Page 62, Will, Christopher Wilkinson, P2
| Shall take ye charge & management of ye above said Legacy of | ||||
| Two Hundred and Fiftye pounds and Shall with all convenient | ||||
| Speed they can after my decease either by purchase of Lands wthin | ||||
| ye Manour of Hexham or in Real Securityes upon Mortgages or | ||||
| by a perpetuall Rent-charge out of Lands or otherwise as | ||||
| to them or ye Survivor or Survivours of them shall seem | ||||
| most safe and advantagious for preserveing ye principall | ||||
| for a Standing Fund and Stock for ye use of the said Free | ||||
| Schoole as also for paying and answering ye Yearly rent | ||||
| use or Interest thereof to be payd to Such Licenced Master | ||||
| of the said Free Schoole and of good life and Conversation as | ||||
| my said Trustees or ye major part or number of them or of ye | ||||
| Survivor or Survivors of them or their Successors Shall | ||||
| Yearly chuse at or upon ye first day of May in every | ||||
| Year to come Successively after my Decease Item my | ||||
| Will & pleasure is, That ye said Schoole Master So Yearly to | ||||
| be appointed Shall from time to time and at all times after | ||||
| my decease for ever Teach all ye Children of all ye Inhabitants | ||||
| of ye parish of Allandale in such usefull and necessary learning | ||||
| and languages as my said Trustees Shall direct & appoint | ||||
| Gratis without any Gratuity Fee or Reward to be had | ||||
| required or received by ye said School Master from the Said | ||||
| Inhabitants of ye Said parish of Allandale or any of them. | ||||
| any said | ||||
| Item my Will & pleasure is, That if ⁁ one or more of ye ⁁ Trustees | ||||
| Shall renounce ye said Trust or refuse to act therein or if it | ||||
| shall happen any one or more of ye said Trustees or any Trustees | ||||
| who shall hereafter be appointed Trustees of ye Said Schoole | ||||
| Shall happen to dye, Then ye acting or Surviveing Trustees | ||||
| Shall with all convenient Speed that may be elect & chuse | ||||
| two or Three more as occasion Shall require to make up the | ||||
| originall number of Five acting Trustees Successively to | ||||
| continue from time to time Invested with ye like power and | ||||
| authority granted to my Trustees aforesaid to fill up ye | ||||
| vacancy of those renounceing or refuseing or of those | ||||
| who are Dead Item I give devise & bequeath unto my sd | ||||
| Trustees to be payd by my Executrix hereafter named | ||||
| the Sume of Tenn pounds to be employed for and towards | ||||
| the Erecting and building of A Bridge over East Allen | ||||
| water at a place called Oakpoole, provided ye same be | ||||
| built and finished Three Years next after my | ||||
| decease |
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Transcribed by LF and JW