J. NONNE, Esq. an Assistant Justice, gave 1007.

Mr. WM. CROPLEY, a Chief Burgess, gave a Rent-charge of 51. 4s. to two poor Widows, one of each Parish.

JOHN EARL OF BRISTOL gave 5007. towards the building of the Shambles, aud for such other Uses as the Corporation shall think fit.

SCHOOL-HALL FEOFFMENTS.

KING EDWARD the SIXTH founded the Free Grammar School, and endowed it with certain Lands. He also gave 2001. towards the finishing of St. James's Church.

Mr. EDWARD HEWER, of London, gave certain Houses in Great Botolph's-lane, for the paying of Exhibitions to four Scholars of the same School, when resident at the University.

JOHN SUDBURY, D. D. and Dean of Durham, gave certain Lands in Hepworth, from the Rent of which three poor Boys were to be apprenticed every Year to Masters resident within the Borough, and the Overplus to be paid to the Trustees of the Grammar School, for Exhibitions to Scholars at the University.

OTHER BENEFACTORS.

HOLOFORNES ALLEN, of Barrow, gave a Rent-charge of 40s. per Annum, and the Rent of some Lands in Chevington, to be distributed among the Poor on the North side of the Risby-gatestreet.

WILLIAM LAUSE gave the great Bell in St. Mary's Church.

JOHN PARFREY gave the Bell Meadow, for ringing the said Bell Morning and Evening; and also 47. per Annum towards repairing St. Mary's Church.

Mrs. AGATHA BORROWDALE gave a Rent-charge of 10s. per Anuum for the Poor in St. Mary's Parish.

PENELOPE, COUNTESS of RIVERS, gave a Rent-charge of 81. per Annum for a Sermon to be preached, four times in the Year, against Popery.

Mr. JASPER SHARP, an Assistant Justice, gave the Interest of

3007. for the catechising of the Poor in St. Mary's Parish, and the distributing of Bread to them in the same Manner and Proportion as in St. James's.

John Clarke, Esq. gave a Rent-charge of 117. upon a House in Guildhall-street, to be distributed yearly on the 5th of November to ten poor Widows in each Parish.

Mrs. DOROTHY CALTHORPE gave 5007. the Product thereof to be employed in the apprenticing of Boys.-TRUSTEES: the Alderman for the time being, and the two Preachers.

WILLIAM GRANGER gave a Rent-charge of 50s.-40 of them to be paid to two poor Men in St. Mary's Parish, and 10 to one poor Woman in St. James's.

JOHN SUTTON, Gent. of Staples Inn, London, gave a Rentcharge of 327. upon Lands lying in Brockley, for the Relief of six poor Men in this Town; to each 47. and a Coat of dark grey Cloth.

Mr. EDMUND BRIGHT gave a Rent-charge of 41. per Annum, for the Benefit of the Poor.

ROGER KEDINGTON, Esq. of Rougham, gave 2007. for purchasing Land, to be applied for the apprenticing of poor Children, every two Years, a Boy from Rougham, and from St. Mary's Parish, Bury, alternately.

WILLIAM COOKE, Esq. of Troston, gave two Tenements in the Long Brackland, and some Copyhold Lands of the Manor of Hargrave, for the yearly clothing of four poor Men, two in each Parish.

Mr. RECORDER WELD gave 2007, towards the re-building of St. James's Church.

The three Mrs. CHAMBERLAINS gave 20007. Stock, the Profits thereof for the Relief of poor aged Women, in equal quarterly Payments:-TRUSTEES: the four Town Clergy.

JACOB JOHNSON, Alderman, gave 301. per Ann. to be divided between eight poor Men and eight poor Women. (Half of St. James's and Half of St. Mary's Parish) a Coat or Gown, of dark blue Cloth, to each; 61. yearly to bind two Boys to Trades ; 30s. for Prayers aud a Sermon on the Feast of Innocents; and

the Overplus for teaching Children to write.-TRUSTEES.—The Alderman and Capital Burgesses.

Mr. JOHN CORDER gave a Rent-charge of 21. per Ann. for Bread to the Poor.

Mr. THOMAS SACHE gave a Moiety of the Rent of a House at the Westgate, for the Poor of Bury and Horringer.

Dr. JOHN BATTELEY gave an Estate at Chevington for the Benefit of two poor Men of this Town, of good Lives and Characters, and Members of the Church of England.

Mr. SAMUEL BATTELEY gave the Interest of 1007. for Books and the Instruction of poor Children.

Mr. THOMAS FLETCHER gave six Tenements in Whitingstreet, for the teaching of poor Boys to read, write, and cypher.

Mr. JOHN GIBBON gave a House in the Butter Market, for the clothing of poor People in St. James's Parish who regularly attend Church.

Sir JOHN JAMES gave 10007. 3 per cent. Stock, for Medicines, &c. for the Poor.

THOMAS CRASKE, M. D. gave the Interest of 1007. for the teaching of Boys.

POLEY CLOPTON, M. D. endowed the Hospital called Clopton's Hospital, for the comfortable Maintenance of decayed Housekeepers, three Widowers and three Widows from each Parish.

Mrs. Bowes gave 1007. to the Charity Schools.

ASHLEY PALMER, Esq. gave 50l. to the Charity Schools, 501.to the Sunday School, and 50%. to the Dispensary.

JOHN SPINK, Esq. Alderman, was a Benefactor to the Poor. Mrs. ELIZABETH HALSEY left by her Will 2007. to the Dispensary.

Mrs. ELIZABETH JOHNSTON left 201. to the same.

RICHARD ADAMSON, Esq. left 1007. to the Charity Schools, 100%. to the Sunday School, and 1007. to the Dispensary.

Mrs. MARY LEMAN left 50%. to the Charity Schools, and 501. to the Dispensary.

SIMON CUMBERLAND, Esq. left also 50l. to the Dispensary.

Mrs. JANE ARMIGER left the like Sum for the same Purpose.

APPENDIX, No. II.

ABBOTS

OF

THE MONASTERY.

1. Uvius, otherwise Wyus, Prior of Hulm, made the first Abbot of Bury, by Canute, A. D. 1020, and died in 1044.

2. Leofstanus, succeeded him, and died 1065.

3. Baldwinus, otherwise Baldwin, was his Successor, having been Abbot 32 years, died 1097.

4. Robert, Son of Hugh, Earl of Chester, after a vacancy of three years, was next appointed Abbot, but shortly after degraded, in 1102.

5. Robert, Prior of Westminster, after another vacancy of five years, succeeded him, and died in 1112.

6. Aldoldus, Native of Jerusalem, and a Monk of Beccles, was his successor, and died 1119.

7. Anselm, Nephew of Anselm Archbishop of Canterbury, was chosen Bishop of London in 1138, but not being accepted there, continued Abbot here to his Death, which happened 1148.

8. Ordingus his Successor was Abbot 8 years, and died 1156. 9. Hugh, Prior of Westminster, obtained this Abbacy after him, and died 1180.

10. Sampson de Botington held the Abbacy 31 years, and died 1211.

11. Hugh, the Second, of Northwold in Norfolk, after a Vacancy of 2 years was invested with the Abbacy, from whence he was translated to the Bishoprick of Ely, in 1228.

12. Richard, Abbot of Burton in Staffordshire, was placed in his room: he died 1234.

13. Henry succeeded him, and was Abbot about 15 years, dying in 1248.

14. Edmund de Walpoole, was elected in the same year, and died 1256.

15. Simon de Lutine, or Luton, or Luyton, succeeded after a short vacancy, and died in the 23d year of his Abbacy, 1279. 16. John de Norwold was his successor, and died 1301.

17. Thomas Tottington was the next Abbot, and died 1312. 18. Richard de Draughton was Abbot after him, dying 1335. 19. William de Bernham succeeded him, and died 1361. 20. Henry de Hunstanton was chosen, but died before his Confirmation; whereupon,

21. John de Brinkele became Abbot, and died 1379. 22. John de Tinmouth appointed 1384, and died in 1390. 23. William Cratfield succeeded him, but from indisposition, in 1414, the business of the Abbacy was done by deputation; and, the Monasticon says he resigned four years before his death, which happened in 1418.

24. William Exeter was the next elected, and died in 1429. 25. William Curteys succeeded him, and is supposed to have died in 1445.

26. William Babington appears to have been Abbot in 1447, again in 1453.

27. John Boon, or Bohun, was the next Abbot, and died in 1469. 28. Robert Coote, sometimes called de Ixworth, was Abbot

in 1470, and again in 1473.

29. Richard Hengham was elected on the death of Robert of Ixworth, and died in 1479.

30. Robert Racclesden was his successor.

31. William Codenham appears to have been Abbot in 1497, and again in 1508.

32. William Buntyng was Abbot in 1511.

33. John Reeve, alias Melford, was elected in 1514, and resigned the Abbey on the 4th of Nov. 1539, to King Henry VIII.