The history and antiquities, ancient and modern, of the Borough of Reading, in the County of Berks . grace, the very stones of church, the scholars yet unborn, and the poor of both sexes, mightjustly rise in judgment against us. But gratitude equal to so ample a benefitbeing not to be repaid in words, wc humbly entreat your grace, (as physiciansjudge the dispositions of the heart by the beating of the pulse,) by this smallmanifestation, to conceive the ardent desires and afiections of our hearts andsouls, ever to appear Your graces most dutiful and grateful servants. 1646 Richard
The history and antiquities, ancient and modern, of the Borough of Reading, in the County of Berks . grace, the very stones of church, the scholars yet unborn, and the poor of both sexes, mightjustly rise in judgment against us. But gratitude equal to so ample a benefitbeing not to be repaid in words, wc humbly entreat your grace, (as physiciansjudge the dispositions of the heart by the beating of the pulse,) by this smallmanifestation, to conceive the ardent desires and afiections of our hearts andsouls, ever to appear Your graces most dutiful and grateful servants. 1646 Richard Aldworth, esq. by will dated December the 21st, 1646, gave four thousand pounds, to purchase a convenient spot for a school, in whichtwenty poor boys of Reading were to be clothed, boarded, and educated, andtwo of them every year to be apprenticed out, at the age of sixteen in the corporation: who, from the same legacy, were to bestow twentygowns annually to so many aged men and women of this town, and to give toeach of them a loaf every Sunday. Of this sum of four thousand MICIEARB AlLDWORTH. // 3^)/^//!. ///^ /hl/im^ III f^-f Ui/fiiri/ cdinit^ft CHARITABLE DONATIONS. 411 two thousand pounds was laid out in the purchase of an estate at Sherfield, in (-;„.„1657, and one thousand nine hundred and ninety pounds in 1659, probably for portion of the same estate, it consisting originally of three or four ^^^V**farms. They were surveyed in 1723, and found to contain three hundred andsixty acres one rood and thirty eight poles. BIi Richard Jayes, of Reading, left by will four houses in Hosiers-lane, 1617for four poor widows, who must be fifty years of age at the least; to be electedby the church-wardens and overseers of St. Marys parish, and endowed themwith-one shilling and three pence each, per week, arising from the rent oftwo meadows called Middlehams, in the parish of Sulhamstead, Berks, whichin 1730 were let for twenty-one pounds, per annum.
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