SCHOOLS 



20 October, 1788, established a school for the instruction of 30 boys and 30 girls in the 

 principles of the Church of England. 



SuLGRAVE. — John Hodges, by will, 18 June, 1722, gave a schoolhouse in Sulgrave for 

 10 poor children, and a rent-charge of ;^4 a year for the master and for repairs to the school 

 buildings. Robert Gardiner, by deed 2 February, 1763, gave a rent-charge of £'i. These 

 two charities, by a Charity Commissioners' Scheme, 26 February, 1897, are applied for prizes 

 at the national school, which seats 103. 



Syresham. — Conquest Jones, by will 2 May, 1773, bequeathed ;^iOO for teaching poor 

 children to read and write. This sum was expended in 1833 towards purchasing the school 

 premises. George Hammond, by will 3 February, 1755, bequeathed ;^300 for a school- 

 master to teach 10 poor children of this parish ; this was invested in ;^5i3 i8f. \d. consols. 

 The present national school buildings were erected in 1872, and seats 180. The school is 

 regulated by scheme of the Charity Commissioners, 12 January, 1872. 



Upper Boddington. — The Boddington School (Church), seating 117, was built in 

 1870. The following charities for education have been founded here : — ;^I00 given by the 

 Rev. Dr. Maynard about 174O; ;^50 by Dr. Knowles in 1774; £15 by an unknown 

 donor; ,^50 bequeathed in 1791 by Wm. Miller; ^^90 bequeathed by the Rev. Richard 

 Wainman before 1825 ; and certain real estate by Richard Lamprey in 1758. 



Walgrave. — The Walgrave and Hannington National School, which seats 162, was 

 built in 1828, and enlarged in 1897 ; it has an endowment of ;^I2 a year under the will of 

 Montague Lane, 16 May, 1670, which bequeathed ^200 for a schoolmaster to teach the 

 English and Latin tongues, regarded as a charge of ;^I2 yearly on the Montague Estates. 



Watford. — Sarah Clarke in 1702 bequeathed ,^400 for the education of poor children, 

 which was invested in 30 ac. i r. of land, conveyed by deeds 24 and 25 May, 1725 ; this 

 produced in 1825 £^^, in 1870 ;^35, but now only ;^i8 ; spent, under Charity Commis- 

 sioners' Scheme, 26 October, 1883, in school prizes at the board school, which seats 118, 

 and was built by Harriet Lady Henley, 1857, and enlarged in 1889, when the infants' 

 school was added. The school board was formed 8 December, 1871. 



Weedon Beck. — Nathaniel Billing, by will, 5 February, 17 12, proved 17 13, directed 

 that a school should be erected for the education of 20 boys born in the town or parish, and 

 land purchased for their support. The boys were to be clothed ' in a kersey coat or a coarse 

 cloth of whitish colour, and red buttons and buttonholes, a flat cap with a white tuft on the 

 top, and white ribbon round each of the caps, and a pair of shoes once in every two years ' ; 

 these clothes were to be in the custody of the master in order that the scholars might ' appear 

 decent at Church on Sundays and Holidays.' A school was built, and 40 acres of land 

 bought. The rent of the land was ;^I00 in 1825, ;^I05 in 1870, but now appears to be ;^45 

 only. The school (national, seating 108) also enjoys half the income of ;^94 15J. lod. 

 consols from the charity of the Rev. John Rogers of 1736, and the interest of £i\S i^- ^^• 

 consols, the gift of Edward Thornton in 1881, for prizes. The boys' school was rebuilt in 

 1862 ; the girls' and infants' schools were erected in i860. Billing's Charity is under a 

 scheme of the Charity Commissioners, 26 November, 1862 ; Rogers' Charity, under Charity 

 Commissioners' Scheme of 29 January, 1897. 



Welford and Sulby. — The endowed school buildings, seating 198, were conveyed 

 by deed of 1807, and rebuilt in 1859. ;^io is received by the master as interest on ;^ioo 

 given by Rene Payne about 1747, and on ;^ioo given by John Payne by will of 25 May, 

 1764, together with half the rent of land devised by will of Richard Ward, 9 July, 1736, for 

 educational purposes in Welford and Cold Ashby. 



Wellingborough. — Freeman's Endowed School, seating 440, rebuilt in 1851, and 

 enlarged 1871, was founded by John Freeman, who, by will dated 24 May, 17 11, devised a 

 schoolhouse for a charity school for the instruction of poor children in the principles of the 

 Church of England. Richard Fisher, by will, 9 May, 1711, gave ;^20 yearly for the support 

 of the charity school (as well as gifts to the grammar school, as to which see above). In 

 1767, under an Inclosure Act, 55 a. i r. 13 p. were given in lieu of Fisher's Charity land. 

 Mary Roane in 1715 gave ;^ioo ; Samuel Knight in 1728 ;^I00 ; and John Robinson in 1791 

 ;^iOO. The lands now produce about ;^200 yearly, of which this school receives one half. 



Welton. — The church school, seating 114, built about 18 10, is partly supported out of 

 the Town Land Charity, the origin of which is unknown, but of which the trusts were 

 declared in a deed of 29 September, 6 Chas. I, and since 1822 it has been customary to 

 apply about ^^140 of their income to this school. It was rebuilt about 1874 by Colonel 

 Clarke. 



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