of Wimborne & 20/- to the church of 

 Wimborne. Residue to my wife Martha & my sonne William whome 

 I make exors. Frendes George Strode esq. & Wm Goddard clerke 

 to be overseers & 5/- a peece. 



Dated 14 Sept. 1638, William Stone. Witnesses, William Goddard, 

 Walter Flacy. Proved in the P.C.C. 14 June 1639 by Martha & 

 William Stone the exors. 



WILL OF WILLIAM STONE. 

 (Somerset House, P.C.C., 93 Cann). 



Will of William Stone, of Oxford, Clarke. 



I make Mr. Wm. Fry, of Trinity College, Oxford, my executor, 

 and I give him 100, and I give him all my lands, tenements, &c., 

 within the parish of Winborne in co. Dorsett, to him and his heirs 

 with the proviso that he suffer my brother and sister Bolton, & my 

 brother and sister Williams, to enjoy during their lives what they 

 now have of mine there ; and that my Executor shall within one year 

 after my death settle the said lands and houses upon 4 or 5 honest 



