Res. 18. Parsons or Vicars &c. bee bound (as inhabitants) to the relief of the poore as wel as others that inhabite within the parish.
Res. 19. Everie one that hath Tithes impropriate, coale mines or lands in manuel occupation &c. is chargeable. And so for such as haue saleable woods proportioning the same to an annual benefite.
W. Lambard, Eirenarcha, ed. 1599 after p. 206. See E. Cannan, Hist. of Local Rates, p. 75.
[303] 4 and 5 Will. IV. c. 76 (1834).
[304] 43 Eliz. c. 3. It is interesting to notice that this provision for maimed soldiers was due to Sir Robert Cecil, Hatfield MSS. VII. p. 160.
[305] Bequests for some of the more unusual of these purposes occur among the charities of Ipswich.
Thus in (1513) Jan. 14, the following entry is made: "Edm. Danby at this Court declared that he had given to the Town lands and tenemts in vallew 6li p annu' to the end that they should discharge the poore commonalty of the Towne of all dismes, quinziemes and charges wch shall happen: the lands doe lye in Rushmere." Bacon's Annals of Ipswich, p. 186.
Mr Henry Tooley, Portman of Ipswich, in a will dated Nov. 4, 1550 bequeathed:
- £100 to the repairing of Bone Bridge.
- £20 to the amending of the Haven.
- £100 towards repairing and amending certain highways.
- 20s. to every maid who is fatherless and poor and shall marry within Ipswich until £60 should be spent.
An Indenture of 1513 recites that a Mr Drayle left £70 in order to release natives and foreigners from certain tolls &c. Ipswich, Gifts and Legacies, pp. 1 and 168.