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    1. [HODGES-L] Almshouses
    2. Jerry Brandel
    3. Aylworth £100 in 1720, Richard Freeman £20 soon afterwards, Danvers Hodges (d 1721) a £3 rent charge, Sarah Chamberlayne £50 by will dated 1734, and Thomas Selwyn or Selvin, a £1 rent charge at an unknown date. The capital sums were all laid out in land. Townsend's gift, by will dated 1682 of 2s a week for bread, was in fact used for education along with the sum given by him specifically for that purpose.. Half of Mary Hicks's gift (see above) was for bread and beef, and the immemorial rent-charge of 13s-4d on the Court House was by 1828 used for bread, 94 although earlier it had been used for church repairs, 95 John Harvey Olney, by will proved 1836, gave £200 in trust for distributing coal and blankets. 96 All these charities were for the whole ancient parish of Stow; there were two separate charities for Maugersbury, £10 for distributing bread, given by Sarah Chamberlayne by her will dated 1734 but apparently lost by 1828, and an allotment for the poor's fuel made a! t inclosure in 1766, of which the rent was distributed in cash by the rector in 1828. http://www.workhouses.co.uk/almshouses2.htm

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