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Ash next Ridley - Parish Information

The History of Education in the Village of Ash next Ridley, Kent. (1735-1950)
      by N. J. Muller.  An Historical and Sociological Survey

          Part of Rev Samuel Attwood’s Will       Page 52

   The Rev Samuel Attwood died in 1735

Stamped by the Charity Commission, 4th March 1865
   In the last will and testament of the Rev Samuel Attwood, Late rector of the Parish of Ash, amongst other things is contained the following:-
   ALSO I give and bequeath unto the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the Parish of Ash next Wrotham aforesaid in the said County of Kent and to their successors for ever One annuity or yearly rent charge of Twenty pounds a year of lawful money of Great Britain tax free and without any deductions of any manner of taxes whatsoever to be issuing and going out of and to be had received and taken yearly and every year out of and from All that my messuage or Tenement or

Farm and out of Barns Stables yards gardens orchards lands and appurtenances thereunto belonging situate standing lying and being at a certain place commonly called David Street and near unto Horns Oake in the said Parish of Meopham now in the occupation of the said Thomas Lenton and containing altogether by estimation fifty Acres more or less which I lately purchased of Henry Barrel Gent only surviving Trustee of Paul Barstow Clerk deceased at and upon two of the most usual feast days or days of payment in the year (that is to say) Michaelmas and Ladyday by equal payments And if it shall happen that the said Annuity or yearly rent charge of Twenty pounds last mentioned shall at any time or times hereafter be behind or unpaid in part or in all by the space of one 

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