INTRODUCTORY ESSAY. xliii 



I give my son in law, Doctor Hawkins, and to his wife, to them I 

 give all my title and right of or in a part of, a house and shop 

 in Pater-noster-row, in London, which I hold by lease from the 

 Lord Bishop of London for about fifty years to come. And I do 

 also give to them all my right and title of or to a house in Chan- 

 cery-lane, London, wherein Mrs. Greinwood now dwelleth, in 

 which is now about sixteen years to come: I give these two 

 leases to them, they saving my executor from all damage con- 

 cerning the same. And I give to my son, Izaak, all my right 

 and title to a lease of Norington Farme, which I hold from the 

 Lord Bishop of Winton ; and I do also give him all my right 

 and title to a farm or land near to Stafford, which I bought of 

 Mr. Walter Noell ; I say, I give it to him and his heirs for ever ; 

 but upon the condition following, namely : if my son shall not 

 marry before he shall be of the age of forty and one years, or, 

 being married, shall dye before the said age, and leave no son 

 to inherit the said farme or land ; or if his son or sons shall 

 not live to attain the age of twenty and one years, to dispose 

 otherways of it ; then I give the said farme or land to the towne 

 or corporation of Stafford, in which I was borne, for the good 

 and benefit of some of the said towne, as I shall direct, and as 

 followeth : (but first note, that it is at this present time rented 

 for twenty-one pound ten shillings a year, and is like to hold 

 the said rent, if care be taken to keep the barn and housing in 

 repair ;) and I would have, and do give ten pound of the said 

 rent, to bind out yearly, two boys, the sons of honest and poor 

 parents, to be apprentices to some tradesmen or handicraft-men, 

 to the intent the said boys may the better afterward get their 

 own living. And I do also give five pound yearly, out of 

 the said rent, to be given to some maid-servant, that hath at- 

 tained the age of twenty and one year, not less, and dwelt long 

 in one service, or to some honest poor man's daughter, that 

 hath attained to that age, to be paid her at or on the day of her 

 marriage: and this being done, my will is, that what rent shall 

 remain of the said farme or land, shall be disposed of as fol- 



