Forest of Rossendale. 173 



A stone tablet, erected over the entrance to the school in 1844 

 bears the following inscription ; — 



" This Tablet is erected by the Trustees of the National School to 

 commemorate the munificent GIFT OF FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS 

 for the Building thereof, by Robert Haworth, late of Warth, who died on the 

 ilth day of Dec, 1S23." 



Mr. Haworth died in 1823, and by the terms of his \\'ill he 

 bequeathed the sum named to the treasurer of the Church Sunday 

 School, in Newchurch, Rossendale, and the like sum to the 

 treasurer of the Sunday School belonging to the society of the 

 AVesleyan Methodists there, to assist in building schoolrooms for 

 these religious bodies respectively. 



Mr Baines in his History of the County, has confounded the 

 National with the Grammar School, at Newchurch ; the two being 

 quite distinct. The latter is situated a little below the village, and 

 bears a just reputation for the ability of its Preceptors. 



" Here is a School endowed by John Kershaw, after his wife's death, (who 

 died an. [no] 1709,) wth Lands worth lol. los. p.[er] an [num.] For ye 2 first 

 years after her death, the Rents were applied by ye Feoffees to ye building 

 of a school-house, wch was finished an. [no] 171 1 ; since which they have been 

 given to ye Master, who is nominated by ye Feoffees. 



" [The] Writings are in ye hands of ye Steward of ye Honour of Clithero. 



" Land given to [the] School, [which] contains 30 Statute Acres. Left 

 also by John Kershaw, Sol." [v) 



The School was rebuilt in the years 1829-30. A further gift of a plot of 

 land from the close adjoining has recently been made to the Trustees of the 

 Grammar School, for a playground, by John Law, Esq. of Eltofts, near 

 Leeds, (u?) 



This school was endowed in lyor, by John Kershaw, of 

 Boothfold, with two small estates at Heald in Eacup Booth. This 

 fact is commemorated on his tombstone at Newchurch, as follows : — 



(«) Notitia Cestriensis, p. 342. 



(w) ibid, Note by Canon Raines, p. 343. 



