SCHOOLS 



a school there, towards the education of poor children in the knowledge and fear of God, and 

 good literature and letters. This endowment of about £\^ yearly is applied to All Saints' and 

 St. Peter's National School, seating 112, and built in 1872. 



Arthingworth. — The foundation of this school and an endowment of 24 acres of land 

 are ascribed to Wm. Marriott, who died in 1733. The Charity Commissioners formulated 

 a scheme for regulating the school in i860 ; and in 1900 the old buildings were sold and the 

 proceeds applied towards the cost of the new school, then built, which seats 42, and is a 

 church school. 



Aynho. — The former free grammar school here, founded in 167 1 by Richard 

 Cartwright, in performance of the will of Dame Mary Cartwright of 1654, was converted 

 into the Cartwright Exhibition Fund by a scheme under the Endowed Schools Act, 16 May, 

 1893. The endowment, consisting of a yearly rent-charge of ;r20 and a sum in consols 

 arising from the sale of the grammar school buildings, is applied to the national school, built 

 in 1903, and seating 151. 



Barby. — It has been customary since 1795 to apply for education about ;^8o yearly, 

 a portion of the income of the Barby Town Lands, a foundation made under an ancient 

 grant and regulated by a decree of the Commissioners of Charitable Uses, 7 October, 

 5 Chas. I. This is applied to the present church school, built in the churchyard by public 

 subscription about 1863, and enlarged 1876, seating 113. 



Barnwell St. Andrew. — By deed of 6 May, 2 Jas. I, the Rev. Nicholas Latham, rector 

 of Barnwell, settled lands upon trust inter alia for 4 schools in Barnwell — St. Andrew, Brigstock, 

 VVeekley or Warbeton, and Hemington or Luddington — and a boys' school was established in 

 Barnwell and supported out of this endowment. In 1838 Wm. Bigley founded a girls' school 

 with an endowment, now ^^746 17J. lod. consols, and gave the Latham school a further 

 endowment of ;^86o i2j. ^d. consols. New premises for both these schools were built in 

 1874 by the fifth duke of Buccleuch. They are under Charity Commissioners' schemes of 

 1877 and 1900. 



Benefield. — By willof the Rev. Francis Broade of 1783 the income of ;^300 consols 

 was bequeathed for education in this parish, and is applied to the national school, seating 124, 

 founded in 1820 and rebuilt in 1903. 



Blakesley. — Foxley's School for boys, seating 39, was founded by Wm. Foxley, who, 

 by will, I January, 1669, devised lands to support a schoolmaster to teach a grammar school 

 for boys at Blakesley. Under Chancery scheme of 30 December, 1847, the school was made 

 elementary. 



Blisworth. — For the origin of the endowed school here, a fifteenth-century grammar 

 school, and its history, see above among grammar schools. 



Braunston. — William Makepeace, by will of 2 May, 1733, devised a 'quartern of a 

 yard land ' upon trust for education. In lieu of this land an allotment of 14 a. 2 r. 32 p. was 

 made on the enclosure of the lands of the parish. The school, which was founded in 1733, 

 has been rebuilt, 1846 and 1867, is national, and seats 220. 



Brigstock. — Latham's Charity School seats 200, and was founded by the Rev. Nicholas 

 Latham, who, by will of 6 April, 1620, devised lands in Ringstead to the warden of his 

 hospital in Barnwell St. Andrew, upon trust inter alia that he should pay out of the rents 

 ;^io yearly to a schoolmaster for teaching poor children to read in the town of Brigstock, for 

 which purpose he also gave a house in Brigstock called the Town House. By an Inquisition 

 under a Commission of Charitable Uses of 4 September, 25 (or 24) Chas. II, it was found 

 that one Brown had 70 years before given some land for the maintenance of a Latin school 

 in Brigstock. The land so given was exchanged for other lands on the enclosure in 1799. 

 In 1870 the school received ^^30 yearly from the Barnwell Hospital. 



Brixworth. — The national school seats 243. By deed of 14 September, 1665, 

 Thomas Roe conveyed lands to trustees to pay to the schoolmaster in Scaldwell ^Tio yearly, 

 being the rent of lands demised for 99 years from 13 September, 1665. On the enclosure in 

 1780 an allotment of 24 a. or. 31 p. was made in lieu of the original land, the rent of which 

 proving in time sufficient for the support of two schoolmasters, the inhabitants of Scaldwell 

 and Brixworth, by indentures of 5 and 6 June, 1822, directed that one half should be paid to 

 the master of the school at the Town House in Scaldwell, and the other to the schoolmaster of 

 Brixworth. The endowments are the subject of a scheme of the Charity Commissioners of 

 9 July, 1897. 



Burton Latimer. — The endowed and infants' school, national, seats 650. Elizabeth 

 Margaret Burbauld, by deed of i June, 23 Eliz., settled lands to the use of a schoolmaster to 



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