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of Northampton, to be paid by tbe Bailiff of the Townat Eqfier and Michaelmas by equal Allotments : And itwas at the Founder’s Inftance (therefore worthy to beinferted ) that the Town of Yarmouth, 2 6 Edw. 111 . un-der their Common Seal, granted them a Laft of RedHerrings yearly, well dry’d and cleans’d, to take theCorporation into their Prayers $ tho’ fome fay it was aPenance enjoyn’d them for murdering a Magiftrate.

In the 26 Edw. III. the Founder granted them andtheir Succeflors the Mannor of Eure near V/eybrigg, inCom. Euckj} the Mannor of Crafwell in Bray in Com. Berks,and a Wear call’d Braybrook, fituated in the Thames,with all the Lands in that Parilh convey’d unto himby Sir John Philibert, together with the Knights Fees,Advowfons, c^c. belonging to thofe Manners. Hegave to the Cuftos and College foon after the Seilinthereof, as alfo of a Wood call’d Temple-lVood in Stoke-Pogeys, convey’d to the King by John de Molyns : Butdeeming all the Lands too fmall for the End he in-tended, 28 Ed-w. III. the King granted the Cuftos andCollege, by Letters Patent, a Penfion of 100/. per An-num out of the Exchequer j and upon the vacating thefame, 34 Edw. III. he gave them yearly Lands of 101 /.11 s. nd. out of the Pofleffions of religious Aliens,which fell into his Hands by Occafion of the FrenchWars : But left thefe Pofleffions fhould be again re-ftor’d upon a Treaty of Peace, they were to receivethe annual Sum of 1 o 1 /. 11 j. 11 d. out of the Ex-chequer, till they were provided of Lands of the likeValue. Upon feveral Reftriclions, he granted them51 /. 9 s. 9 d. yearly to be receiv’d out of 126 /. whichthe Prior of Takkele paid him for the Farm of that Pri-ory, it being then in the King’s Hand by reafon of theWar with France. And by reafon the Revenues didnot amount to 1000 /. per Annum, as he defign’d atthe Foundation, in the 35th Year of his Reign, hegranted them fo much Money yearly out of the Ex-chequer, as would make up the Deficiency, till Landsor Rents of that Value fhould be fettled on them.Laftly, 39 Edit. III. the Founder beftow’d on them aPiece of Ground in New Windfre, (whereon had flood anHoule of John of London ) in lieu of the great Garden

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