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MEMORIAL
SAMUEL RABANKE of LONDON,
GENTLEMAN, left to the poor of DANBY the yearly sum of SEVENTEEN POUNDS ELEVEN SHILLINGS
charged on certain lands and tenements in DANBY and GREAT BROUGHTON, and payable by the
heirs and assigns of SAMUEL PRUDHOM, in monthly payments, on the ninth day of every month
for ever, at the rate of nine pence per week to each of NINE POOR PERSONS, men or women
of the poorest sort for estate and of the best reporte for good life and conversation, all
of DANBY, unless when there are not nine poor persons there, in which case three may be
chosen out of GLAZEDALE, the said nine persons to be chosen annually on the NINTH DAY OF
DECEMBER, after the distribution for that day, and after a sermon preached on that day at
DANBY CHURCH, by a PREACHER nominated by the heirs of SAMUEL PRUDHOM, whose heirs and
assigns shall pay, out of the said lands and tenements TEN SHILLINGS yearly for ever,
for this annual SERMON; and shall also distribute on that day, after sermon ONE PECK OF
RYE to each of the nine persons who have received the allowance of nine pence weekly
during the year; the election of the nine persons to be supplied in the following year,
shall be made by the heirs and assigns of SAMUEL PRUDHOM, out of a list of eighteen,
whereof six shall be named by the CURATE, six by the CHURCH WARDENS, and six by the
OVERSEERS FOR THE POOR; and if the said heirs and assigns of SAMUEL PRUDHOM fail to
attend on the ninth day of DECEMBER, to make such election, then the nine persons shall
be elected by the CURATE and OVERSEERS.
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Data transcribed by
Jack Parry.
from photography by Colin Hinson