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JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
the tithing of Western Peverell, 1 the rents of which are duly 
devoted by the Municipal Charity Trustees to the general purposes 
set forth in the will, though of course the "minister" is no longer 
chosen in the manner directed by the Puritan knight. Tor had 
been purchased by John Ilcombe of Wm. Holande, of Weare, 1st 
Mary (1553), and became the subject of arrangement with his heirs 
34th Elizabeth. William Laurence appears to have held an un- 
divided moiety, which his widow, Margaret, carried for her life to 
John Clement, whom she subsequently married. William Laurence, 
the nephew, in 4th Charles I. (1629), leased this to John Madock, 
at 4s. a year rent for ninety-nine years, on a fine of £57 10s.; and 
in 1634 sold Madock the fee for £160. The moiety was described 
as consisting of fourteen acres, and the charge of £4 in favour of 
the Orphans' Aid was specially reserved. In 1659 it was granted 
by Madock to the Mayor and Commonalty. Though not specifi- 
cally bought under Gayer's will, it represents therefore nearly £220 
out of the £500 bequeathed. In 1674 by arrangement with 
Richard Bayly, of Duloe, who then held the other moiety, the 
estate, which consisted in all of twenty-eight acres, was divided 
and the joint ownership created. 
Burrough's Gift occurs as the title of one of the local Charities, 
concerning which the Commissioners of 1820 were unable to 
obtain any clear information. All they could ascertain was that it 
consisted of £18 paid out of the tithes of Egg Buckland and St. 
Budeaux ; and it was said to be the gift of one John Burrough, to 
furnish wearing apparel for the poor of Plymouth. With a very 
queer interpretation of " the poor," which reminds us of the well- 
known lines— « The naked every day he dad _ 
When he put on his clothes," 
the Corporation at the time of the visit of the Commissioners 
had, for several years, at least, been accustomed to spend it in pro- 
viding suits for the two town corporals and the governor of the 
Barbican ! The references to this Charity in the records of the 
Corporation are very few, but they show two things clearly ; first, 
that the founder was not John Burrough, but a certain Mistress 
Bouroughs (Bourowes) ; and, secondly, that the object was really 
to provide clothes for the poor, and not for the town officials ; for 
both these facts are stated in connection with the entry of the first 
1 See the Orphans' Aid. 
