By Deed Poll, dated 23rd February 1630, John Tyler, of Soham, for the love and natural affection which he bore towards the poor inhabitants of the Town, and for the larger and more Liberal sustentation and provision of the poor impotent inhabitants, enfeoffed Samuel Thornton, Esq, and eight others, of three roods of meadow, or pasture, lying near the land belonging to the inhabitants of Soham, called New Close, alias Town Close, on the East,  the South head abutting upon a lane leading towards Drake-street, to hold to them, and their heirs, to the use of himself for life, and after his decease, to the sole behoof and use of the most ancient, impotent, and indigent poor inhabitants of the Town of Soham, for ever.
No subsequent conveyance was produced, and it does not appear in whom the legal estate is vested.
The property consists of three roods of freehold land, in good condition, let to Mr. Thomas Neathercote,  for the same term as Wright's land, at a fair rent of £2. 10s., applied to the use of the poor, in like manner as Bond's gift to them.
The exact origin of this Charity was discovered in the same manner as that of Wright's. The lands of the two being contiguous are let together, and have both for many years been managed by the trustees of Bond's Charity.