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St. Hilary Parish News, 1700s & 1800s
Transcribed from a Parish Register
Mrs Amy Hill by her will dated the 26th of Feb 1750?
gave 50 [pounds] to the poor of the parish of St Hilary to be laid out
in farm land and the income to be paid to the poor forever. The 9th of
May 1754 Mr Robert Millett paid the sum into the hands of the Rev. John
Penneck the vicar of St Hilary who gave a receipt for the same, wch was
also signed by the Churchwarden & --------?
On Saturday August 20th 1796 at 20 min past 2 o'clock P.M. a slight
shock of an earthquake was felt at St Hilary, which lasted about 2 or 3
seconds being in the middle space of a rumbling noise which attended it,
and which lasted 6 or 7 seconds. The motion was from east to west. The
air was still. The thermometer at 70.
Inhabitants of the parish of St Hilary 1801 when the people were
numbered through the Kingdom by Act of Parliament 996. In 1811 Do 1248.
In 1821 - 1550. In 1831 - 1728.
A copy of a clause in the will of the Rev'd John Penneck, Vicar of St
Hilary & Chancellor of St Peters in Exeter, dated 2d July 1723, & proved
22d May 1724 by Mary Penneck widow & sole executrix in the said will.
Item - I give the sum of one hundred pounds of lawful money of great
Britain to be put out at interest, six months after my decease, as a
fund for the use of poor of the said Parish of St Hilary; and the income
and interest thereof, yearly & every year, to be distributed & applied
in manner & form hereafter is pressed; that is to say, my will &
pleasure is; that whoever of my family shall have Tregembo that he, or
anyone empowered under his hand & seal the poor of the sd Parish of St
Hilary, the Churchwardens & overseers of the poor of the sd Parish for
the time being, shall have this one hundred pounds & and take care to
put out & manage the same at interest, & for the best advantage, from
time to time, for the purposes hereafter mentioned, that is to say, that
they shall yearly & every year forever, (cont)
(cont) two days before Xtmas, distribute the interest of this
one hundred pounds amongst the poorest house keepers of the sd parish of
St Hilary that shall frequent the Church & receive no alms, nor any
manner of allowances from the sd Parish; or else, that they do apply &
bestow the same for teaching & instructing the poor children of the sd
Parish to read, learn the Church Catechism & cost accounts, as they, or
the major part of them, (reckoning the Churchwardens & overseers of the
poor always but as one voice) shall from time to time ____ may
themselves determine & think most proper. And I hope they will be
diligent, and due care be taken to put out the sd one hundred pounds
hereby given upon good & sufficient securities from time to time that it
may be continued & applied forever to either the poor or the other
purposes aforesd & for none other.
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