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 198 ANCIENT WILLS, ETC., SOUTHWARK.

Master Robert Rogers, leatherseller, a bachelor, gave, among many other charitable gifts, to St. George's Parish in Southwark, St. Sepulchre's, St. Olave's beyond the Bridge, St. Giles' without Cripplegate, and St. Leo- nard's in Shoreditch, to buy coals for the poor in each parish, £30 apiece.

And for relief of the poor in sundry parishes without the walls, as Newgate, Cripplegate, Bishopgate, and the parish of St. George in Southwark, unto every one of them he gave £26. 13s. M.

Stow's London.

A.D. 1503. — John Webster, of St. Margaret's, Southwark, by his will, dated the last of February, 1503, orders his body to be buried in the Church of St. Margaret, a trental of masses to be sung on the day of his burial ; bequeaths his lands in Barwey in the parish of Laham and Streteham, Co. Cambridge, to Agnes his wife during life, and then to Robert his son for ever ; constitutes Agnes, his wife, and her father, Hugh llenkyn of the town of Cambridge, his executors. Probate dated 24th April, 1504.

Battle Abbey Deeds, penes Sir Thos. Phillips.

A.D. 1517.— Peter Maton, of the parish of St. Olave the king in Southwark, by his will dated in this year, gave to the Abbot of Battle and his successors, his greatest brass pot, belonging to his house, to remain in the abbot's house (which was in the parish of St. Olave). He gave to the abbot and convent 20s., to be equally divided among them, to pray for his soul ; and to the fraternity kept by all the parish clerks in London to the honor of St. Nicholas, 20c/.

Manning and Brays Surrey.