SCHOOLS 



BLYTH. The Parliamentary Return of 1786 

 states that land rented at ^5 a year had been 

 given by some unknown donor for teaching 10 

 poor children to read and write. This land was 

 exchanged in 1815 for Drawbridge Moor Fall 

 Fields, which in 1827 were let by the school- 

 master at jCi8 a year. Besides this rent, in re- 

 turn for which he instructed 10 poor children in 

 reading and writing, he received a voluntary 

 donation of 5 gns. a year from the church- 

 wardens out of the parochial funds ' for his 

 encouragement.' The school was held in a 

 disused chapel, repaired out of the same fund. 64 

 In 1 867 -there were 70 boys in attendance, 

 paying a weekly fee of id. The income from 

 endowment had fallen to 12. The ancient 

 schoolhouse was refitted in 1875. The endow- 

 ment in 1904 was still 12. In 1907 the 

 Blyth Church School had an average attendance 

 of 85 in the mixed and of 60 in the infants' 

 department. 



COTGRAVE. The Parliamentary Return of 

 1786 states that a school had been built here 

 with 30, all that was left of 100 given by an 

 unknown donor for teaching poor children of the 

 parish. The school was still in existence in 

 1828.'* The Church school, the only school in 

 Cotgrave, built, with a master's house, by Earl 

 Manvers in 1863, had in 1907 an average 

 attendance of 85 in the mixed and of 35 in the 

 infants' department. 



FARNSFIELD. With 400, consisting of 

 226 13*. iod., chiefly given by two persons 

 named Watson and Hornby before 1786 for 

 building and endowing a school, and of a further 

 sum arising from the sale of parish lands, a house 

 with land adjoining was purchased on I and 

 2 December 1790. Sarah Thorneley made a 

 gift of land in the same year. A trust deed of 

 1816 provided that the teacher should be a 

 member of the Church of England, and that not 

 more than 15 free scholars should be appointed 

 by the trustees. In 1828 the master, in con- 

 sideration of free occupation of the school, school- 

 house, and adjoining land, worth about 20 a 

 year, instructed 1 1 free scholars in reading. 

 Writing and arithmetic were charged for, and 

 paying pupils were admitted. His wife kept a 

 fee-paying girls' school." 6 The attendance in 

 1867 was 79 boys and 72 girls, at fees of id. 

 and zd. The gross income from endowment 

 in the previous year was jCi i. The school was 

 under government inspection, and taught by a 

 master (certificated), two mistresses, and a pupil 

 teacher. It is now known as the Farnsfield 

 Endowed Church School, and in 1907 had an 

 average attendance of 92 in the mixed and of 49 

 in the infants' department. The endowment in 

 1904 brought in about 



LAXTON. In 1827 it was stated that for the 

 past thirty years 2, the interest on ^40 given 

 before 1786 by some person unknown for 

 teaching poor children of the parish, had been 

 paid to a schoolmaster for instructing 10 scholars 

 in the three R's. He had also pupils at a fee. 67 

 Mrs. Procter, in 1859, increased the endowment 

 by a gift of 50. The existing parochial school, 

 erected in 1860, had in 1907 an average attend- 

 ance of 28 in the mixed and of 1 8 in the infants' 

 department. 



RAMPTON. In 1827 a schoolmaster taught 

 13 poor children of the parish in the three R's 

 on payment of is. at entrance and is. a year for 

 firing, and in return occupied land, mentioned in 

 the Parliamentary Return of 1786 as given by 

 some unknown person, worth about 4 a year. 

 There was a schoolroom in the churchyard. 58 

 The gross income from endowment in 1864 was 

 1$, and 41 boys and 37 girls were being in- 

 structed by a certificated mistress and her assis- 

 tant. The school was under government 

 inspection. There was no teacher's residence. 

 The school has since been endowed by the Eyre 

 family with 6 acres of land producing 10 los. 

 yearly. Its official designation is the Rampton 

 Church of England School (mixed), which in 

 1907 had an average attendance of 76. 



NOTTINGHAM : HIGH PAVEMENT SCHOOL. 

 This school was established in 1788 by 'The 

 Society of Protestant Dissenters assembling at the 

 High Pavement,' an influential Nonconformist 

 congregation. For over a century it was 

 attended by the children of many of the most 

 prominent citizens of the town. In 1870 it be- 

 came a higher grade school, and ten years later 

 the upper division developed into an organized 

 science department. In 1891 it was transferred 

 by the trustees to the School Board. New pre- 

 mises were erected in Stanley Road in 1896, 

 and here the school started afresh as an organized 

 science school, though still bearing its old desig- 

 nation of the High Pavement. In 1907 it was 

 further promoted to the rank of a secondary 

 school. 59 



WELLOW. A board in the church states that 

 31 5*. 3^. was given to this parish, the interest 

 to be used for educating six poor children. In 

 1827 the interest, at 4 per cent., was paid to a 

 schoolmaster for teaching three children to read. 00 

 There is now no school at Wellow. The old 

 infants' schoolroom, disused since 1894, is now 

 maintained by the Parish Council for parish 

 purposes. The children attend school at Oiler- 

 ton, and the income from the old endowment is 

 distributed among them in prizes for regular 

 attendance. 



WILLOUGHBY-ON-THE- WOLDS. A yearly sum 

 of j2 I cw., interest of 50 given by Samuel 



64 Char. Com. Rep. xix, 307-8. 

 " Ibid, xx, 488. 

 44 Ibid. 533-4. 



263 



57 Ibid, xix, 350. M Ibid. 375. 



49 City ofNott. Secondary Sch. Prospectus, 1907. 

 60 Char. Com. Rep. xix, 416. 



