A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



teach a free grammar school here. A schoolhouse was conveyed to trustees by deed of 

 21 June, 32 EHz., by Wm. Vaux, Lord Harrowden, and George, his son. An annuity of 

 {j is payable to the schoolmaster out of a farm at Burton Leonard, and the school also 

 receives the rent of 7 cottages which were formerly the poor-house belonging to Scott's Charity, 

 founded by Wm. and Agnes Scott about 1514. This school was originally a grammar school : 

 see above among grammar schools. 



Chelveston cum Caldecott. — The endowed school was founded under indentures of 

 12 and 13 June, 1760, by Abigail Bailey and Ann Levett. It seats 104, and was rebuilt 

 1796. 



Cold Ashby. — A school, founded by deed of 1735, was sold in 1867, and a new site, 

 given by the Rev. Wm. Mousley, vicar, in 1867, is now let to the County Council, whose 

 school seats 93. ^36 I is. bd. consols, resulting from the sale of school buildings comprised 

 in a deed of 1735, is held to the credit of the school by the Official Trustees of Charitable 

 Funds. W. Wickes and R. Ward in 1710 and 1736 gave endowments producing £2if 

 yearly. A school board was formed 21 May, 1872. 



CosGROVE. — There was a lace school here of considerable antiquity where girls were 

 taught the art of pillow-lace making. The present national school, built in 1844, seats 98. 



CuLWORTH. — The endowed school, national, seating 89, formerly known as the charity 

 school, was built by Mrs. Merial Danvers before 1795. By deed of 23 November, 1795, 

 Martha Rich and Frances Rich endowed it with a yearly rent-charge of £b^. It also has 

 ;^500 consols arising from accumulations of income. 



Daventry (Borough). — The Abbey School, national, seating 613, is the successor of 

 the charity school, the origin of which is as follows : — Edward Maynard, D.D., by will of 

 20 December, 1736, gave to the corporation of Daventry ;^200 towards maintaining a 

 charity school, which legacy, with another of ;^I0, bequeathed by Wm. Sawbridge in 1719, 

 and donations of ^^40 from Mrs. Shuckburgh, Bromwich, ^10 from Thomas Wilson, ^^50 

 from John Sawbridge, and ;^300 from Thos. Thornton (at the desire of Catherine Combe), were 

 laid out in 1745 with other benefactions in the purchase of lands at Cosford, now known as 

 the Woodford Estate, producing about £120 yearly. Other endowments are : — A rent- 

 charge of £6 yearly under the will of Nathaniel, Lord Crewe, bishop of Durham ; a yearly 

 sum of ;^4 given by Edward Sawbridge in 1772 and payable out of the Boddington Charity 

 Estate ; a sum of ^100 given by Peter Sutch for apprenticing a boy from the school and 

 invested in the Cosford lands; and a sum of ;^io,750 consols held by the Official Trustees 

 of Charitable Funds for the charity school. In 1862 the charity school was without 

 authority incorporated with the national school, and in 1887 new premises were acquired. 



DoDFORD. — Joseph Cook, by will of 12 May, 1779, gave ;^500 for establishing a 

 charity school, and directed that the master should wind up and take care of the clock and 

 chimes in the parish church and ring the scholars' bell. Thos. R. Thornton in 1842 added 

 ;^250, and the total, ;^i,ooo consols, is applied to the church school, built in 1840, and 

 rebuilt 1903, which seats 50. 



DuDDiNGTON. — The Jackson School, seating 78, was built under will of Wm. Jackson, 

 12 November, 1667, and rebuilt 1893. Wm. Jackson also charged a farm at Helpston 

 with a yearly payment of ;^io to the master. 



East Haddon. — Under an Enclosure Act of 1774, certain lands were allotted upon 

 trust inter alia for teaching poor children to read and write. The school, built by H. B. Saw- 

 bridge, esq., in 185 1, seats 127. 



Easton. — Garford's Charity School, boys, national, seating 128, rebuilt in 1867, was 

 founded by Richard Garford, who, by will of 24 May, 1 670, devised 3 messuages in Crutched 

 Friars, London, for teaching and apprenticing 4 boys. In 1766 Brownlow, earl of Exeter, 

 gave a house and garden for the school, and a piece of land was also given on the enclosure 

 in 1818. 



FiNEDON. — Sir Richard Walker, by will of 1580, gave ;f500 for building and endowing 

 a school. The building of the boys' school dates from 1595, and about 45 acres of land 

 were purchased for its maintenance under a Chancery Decree of 1632. The girls' and 

 infants' schools were established in 1 714 as a charity school. Sir Gilbert Dolben being the 

 principal contributor. The school lands now produce about ;^8o a year, and this endowed 

 national school seats 1,296. 



Floore. — Abigail Rushton, in 1730, invested ;^I00 in trust for teaching 4 poor children; 

 and Richard Capell, in 1835, left an endowment producing £60 yearly for the education of 

 20 poor children. The present national school, seating 283, was built on glebe land. 



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