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and  Cheam,  co.  Surrey.    Also  to  the  aforesaid  Thomas  his  son  and     A-D-

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to  Cicelie,  wife  of  the  same,  his  manor  of  Kingsdowne,  oo.  Kent,
his  capital  house  in  Wolwiche,  co.  Kent,  called  "  ye  Tower  place,"
and  other  property  there,  together  with  lands,  tenements,  &c.,  at
Plumstead,  co.  Kent,  comprising  his  farms  called  "  Suffolke
place  "  and  "  Borestall,"  also  at  Bexley,  Blackffen,  Blendon,  and
Wickam  in  the  same  county.  To  the  Wardens  and  Commonalty
of  the  Art  or  Mistery  of  Goldsmiths  within  the  City  of  London,
to  the  end  that  they  might  the  better  remember  him,  and  also
do  and  perform  such  things  as  he  had  given  them  lands  to  do
withal,1  he  further  leaves  certain  messuages  in  the  parishes  of
S.  Edmund  the  King  and  S.  Botolph  without  Bishopsgate,  charged
with  the  yearly  payment  of  sixteen  pounds  in  manner  following,
viz.,  to  five  poor  folk  of  the  town  of  Wolwiche,  appointed  to  be  in
the  testator's  almshouses  there,  thirty  shillings  and  fivepence  apiece
yearly,  at  their  hall,  by  quarterly  payments ;  six  shillings  and
eightpence  for  a  sermon  at  Wolwiche  Church  yearly;  seven
shillings  and  elevenpence  to  be  distributed  among  the  priest,
clerk,  and  poor  people  of  Wolwiche  at  the  same  time,  and  thirteen
shillings  and  fourpence  to  the  youngest  wardens  yearly  for  their
pains  and  for  viewing  the  almshouses ;  and  further  charged  with
the  yearly  payment  of  three  pounds  for  wood  and  coals  for  the
poor  of  the  parish  of  S.  Mary  "Wolnorth,"  and  of  twenty
shillings  in  wood  and  coal  for  the  clerk,  beadle,  and  almsmen  of
the  company.  The  residue  of  the  sixteen  pounds  to  the  poor
of  the  company  and  the  maintenance  of  their  hall.2  Dated
20  September,  A.D.  1562.
