- GB-2014-WSA-09262
- Person
- ca. 1623-1695
HILL, RICHARD, son of Nicholas Hill, Oxford; b.; adm.; Min. Can. 1637; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1640, matr. 3 Jul 1640, aged 17, Westminster Student; BA 1644; MA 1646; ejected from Studentship by Parliamentary Visitors 7 Jul 1648, reinstated 1660; ordained; Rector of East Knoyle, Wilts., from 1662; Prebendary of Salisbury from 25 Sep 1666, also Canon Residentiary from 6 Dec 1671; he and Bishop Fell purchased in 1685 certain fee farm rents, conveyed on trust to pay £20 p. a. to a Reader of Prayers in some parish church in Oxford and the residue to the Westminster Students of Christ Church; d. 20 Mar 1694/5.
In 1685 he provided £200 out of a total of £527 5s 6d of the cost of the purchase, jointly with John Fell, Dean of Christ Church and Bishop of Oxford (above), of certain fee farm rents. These were conveyed upon trust to pay £20 a year to a reader of prayers in some parish church in the city of Oxford, and the residue to the Westminster Students at Christ Church. By the ordinances attached to the Christ Church (Oxford) Ordinances Act 1867, the income was directed to be applied, with other funds, towards the maintenance of the Westminster Junior Studentships at Christ Church.