SCHOOLS 



^40 to be paid yearly to the master and j£io to 

 the mistress. In 1867 there were 38 boys and 

 no girls, and £42 was paid to the master. 



Hundon School. — Founded by James Vernon, 

 who by deed (8 April, 1737) granted a rent 

 charge of ^32 on lands in Wickhambrook to 

 trustees, the surplus of which, after various pay- 

 ments, was to be laid out in teaching poor boys 

 to read and write and poor girls to read, knit, 

 and sew. From this j£io a year was paid to 

 the master of a school in Hundon for teaching 

 16 poor children. 



Coddenham School. — Lady Catherine Garde- 

 man by deed (31 May, 1753), conveyed to 

 trustees land in Mendlesham and Earl Ston- 

 ham for teaching 15 poor boys the three 



R's and 15 poor girls to read, write, knit, 

 and sew. 



Holton St. Mary Charity School. — The 

 'Town Pightle' was demised in 1755 by the 

 then churchwardens and overseers of the poor to 

 the Rev. Stephen White, the rector, to hold for 

 the use of the school. It was established and 

 endowed by him and other subscribers, including 

 £3 3 s - a Y tZT fr° m Corpus Christi College, 

 Cambridge. 



Barrow. — The town estate was vested in 

 trustees in Henry VIII's reign, and the rents 

 applied for the general use of the parishioners, but 

 about 1790 they were appropriated to finding a 

 schoolmaster, and 24 poor children were taught 

 the three R's and the Church Catechism gratis. 



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