Note 1132a — PART IV. From the Reformation to the present time. (continued 8)

There are happily still some such contributors, and among them one conspicuous above the rest, to whose unostentatious charities the poor pensioners in all our almshouses are not a little indebted for their comforts; as this writer could easily perceive by what dropt from divers of them, in the course of conversations he has had with them at different times. It is here neither needful nor proper to mention the name.—Of the land charged with the 10l. a year to this almshouse, the following memorandum occurs in the said MS. volume; written seemingly about 1729: