A HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 



; 2 53 1 3 1 ' f 3i P er cent - stock, the proceeds of 

 falls of timber. Practically the whole income 

 (.20) from Sanderson's charity was devoted to 

 education. The school, conducted on the 

 Madras System, was in 1827 open to all poor 

 children of Harworth, Serlby, and Styrrup, above 

 seven years of age. The schoolmaster received 

 a salary of 35 15*., and an allowance for coal 

 of ^4 4.5. ; also 20 for boarding a mistress, 

 whose salary was 6 6s. The attendance varied 

 with the season from 60 to 20. The boys were 

 taught in the school, and the girls in a room of 

 the adjoining master's house. 10 The income 

 from endowment available for education in 1866 

 was 50. There wore 60 free places ; other 

 scholars paid fees of T,d. or \d., the total atten- 

 dance in 1867 being 100. Twenty-nine boys 

 and thirty-eight girls were clothed from Sander- 

 son's charity. The school, conducted by a 

 master and mistress, was not inspected. The 

 buildings were enlarged in 1876. The Har- 

 worth Church School, which receives the endow- 

 ment (58), had in 1907 an average attendance 

 of 68 scholars in the mixed and of 39 in the 

 infants' department. 



BUNNY WITH BRADMORE. The school, with 

 four rooms for four poor widows, was built in 

 1700 by Sir Thomas Parkyns, who later, by 

 will 1 8 August 1735, gave a yearly sum of 2 

 for a mistress to prepare children for admission 

 by teaching them spelling. The school was 

 endowed by his mother, Lady Anne Parkyns, 

 12 July 1709, with part of the income from 

 30 acres of land in Thorpe, which were to be 

 let at a rent of ji6, to be increased if any part 

 was converted into tillage. For a salary of jio 

 a master was to teach the children of Bunny 

 and Bradmore in spelling, the three R's, and the 

 Catechism, free of charge, if the parents did not 

 contribute to the public levies, otherwise on con- 

 dition of paying an entrance fee of is. and a 

 quarterage of 6d., of contributing (6d. by hus- 

 bandmen's children, 3^. by cottagers') towards a 

 love feast of cakes and ale before the Christmas 

 holidays, and of delivering a certain amount of 

 coal or other fuel (graduated according to the 

 value of the property held by the parents). 

 Outsiders were to pay is. on entrance, and is. a 

 year for coals. The entrance age was fixed at 

 five years, except for children able to read the 

 primer perfectly ; provision for teaching alpha- 

 bet and primer by poor widows was to be made 

 out of surplus income. The scholars were to 

 attend church on Sundays and holy days ; and 

 on Wednesdays and Fridays also, if the master 

 was a clergyman, i was set apart for pro- 

 viding a dinner or love feast for the trustees at 

 Midsummer. In 1828 the master received 

 26 6s. from the property at Thorpe, and an 

 additional 1 2 from an allotment made by an 

 inclosure award in 1798; in return he taught 



11 Char. Com. Rtp. xix, 344-8. 



40 to 100 children of the two villages, taking 

 them to church on Sundays. Children of rated 

 inhabitants paid is. entrance fee and is. quarter- 

 age, and for coal is. (cottagers' children), or 31. 

 (farmers'). The school was held in a large room 

 on the ground floor ; four adjoining rooms were 

 occupied by the almspeople ; and the master had 

 the first floor and garrets above for his residence. 11 

 In 1866 the gross income from endowment was 

 j6o, 49 of which was devoted to education j 

 and in 1867 there was an attendance of 37 

 boys and 21 girls. The quarterage had been 

 reduced to 6d. The school was not under 

 government inspection. The endowment is 

 now received by the Bunny Church School 

 (mixed), which, in 1907, had an average atten- 

 dance of 73 children. The existing buildings 

 were erected in 1876. 



BABWORTH. With jiO, given in 1702 by 

 William Simpson towards teaching children to 

 read, and 5 by Mrs. Elizabeth Simpson in 

 1746, a cottage was rebuilt in 1771, which was 

 used as a school. Lindley Simpson, by will in 

 1781, gave a share in the Chesterfield Canal for 

 teaching poor children of the parish to read, and 

 for the purchase of copies of the Old and New 

 Testament, and other good books. In 1827 

 the dividends, amounting to jCS, increased by 

 voluntary subscriptions, provided Bibles and 

 Prayer books for the poor, and supported a mis- 

 tress, who taught poor children in her cottage, 

 which had been used for the purpose during the 

 past forty years. 12 The Babworth Church School 

 (mixed) had in 1907 an average attendance of 

 64 children. The existing buildings were 

 erected in 1876, and enlarged in 1895. Lindley 

 Simpson's legacy is spent in accordance with the 

 directions of his will, in connexion with this 

 school. 



CLAYWORTH. The endowment of this school 

 in 1827 consisted of the rents (^58) of certain 

 lands in Clayworth, awarded by Inclosure Com- 



" Ibid, rxi, 437-46. According to the recital 

 of the indenture of 12 July 1709, the master was to 

 teach ' so much of trigonometry as relates to the 

 mechanical and useful parts of mathematics ' ; and an 

 inscription on the school runs : ' Nemo hinc egre- 

 diatur ignarus Arithmetice ' (cf. /o?Sctt dycco/icTpqros 

 turiTia the inscription said to have been on 

 Plato's door). Sir Thomas Parkyns also wrote a 

 Practical and Grammatical Introduction to the Latin 

 Tongue for the use of his grandson and of Bunny 

 school, and the possibility of a clergyman as school- 

 master is contemplated in the indenture already 

 referred to. These facts suggest that instruction in 

 higher learning was encouraged at one time, though 

 the school was not founded as a grammar school. Sir 

 Thomas made a practical application of mathematics 

 to the art of wrestling, in a book which he wrote on 

 that subject, teaching ' to break Holds and throw 

 most Falls Mathematically.' There is an account of 

 him in Prof, of the Thoroton Soc. vi, 1 2 ff. 



" Char. Com. Rep. xix, 306. 



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