348 Trust-Deed of the Saxon Church of St. Laurence. 



reversion and inheiitance in fee simple, expectant upon the expiration or other 

 sooner determination of the said term of one thousand years of and in the said 

 premises contained in the first schedule thereunder written, to hold the same 

 premises unto and to the use of the said William Henry Jones, his heirs and 

 assigns for ever so that the term of one thousand years might become merged 

 and extinguished in the freehold and inheritance thereof, and the first schedule 

 referred to in the Indenture now in recital, comprised a messuage, edifice, or 

 building with the appurtenances situate in or near to the Churchyard, in the 

 town and parish of Bradford aforesaid, formerly called or known by the name 

 of the Skull House, many years since converted into and used as a School 

 House, and bounded on or towards the north, south, and east by premises 

 recently purchased by the said William Henry Jones, and numbered on the 

 Tythe Map of the parish of Bradford, with the number 149, and in the book 

 of reference thereto described as house containing three perches and then in the 

 occupation of John Thornton Butt, and used as a school charity, called the 

 •' Bradford Free School," and whereas it is desired that the several premises 

 conveyed by the said Indentures and which together comprise the said Church 

 and the site thereof with the yard thereto adjoining, shall be conveyed to and 

 vested in the parties hereto of the third part, upon and for the trusts and pur- 

 poses hereinafter expressed: — Now this Indenture witnesseth, that, in order to 

 efiectuate the said desired conveyance, he, the said William Henry Jones doth 

 hereby grant and assure unto the said Earl Nelson, his heirs and assigns, all 

 and singular the buildings, messuages, school- house cottages, out-houses, pieces 

 of land, hereditaments, and premises described in the said several hereinbefore 

 recited Indentures, and thereby granted, assigned, and conveyed, or intended 

 so to be, together with the said right of way, and all other ways, and all lights, 

 drains, easements, and appurtenances thereto belonging, or reputed to belong, 

 and all the estate, right, and title, both legal and equitable of the said 

 William Henry Jones therein, to hold the hereditaments and premises hereby 

 granted and assured unto the said Earl Nelson, his heirs and assigns, to the 

 use of the said Earl Nelson, Thomas Boughton Buchanan, Sir Charles Parry 

 Hobhouse, Sir John Wither Awdry, John Henry Parker, Edward Augustus 

 Freeman, Edward Lowry Barnwell, and William Henry Jones, their heirs and 

 assigns for ever, upon and for the trusts and purposes hereinafter expressed 

 (that is to say) the trustees for the time being acting under these presents 

 (hereinafter called "the Trustees") shall when and as they shall have funds at 

 their disposal for the purpose, from time to time restore the said Church, and 

 the site thereof, to their original state, or from time to time restore or alter the 

 same to such state as the Trustees, or the majority of them, shall in their dis- 

 cretion think proper, and shall for ever hold and, so far as they shall have funds 

 at their disposal for the purpose, keep and preserve the said Church, and the 

 Bite thereof, in their restored or altered state, as a memorial of past ages, and 

 for public benefit, and initructton with a due regard always to the object 

 for which the said Church was originally erected, namely, as a place dedi- 

 cated to the worship and service of Almighty God, for which purpos* the 

 Trustees shall permit the same to be used by or by the direction of the Vxcar, 

 for the time being, of the Church of the Holy Trinity, at £radford-on~ 

 Avon, ior such permanent or temporary purposes in connection with the 



