Ffeil D1147. - Will (copy) of David Hughes of Woodrising, co. Norfolk, gent., Testator devises,

Will (copy) of David Hughes of Woodrising, co. Norfolk, gent., Testator devises:. To be buried in p. Woodrising, near the grave of his nephew, William Prichard. His house on a parcel of ground near the castle ditch in Bewmares, co. Ang., to be used for a Free Grammar School House. To Henry Rowlands, bishop of Bangor and others the testator's lands and tmts., in co. Ang., to act as feoffees, and to appoint a schoolmaster, a single man and a Master of Arts of the University of Oxford, at a yearly stipend of 40 marks, and an usher, a single man and a Bachelor of Arts of the University of Oxford, at a yearly stipend of 20 marks, and to complete other specifications and instructions. Any remainder to be employed to good use, especially to help poor scholars in the school. The feoffees to erect an almshouse near the church in Llanerchmedd, co. Ang., endowed with lands bought to the clear yearly value of £30 for 8 poor people, who are also to receive 50s each yearly and 6 yards of white frieze, the poor to come from the parishes of Llantrisaint, Rhodegeidio, Llechgwenfarwy and Gwreelog, the residue to be spent in repairs, and to the poor of the parishes of Llantrisaint. To Gregory Pagrane the elder of Thopton, co. Norfolk and Alexander Duke of Woodrising, £15 each. The residue of his goods, lands and chattels to his feoffees for his school, to purchase lands to remain in perpetual feoffment for the school to provide fellowships to the University of Oxford. Testator nominates his friends Gregory Pagrane the Elder and Alexander Duke his executors. Endorsed with a list of names.