A HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 



The school was not under government inspec- 

 tion. The school continued elementary until it 

 was converted into Brunts' Technical School by 

 a scheme of the Charity Commissioners under 

 the Endowed Schools Acts in 1891 (see under 

 Brunts' Technical School, Mansfield, supra). 



BESTHORPE. George Carver, by will 21 Oc- 

 tober 1709, gave a rent-charge of 5 to support 

 a school for poor children of Besthorpe, to be 

 conducted in Besthorpe or the neighbourhood. 

 The endowment was increased by William 

 Wilson in 1802 by a legacy of 100, which in 

 1827 brought in 3 I2s. The joint income 

 was paid to a schoolmaster, who taught eight 

 poor children of the township in reading, writing, 

 and arithmetic. He also had paying pupils. 

 The existing school had been built in 17 84." 

 In 1866 the income from the endowment was 

 8. The school was under government inspec- 

 tion and there was a staff of two teachers, who 

 in 1867 instructed 33 boys and 21 girls paying 

 fees of 4< or 2d. a week. There was a residence 

 for the head teacher. The national school was 

 closed in 1876, and the only school in Besthorpe 

 in 1907 was the Council School, with an average 

 attendance of 46 in the mixed and of 14 in the 

 infants' department. 



STURTON-IN-THE-CLAY. George Green, by 

 will 2 January 1710 (proved 1728), gave a close 

 for teaching reading to 8 children. The rents in 

 1827 amounted to 6 14*., and had been paid 

 to a master conducting a school in the vestry of 

 the parish church until recently, when they were 

 employed to pay legal expenses connected with 

 an inclosure (^22 8s. 4</.). 18 In 1907 the 

 Sturton Parochial School (Mixed) had an average 

 attendance of 86. It receives the benefit of 

 Green's Charity. The buildings were enlarged 

 and almost entirely rebuilt in 1879, at the ex- 

 pense of the Rt. Hon. F. J. Savile-Foljambe. 



WEST BURTON. George Green, by his will 

 2 January 1710 bequeathed 3 acres of land 

 for teaching reading to three poor children. 

 The rent was not paid for many years before 

 1818 ; between 1818 and 1824 i 195. a year 

 seems to have been spent according to the terms 

 of the will, but afterwards had to be employed 

 in defraying the cost of inclosing the land 

 (ij ids. I iff.). 19 The children now attend the 

 school at Sturton-in-the-Clay, which receives 

 about 2 a year from the endowment. 



WEST STOCKWITH. William Huntington, 

 shipwright, by will 24 August 1714, gave a 

 rent-charge of ^5, to be paid to the schoolmaster 

 in West Stockwith for teaching 10 poor children 

 of widows of ship-carpenters or seamen placed in 

 his almshouses in West Stockwith, or, in default 

 of such children, as many others of poor parents 

 as his trustees should think proper. The school- 

 master received 5 up till 1813, when the 



" Char. Com. Rep. xix, 427-8. 



11 Ibid. 406. u Ibid. 320. 



salary was doubled. In 1827, there being no 

 almshouse children, he taught the three R's to 

 10 others. 20 In 1904 105 from Huntington 's 

 Charity went to the almsfolk, and 14. to the 

 school, which also benefited by the gift of Miss 

 Wells, who left the great tithes of Everton, 

 worth about 300 a year, to the parishes of 

 Everton, Misterton, and Stockwith, one half in 

 each parish for distribution among the poor at 

 Christmas and the other half for the education of 

 poor children. The school is now known as the 

 West Stockwith Council School, which in 1907 

 had an average attendance of 113 in the mixed 

 and of 52 in the infants' department. The 

 existing premises were erected in 1876 by the 

 Wells family and enlarged in 1898. 



CALVERTON. Thomas Smith, to whom 

 Jonathan Labray of Nottingham, in 1718, gave 

 an estate in Calverton for charitable purposes, 

 set apart 10 a year from the rents for support- 

 ing a schoolmaster. Only 6 a year could be 

 paid until 1821, when the master's salary was 

 doubled. In 1828 he taught the elements to 

 14 children free of charge, and also had paying 

 pupils. The school and schoolhouse, of un- 

 known date, were under one roof. 21 In 1866 

 the income from endowment had increased to 

 ,50 ; and in 1867 there were 70 boys in atten- 

 dance, and fees of id. and 2d. were charged. The 

 school was not under government inspection. 

 Labray's Endowed School, Calverton, which is 

 undenominational in character, had in 1907 an 

 average attendance of 6 1 boys. 



SUTTON BONNINGTON. The existing elemen- 

 tary school was originally built and endowed 

 about 1718, by joint parochial effort, as a school 

 in which the Latin tongue was to be taught 

 (see Introduction). In 1828 the demand for that 

 subject had ceased. The premises were rebuilt 

 in 1844 by subscriptions and grants from the 

 Privy Council and the National Society. Since 

 that time the school has been under government 

 inspection. In 1907 the average attendance 

 was 107 in the mixed and 37 in the infants' 

 department. 



WALKERINGHAM. TheChurch school, which 

 in 1907 had an average attendance of 76 in the 

 mixed and of 48 in the infants' department, 

 receives the endowment of a school founded by 

 Robert Woodhouse 19 May 1719, for teaching 

 Latin among other subjects (see Introduction). 

 In 1827 Latin was said to be occasionally 

 taught, but it ceased to be required under an 

 order of the Gainsborough County Court in 

 1860. The existing premises were built in 

 1850. 



EDWINSTOWE. The Rev. John Bellamy, vicar, 

 by will 12 June 1719, gave the schoolhouse 

 and two closes to trustees, the closes to be let 

 and the rents to be paid to a schoolmaster, who 

 was to be unmarried at the time of appointment, 



2 5 6 



Ibid. 364-72. 



" Ibid, xx, 445-9, si 3- 



