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Cray aforesaid to be the first master And if
he refuses to accept thereof Then I do leave it to the Trustees
or the major part of them to nominate and appoint a master as
they shall think fitt But my will and mind is that if anyone of
the name of Hodsoll belonging to the family of the Hodsolls of
South Ash qualified for the same at any time or times hereafter
when any vacancy happens requests and will accept thereof he and
they shall be always nominated master before any other person
whatsoever Also I give will and bequeath the last mentioned
messuage or Tenement Farm Lands Hereditaments and premises at
David Street aforesaid But subject to the payment of the last
said Annuity unto my loving friend Thomas Sewton the present
occupier thereof and to his Heirs Assigns forever Also I hereby
give will and devise unto the Churchwardens and Overseers of the
Parish of Ash aforesaid and to their successors forever One
other Annuity or yearly rent charge of Fifty shillings a year of
lawful money of Great Britain tax free |
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and without any deductions for any manor 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 and Tenement and farm called Ham And out all
the barns stables yards gardens orchard lands and appurtenances
thereunto belonging and situate standing lying and being in the
said Parish of Meopham and now or late in the occupation of the
said Nicholas Tisdall at and upon two of the most usual feast
days or days of payment in the year (that is to say) Michaelmas
Day Ladyday by equal payments And if shall happen that the
yearly rent charge of Fifty shillings shall at any time or times
hereafter be behind and unpaid in part or in all by the space of
one and twenty days next over or after either of the said feast
days aforesaid That then at all times after it shall and maybe
lawful to and for the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of
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