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It defined the objects to be—‘poor children, not receiving alms, and 
living within the Borough of Bradford,’ and they were to be taught 
‘reading, writing, and arithmetic.’ 
In the year 1727, it was thought desirable, by the then Trustees 
of the School, to invest this portion of their funds in the purchase 
of land. They accordingly bought a small estate at Holt, consist- 
ing of three closes, containing altogether 94. 3r. 22x. This 
estate is still in the possession of the Trustees of this Charity. 
The purchase money required for this estate was £288,—£38 
more, that is, than the sum bequeathed by Mr. Francis Smith. To 
make up this sum the Trustees borrowed the amount required, from 
another Charity founded in the year 1698 by William Yerbury, 
of Trowbridge, on condition that they should carry out the inten- 
tions of the last-named benefactor, “by paying yearly to the Church- 
wardens and Overseers of the poor of the Parish of Bradford, the 
sum of thirty-eight shillings yearly, to be distributed by them in 
Bread, pursuant to the will of the said William Yerbury.” 
II. £100 stock. This sum was originally part of the produce 
of timber in the Holt estate which was cut down about twenty-five 
years ago. 
III. Wapman’s Girr. From a board relating to bequests to 
the Charity School, now painted over, may be easily deciphered 
the following inscription :— 
“Mr. Edward Wadman, of Wingfield, gave Two Hundred Pounds.” 
With respect to this gift, the Charity Commissioners say :— 
‘“‘From two statements relating to the Charity, both of them in the hand- 
writing of the Rey. John Rogers, then Vicar of Bradford, one of them bearing 
date 1743-4, it appears that Mr. Wadman, of Wingfield, intended to make a 
gift of £200 to the School, but having omitted to mention the same in his will, 
his executors were so satisfied of such being the testator’s intention, that though 
they would not pay the £200, they offered, on being paid £100, to give the 
testator’s living at Trowle, and valued at £300, as an equivalent. 
“Several of the circumstances mentioned with regard to the gifts to the 
School, in Mr. Rogers’s memoranda, do not correspond with the facts set forth 
in the deeds hereinbefore mentioned, but enough appears in them to show that 
the living at Trowle did actually come into possession of the Charity, and that 
the rents and profits of it were for a number of years disposed of by Mr. Rogers 
himself, as Vicar of Bradford,—partly for the benefit of the Schoolmaster,— 
partly to the Overseers of the Poor,—and partly distributed to the poor them- 
selves in bread. 
