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AN EARLY 18TH CENTURY WRITTEN RECORD OF THE DONATION OF WILLIAM MASON, LATE OF THE PARISH OF ST - AN EARLY 18TH CENTURY WRITTEN RECORD OF THE DONATION OF WILLIAM MASON, LATE OF THE PARISH OF ST ANDREWS, SOUTHWARK, CIRCA 1723, handwritten on paper contained in a period ebonised oak hanging frame with inscribed hinged doors. That the interest of the said four hundred pounds given by the said William Mason, deceased, be distributed in January or February annually to such poor housekeepers of this parish, not pensioners, at the discretion of the wardens of the parish...Inscribed on the doors, The Gift of Wm Mason Gent and How Applied. (46cm high 43cm wide )