SCHOOLS 



endowed by him as a free grammar school with 

 a rent-charge of 20 on 16 September 1691 

 (see Introduction}. It was purely elementary in 

 1837, although the vicar was nominally master. 

 Mr. H. W. Eve in 1867 favoured its conversion 

 into a National School under government inspec- 

 tion. This change was effected in 1877 by the 

 Charity Commissioners. The average attendance 

 in 1907 was 85. 



KIRTON. John Ambler, by will 2 September 

 1692, gave 20, afterwards invested in land, for 

 teaching two children to read the Bible. This 

 land was exchanged at the time of the inclo- 

 sure (1821) ; and in 1827 the sum of 25*. was 

 paid on account of the legacy to a schoolmaster 

 for teaching five poor children to read. 6 The 

 income from Ambler's charity (1 6s. id.) is 

 given in prizes to Kirton children for regular 

 attendance at elementary schools. 



MISSON. A schoolroom was erected in the 

 churchyard by Thomas Mowbray and John 

 Finder, with the consent of the town, in 1693. 

 An Inclosure Act of 1760 recited that a sum 

 of 5 had been yearly paid to a master, who 

 also received an allowance of coals and turf, for 

 teaching six poor children to read, and the school- 

 house had been repaired out of lands belonging 

 to the town ; and in accordance with instruc- 

 tions contained therein the Commissioners in 

 1762 awarded to the master lands worth ^8 a 

 year, for his salary and allowances, and to the 

 trustees the privilege of letting certain herbage 

 for repairing the school, and other public uses. 

 The master received 64 a year in 1827 from 

 the land, and instructed six poor children in 

 reading and arithmetic. For 2OJ., left by 

 William Wood some time before 1757, he in- 

 structed two poor boys in reading and writing, 

 and provided books for them ; and for another 

 sum of I Of., a gift of unknown origin, one poor 

 boy. He had also paying pupils, day and board- 

 ing. The Commissioners for inquiry concerning 

 Charities and Education suggested an increase in 

 the number of free scholars, proportionate to the 

 increase of the emoluments. 7 New buildings 

 were erected in 1860. In 1866 the gross in- 

 come from endowment was 54, and in 1867 

 65 children (39 boys and 26 girls), were under 

 instruction by two teachers. There was no 

 schoolhouse, and no government inspection. In 

 1907 the Misson Parochial School, which re- 

 ceived the endowment, had an average atten- 

 dance of 89 children. 



MORTON. A rent-charge of 2 ios., left by 

 William Daybill, by will 17 September 1695, 

 for a school at Fiskerton and Morton, was paid 

 in 1827 to a schoolmaster for teaching two 

 children from each parish to read and write. 8 

 The endowment is now received by the Fisker- 

 ton cum Morton Church School (mixed), which 



6 Char. Com. Ref>. xix, 349, 350. 

 8 Ibid, xx, 536. 



7 Ibid. 360-2. 



in 1907 had an average attendance of 67. The 

 present buildings were erected in 1855, and 

 subsequently enlarged in 1888 and 1897. 



NORTH AND SOUTH COLLINGHAM. William 

 Hart, by will 4 August 1699, left property in 

 Bicker, Lincolnshire, to be employed after his 

 wife's death in teaching poor children of North 

 Collingham ; and his widow, by will 9 January 

 1718, added lands in South Collingham, and 

 extended the benefit to children of that place. 

 In accordance with her husband's wishes she 

 required the trustees and schoolmaster to be 

 ' such as before that time had been dipped, that 

 is, baptized after the example of Christ Jesus 

 and the practice of the Apostles, and in full 

 communion with the people called Baptists, or 

 in this nation now falsely called Anabaptists.' 

 Two-thirds of the rents were to be paid to the 

 master as well as the surplus of the remaining 

 one-third, after providing books and fuel. Should 

 the master ever be disabled from teaching by 

 persecution, the school was to cease for the time, 

 and the endowment be used for relieving him 

 and fellow-sufferers. In 1828 the rents (18 

 from Bicker, and > 2\ from South Collingham), 

 were paid to a master, a Baptist, who provided 

 material and fuel, and taught the three R's, 

 and occasionally geography, to 23 boys (five 

 of them Baptists) between the ages of eight and 

 twelve, in a school in North Collingham, erected 

 seventeen years previously out of trust funds and 

 subscriptions. 9 In 1866 the income from en- 

 dowment was 41 ; and next year 15 boys and 

 six girls were taught by a master, assisted by a 

 mistress for needlework. There was no teacher's 

 residence, and no official inspection. ^2O was 

 given to each parish by Thomas Fisher some 

 time before 1794, for educational purposes, the 

 annual proceeds of which, in 1828, were paid 

 to two schoolmistresses, each teaching two 

 children. 



HARWORTH. The endowment was given 

 this school by Robert Brailsford, by will 

 21 October 1700, who left lands in Hatfield 

 Manor, Yorkshire, the rents to provide a salary 

 of 10, ji a year for coal, jCi for a gratuity 

 (optional) for the master at Christmas, and the 

 remainder for buying English books and paper ; 

 and by Mary Sanderson, who died in 1724, 

 bequeathing a rent-charge of 20 on her pro- 

 perty at Serlby (rented at 66), one-half for a 

 schoolmaster, and one-half for apprenticing boys 

 and girls, buying religious books for the scholars, 

 and clothes for new apprentices, and providing 

 a dinner for the trustees. A schoolhouse was 

 built in 1705. Each bequest required 20 chil- 

 dren to be taught, and the instruction was to be 

 of an elementary character. The rents of 

 Brailsford's charity, between 1788 and 1809, 

 amounted to ^30 ; at the latter date they were 

 increased to 59; and in 1827 there was 



' Ibid, xxi, 424-6. 



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