Wilkinson } | In the Name of God Amen I Christopher Wilkinson of | |||
Christo } | Chappell House in ye County of Northumberland Yeom being weak | |||
in Body but of Sound & perfect memory & remembrance thanks be | ||||
given to Almighty God, Doe make and Ordaine this my last Will & | ||||
Testament in manner and form following (that is to say) Imprimis | ||||
Wheareas I am deeply sensible of the Great Want prejudice and | ||||
inconvenience incident to Severall Children of many poor Inhabitants | ||||
within ye parish of Allendale by neglect of Due Education partly | ||||
entire* | ||||
happening by their parents ⁁ or own Inability to hire School | ||||
Masters or pay for their Childrens maintenance and learning | ||||
abroad, and being moved with pity and Charitable Affection | ||||
to ye Inhabitants of ye said parish of Allendale and in hopes that | ||||
others will be induced to follow my example and promote soe | ||||
charitable a Work: I Doe therefore hereby cheerfully and | ||||
freely Give to John Bacon of Staward in the said County | ||||
Esq John Robson of Nine:benks* in ye said County Gent Robert | ||||
Peirson of Bishoppfeild Cuthbert White of Allendale Town | ||||
And William Wilson of Oake-poole all in the said County Yeomen | ||||
or to ye Survivor or Survivors of them & to their Successors | ||||
for ever to be limitted and appointed as is hereafter menconed | ||||
the Sume of Two Hundred and Fiftye pounds of lawfull money | ||||
of England now due and secured to me by ye said Wilson in Trust | ||||
to be applyed and appropriated by them or by ye Survivor or | ||||
Survivors of them or their said Sucessors to ye Severall uses | ||||
intents & purposes and upon ye Several Trusts & confidences | ||||
hereafter menconed & in them reposed (viz) To pay out of ye | ||||
Interest or other profitt of the said Two Hundred & Fiftye | ||||
pounds to my Dear mother Margarett Collison Yearly and every | ||||
Year after my Decease the Sume of Three pounds for & during | ||||
ye Terme of her naturall life, and to Apply the remainder of ye | ||||
profitt or Interest of the abovesaid Two Hundred and Fiftye | ||||
pounds together with ye said Annuity of Three pounds a | ||||
Year after determinacon of the same to the use advantage | ||||
and benefit of a Free Grammar Schoole for ye Education of | ||||
Youth, to be sett up and settled in Such proper & convenient | ||||
place on the West side of East Allen Water as my Trustees | ||||
abovesaid or ye major part of them Shall approve of And | ||||
my Will & pleasure is That my said Trustees or so many of | ||||
them as Shall be liveing at ye time of my decease or ye Survivor | ||||
or Survivors of them or ye major part or number of them | ||||
Shall |
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