302 _ Bradford-on- Avon. [ Charities. 
“‘The Charity, many years ago, lost the living or estate of Trowle, but whe- 
ther the lives were suffered to die out, or the owner of the fee refused to renew 
them, are points on which we could procure no information; all we could learn 
was, that it had ceased to belong to the Charity prior to 1786.” 
IV. £226 8s. 1d. Stock. No one is able to explain how this 
principal sum arose. The supposition is, that in some way or other 
it was the consideration paid for the interest of the Trustees in the 
Trowle estate. 
V. Srrawsriper’s Girr.—John Strawbridge, of Bradford, by his 
will dated 12 March 1805, gave to the Trustees of this School the 
sum of £400 Three per Cent Consols, to be transferred to them 
immediately after his decease, in trust that they, and the survivors 
of them, and the Trustees or Feoffees for the time being, should 
receive the interest and dividends arising therefrom, and pay the 
same for ever for the benefit of the same School, in such manner 
as the rents and profits of the estates belonging to the same School 
are applied. 
There are thirty-two free Scholars, each of whom is nominated 
by one or other of the Trustees, as vacancies occur. The School- 
master is permitted to take eighteen other scholars who pay him for 
their tuition. 
Ferrett’s Book Cuariry. 
In the year, 1747, John Ferrett, Esq. of London, a native of this 
Town, gave to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, of 
which he was a member, £50, on condition that bibles, common 
prayer books, and other religious books and tracts, to the value 
of 50s. should be annually supplied by the Society to the resident 
minister of the Church at Bradford, to be by him distributed on 
or about the festival of the Nativity, and on condition that the 
Society supplied such books on the same terms they supplied their 
own members, free of all expense whatsoever to the Parish. 
About 1821, the Society being found in arrear to the Parish, it 
was agreed that the value of such arrear should go in augmentation 
of the original fund given by Mr. Ferrett. Since that period, 
books to the value of £4 10s. have been annually sent by the So- 
ciety to the Minister of Bradford for distribution amongst the poor, 
in accordance with the wishes of the Donor. 
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