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This may have caused some delay ; and as there does not seem to 
have been any such feeling on the part of the town as would 
result from the withholding of such a bequest, but on the contrary 
the Hawkinses continued to be held in honour, it seems probable 
that payment was made by the settling of some of the property 
devoted to charitable uses otherwise unaccounted for. Moreover, 
in 1637 the Corporation bought the manor of Sutton Yawter of 
John Hawkins. 
Eevel's Gift, otherwise the Underwood Charity, consisted of a 
rent-charge of 13s. 4d. on Tierney's field, of which 9s. 4d. went to 
Plymouth, and 4s. to Plympton. In 1762 this field was called 
Dunstone Hill, and was in two ownerships. The total area was 
two acres forty-three perches. In 1819 it was said to be held by 
a Mr. Kingdon, under the Mayor and Commonalty ; and the 
Charity was stated in a return of 1786 to be the gift of John 
Revel. Whether this be so or not there is an odd entry in the 
earliest extant Poor Accounts of 1612, repeated in subsequent years, 
that Wm. Reve, of Plympton Mary, had the use of 40s. given by 
John Revel, whose will was that William Reve should have the 
same. Reve did not, however, pay anything for interest, and John 
Revel's name does not otherwise appear ; nor can any payment in 
respect of his legacy have been included in the rents. 
Again we find that in the early part of the seventeenth century, 
the Corporation had a messuage, tenement, and garden, with two 
pieces of land and appurtenances, at Underwood. And Dorothy 
Revel, October 4th, 1661, left the Mayor and Commonalty £20 to 
be lent out at interest, and the proceeds to be given to poor widows 
who had been formerly housekeepers, and who were not inmates 
of the Almshouses, on the first of January in each year for ever. 
William Hils, Plymouth, merchant, July 30th, 15 James I. 
(1618), left to the Mayor and Commonalty an annuity of 52s. 
out of two messuages adjoining Southside Quay, "commonly 
called the Sampson," and a courtlage. For this they were to give 
on every Sabbath-day, immediately after morning prayer, "one 
dozen of middle sort of penny loafe wheaten bread comonly called 
cheat bread " to the poor in most need, to be distributed by the 
churchwardens and overseers, under the direction of the Mayor 
and Justice. Payment commenced the same year, and continues. 
