of Ludlow, &c, "be hereafter appointed within the said chapel of 1827. "Saint Leonard. I do give and bequeath unto Ed- CORPORATION "ward Foxe, my brother, and Edmund Foxe, my son, "two of the executors of my last will and testament GREENHOUSE "and to their heirs and assigns for ever, all those "four messuages or burgages, and all lands, tene"ments, and hereditaments, with their appurte nances, &c. in the city of Worcester and suburbs "thereof, &c. being now of the rent or value of "81. by the year; upon condition and to the end "that the said Edward and Edmund or their heirs "shall within the space of three years next after my "decease (if in my life time the same be not to those uses by me conveyed and assured) by their suffi"cient deed lawfully and duly executed enfeoff some "three, four or more of my next name and kindred of my body descending; and in default of them some "others with them and their heirs, of and in the "said messuages, lands, tenements, rents, reversions, and hereditaments in Worcester aforesaid, and suburbs thereof; to the uses and in"tents hereinafter limited and appointed-viz., "That he or they to whom such feoffment shall be "made, and their heirs, shall stand seized of the "same lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and "out of the rents, issues, and profits thereof from "time to time shall yearly pay unto the said four "poor or impotent persons for the time being that "shall be placed or allowed in the said new hospital or almshouse, 47. to be equally divided between "them quarterly in four terms or times in the year; " and moreover, shall yearly pay unto the curate or "chaplain of Ludlow for the time being, or to some "other sufficient chaplain or minister, to read and say to the poor there divine service at certain times and others. 1827. CORPORATION V. and others. “in the week, as shall be appointed, 408., and shall "also pay and give yearly unto some sufficient and of Ludlow, &c. "learned preacher, for a sermon to be made and GREENHOUSE C preached in the said Chapel of Saint Leonard's "yearly, at some convenient time within the feast "of Christmas, 6s. 8d., and other 6s. 8d. for a like " sermon to be made and preached in the said chapel yearly in the time of Lent, for the better edifying "and instructing of the said poor and such other people as shall then resort thither. And touching the "residue of the said rents of the premises shall re"main and be employed as and for the necessary "repairing the said almshouses and chapel of Saint "Leonard's from time to time, as need and occasion "shall require; and for levying and gathering the "said rents yearly and other necessary charges. And "that the said feoffees and their heirs and the sur"vivors and survivor, of them shall yearly make "account unto the churchwardens of Bromfield, "how the profits and revenues thereof have been "defrayed, and what surplusage remaineth to pay "and deliver unto the churchwardens of Brom"field aforesaid, and their order to be taken how the "said surplus if any be shall be employed and be"stowed, by the advice of the Vicar of Bromfield "aforesaid for the time being. And I give also two "bells which I have in my soller at Bromfield, to be "hanged up in the steeple of the said chapel to ring "into service when any is there said, and there to "remain for evermore." 2d April 1593. The testator died shortly after the date of this will, leaving Charles Foxe, of Bromfield, his heir at law, and Edward Foxe and Edmund Foxe proved, and took upon themselves, the execution of the will. "By Indenture of the 2nd April 1593, between 1827. บ. and others. "Edward Foxe and Edmund Foxe (executors of the "testator) of the first part, Charles Foxe son and heir CORPORATION "at law of the testator, Roger Foxe, Richard Foxe, -of Ludlow, &c. "and Francis Foxe, the three sons of the last named GREENHOUSE "Charles Foxe, of the second part; Edward Foxe "and Henry Foxe, younger sons of the testator, of "the third part; and Charles Foxe, son and heir ap"parent of Edmund Foxe, of the fourth part. The "first-mentioned Edward and Edmund Foxe, in per"formance of the will of the testator, granted, en"feoffed, and confirmed unto the several parties of "the second, third, and fourth parts, together with "the said burgages in the city of Worcester, all "those messuages, lands, and tenements, with the appurtenances, situate in or near Ludlow, near to "the chapel of Saint Leonard, in a street there called "Corve-street, on which the testator in his life time " erected four almshouses, for four poor impotent and needy persons to be therein maintained and re"lieved for ever; and also the said chapel of Saint "Leonard, and the land, ground, and soyle of the "same messuages, lands, tenements, and chapel, "and all other houses, &c. of the said testator, by "the testator devised or assured unto his executors "for the use benefit and relief of four poor impotent persons, to hold the same unto the several parties "thereto of the second, third, and fourth parts, their "heirs and assigns for ever, upon trust nevertheless, "that they and the survivors and survivor and his "and their heirs should perform, fulfil and accomplish all and singular the articles, orders, and or"dinances mentioned in the schedule quadripartite "indented thereunto annexed, and according to the "true intent and meaning of the same, and of the "now reciting indenture." The articles and ordinances made the 2nd day of 24 April 1593 .v. .and others. 1 1827. April, 1593, by Charles Foxe (the testator's son and CORPORATION heir) and Edward Foxe and Edmund Foxe (the tes.of Ludlow,&c. tator's executors) concerning the trust by the heir GREENHOUSE and executors of the testator reposed in the feoffees, and the yearly issues of the lands and hereditaments, and for the order and government of the almshouses, and of the manner and order of divine service to be had and celebrated in the chapel of Saint Leonard's, contain the following regulations and directions: “First we doe order and appoint that when and so "often as it shall fortune all the said feoffees except "three, to decease that soe often within six months tr next after such decease or deceases, the said three “survivors of the same feoffees shall by good and "sufficient conveyance convey and assure unto the "like number of the next of name and kindred of "the body of the said Charles Foxe deceased (as the "said feoffees soe happening to decease were of) the "said lands tenements hereditaments and premises "with the appurtenances to have to the use and be"hoof of the same new feoffees or persons to whom "the premises shall be soe conveyed or assured, and "of the said surviving feoffees that shall convey and "assure the premises and to the heirs and assigns of "the said persons conveying and assuring the pre"mises and of the persons to whom the same shall "be soe conveyed and assured Nevertheless upon "like trust and confidence as is by these presents "hereunto annexed by us reposed touching the pre"mises in the said Edward Foxe the younger and "his said feoffees And that the like order be ob"served and kept from time to time for ever after 66 by the survivor or survivors of the new feoffees for "the time being and of his and their heirs for ever "for and concerning the conveying and assuring the "premises with the appurtenances to other feoffees 1827. CORPORATION and others. "and to their heirs and assigns for ever to their proper uses and behoofes Nevertheless upon like "trust and confidence as aforesaid and not other- of Ludlow, &c. "wise nor upon any other consideration the costs GREENHOUSE " of which said conveyance to be of the premises from "time to time hereafter for ever made and done as "aforesaid shall be defrayed out of the yearly rents "Then wee doe also ordain that there shall be con"tinually for ever hereafter sustained maintained "founde and kept within the said messuages "mentioned in the said recited indenture soe "erected founded and intended, for an almeshouse "foure poor needy and impotent persons, of the "yearly rents issues and profits of the premises as "hereafter shall be declared which foure poor per sons shall be from time to time appointed nomi"nated and placed there by the said Charles Foxe "sone and heir apparent of the said Charles Foxe "deceased Edward the elder and the said Edmund "or the greater number of them and by the survi"vor of them during their natural lives and the "longer liver of them and after the deceases of the "said Charles Edward the elder and the said Ed"mund and the survivor of them shall be from time "to time afterwards for ever placed nominated and appointed by the heirs males of the body of the said "Charles Foxe sonne and heir apparent of the said "Charles Foxe deceased lawfully begotten and for "want of such issue by the heirs males of the body "of the said Charles Foxe deceased and for want of "such issue by the right heirs of the said Charles "Foxe deceased for ever and which poor persons "and every of them shall there dayly serve God de"voutly in holy prayer and divine service and shall "repaire unto the said chappell for hearing of the "said divine service and sermons and as often as |