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year (that is to fay) by half yearly payments, and at the faid 

 terms by equal portions, they fhall pay the intereft fo received 

 unto the fchoolmafter of the faid free fchool for the time, that he 

 fhall difcharge the duty of an able fchoolmafter in manner as 

 aforefaid ; and my mind is, that the parfon of Simonburn, for the 

 time being, and his fucceflbrs with rny truftees aforefaid, and 

 Chriftopher Charleton, Reginald Charleton, and Edivard Dodd, and the 

 ftirvivours of them, fhall be the governors of the faid free fchool, 

 and fhall have the prefenting of a fchoolmafter as aforefaid, 

 and that all bonds or fecurities to be taken for the faid monies 

 fhall be taken in their names, and in cafe of the deceafe of them 

 or any of them, then the paiibn and the furvivours of them the 

 faid truftees, fhall, in convenient time, elect and choofe one or 

 more of fuch able and' fit inhabitants of the faid parifh of Simon- 

 burn, to fupply the place or places of fuch dying truftees, who 

 ihall fucceed them therein. Item, all the reft and rcfidue of my 

 goods and chattels, as well real as perfonal, and my ready mo- 

 ney, mortgages, rent charges, bills, bonds, book-debts, debts 

 due upon fimple contract, in whofe hand or hands focver they 

 be, I give unto the faid truftees firft before named merely in 

 truft for the life of the poor of the faid parifh of Simonburn (that 

 is to fay) that they may to the beft of their Ikill make the beft, 

 fureft, and greateft advantage and profit thereof upon good fecu- 

 rity for intereft, and the faid advantage and profit they fhall re- 

 ceive, pay and diftribute among fuch poor, needy and indigent 

 perfbns of the fame parifh of Simonburn, as they fhall judge moft 

 neceffitated and proper for it, at two feafts or terms of payment, 

 (that is to fay) All Saints Day and Good Friday, by even and equal 

 portions, .but the principal tabe always kept intire and upheld 

 as a ftock for the end aforefaid j and my will and pleafure is, . 

 that if there be any indigent perfons within the faid. parifh of 



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