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Updated: May 19, 2025
Having provided for the erection of three strong alms-houses, he directed that certain alms-bodies should be periodically chosen, who were to be 'godly poor inhabitants of Lewisham, and being single persons, and threescore years old, past their hard bodily labour, and able to say the Lord's Prayer, the Belief, and the Ten Commandments, &c. &c.
All these alms-bodies were to have '3d. each allowed them every day for their comfortable sustenance that is, 21d. a week to be paid them every month during their single life, and as long as they should behave themselves honestly and godly, and duly frequent the parish church. They were to be summarily removed if guilty of profane or wicked conduct.
The alms-bodies were not to exceed five in number at any one time. He directed a buttery to be built for their convenience, and also a little brick room, with a window in it, for the five alms-bodies to assemble in daily for prayer, and that the schoolmaster of the reading-school should pray with them there.
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