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| | The City of Coventry: Charities for the poor | British History Online |
 | | James Harwell, by will proved 1630, directed his executor to buy with a sum of £20 land worth £1 a year which should pay for three annual sermons to be preached in St. Michael's Church. |
 | | By the will of James Boydall, one of Smith's trustees, dated 1768, the interest on £200 was to be added to the income of Smith's Charity, and a further £1,060 stock, representing Boydall's bequest and the capital of an annuity charged on Smith's estate, was, by an order of 1774, carried to the charity account. |
 | | James Hewitt, 1st Viscount Lifford, by will proved 1789, bequeathed a yearly rent of £5 to the vicar and churchwardens out of property at Fillongley to be spent on the upkeep of his family vault and the residue distributed among the poor of Cross Cheaping in money, bread, or coals. |
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