HISTORY OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 371 



" In all the other months, at five. 



" THOMAS MIDDLETON, Curate. 



' RICHARD BALL, > Church Wardens, 



" FRANCIS HARGREAVES, J 1775." 



Benefactions. The following sums were left by the individuals 

 whose names are here subscribed, as appears from the tables in the 

 church : 



1. The yearly interest of sums bequeathed for the use of the poor. 



Hugh Ford (a)* of the nearer side of the water, 4. 



William Ford (6), father of H. F. (a) of the nearer house to 

 Norton on Ford-Green, 6/.f 



William Forde (c), late of the further side of the water, 201. 



Ellen Forde, (d) wife of W. F. (c) for poor householders, and to 

 be dealt at the discretion of W. F.'s heirs, 30/. 



Hugh Meare, late of Norton-Hall Houses, 51. 



Mr. John Pott, schoolmaster of Norton, (for poor house- 

 holders), lOf. 



William Sherratt, late of Bearstone, in the county of Salop, 10?. 



Mr. Thomas Sherrett, 10/. 



#3~ The principal of this last charity, and for which the curate 

 of Norton is trustee, lies on Mr. W. Sherrett's property in Milton. 

 2. Annuity or yearly sum bequeathed for the use of the poor. 



William Meare, late of Pott-shrigley, in the county of Chester, 

 left charged on a field called Annats-field, at Norton Green, the 

 yearly sum of 21. 10s. 



3. The yearly interest of sums bequeathed and to be distributed to the poor 



in bread. . 



Sir John Bowyer, Knight and Baronet, left 31. 



Mr. Moor, 21. 



Mr. Josiah Keeling, late of Milton, 121. 



This last charity is directed to be distributed, the first Sunday 

 in each month, publickly in the church. 



4. Poor's pew and seats in the gallery. 



Hugh Forde, of Forde Green, did in his life give the further- 

 most pew situated in the north end of the gallery, and all the sit- 

 ting in the arch in the wall in the middle part of the gallery, for 

 the use of the poor inhabitants of this parish for ever. 



* The letter after the surnames is used for reference to some of the same 

 name that precede or follow in the list ; and where the same letter follows re- 

 peatedly the same name, it denotes the same person. 



t Forty shillings of which was lost. 



