Also, I do give and appoint the sum of £250. to be expended, paid, and laid out by mine executors, in, and for the making an additional building to the 'school-house at Tottenham, near the High Cross, in 'the county of Middlesex, for the enlargement thereof, whereby it may be made capable to receive a greater number of scholars.

'Also, I do give and appoint the further sum of £1100. 'to be disbursed and laid out by mine executors within ' convenient time after my decease, for the buying and purchasing of land, rents, or other hereditaments, in fee simple, and they to settle the same for the support ' and maintainance of the said school, and the master ' and usher of the said school for ever, according as is ‹ herein after directed: that is to say, I do will and 'appoint, that out of the said lands, rents, or other 'hereditaments, there shall be allowed and paid unto the usher of the said school, £10. per ann. for his salary, upon the 25th day of March, and the 29th day of September, by equal portions; and that the 6 upper schoolmaster of the said school shall have all 'the rest and residue of the rents and profits of the 'lands and hereditaments, for his maintainance; and, in the mean time, until the said lands, rents, or here'ditaments, shall be so purchased and settled, as I have herein directed, I do will and appoint that my 'executors shall pay out of my personal estate, £40. 'per ann. unto the upper schoolmaster, and £10. 'per ann. unto the usher of the said school for their salaries, and shall likewise pay for the yearly nęcessary repairs of the said school-house besides. And I 'will and appoint that the said schoolmaster and usher of the said school shall be, from time to time, named

and placed in the said school, and, upon his and their neglect or other reasonable cause, be removed by 'mine executors, or the major part of them, and the 'several and respective heirs of my said executors. 'And I hereby farther will, direct, and appoint, that 'my said executors, shall, in the settlement of the said 'maintainance for the said schoolmaster and usher, 'take care and make provision that the said school'master and usher, shall, from time to time, in con'sideration of the maintainance, teach and instruct gratis, and without demanding any other recompence 'or reward, the children of all such people, inhabiting 'within the said parish of Tottenham, as shall not 'have estates of their own, of free or copyhold, of 'L20. per ann. and that the said head schoolmaster 'shall be obliged to keep the said school-house in re'pair, and to pay all taxes that shall be laid on the lands

so to be purchased, with and out of his rent and re'sidue of the rents and profits of the said lands allotted

to him for his maintainance; and if he shall fail or 'neglect so to do, that then the said charge of the 'said reparation and taxes shall be paid by the tenant of the lands or hereditaments so purchased, and de'ducted out of the said schoolmaster's share thereof, so as aforesaid appointed to be for his maintainance. • But my will is, and I do hereby declare, that if I shall 'in my life time, repair the said school-house, and pro'vide and settle a maintainance for the schoolmaster and 'usher of the said school, that then this my devise and ' appointment of the said £1100. for that purpose shall 'cease and be void; but, nevertheless, in that case, mine 'aforesaid appointment of the before-mentioned £250. ' for the additional building, for the enlarging the said

school-house, shall stand good. Provided always, and I do will, direct, and appoint, that no part of 'this charitable work, relating to the said school and 'schoolmaster and usher, shall be begun and under◄ taken, until William Whimple, parish-clerk of Tot' tenham aforesaid, who hath a grant from several of 'the chief inhabitants of the said parish, to live in the 'said school-house during life, shall be by the said pa'rish furnished to his satisfaction with another house

to dwell in during his life, in lieu of the said school'house. Also, I do give and appoint £60. to be paid ' and laid out by mine executors, for the placing out ' and binding apprentices, ten poor boys that were born ' and shall be then living in the said parish of Totten'ham, in the county of Middlesex, and which come ' of honest parents. And I direct that the said poor boys shall be chosen by mine executors. Also, I do 'give and appoint unto the poor of the parish of Tot'tenham, £50. of lawful money, to be ordered and disposed of, for the good and benefit of the said poor, 'as ten of the chief inhabitants of the said parish shall 'direct.

Also, I do give and appoint £40. to be distributed ' equally unto and amongst thirty poor widows, living in the said parish of Tottenham, who have a charge ' of children, or are very aged. Also, I do give and appoint £65. to be laid out by my executors to buy two silver gilt flagons and a silver gilt cup with a cover 'to it, to be and remain, for ever, communion plate 'for the parish church of Tottenham aforesaid; also, I 'do give and appoint £35. to be laid out by mine executors, to buy and make a velvet pulpit cloth for 'the pulpit in Tottenham parish church aforesaid, and

'two velvet cushions, one for the pulpit and the other 'for the communion table, and a velvet carpet for the 'communion table. I would have it all of one colour, and the same to be either crimson or purple; and I direct and appoint that there be a deep silver fringe ' about the bottom of the pulpit cloth, and a little narrow fringe at the top and down the two sides of 'it. And I appoint these to be kept, from time to time, 'for that purpose, so long as they shall last.'

These being such mighty gifts, and coming so quick out of one and the same family, it did not only inspire the Right Hon. Henry Hare, Lord Coleraine, husband to the late duchess, to be doing something more for the advantage of the church, but it set the whole parish upon contributing to the embellishment thereof; and so, about the year 1694, there was a great rate collected for the repairing and new painting the church; and, soon after, the five bells in the steeple were new cast and hanged up in new timber, and a sixth bell added to their number, all made very tuneable and musical by that excellent founder Mr. Philip Whitman; for the completing of which, the gentlemen then in the parish contributed very largely, over and above the rate of their assessments, so that there seemed a virtuous emulation excited, both in the churchwardens and in all the inhabitants of the parish, to be adding still something to the place of worwhip, that God might be served in the beauty of holiness; hereupon Mr. John Chandler gave a gilt frame and hour glass, to be set up by the reader's desk; and, Mrs. Smithson, finding the chancel door (as of old they were made) very little and low, had an order of vestry to amend it, as follows:

July 14th, 1695. WHEREAS Mrs. Smithson, wife of Hugh Smithson (18), Esq. an inhabitant of this parish, hath 'given unto the churchwardens a broad piece of 'gold, value £1. 15s. toward the rebuilding and ( altering the little chancel door, it is hereby or 'dered that the said door be forthwith rebuilded ' and amended.

'Witness, our hands,

'SA. PRAT, Vicar.

ALEX. JORDAN,

• ART. CAPELL,

Churchwardens?

Hereupon the said door was decently enlarged, according to the desire of that good gentlewoman, who was the daughter of Michael Godfrey, merchant of London, and sister of Michael Godfrey, killed at Namur, who also bestowed a very good Turkeywork carpet on the table in the vestry, as a pledge of her generous intent to do greater things towards the beautifying of this place, if God had spared her a longer life; but she was suddenly taken away after her lying-in, to the grief of all the neighbourhood, and to the irreparable loss of her worthy husband, Mr. Hugh Smithson, who, some time before her decease, had an order of vestry (on Sunday the 6th of September, 1696), that the said Hugh Smithson, Esq. his heirs and family, should have eight foot square of ground, in the north aisle of the said parish church, and within three foot of the north door, to erect and

(18) Grandson of Sir Hugh Smithson, Baronet, who lives at Rid ley's, in Tottenham, a justice of peace, and has been sometimes knight of the shire for this county, greatly esteemed, and of fair reputation