Summa Expens. Ann. 1636 36 3 6"
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"The Disbursements of Mr. Cranford."
"Item, to Jones, by Mr. Cromwell's consent} 1 0 0"

Mr. Cranford's disbursements show no dates. His receipts immediately
followed Mr. Hand's in point of dates.

About the year 1639 a petition was filed in the Court of Chancery by
one Thomas Fowler, on behalf of himself and others, inhabitants of
Ely, against the feoffees of Parson's Charity, and a commission for
charitable uses was issued. The commissioners sat at Ely, on the 25th
of January, 1641, and at Cambridge on the 3rd of March in the same
year, when several of the feoffees with other persons were examined.

At the conclusion of the joint deposition of John Hand and William
Cranford, two of the feoffees, is the following statement:--

"And as to the Profitts of the said Lands in theire tyme
receaved, they never disposed of any parte thereof but by the
direction and appointment of Mr. Daniell Wigmore, Archdeacon
of Ely, Mr. William March, and Mr. Oliver Cromwell."

"These last two names were inserted att Camb. 8 Mar. 1641, by
Mr. Hy. C."

The last name in the above note is illegible, and the last two names