¶Sir Thomas White for this yéere maior and mer|chant tailor, Abr, Fl. ex. I. S. pag 1075. Charitable deeds of sir Thomas White. a woorthie patrone and protector of poore scholers & lerning, renewed or rather erected a college in Oxenford, now called saint Iohns college, before Bernard college. He also erected schooles at Bristow and Reading. Moreouer, this worshipfull citizen in his life time gaue to the citie of Bristow two thou|sand pounds of readie monie to purchase lands, to the yearlie value of one hundred & twentie pounds, for the which it is decreed, that the maior, burgesses and communaltie of Bristow, in the yeare of our Lord 1567, and so yearelie during the tearme of ten yeares then next insuing,A president of monie well emploied af|ter death. should cause to be paid at Bristow, one hundred pounds of lawfull monie. The first eight hundred pounds to be lent to sixtéene poore yoongmen clothiers, & fréemen of the same towne, for the space of ten yeares, fiftie pounds the péece of them, putting sufficient suerties for the same, and at the end of ten yeares, to be lent to other sixteene, at the discretion of the maior, aldermen, and foure of the common councell of the said citie.

Prouision of corne for the poore.The other two hundred pounds to be imploied in the prouision of corne, for the reléefe of the poore of the same citie, for their readie monie, without gaine to be taken. And after the end of ten yeares on the feast daie of saint Bartholomew, which shall be in the yeare of our Lord 1577, at the merchant tailors hall in London, vnto the maior and communaltie of the citie of Yorke, or to their atturnie authorised, an hundred & foure pounds, to be lent vnto foure yoong|men of the said citie of Yorke, fréemen and inhabi|tants (clothiers alwaie to be preferred) that is, to e|uerie of them fiue and twentie pounds, to haue and occupie the same for the tearme of ten yeares, with|out paieng anie thing for the loane, the foure pounds ouerplus of the hundred and foure pounds, at the pleasure of the maior and communaltie for their paines to be taken about the receipts and paiments of the said hundred pounds.

The like order in all points is taken for the deli|uerie of an hundred and foure pounds in the yeare 1578,A perpetuall order of an hundred and foure pounds [...]ent yearelie by course. to the citie of Canturburie. In the yeare 1579 to Reading, 1580 to the companie of the mer|chant tailors, 1581 to Glocester, 1582 to Worce|ster, 1583 to Excester, 1584 to Salisburie, 1585 to Westchester, 1586 to Norwich, 1587 to South|hampton, 1588 to Lincolne, 1589 to Winchester, 1590 to Oxenford, 1591 to Herefordeast, 1592 to Cambridge, 1593 to Shrewesburie, 1594 to Lin, 1595 to Bath, 1596 to Derbie, 1597 to Ipswich, 1598 to Colchester, 1599 to Newcastell. And then to begin againe at Bristow an hundred and foure pounds, the next yeare to the citie of Yorke, and so foorth to euerie of the said cities and townes, in the like order as before: and thus to continue for euer, as in the indentures tripartite more plainelie maie appeare.]