THE OLDER CHARITIES OF PLYMOUTH. 
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September preceding the founders and first benefactors had given 
£734 Os. ljd., so that £99 6s. 3|d. remained due. 
The property conveyed under the foundation deed consisted of 
(1) three messuages and a close adjoining the Hospital on the 
west ; (2) two gardens in Mudd Street ; (3) a house in Stillman 
Street ; and (4) two houses in Southside, with a close of land at 
Laira, 1 and two closes in Egg Buckland, called Awter's Well (or 
Will) — all these latter being the property of Arthur Pollard, Esq., 
deceased. The question naturally suggests itself whether this 
property, once Pollard's, was not itself a special endowment. 
In the following year there are entries of receipt, which set 
forth the details and values of the original endowment, as follows : 
House in Stillman Street, £5 ; tenement at Southside, 16s. ; two 
messuages lately built by Joseph Gubbes at Southside, piece of 
ground at the Lary, and 16 acres of land at Egbuckland called 
Auterswell, £1 13s. 8d. ; shop at Southside Quay, 4s.; three 
messuages and gardens adjoining the hospital on the west, and a 
close in Old Mill Lane, 6s. 8d. ; part of a dwelling-house and 
shop, 48s. ; building on the wall of the town, 4s. ; two gardens in 
Mudd Street, 25s. ; dues of Sutton Pool, collected by John 
Barnes (£13 6s. 8d. was paid the Prince for rent), £22 3s. 7d. 
The total receipts, with a legacy of £10 from John Waddon, 2 were 
£43 15s. lid.; the expenditure, £33 16s. 2d. "Richard Isteed 
phisition" was tutor, and had £11 14s. for the diet of four orphans 
for three-fourths of a year. 
There is not here, nor anywhere else that I know of, save in the 
Receiver's Accounts for 1602-3, any definite reference to a gift by 
Walter Mathewe to the town of certain houses for the use of 
poor fatherless children, a pair of indentures concerning which 
were written in that year at the cost of 5 s. 
This is the Walter Mathewe who was Mayor in 1604-5, who 
built the conduit in Briton Side at his own cost, and who is said 
by Yonge to have been servant to Sir Richard Hawkins, as his 
wife had been to Dame Hawkins. According to the story, the 
two ladies quarrelled for precedence, and the knight's wife gave 
1 This was a landscore containing 133 yards, at 36 feet a yard. Awter's 
Will was let on a life lease, and the fine paid by Robert Berry for a reversion 
at the end of the century was 37s., the rent being 10s. 
2 He also left £10 to the "poor stock " of Plymouth, and £5 to the poor 
people of Plymouth. 
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