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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 handycraft-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 attained the age of twenty and 

 one years, 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 followeth : first I do 

 give twenty shillings yearly, to be spent by the 

 major of Stafi"ord and those that shall collect the 

 said rent and dispose of it as I have and shall 

 hereafter direct; and that what money or rent 

 shall remain undisposed of, shall be imployed to 

 buy coals for some poor people, that shall most 

 need them, in the said towne ; the said coals to be 

 delivered the first weeke in January, or in every 

 fii^st week in February ; I say then, because I 



