A HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 



a schoolhouse in 1738. In 1828 the property 

 brought in 30 a year, which sum a master 

 received for instructing 14 boys and girls free 

 of charge. He also had paying pupils. 36 In 

 1860 the income from endowment was 25, 

 and in 1867 there were 13 boys and 15 girls 

 under instruction. The school is now designated 

 the Winkburn Church School (mixed). In 1907 

 it had an average attendance of 24 children. 



WESTON. The school was built with 50 

 and endowed with jioo, used to buy lands in 

 Lincolnshire and to erect a cottage in Weston, 

 by Richard Hawksworth, by will 13 April 

 1736. The master was to teach 10 poor chil- 

 dren of the parish until they could read the 

 Bible well. The lands in 1827 brought in 

 jTj. The cottage had been sold at the time of 

 the Inclosure for ^20, which with accumulations 

 of rents during a vacancy in the mastership 

 formed a fund for repairs. In addition to the 

 instruction specified the Church Catechism was 

 taught. 37 In 1 866 the income from endowment 

 was jCii ; and in 1867 there were 27 boys and 

 26 girls attending the school, 10 being instructed 

 free and the rest paying a fee of id. a week. 

 The school was not under government inspection. 

 A new school was erected in 1871, since rebuilt 

 by the late Earl Manvers. The Weston Church 

 School (mixed), to which the income of Hawks- 

 worth's gift (^7 a year) is paid for upkeep of 

 the buildings, had in 1907311 average attendance 

 of 40. 



WOODBOROUGH. The Rev. Montague Wood 

 erected a schoolhouse, and on 17 June 1736 

 gavt an endowment, consisting of lands and 

 tenements at Woodborough and Blidworth, 

 worth 12 a year, for maintaining a master to 

 instruct the children in Church of England 

 principles. In 1739 he assigned property in 

 Stapleford, of the annual value of ^30, to meet 

 repairs and augment the salary. In 1828 the 

 schoolmaster was a clergyman, the Rev. James 

 Hewes. He managed the estate, received the 

 rents (^99), and undertook repairs. All 

 children of Woodborough who had learnt the 

 alphabet were instructed in the three R's free of 

 charge. Between 40 and 50 scholars usually 

 attended. 38 In 1866 the gross income from en- 

 dowment was jno. The incumbent of the 

 parish, with an assistant, conducted this school, 

 which was not under government inspection. A 

 fee of ix. a year was charged in 1867, and 62 

 boys and girls were under instruction. The 

 premises were rebuilt in 1878. The Wood- 

 borough Wood's Foundation School in 1907 had 

 an average attendance of 80 in the mixed and of 

 38 in the infants' department. The endow- 

 ment in 1904 brought in ^74. 



SUTTON CUM LOUND. Richard Taylor, on 

 18 May 1737, bequeathed 70 for the benefit 



* Char. Com. Rep. xx, $25-6. 



u Ibid, xix, 440,441. " Ibid, xx, 526, 527. 



of poor children of Sutton cum Lound, which sum 

 was settled in trust 13 May 1742 for teaching 

 them reading and the Church Catechism. The 

 money was invested in stock (112 icu. 3^ per 

 cents.), which in 1827 produced ^3 i8s. 8r/. a 

 year. This sum, together with ^24, the annual 

 rents of an Inclosure allotment awarded to the 

 inhabitants in 1778 and appropriated in 1783 to 

 the support of the school, was paid to a master, 

 who taught 30 children in the three R's at a fee 

 of 3^. a week. There had been no free scholars 

 since his appointment in 1813. A school and 

 residence had been built in 1783, partly by 

 public subscription, partly out of trust funds. 39 

 The gross income from endowment in 1866 

 was ,18, and 30 boys were instructed for a 

 small weekly payment. The school was not 

 under government inspection. In 1907 the 

 Sutton cum Lound Church School had an 

 average attendance of 75 in the mixed and 38 

 in the infants' department. The existing build- 

 ings were erected in 1875. 



OLLERTON. Up to 1795 a sum of 8s. yearly, 

 part of the interest on 22 left by Francis 

 Thompson (? died 1739), for bread and teaching 

 two poor children, was paid to a mistress. From 

 that date the income was apparently spent in 

 repairing the chapel; but in 1827 the vestry 

 determined to administer it in accordance with 

 the conditions of the bequest. 40 The Ollerton 

 Church School, built by public subscription in 

 1842 and enlarged in 1848 by Earl Manvers, 

 had in 1907 an average attendance of 119 in 

 the mixed and of 46 in the infants' depart- 

 ment. Nothing is received by it on account of 

 Thompson's gift. 



MATTERSEY. Edmund Nettleship in 1742 

 gave 140, to be invested in land, the rents to 

 be paid to a master, who was never to be the in- 

 cumbent or curate, for instructing seven poor boys 

 in the three R's. Stock was purchased with the 

 money, which in 1827 consisted of 248 IQJ. -]d, 

 3^ per cents. The dividends, ^8 135. iod., 

 were paid to a master for instructing seven free 

 scholars ; he had also paying pupils. 41 The 

 existing Church School (mixed) was built in 

 1859 by public subscription on a site given by 

 the Duke of Portland ; in 1907 it had an average 

 attendance of 66 children. By a scheme of 

 1 8 March 1905 the income of Nettleship's gift 

 (now 6 4.5.) was devoted to providing scholar- 

 ships for Mattersey children to East Retford 

 Grammar School. 



BILBOROUGH AND STRELLEY. By deed of 

 30 March 1744 Richard Smedley gave ^5, part 

 of a rent-charge of 60, for teaching 1 8 or 20 

 poor boys or girls from Bilborough and Strelley 

 parishes, the majority to be from Strelley. The 

 condition of admission to the school was to be 

 ' having learned the battledore ' ; the instruction 



260 



" Ibid, xix, 448-50. 

 41 Ibid. 360. 



40 Ibid. 333. 



