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Kynnesman Memorial

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In Memory

of the worthy Benefactor RICHARD KYNNESMAN late of Broughton in this County Esq who in Consideration of the Small Value of this Living and for the better Support of the Vicar he bequeathed by Will a Close in the Lordship of Cransley in this County upwards of two Hundred Pounds in Value in Trust by which was procured two Hundred Pounds of the Royal Bounty of her late Majesty QUEEN ANN (of Blessed Memory) which was laid out in the Purchase of Forty Acres of Land in the Lordship of Little Catworth in the County of Huntingdon Which together with the said Close are vested in Trustees as a perpetual Augmentation for the Benefit of the Vicar of this Church. And this Inscription is here placed as a perpetual Monument of such Munificent and united Benefactions.

Robert Iliffe
John Dexter
{ Gent }Church
Wardens
A.D.1767