[227] E.g., St. Christopher-le-Stocks’ Acc’ts, 38 (Yearly perpetuity of L3 4s. in bread and money to poor. 1602). St. Michael’s in Bedwardine Acc’ts, 99 (House left to parish, 12s. of whose rental to go to poor, and 1s. to the churchwardens. 1590).

[228] Butcher, Parish of Ashburton, 46 (Land given to buy shirts and smocks for the poor. 1575).

[229] T.P.  Wadley, Notes on Bristol Wills (1886), 230 (L20 for a stock of money to remain for ever “in the howse of correction” for the maintenance and “settinge on work of such people as shalbe therevnto co[m]mitted for their mysdemeanors.” Thos.  Kelke’s will. 1583).

[230] Wills and Inventories, Pt. ii, Surtees Soc., xxxviii, 83 (Keyper school of Houghton and its endowment of L240. 1582).

[231] Examples among many are the Edenbridge, Kent, lands.  These bridgewardens held lands in three parishes. Arch.  Cant., xxi (1895), 110 ff.  Also Burton’s Charity lands at Loughborough.  The “bridgmasteres” here in 1570 collected L33 18s. 6d., and disbursed L16 12s. 11d.  Fletcher, Hist. of Loughborough, 41-2.  Also Hayward bridge lands, Notes and Quer. for Somer. and Dorset, iv (1895), 205-7.

[232] Legge, North Elmham Acc’ts, 87-90.  So too at Eltham, Kent, where the “Fifetene peny Lands” have special wardens who account for their revenue. Archaeologia, xxxiv, 51 ff.

[233] Statutes of the Realm, iv, Pt. ii, 968-9.

[234] Cardwell, Doc.  Ann., i, 189 ff.

[235] Dr. Pilkington’s will, Surtees Soc., xxii, Append., p. cxxxviii.  For a few other examples of bequests for parish utilities see ibid., p. ciii (George Reyd’s will, 1559). Ibid., p. cx ff.  (William Birche’s will of 1575 in which are many bequests to poor artificers, to prisoners—­a very frequent bequest—­to “needfull briggs or highe waies,” etc.).  See also Benefactions to Dorset Parishes, Churches, etc., in Notes and Quer. for Somer. and Dorset, x, 164 ff.  Also T.P.  Wadley, Notes on Bristol Wills, passim (e.g., Thos.  Kelke’s will of 1583, on p. 230.  He leaves L13 to Newgate prisoners, a frieze gown to 12 women and 12 men—­a frequent bequest—­6s. 8d. each to 52 poor maidens for their marriage, etc.).  Also Wills and Inventories, Surtees Soc., xxxviii, Pt. ii, passim.  Surrey Wills in Surrey Arch.  Coll., x (1891), passim.

[236] The crie of the poore for the death of the right Honourable Earle of Huntington (printed 1596), Joseph Lilly, A Collection of Seventy-Nine Black-Letter Ballads and Broadsides, 1559-1597 (1870), 230.

[237] Ibid., 263.

[238] The poore people’s complaynt, Bewayling the death of their famous benefactor, the worthy Earle of Bedford (Died 1585).  Bedford was described as “a person of such great hospitality that Queen Elizabeth was wont to say of him that he made all the beggars.”  Clark, Shirburn Ballads, 256.