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them, for the proper use and behoof of the said Vicar and Rector 
respectively, as an encouragement of their care and pains in their 
sacred function.” 
This Charity is regularly distributed every Christmas, in strict 
conformity with the will of the donor. 
Tue Cuarity ScHoot or Free ScuHoot. 
In a previous page, when giving an account of the Chautries 
connected with the Parish Church, notice was taken of one which 
was held on the condition of keeping a Free School at Bradford. 
It was possibly on account of this provision, that, at the time of 
the Reformation, there was reserved out of the proceeds of the 
estates at Bradford, which had formed part of the property of the 
Monastery of Shaftesbury, a sum of £10 12s. 7d. per annum, {equal 
to at least £100 now,) for the establishment of a School for the 
education of our youth. This endowment was afterwards trans- 
ferred to Salisbury, the Burgesses of that City pleading with 
Queen Elizabeth that Salisbury was a more convenient situation 
for such a School, than ‘the upland Town’ of Bradford, with its 
scanty population, and limited resort of gentlemen and merchants. 
Of the subsequent fate of this endowment we have already given 
an account (p. 43). For many years after its withdrawal (a.p. 
1559,) we had not, as far as our present information extends, any 
provision for the education of the young of any class in Bradford. 
Early in the eighteenth century, a.p. 1710, the Rev. John 
Rogers was appointed Vicar of this Parish, and he at once set to 
work to provide a School for his poorer parishioners. Cox in his 
‘Magna Britannia,’ a work written in the early part of the 
eighteenth century, says,—‘‘A Charity School was opened at Brad- 
ford, Jan. 1712, for sixty-five children, which is much encouraged 
by the Minister of the town. There isa benefaction given since of 
ten pounds, which is applied to the benefit of the School. There 
is another School kept at a Chapel of Ease in this Parish, for ten 
children, and supported by a gift of ten pounds per annum, and 
twenty shillings for books, which last was intended to provide for 
the instruction of all the children within that Tithing; but how it 
was changed we know not.” 
