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some Tradesmen or handycraft men to the intent 

 the said boyes may the better afterward get their 

 ovvne liveing and I doe alsoe give five pound yearly 

 out of the said rent to some maide servant that 

 hath attained the age of twenty and one yeare (not 

 lesse) and dwelt long in one service or to some 

 honest poore mans 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 what rent 

 shall remaine of the said Farme or land shall be 

 disposed of as followeth : First I doe give twenty 

 shillings yearly to be spent by the Mayor of 

 Stafford and those that shall collect the said rent 

 and dispose of it as I have and shall hereafter 

 direct and that what mony or rent shall remaine 

 undisposed of shall be imployed to buy Coales for 

 some poore people that shall most need them in 

 the said towne, the said Coales to be delivered the 

 first week in January or in first weeke of February 

 I say then because I take that time to be the 

 hardest and most pinching times with poore people 

 and God reward those that shall doe this without 

 partialitie and with honestie and a good conscience 

 and if the said Mayor and others of the said towne 

 of Stafford shall prove soe negligent or dishonest 

 as not to imploy the rent by mee given as intended 

 and exprest in this my will (which God forbid) 

 then I give the said rents and profitts of the said 

 Farme or land to the Towne and cheif magastraits 

 or governors of Ecleshall to be disposed by them 

 in such manner as I have ordered the disposall of it 

 by the towne of Stafford the said Farme or land 

 being near the towne of Ecleshall and I give to my 

 sonne in law Doctor Hawkins (whome I love as my 

 owne sonn) and to my daughter his wife and 

 my sonne Izaak to each of them a ring with these 



