A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



of 21 April, 1882. The board school, seating 528, was built 1873-4, a school board 

 having been formed 3 November, 1871. 



LowiCK. — Lady Elizabeth Germain, by indenture of 20 May, 1725, which recites that 

 her late husband, Sir John Germain, had left ;^ 1,000 for maintaining a charity school here, 

 and that she desired to add ^^o a year more, conveyed a schooJhouse for the use of the 

 charity school, and the rectory of Ringstead and other property upon trust for ^c)0 yearly, 

 now paid to the charity school at Lowick, which seats 81. 



Mears Ashby. — The endowed school, formerly Kinloch's Charity School, was built in 

 1879, and seats 133. Sarah Kinloch by will of 16 June, 1710, gave ;^200 for teaching 

 children to read and say their catechism. This endowment now consists of 24 a. 3 r. 25 p. of 

 land in Arthingworth, producing ,^40 a year. 



Nether Heyford. — William Bliss, by will of 23 February, 1673, gave ;^ioo for a 

 schoolhouse for children of Lower and Upper Heyford, and especially for such children as 

 bore his name, and lived within 5 miles of Heyford ; he also gave ^^300 for the schoolmaster, 

 which was invested in land, and this, with £z->^91 V- ^'^^- consols, together produces about 

 ^130 yearly. By a scheme made under the Endowed Schools Act, 23 October, 1877, the 

 Upper and Lower Heyford Bliss Charity School was directed to be a public elementary 

 school. It was rebuilt in 1879, and seats 254. 



Old. — The church school here seats no. An endowment for education in this parish 

 was founded by the Rev. James Parr in 1774. 



Passenham-with-Denshanger. — ^John Swannell, by will, 12 March, 1707, charged 

 land in Denshanger with £2 los. yearly for teaching poor children to read and write. Pay- 

 ment of this seems to be in abeyance. The parish school, seating 219, was built, the mixed 

 school, 1858, and the infants', 1871. 



Oundle. — The infants' school at Ashton was built in 1707, and was founded by 

 Jemima Creed, who, by will dated 11 February 1705, devised lands, now 15 acres (settled by 

 deed 20 January, 1708), for this purpose. The national school, seating 446, was built in 

 1842 ; and further endowments for education are Branston's gift of ^^5 yearly, and Walcot's 

 legacy by will of 1825, now ;^298 ijs. id. consols. 



Pattishall. — Thos. Young, by will, 31 December 1684, bequeathed land upon trust 

 for the education of 2 poor boys. The property of this foundation consists of a schoolhouse 

 (rebuilt 1818-19) ^"^ ^ close of land now producing ^^12 yearly. Wm. Pinckard, by will in 

 1647, made several bequests for the education of the children of the parish, now 5^3,892 lis. 

 consols. The present church school, built 1855, seats 244. 



Paulerspury. — The church school here, seating 197, and built 1860-1, has the 

 following endowments: — Wm. Marriott, by will, 17 October, 1 720, gave £6 yearly to the 

 master of Paulerspury School ; Thos. Nicholl, by will, 15 August, 1726, gave a rent-charge of 

 ;^5 a year for education of 6 poor boys here; and Mr. Isaac Lovell, by will in 1861, gave an en- 

 dowment now represented by ^^2,000 consols. The buildings were enlarged 1879 and 1892. 



Pytchlev. — The endowed church school, now seating 183, was founded as a free 

 grammar school. The buildings, dating from 1 7 70, were enlarged by Lord Overstone in 

 1870. The trusts of the school buildings and adjoining close were declared by deed of 

 26 January, 1826, in which the origin is stated to be unknown, but is ascribed to Wm. 

 Aylworth, who, by will, 10 August, i66i, gave ;^20 a year for a free school in Pytchley, for 

 the children of Pytchley, Isham, and Broughton, the master to be a graduate of one of the 

 universities, and to teach the Catechism, and be conformable to the Church of England. 



ScALDWELL. — See under Brixworth, in regard to Thomas Roe's Charity. Edward 

 Palmer in 1735 gave land producing £2 yearly for the master. The present national 

 school, seating 87, was built in 1836. 



Staverton. — The free school buildings were erected in 1852 by the Rev. John Bull, 

 vicar, and seat 93. This school (Church of England) has the following endowments : — By 

 indenture 5 February, 1767, the Rev. Francis Baker gave lands for a master, and on inclosure 

 in 1774 an allotment of 27 ac. 3 r. was given ; and Catherine Burbidge, by will, 23 Decem- 

 ber, 1767, gave ;{^I00, which was laid out in a house for the master. 



Stow Nine Churches. — The Rev. E. Williams by will in 1719 gave ;^I20 for a 

 schoolmaster. The present parish school appears to have been in existence about 1733 ; and 

 the buildings, which seat 66, seem to date back to 18 13, but to have been altered in 1866-7 

 and 1899. 



SuDBOROUGH. — The church school, seating 68, built in 1 841, receives the income of 

 ;^666 13^. 4d. consols, arising from the charity of the Marchioness of Bath, who, by deed 



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