A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK 



the trustees of the charity school for teaching 

 5 poor boys with the partakers of Calthorpe's 

 charity. These 1 1 boys received an elementary 

 education with other scholars whom the master 

 was allowed to take in 1829, but in 1867 there 

 were 32 boys receiving education free, 10 of 

 whom were also boarded and clothed. 



Hai.esworth. — A sum of £2 a year is paid 

 out of the rents of the town-lands to the master 

 of a school for teaching 6 poor children to read 

 and spell from £60 given by Thomas Neale for 

 the education of poor children in 1700. A 

 further educational charity was made by Richard 

 Porter, who by will (2 June, 1 701) directed that 

 a schoolmaster and schooldame should be ap- 

 pointed by the churchwardens of the parish to 

 teach not more than 20 boys and 20 girls. 



Hacheston School. — By will (2 June, 1701) 

 Richard Porter directed that a schoolmaster 

 should be appointed by the churchwardens and 

 chief inhabitants, and have ^I2a year for teach- 

 ing 1 2 poor boys whose parents should not be 

 worth /"30. The schoolmaster received an 

 annuity of j£i2 from the Earl of Rochford, the 

 owner of the property charged in the will. 



Kelsale School. — The estates of the Kelsale 

 Charity have arisen under many different old 

 grants and surrenders, the trusts or purposes of 

 which cannot be distinctly ascertained. In 1 7 14 

 on a surrender of copyholds, trusts were declared 

 of an annual sum, not exceeding £30, to a school- 

 master within the parish to teach the boys of the 

 parish. A general deed of trust, made in August, 

 1765, comprising the freeholds, declared that 

 the rents should be employed for maintaining a 

 school in which 10 of the poorest children should 

 be educated in writing, casting accounts, or 

 grammar learning, or to maintain such of the 

 grammar scholars at Cambridge as the trustees 

 should think fit, and allowing the schoolmaster 

 jTi6 a year. The salary of the schoolmaster is 

 ^50 a year, and there were about 87 children 

 in the school in 1829, which had decreased to 

 71 in 1867. 



Laxfield — John Smith's Charity. — By 

 will (25 June, I 7 18) John Smith devised all his 

 lands in Laxfield on trust, the rents at first to 

 be applied to building a schoolhouse, and £40 

 a year to be paid to a schoolmaster, who should 

 have no preferment in the church, to teach 20 

 poor boys the three R's. The trustees for some 

 time also allowed £5 a year to a schoolmistress 

 for teaching 12 poor girls to read, knit, and sew. 



Sibton School. — John Scrivenerand Dorothea 

 his sister, by deed (17 March, 17 19) settled an 

 estate in Sibton and Peasenhall, half the rents of 

 which were to be employed for building a school 

 for teaching poor children, in the English tongue, 

 writing and arithmetic. There was a school- 

 room in 1867, in which 12 boys and 12 girls 

 were taught by a schoolmaster and schoolmistress 

 gratis, out of 74 boys and 47 girls who were in 

 the school. 



Rougham School. — Edward Sparke, by will 

 (27 August, 1720), devised his estate at Thurs- 

 ton to the charity school at Rougham, that 

 4 poor children from Thurston should be taught at 

 the school, and he gave all his land in Rougham 

 to the school. The income was about £47 a 

 year ; there was a house for the master with 

 schoolroom, and he taught the three R's to 

 8 boys from Rougham and 4 from Thurs- 

 ton gratis in 1829, but in 1867 there were 

 20 boys. 



Whepstead — Sparke's Charity. — Thomas 

 Sparke, by will (10 June, 1721) devised a copy- 

 hold estate, the rents to be applied for the school- 

 ing of poor children in the parish. There were 

 usually from 8 to 12 children taught in the school 

 as free scholars. 



Laxfield — Ward's Charity. — Mrs. Ann 

 Ward, by will (2 August, I 7 2 1 ), directed that 

 £20 a year from the income of her estate 

 should be applied towards the education of 

 10 poor children, boys and girls, in Laxfield. 

 j£20 was paid to a schoolmaster for teaching 

 10 boys to read and write, and £10 to a school- 

 mistress for teaching 10 girls, who were taught 

 with the Smith's charity girls. 



Sudbury National School. — Susan Girling, 

 by will (13 October, 1724,) devised to trustees 

 lands in Suffolk to apply the rents for teaching 

 poor children of Sudbury. In 1747 a subscrip- 

 tion was raised for building a school and ex- 

 tending the benefit of the charity to girls. In 

 1775 the Rev. William Maleham bequeathed 

 ^50 to the schools. The school for girls wa> 

 conducted on the national school system, and 

 there were about 1 50 scholars. The master had 

 the use of the dwelling-house and a salary of £ I 2 

 a year. In the other school 1 2 poor girls were 

 taught reading and sewing by a mistress who 

 had a house and £6 a year. In 1867 there 

 were 90 boys who paid 2d. and 87 girls who 

 paid id. a week. 



Blundeston School. — By will (3 June, 1 726), 

 the Rev. Gregory Clarke devised a house and 

 lands in trust to apply the rents to the payment 

 of a schoolmaster. 



Benhall — Duke's Charity School. — By 

 will, dated in 1731, Sir Edward Duke desired 

 his executors to settle j£ 1,000 for the main- 

 tenance of a schoolmaster to teach poor children 

 to read and write. William Corbold by will 

 (29 April, 1746) devised land from the rents 

 of which j£5 a year was to be paid for 4 poor 

 boys from Saxmundham to go to the free school 

 at Benhall, and this sum was paid to the school- 

 master. In 1867 there were 34 boys and 

 33 girls in the school. 



Hoxne Free School. — Thomas Maynard, 

 by will (8 June, 1734) devised his real estate 

 in Hoxne upon trust to lay out a sum from 

 £200 to ^300 on a house for a schoolmaster 

 and mistress to teach, free, all such boys and 

 girls of the parish as should be sent to them, 



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