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CHAPTER XV.

WIGHTWICK'S FOUNDATION-ABINGDON SCHOOL.

WIGHTWICK'S benefaction was at the date of the Patent of Foundation still in intention. By an indenture dated June 1, 1625, he granted to his nephew Samuel Wightwick a lease for ninety-nine years of his manors and estates at Marlstone, Thatcham, Bucklebury, and Bowdones, all in Berkshire1; and subsequently, on August 1, 1628, granted a further lease of the same properties for a term of 400 years, to commence at the expiration of the former lease, subject to a yearly payment of £70. To another nephew, Walter Wightwick, he gave like leases, for the same terms, of his property called Quarrels, in the parish of Appleton, Berks, subject to a reserved rent of £30. On August 13, 1628, after decreeing that each of his fellows should receive from his rents £20 yearly, and each scholar £10, he ordained that the rent-holders should pay £500 for the building of chambers in the new College and for the stipend of the Master, ex fundatione sua, viz. £300 for the years 1625, 1626, 1627, at the Michaelmas next coming, another £100 in 1628, O. S. (one moiety on September 29, and the other on March 24), and in 1629 two further instalments of £50 each. The salary of the Master ex fundatione sua was to be £10 a year. Quae omnia, Deo volente, perficientur intra tempus praedictum, viz. intra vicesimum quintum diem Martii anno 1630; adeo ut omnes Socii et Scholares meae fundationis percipient stipendia et pensiones suas in vel a vicesimo quinto die Martii 1630, et postea in perpetuum.' Six weeks later, on Sept. 30, 1628, Wightwick enfeoffed all the lands, whose leases he had granted to his nephews, to Pembroke College, granting it the reserved rents of £70 and £30. These the College still receives. The actual properties, now greatly increased in value, will not come into its possession for another 230 years. The statutes provide for a pro rata reduction of stipends in case of diminution in the income of the foundation. In his will, made Jan. 11, 168, a few days before his death,

1 The Marlstone property (625 acres) is now in the hands of Messrs. Huntley and Palmer.