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268 TALLISJ8 ILLUSTRATED LONDON J
barge to be marie at his own cost, and each company
had barges well decked and trimmed, to pass along
with him. In 1457 Sir Godfrey Boleine gave £1,000
to poor householders in London. In 1462, 1463, and
1464, Sir Thomas Cooke, Sir Matthew Phillips, and Sir
Ralph Joceline, mayors in those respective years, were
made Knights of the Bath by Edward IV. on the field of
battle. In 1479 Sir Bartholomew James received a similar
distinction from the same sovereign. Sir Edmund Shaa.
in 1482, built the postern called Cripplegate. King
Richard III. called him his merchant, and sold to him
275 lbs. of his plate for the sum of £550:13s. 4rf. Sir
Hugh Clapton, mayor in 1491, built the great stone
bridge at Stratford-on-Avon. Sir William Capel, mayor
in 1503, first ordered a cage to be set up in every ward
for the punishment of vagabonds. Sir Thomas Knes-
worth, mayor in 1505, built the water conduit at Bishops-
gate. Sir Stephen Jennings, in 1508, built a free school
at Wolverhampton, and the greater part of St. Andrew's
church, called Undershaft. Sir Roger Acheley, in 1511,
provided abundance of corn for the service of the city, and
stored up the same in the common garner called Leaden-
hall. Sir William Hewet, mayor in 1559, married his
daughter to Osborne, his apprentice, who had rescued her
from drowning in her infancy, and from this union sprang
the dueal house of Leeds. Sir William Turner, mayor in
1669, founded and endowed, during his lifetime, an hos-
pital at Kirk Leedham, Yorkshire, for the maintenance of
ten old men, ten old women, and the education and sup-
port of ten boys and ten girls. To each inmate he allowed
2s. 6d. a-week; the boys, when they left the school, at
the age of seventeen or eighteen, were to have £3 for
clothes, and seven years afterwards, if not married, were
to receive £7 more; and the like benefit to the girls. At
Midsummer-day, when the inmates received their wearing
apparel, they were to walk in procession round the church,
and sing the psalm, "Blessed the man that careful is."
Sir John Moore, mayor in 1G82, founded a free school at
barge to be marie at his own cost, and each company
had barges well decked and trimmed, to pass along
with him. In 1457 Sir Godfrey Boleine gave £1,000
to poor householders in London. In 1462, 1463, and
1464, Sir Thomas Cooke, Sir Matthew Phillips, and Sir
Ralph Joceline, mayors in those respective years, were
made Knights of the Bath by Edward IV. on the field of
battle. In 1479 Sir Bartholomew James received a similar
distinction from the same sovereign. Sir Edmund Shaa.
in 1482, built the postern called Cripplegate. King
Richard III. called him his merchant, and sold to him
275 lbs. of his plate for the sum of £550:13s. 4rf. Sir
Hugh Clapton, mayor in 1491, built the great stone
bridge at Stratford-on-Avon. Sir William Capel, mayor
in 1503, first ordered a cage to be set up in every ward
for the punishment of vagabonds. Sir Thomas Knes-
worth, mayor in 1505, built the water conduit at Bishops-
gate. Sir Stephen Jennings, in 1508, built a free school
at Wolverhampton, and the greater part of St. Andrew's
church, called Undershaft. Sir Roger Acheley, in 1511,
provided abundance of corn for the service of the city, and
stored up the same in the common garner called Leaden-
hall. Sir William Hewet, mayor in 1559, married his
daughter to Osborne, his apprentice, who had rescued her
from drowning in her infancy, and from this union sprang
the dueal house of Leeds. Sir William Turner, mayor in
1669, founded and endowed, during his lifetime, an hos-
pital at Kirk Leedham, Yorkshire, for the maintenance of
ten old men, ten old women, and the education and sup-
port of ten boys and ten girls. To each inmate he allowed
2s. 6d. a-week; the boys, when they left the school, at
the age of seventeen or eighteen, were to have £3 for
clothes, and seven years afterwards, if not married, were
to receive £7 more; and the like benefit to the girls. At
Midsummer-day, when the inmates received their wearing
apparel, they were to walk in procession round the church,
and sing the psalm, "Blessed the man that careful is."
Sir John Moore, mayor in 1G82, founded a free school at