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poor children, and Mr. Tryon Still, as his father’s heir, claimed the 
right of selecting the master or mistress and of paying the £10 
yearly to any master or mistress in Mere for instructing as many 
children as he thought fit. or many years the number was ten, 
always boys, who were sent to any master or mistress keeping school 
who would undertake to instruct them for the money. Their age 
when sent was from 8 to 13, and they remained about three years. 
The schoolmaster for many years was Charles Glover, who had from 
twenty to thirty other scholars. After the National School was 
established the £10 was paid annually up to 1861, to the funds of 
that institution by the Still family, as the representatives of Dr. 
Tatum, since which date payment has been refused, and the £200 
never having been invested the charity is lost. 
Micuat Harprinea’s Grrr. 
Michal Harding, spinster, by her will, dated 24th March, 1736-7, 
desired that £30 might be settled and the interest paid to six old 
maids of Mere, a crown each. The capital sum was never settled, 
but her sister, Ann Kitcatt, paid £1 10s. yearly out of a close of 
ground situate at a place called the Sands, in Warminster, and her 
successors, by an indenture, dated 21st December, 1788, conveyed 
to Henry Hindley and Stephen Butt, of Mere, the said land, with 
this condition, that the 30s. was to be paid for ever on the 25th of 
_ December, yearly to six old maids of Mere. Mr. Hindley received 
the annuity up to the end of 1807, and distributed it accordingly. 
The lands were then sold, and the purchaser—Harriet Reeves— 
_ refused to pay the rent-charge because the deed creating it was not 
enrolled and therefore it could not be enforced. 
Srr Marruzew AnprReEws’ CuHariry. 
Sir Matthew Andrews’ Knt., who died 1711, left by will an 
estate at Wolverton, in the parish of Mere, then valued at £50 per 
annum, for the endowment of a free school, but his son, Mr. Henry 
Andrews, availed himself of the Act of Mortmain and refused to 
-earry out his father’s wish. Sir Matthew Andrews erected a school- 
hhouse in the town of Mere, and Mr. John Hill was appointed 
