skirts to the knees: and from and after the decease of my wife, Dorcas, to every of the sayd poor women, every year a gown of good russet cloth, these my sayd gifts to continue forever that is to saye so long as the world endureth the same to be delivered unto every one of them the 25th day of December, commonly called Christmas Day". He also stated that the recipients were to call at his house called Penneyes between the "houres of 8 and 9 o’clock in the fornoone" and then proceed to the "church at Falkham" to hear Divine Service and Sermon "and soe to return to my sayd dwelling house and then to take their dinner the sayd bequests to be given unto every of them by such person or persons or their Assignes as shall have the inheritance or estate for life in my sayd dwelling house, Skinners Croft, Crowers Deane, Haywards Croft, Penneyes Talleyer, Long Valleyes, Holly Rede and the Grove."
   The late Sir Thomas Hohler of Fawkham Manor, by permission of the Charity Commissioners, has commuted them to give a sum of £2 to each of the said poor men and poor women from the said parishes of Fawkham, Ash and Hartley. The alteration was made partly because of wartime clothes-rationing etc.
   Richard Millar. In his will dated this four and twentieth day of February in the yeare of our Lord God One Thousand Six Hundred and Seventy: -
   " I give unto the poore of the Parish of Ash for fourever one Annuity or yearly rent charge of twenty shillings of good English money" on his tenement in Hartley with the land belonging thereto for the benefit of the poor of the said parish.
   This is administered by the Rector and Churchwardens. The property mentioned is now Glover’s Farm in Hartley Bottom, but was then an inn known as the "Kings Arms".
   Richard Baker left an undated will by which there is a charge of £1 to provide bread for the poor on the first Sunday after Christmas. This charge is on Fisher’s Farm at Hodsoll Street.

   Nicholas Courney bequeathed one tenement with the appurtenances at Hodsoll Street to the poor people of Ash. The tenement consisted of two cottages which fell into such disrepair that they were pulled down by agreement. The land was sold and the proceeds invested in the Charity Commission. The annual interest is used to purchase coal for distribution in December each year. This charity is administered by the Rector, Churchwardens and Parish Council.
   James Lance. By his will dated 1811 a charge of £10.10s 0d annually was left upon two cottages and their land at West Yoke, Ash. Of this sum, £5 was to be devoted to the support of the School, 15s to the purchase of pens, ink and paper: £2 to provide bread for the poor on Good Friday; £2 to provide blankets for the poor at Michaelmas; 10s to be distributed among children "that say their Catechism in Lent"; and 5s for the entertainment of the Trustees of the Free School.
   James Lance also left the two almshouses at North Ash to be occupied by four widows for ever.
   Thomas Comfort This is an annual benefaction of 20s given by Thomas Comfort in his will of 1593 chargeable on a piece of land "called Sandy Croft lying at ye upper end of a certain field called White Croft adjoining to the King’s highway leading from
   Ash Church to Fawkham Green which said 20 s per annum has been constantly paid time out of minde without any dispute".
This is administered by the Rector and Churchwardens.
   William Warren the elder died 31st January 1568 "bequeathed to the poore people of the parish of Ash the sum of xxty pence of current money yearly to be paid forever at ye feast of All Saints to the Churchwardens". This charge is upon croft of land called Holmes Croft at Hodsoll Street, This is administered by the Rector and Churchwardens.