28 MEMORANDA BV TITUS WHEATCROFT, A.D. 1 722. 



which is to be given on S. Margaret's Day, being the 20th 

 of July, and the other half on S. John's Day, December 27th. 



[This is obviously the same charity which is altributed to George Bower 

 on the Donation Board. — Ed.] 



There is another piece of land left by one Richard Hodg- 

 kinson, of Greenhouse, called by the name of ' The Nether Salt 

 Well,' to the use of the schoolmaster of Ashover, for the teaching 

 yearly two poor children. This money is twenty shillings a year, 

 to be paid to the churchwardens on the 1 5th day of December. 

 The said Richard Hodgkinson deceased in the year 1673.'' 



[This date does not coincide with that on the Benefaction Board, 

 " 1780," but the latter must be wrong. — Ed.] 



There is also another parcel of land left by one Capt. 

 Saml. Sleigh, of Nether Northidge, in the year 1688, called by 

 the name of the ' King's Lant,' of the sum of ^5 a year. 



There is likewise another parcel of land left to the use of 

 this Schoolmaster by the same Capt. Saml. Sleigh, of Northidge, 

 in the year 1688, of ^^5 a year, of which one part of it 

 (20 shill. a year) lies at Northidge, in the possession (? occu- 

 pation) of Sir Windsor Hunlock, Bart., and ^^4 a year lies 

 at Wessington, in the parish of Crich, in the possession of the 

 Mathers, who are tenants under one Mr. Sleigh, at London. 



[Mr. Sleigh's will is dated March 2, 1684, according to the Benefaction 

 Board, on which this charity is recorded at greater length. — Ed.] 



Another parcel of land, left by Thomas Calton, of Overton, 

 to be paid yearly out of it five shillings on S. Thomas' 

 Day, and given to the poore people in Mill Town Quarter. 

 This parcel of land is called by the name of y* Long Croft. 

 The aforesaid Thomas Calton deceased in the year 17 15. 



' The will of Richard Hodgkinson, of the Chauntry House in Ashover, 

 dated 1612. This said Richard, by will, left 20s. per ann. to the poor 

 of Ashover, payable out of Style Croft, and 20 shill. per ann., payable 

 to the schoolmaster, out of the Nether Salt Well, on the 15th of 

 December. The above now included in lands purchased by Robert Banks 

 Hodgkinson in the year 1 760. 



[From a loose slip of paper written evidently about 40 or 50 years 

 ago, found in Wheatcroft's MS., and secured therein by the Ed.] 



