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and kepe my chyldrene, whome I make and ordeayne my executrix, to pay my debts, and to dispose for the wealth of my sowle as she shall thynke most best. Wytnes, S^r John Peerse, prist, for the time curat; Nicholas Orrel, prist; Richard Shippard, with many more, the day of the monthe and yere of our Lord God above wrytten.

A.D. 1560.—Henry Leeke, of Southwark, beerbrewer, by his will dated 12th March, 2 Eliz. (1560), gave out of the rents and profits of certain houses and tenements within the precincts of St. Martin' s-le-Grand, which he held by lease from the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, £20 a year, during the term of the said lease, to be applied as follows:—To the poor of St. Olave's, St. George's, St. Saviour's, and St. Mary Magdalen, £5; towards the maintenance of a free school in St. Saviour's parish, £8; but if, within two years of his death a free school should be built and established in St. Olave's parish, then he gave the same £8 per annum towards the same; to the poor of the city of London, £5; to the preacher for a sermon at St. Olave's, when the money should be distributed, 6s. 8d.; to the parson of St. Olave's seeing the same performed, 6s. 8d.; and to the churchwardens of St. Olave's, for their pains in distributing his legacy, £1. 6s. 8d.

Henry Leeke, citizen and clothworker of London, son of the late-named Henry Leeke, who survived his father only three years, by his will dated 16th September, 1563, desired to be buried in the church of St. Olyve's, Southwerke, of which he was a parishioner; and