6E>2 HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES o*'LEICESTERSHIRE* further sum of five hundred pounds J in the year of our Lord 1693, to the parish of Brcdon : aged 87 years6." the interest of which sums were appointed The benefactions or works of charity and gratitude ' to pay a school-master, for the education of Tobias Rustat, esq. taken Feb. 6, 1684 K of the children of the poor of the said parish of Bredon. A benefaction to the fellows and £. d. She departed this life, about the eighth scholars of St. John the Baptist's col- lege in Oxford, dated 16th of Decem- day of November, MDCCXLV.' ber, 1665, as may appear by the deeds 3. "Influenced in the tower of the said college 1000 by a principle of gratitude td A donation of £1000. to the vice- perpetuate the memory of chancellor, masters, fellows, and scho- his ancestors, lars of the University of Cambridge, Edward Dawson, for the purchase of £50. per annum of Long Whatton, esquire, for ever, to be laid out by them in the • caused this tomb to be erected best and most useful books for the anno Dora. 1774. , piiblic library there, as may appear His great grand-father> by the deeds dated June 1, 1666, 1000 d 6 Edward Dawson^ A purchase of the fee-farm of Wa- late of the fame place, gerit. ter Beech and Denny, being £134. y. was the eldest brother of ' §d. per annum, settled by him for ever John Dawson and Henry Dawson, upon Jesus college in Cambridge (where whose remains are deposited his father was educated), for eight or in a vault underneath." more scholarships, for the sons of de- ceased orthodox clergyman, as by the On a head-stone in the burial-ground of Sr. Mary deeds thereof, dated July 27, 1671j l le bone : may appear, — — 2097 4 o " Rev. Joseph Hooley, vicar of Bredon and Ratby, A purchase of the fee-farm of Nun- and chaplain of Newtown Linford, all in the county of eaton, being £60. per annum, settled Leicester, who died Nov. 29, 1783, aged 74. by him upon six poor orthodox clergy- " Also Mrs. Frances Hooley, .his wife, who died men's widows for ever, as by the deeds, July 30, 1788, aged 71 years." dated April 24, 1672, may appear; ' • the nomination of the widows to be Sir Thomas Cave, in his note's on Bredon, fays, " I by the master and fellows of Jesus col- should suppose Mr. TOBIAS RUSTAT Z to have been a lege, Cambridge, — — 1000 native of the county of Leicester at least, if not a Paid for procuring a mortmain for native of this town ; though, by his epitaph in Jesus Jesus college, Cambridge, and for di- college, Cambridge, his benevolence is said to have vers other great seals and privy seals, been very general and unconfined. However, 1 am for the better securing and confirming willing to adopt him as a Leicestershire man, as his the same settlements, — good qualities make him an exemplary ornament to A free gift towards the rebuilding whatever spot it was that gave him life. He was un- the cathedral church of St. Paul's, der house-keeper of the royal palace of Hampton London, — — •—- 100 o o Court, and yeoman of the robes to his majesty king A free gift for the making and set- Charles the Second, for many years, both in England ting up the statue of his majesty king and in foreign parts. His father was Robert Rustat, Charles the Second on horseback, in rector of Skeffington 3, and grand-father to William brass, in Windsor Castle, IOOO 0 Rustat, vicar of Barrow *, both in this county, and More, for changing the said brass master of St. Magdalen's hospital in Bath. His mo- figure of his majesty, — 300 6 O ther was sister to Robert Snowden bishop of Carlisle. - A free gift to the Corporation of His brother, Theophilus Rustat5, was minister of Clergymen's Sons, — IOO Dalby on the Woulds, and had also a benefice in A free gift to a person who had Lincolnshire. Another brother, Robert, was a major been a great sufferer for loyalty, in the royal army. His portrait is in Jesus college, A free gift towards the building and Cambridge, where he founded eight scholarships at endowing the Hospital Royal in Chel- £50. a year each; and the following sepulchral me- sea May 3d, 1682, — IOOO O morial of him is in the chapel of that college: A free gift to their majesties king " Tobias Rustat, yeoman of the robes Charles, the Second and king James to king Charles the Second ; the Second, of tbeir statues in brass ; whom he served with all duty and faithfulness the former placed upon a pedestal in in his adversity as well as prosperity. the Royal Hospital of Chelsea, and The greatest part of the estate he gathered, the other in Whitehall, — ICOO by God's blessing, the king's favour, and his industry, A free gift of one thousand two he disposed in his life-time in works of charity ; hundred and forty-five pounds, for the and found, the more he bestowed augmentation of poor vicarages in the upon churches, hospitals, universities, and colleges, county of Leicester, — 1245 and upon poor widows and orphans of orthodoxministers, A free gift to his brother major •the more he had at the year's end. Rustat, towards the paying of his Neither was he unmindful of his kindred and relations, debts, contracted in the time of the in making them provisions out of what remained. long rebellion, — 650 He died a bachelor, the 18th day of March, Total 10675 4 * This 506/. is at present part of 1282/. 15/, Old South Sea Annuities j five-elevenths of which are paid to the vicar and churchwardens of Bredon; the remaining six-elevenths to the parish of Hungeifoid in Berkshire. These benefactions are,di- rected to be laid out for the maintenance of a school-master for 16 poor boys; and for a school-mistress and 16 poor girls, flie having a salary of 61. a year.—In 1738, the further sum of 43/. was raised by subscription among the inhabitants of Bredon, Tonge, and Wilston, which was laid out in lands producing 3/. a year towards the mnintuiatue of the school master.—The pre- sent school-master is Mr. Joseph Richards; to whose kind and respectful attention to my researches, when last at Bredon, Aug. 15, 1800, and to the orderly behaviour of his scholars, I have great pleasure in giving this public testimony. 'Ona mural tablet in the chancel of Stutton church, co. Suffolk "The Rev. TOBIAS RUSTAT*, A M. SARAHt relict of WILLIAM PAIGE, esq. upwards of forly-sive years retlor of this parish, late of Frcmingham, in the county of Devon, died Jan. 14, A. D. MDCCXCllI, aged LXXVIl yeara. died Aug. 1, I7OG, aged 66 years." * See vol. III. p. 443 ; where he is by mistake called Rujliet. 4 Ibid. p. 74. i Ibid. p. 257. 6 Le Neve's Monuments Anglicana, vol. 111. p. 148. 7 Peck's Desiderata Curiosa,, Book XIV. Sect. IX. from a MS. communicated by Dr. Zachary Grey. • Rustat, Tobias, Jes. A. B. 1738 ; A. M. 17-12. f Mother ol'Mra. Rustat, who died May 7, 1801. 4 , B11EDON.