A HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 



Wells for the purpose, was paid in 1828 to a 

 master who taught six free scholars, and others at 

 a fee, in a small room screened off from the 

 body of the church. 61 The Willoughby-on-the- 

 Wolds Council School, erected in 1863, which 

 now receives the endowment, had in 1907 an 

 average attendance of 49 in the mixed and of 

 19 in the infants' department. 



WINTHORPE. 10 a year was paid in 1828 

 from the rents of property given for the poor by 

 Thomas Brewer, by will 7 September 1616, to 

 a schoolmaster, who, assisted by his wife, taught 

 12 poor children of the parish in reading and 

 writing, and the girls among them knitting and 

 sewing also. The remainder (^44 4*.) was 

 used to provide distributions of money and coal, 63 

 the proper object of the charity. When the 

 rents subsequently declined, the grant for educa- 

 tion ceased. The only school in the village 

 in 1907 was the Council School (mixed), 

 erected in 1879, with an average attendance 

 of 29. 



" Char. Com. Rep. xxi, 462. Ibid. 435-7. 



NORTH AND SOUTH CLIFTON. A school- 

 room and master's house were built in North 

 Clifton by subscription in 1799, and next year 

 an annual payment of $ IDJ. was sanctioned to 

 the schoolmaster out of the rents of property 

 purchased with^ioo given by Simon Nicholson, 

 in 1669, for the benefit of the poor. In 1827 the 

 rents were 1 7, and the master's salary had been 

 raised to^io IQJ., for which he instructed I5chil- 

 dren (8 from North, and 7 from South Clifton) 

 in the three R's ; the residue was distributed 

 among the poor. 83 The North Clifton Parochial 

 School (mixed), which stands on the original site, 

 erected in 1873 and enlarged in 1877-8, and 

 provided with a playground in 1897 by Mr. and 

 Mrs. George Freeth, had in 1907 an average 

 attendance of 58 children. Nicholson's Charity, 

 amounting to 16 a year, is now distributed in 

 doles to the poor. 



63 Ibid, xix, 424-6 ; Tenure and Trusts of Volun- 

 tary Sch., issued by the Bd. of Education in 1907, 

 wrongly gives the salary in 1827 as 5 5*. This 

 latter amount was to be paid half-yearly. 



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