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For whereas, before was reserved to the minister that is 

 to officiate in the parishes of Churchstow (the mother) and 

 Kingsbridge (the daughter) but twenty nobles a year, he 

 was pleased to settle upon him twenty pounds. Which 

 being duly and entirely paid by the Chamber of the City 

 of Exeter, is much better than a greater sum, to be received 

 only out of the small tythes, as they come due." 



In May, the 21st year of Henry VII., 1505, Nicholas 

 Osant gave a tenement in trust to feoffees to pay an 

 annual rent of four shillings to the wardens of the store 

 of St. Edmund. 



Hawkins also mentions among the charitable donors the 

 names of Robert Mydwynter and Johan his wife, who, in 

 1568, left houses in trust, to provide dwellings for four 

 poor people; Joseph Leigh, who left land for the church 

 and poor; and John Peters, rent charge for the benefit 

 of the poor. 



The following is gathered from an Inspector's report. 

 "In or prior to the year 1626, certain lands were held 

 in trust in the parish of Kingsbridge, part being the gift 

 of one Joseph Leigh, and part being given to superstitious 

 uses. They were subsequently conveyed to Pascoe, Lapp, 

 and others, inhabitants of Kingsbridge, for the good of the 

 town and its inhabitants, and for the payment of all con- 

 tributory charges and impositions wherewith the said town 

 might be charged, as might be agreed upon by the chief 

 inhabitants. When the feoffees died, others were to be 

 elected by the inhabitants of Kingsbridge ; but those feoffees 

 were not to convert the charity to any other purposes 

 without the consent of the inhabitants. The fact of the 

 charity having been applied to the repairs and sustentation 

 of the parish church was first mentioned in 1679; but 



