46 The Wills of Dame Rachel Speke, &c. 
and free scholars are seldom classed together when taught, but religious 
instruction is given to all alike. 
Complaints appear to have prevailed in the parish to a greater or less extent 
for a considerable time past both with respect to the management of the 
school, and the Charity property. After explanations had taken place between 
the parties concerned, and some misapprehension had been removed, it was 
finally agreed upon that the present schoolmaster should hereafter teach 50 
children instead of 30, that books should be furnished to the annual amount 
of £2. 10.0 and that the children should be appointed by the trustees to be 
nominated in a new trust deed, which was then agreed to be executed. This 
settlement appeared to us to be equally beneficial to all concerned in the 
charity. 
The additional children have been admitted, and are now taught but 
difficulties having been suggested on the part of one of the surviving trustees, 
no new trust deed has been executed. The surviving trustees are J. J. 
Horlock Esq., of Rocks House, near Bath, and Mr. Ed. Webb Solicitor, in 
Bath. 
The Wills of Dame Rachel Speke and the 
Keb. George s#Hiller, 
Since the above letters, and the report intended to illustrate 
them, were in type, a search has been made, with very satisfactory 
results, among the wills proved in the Prerogative Court of 
Canterbury. The will of the ‘‘ Excellent Lady of my Parish .. . 
the Lady Rachell Speke,” has come to light, and the will of the 
good Vicar himself, as follows :— 
‘To all to whom these presents shall come I dame Rachell Speke 
alias Rachell now wife of Richard Musgrave of Haslebury in the 
County of Wilts Esquire.” Whereas by an indenture tripartite 
between her by the name of Dame Rachell Speke, of Haslebury, 
Co. Wilts, widow, of the first part, the Rt. Honble. Thomas Earle, 
of Charboro, Co. Dorset, Esq., Nathaniel Palmer, of Fairfield, Co. 
Somerset, Esq., and William Ettricke, of the Middle Temple, 
London, Esq., of the second part, and Richard Musgrave, then of 
Lyons Inn, Co. Middlesex, Esq., ‘‘ my now husband,” of the third 
part, before her marriage with the said Richard, she did, by his 
consent and agreement, grant and assign to the said Thomas, 
Nathaniel, and William divers manors, &c., for the residue of a 
term of 500 years, which term was made and granted to her for 
securing payment of several annuities payable to her during her 
