'Copy of J. Knill's Trust Deed in the Oaken Chest in the Custom House at St. Ives'

P91/25/1

'Copy of J. Knill's Trust Deed in the Oaken Chest in the Custom House at St. Ives'

29 May 1797

Bargain and Sale.

(i) John Knill of St. Ives, then Grays Inn, Middlesex, esq.

(ii) The Mayor and Capital Burgesses of St. Ives

- annuity of £10 from manor of Glivian alias Glivian Richard, in the parish of Mawgan and all (i)'s lands there. Anuity payable to (ii) at Town Hall on 24 June at noon. (ii) to pay it to the Mayor, the collector of customs in port of St. Ives, Lecturer in the Church of St. Ives or the Vicar if resident, if not to the Curate. Annuity to be deposited by all these in a small chest of iron or oak bound with iron secured by three locks. Keys to be kept by Mayor, Collector of the Customs and Lecturer (or Vicar or Curate) Chest to be paid for from annuity and to be in the custody of the Mayor. Half of annuity for repair and support of a mausoleum erected in 1782 by John Knill on Worwas Hill in Worwas in Lelant on land bought of Henry Lord Arundel of Wardour and for providing new lightening conductor. Other half of annuity to be saved for five years to make £25. On 25 July (Feast of St. James the Apostle) every sixth year £10 of this £25 to be laid out for a dinner for the Mayor, Collector of Customs, Lecturer etc. and no more than six guests at some tavern or public house in the borough. £15 residue to be distributed as follows. £5 to be given to ten girls of St. Ives each over 10 and daughters of seamen, fishermen or tinners who between 10 a.m. and noon on 25 July are to dance 'for the space of one quarter of an hour at least' on the ground adjoining the Mausoleum and after the dance 'sing the hundreth Psalm of the Old Version to the fine old tune to which the same is now sung in the Church of St. Ives'. Each girl to receive 10 shillings. £1 to be given to a fiddler to play for the dancing and singing and to play before the girls on their return to the borough. £2 to be given to 2 widows of seamen, fishmen or tinners of the borough of St. Ives of 64 years or upwards 'who shall attend the dancing and singing of the said ten girls and shall certify to the Mayor Collector of the Customs and Lecturer (or Vicar or Curate) for the time being that the same have been performed in the manner and form herein before directed or prescribed and who shall also walk before the said girls on their return into the said borough immediately after the said fiddler'. The sum of £1 to be laid out in purchase of white ribbons for favours or breast knots for the ten girls and two widows and for a cockade for the fiddler to be worn on 25 July and the Sunday following £1 for purchase 'of a book of the best folio Letter Paper bound in vellum' for entering the proceeding of five of the Quinquennial Feasts ... 'every such Book to be of uniform size and binding marked with its proper number and to be kept and preserved as clean as may be in the Chest ..'. £1 to clerk or writer (who shall be the Clerk to the Collector of Customs) to enter up the proceeding in the book).

Remainder of £5 to be paid to man and his wife (or widower or widow) being of 60 years or more, the man being an inhabitant, of the borough and having been a seaman, fisherman, tinner or labourer who without any assistant from from the poor rate shall have bred up to ten years the greatest number of legitimate children. If Feast of St. James fell on a Sunday dinner etc. to take place on Monday following. If £100 accumulated £50 always to remain for repair of Mausoleum. £10 (when £100 accumulated) to be paid to such a woman being a native fo St. Ives who shall have married seaman, fisherman, tinner or labourer (an inhabitant of St. Ives) between previous 31st December and 26th is not over 36 or under 20, who is most worthy and deserving 'particular regard being had in the choice or selection of such woman to her duty and kindness to her parents or to the relations or friends who shall have brought her up'. (Mayor, Collector, Lecturer etc. or two of them to decide. £5 when £100 accumulated) to such woman of any age single or married, being an inhabitant of St. Ives as shall be judged by Mayor, Collector Lecturer etc. or two of them 'be the best knitter of Dungarvon or any other kind of fishing net used for the taking of pilchards or any other kind of fish' for the time being be most encouraged by counties from the legislature'. £5 to woman judged (as before) to be best packer and curer for exportation of pilchards or other fish encourated etc. £5 to two boys who in fishing season before 25 July shall row in a 'boat called the Follower which attends ecery boat which carries a seine or a large net employed in the taking of pilchards and other fish as shall be judged (as before) to be the most worthy and deserving thereof'. £25 residue to be distributed among Friendly Societies existing in St. Ives in equal shares. If there is not one such society money to be distributed to ten poor persons, five men and five women aged 64 or more not in receipt of assistance from the poor rate.

English

Note to say copy compared with original deed 7 October 1846 by the Revd. A. Ellis, M.A., one of the trustees. (On one of the covers is written 'Rev. S. A. Ellis, St. Ives Parsonage').