Elizabeth Paige

“ I doe make it my raquest unto the said Mayor and Aldermen that they (27) and theire successors from time to time doe take good securitie for this ffiftie (28) pounds and informe such person or persons as shall borrow the same to bring it (29) in at the end of every yeare or to renewe theire bonds by them selves and (30) (two?) sufficient sureties. And I doe further desire and ordaine that during the (31) whole life time of my executor hereafter named he may have the placeing (32) of such poore into those Almeshouses when built as he shall (contend?) ”

“ Almeshouses when finished and built with a tableboard, cupboard, (fold?) bed- (36) -stead, rugg, canvis sheete, dustbed. Item I doe give and bequeath unto Mastr Martin Blake and Master Jonathan (...ner) in cause the fformer shall be (38) Vicar of this towne and the later Lecturer of the same at the time of my (39) death the summe of twentie shillings unto each of them to be bestowed in a (40) booke. Item I give and bequeafe unto my sister Alice Bayley, widdowe, the (41) summe of twenty pounds. Item I give and bequeafe unto my sister Cooke the (42) summe of twenty pounds. ”