Note 305 — Chapter VIII
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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.