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JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
There is extant the detailed account of the building charges 
kept by Thomas Sherwill, beginning March 7th, 1615, on which 
day Mr. Eobert Trelawny had £18 10s. towards the redeeming of 
Mr. Mathew's lease, " being the on halfe of the pryse thereof," 
and ending August 28th, 1618. In this account there are some 
entries of small gifts from poor people, such as shillings from 
lightermen and the like; and Mr. Eobert Trelawny (Mayor 
1607-8, 1616-17, 1627-28) appears as a liberal benefactor in 
addition to those already named, giving a house occupied by one 
Robert Bray, bringing in £2 8s. annually. He also seems to 
have taken half the cost of Mr. Mathew's lease ; and pays 
£6 13s. 4d., with £10 16s. Id. for the "remayner of the poole " 
(that is, of the dues of Sutton Pool). A precedent was sought 
for the deed of incorporation, and a copy of that of Dr. White's 
Temple Hospital in Bristol obtained. Mr. Glandville's man had 
lis. for writing and engrossing, and Sir Matthew Cary 2s. 4d. 
for his fee; while the enrolment cost 6s. £100 was paid to 
Mr. Fownes in 1618 for a house in Stillman Street, and £25 to 
Mr. Colmer for his gardens in Mudd Street — Buckwell Lane. 1 
The actual site of the Hospital was the tenement leased 
by Matthews, granted by the Corporation for the purpose, 
and in consideration of the " cost and great charge " of 
the Sherwells in acquiring the lease, at a yearly rent of 22s. 
Land of Dabernoun's Chantry adjoined it on the south ; and may 
have been the occasion of Dr. Aaron Wilson's subsequent fruitless 
complaint that the town had built a Hospital where the Vicar 
had anciently a house. Other lands of this Chantry were in Old 
Town and near Tothill. The founder was Thomas Dabernoun. 
A John Dabernoun was one of the servants of the Black Prince, 
steward of Lydford, keeper of the fees of the Prince as Duke of 
Cornwall, and lessee, in the reign of Edward III., of the Water 
and Pool of Sutton. 
An account with Abraham Colmer, Robert Trelawny, Thomas 
Sherwill, and Nicholas Sherwill, governors, states the expense of 
"building erecting founding & incorporating the sayd Hospital 
w fc h the dyet apparell & other necessaries of the orphans" to 
December 24th, 1620, at £833 7s. 5d., of which up to the 29th 
1 On the parchment back of the book are the mottoes : "Ni deus domum 
aedificat frustra laborant sedificatores ;" and, " He is a father of the iatherlesse 
& a Judge of widdowes euen god in his holy habitation. " 
