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A History of the County of Hampshire
… a society for the relief of the distressed widows and orphans of the victims of the plague. This has continued as …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 26 The town stock consisted of the capital of well-to-do orphans invested on their behalf by the Corporation as …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to widows, and John Smith (d. 1646) specified widows and orphans. The commonest bequest, reflecting Witney's … Joan (d. 1661), half the income to benefit poor widows and orphans of Witney. By his will he left a further 2 for a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… receipts is appropriated to the benefit of the widows and orphans of the poorer clergy of the associated dioceses. …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… do graunt a warrent in this case in regard of the poore orphans or else they are like to perish and unles they be …