£ s. d.
"Given to diverse Poore People at ye }
Worke-house, in the presence of Mr. }
Archdeacon of Ely, Mr. Oliver Cromwell, } 16 14 0
Mr. John Goodericke, and others, Feb. }
10th 1636, as appeareth, } ___________
Summa Expens. Ann. 1636 36 3 6"
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"The Disbursements of Mr. Cranford."
"Item, to Jones, by Mr. Cromwell's consent} 1 0 0"
Mr. Cranford's disbursements show no dates. His receipts immediately
followed Mr. Hand's in point of dates.
About the year 1639 a petition was filed in the Court of Chancery by
one Thomas Fowler, on behalf of himself and others, inhabitants of
Ely, against the feoffees of Parson's Charity, and a commission for
charitable uses was issued. The commissioners sat at Ely, on the 25th
of January, 1641, and at Cambridge on the 3rd of March in the same
year, when several of the feoffees with other persons were examined.
At the conclusion of the joint deposition of John Hand and William
Cranford, two of the feoffees, is the following statement:--
"And as to the Profitts of the said Lands in theire tyme
receaved, they never disposed of any parte thereof but by the
direction and appointment of Mr. Daniell Wigmore, Archdeacon
of Ely, Mr. William March, and Mr. Oliver Cromwell."
"These last two names were inserted att Camb. 8 Mar. 1641, by
Mr. Hy. C."
The last name in the above note is illegible, and the last two names
in the deposition are of a different ink and handwriting from the
preceding part, but of the same ink and writing as the note.
An original summons to the feoffees, signed by the commissioners, is
preserved. It requires them to appear before the commissioners at
the Dolphin Inn, in Ely, on the 25th of the then instant January, to
produce before the commissioners a true account "of the monies, fines,
rents, and profits by you and every of you and your predecessors
feoffees receaved out of the lands given by one Parsons for the
benefitt of the inhabitants of Ely for 16 years past," &c. The summons
is dated at Cambridge, the 13th of January, 1641, and is signed by the
three commissioners,
"Tho. Symon.
Tho. Duckett.
Dudley Page."