25. Ambrose Nicolas, almshouses.
26. John Fuller, almshouses.
27. Dame Agnes Foster, enlargement of Ludgate Hill Prison.
28. Avice Gibson, almshouses.
29. Margaret Danne, money to be lent to young men beginning as ironmongers.
30. Dame Mary Ramsay, endowment of Christ’s Hospital.
The following are later endowments. Thus Sir Thomas White, citizen and Merchant Taylor, Mayor, purchased Gloucester Hall at Oxford; he founded St. John’s College there; he erected schools at Bristol and Reading; to Bristol he gave £2000 for the purchase of lands. This would produce £120 a year, which was to be administered by the Mayor of Bristol. He gave £800 to be lent to 16 poor Clothiers at £50 apiece as security for ten years, and after that the money to pass to other towns, i.e.
- 1579 Reading
- 1580 The Merchant Taylors’ Company
- 1581 Gloucester
- 1582 Worcester
- 1583 Exeter
- 1584 Salisbury
- 1585 Westchester
- 1586 Norwich
- 1587 Southampton
- 1588 Lincoln
- 1589 Winchester
- 1590 Oxford
- 1591 Hereford
- 1592 Cambridge
- 1593 Shrewsbury
- 1594 Lynn
- 1595 Bath
- 1596 Derby
- 1597 Ipswich
- 1598 Colchester
- 1599 Newcastle.
He gave to the City of Coventry £1400 with which to purchase lands to the annual value of £70. Twelve poor men to have 40s. each free alms; then four young men were to have loans of £10 for nine years. He did the same thing for Northampton, for Leicester, and for Warwick. A worthy benefactor, indeed!
In 1560 Richard Hills gave £500 towards the purchase of a house called the Manor of the Rose, where the Merchant Taylors founded their school. At the same time William Lambert, Draper, Justice of the Peace in Kent, founded an almshouse for the poor in East Greenwich called Queen Elizabeth’s Almshouses.