AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED 



endowment, derived from burgages and lands in 

 Preston and Fishwick, was only $ 2S. $J. a year.** 1 



A school can be traced back to the 1 4th century.** 4 

 Its connexion with a chantry threatened its exis- 

 tence,* 37 but it seems to have been preserved by the 

 corporation, and under their care has developed to its 

 present standing. 238 



The principal charities* 39 are 

 CHARITIES those for education,* 40 medical ' and 

 religious purposes "* ; but there are 

 in addition a considerable number of smaller benefac- 

 tions for the benefit of the poor by gifts of money, 

 food, clothing, apprentices' fees, and other ways. None 

 of them appear to be intended for the whole parish ; 

 some are restricted to the borough of Preston, and 

 others to particular townships or groups.* 4 * 



Catherine Pennington in 1871 left 1,000 for the 

 benefit of poor women in the town and neighbour- 

 hood of Preston, to be distributed by the wardens of 

 Church of England parishes. The total income is 

 29 21. ;</., and it is distributed according to the 

 founder's wish.* 44 Margaret Becconsall in 1872 left 

 money to the New Jerusalem Church, one-seventh 



PRESTON 



being for poor members ot the congregation ; 

 7 9/. 6J. is distributed accordingly among from five 

 to nine persons. William Edmundson in 1735 left 

 50 to buy bread for the prisoners at Lancaster and 

 Preston ; half the income, 6 101. %J., is given to 

 assist prisoners discharged from Preston Gaol, usually 

 by gifts of clothing or travelling expenses. Mary 

 Cross in 1889 gave 600, now producing 17 l^j. 

 a year, for the poor of the borough ; the income is 

 distributed in small money doles. The benefits of 

 the Harris Orphanage in Fulwood are available for 

 children whose parents reside within eight miles of 

 Preston Town Hall. This includes the whole parish 

 of Preston and large parts of the adjacent parishes.* 48 

 For the township of Preston several apprenticing 

 charities have been absorbed into the grammar school 

 endowments,* 46 but the combined gifts of Dorothy 

 Cosney (1678) * 47 and John Dawson (1698) are now 

 applicable in part for apprenticing and in part for 

 medical relief, nursing, &C. 248 Some gifts, amounting 

 to 14 14*. ^d., have been combined with the 

 mayor's dole. 24 ' The almshouses have been pulled 

 down, 840 the bread money has ceased, 251 and some 



yean ; Duchy of Lane. Rentals, bdle. ;, 

 no. 1 5 . Nicholas Banaster was the 

 incumbent in 1535 \ Valor Eccl. v, 163. 

 The rerenue was 611. 



* u The chantry lands were in 1556 

 granted by Mary to the Savoy Hospital, 

 which she revived ; Anderton D. (Mr. 

 Stonor). 



* In a disturbance at St. Mary Mag- 

 dalene's Chapel in May 13(8 John the 

 Clerk of Broughton, master of the schools 

 of Preston, was among those incriminated; 

 Assize R. 439, m. 2. 



Raines (Chanirin, 206) quotes from 

 the registers of the Archdeacon of Rich- 

 mond the appointment of Richard Mar- 

 shall in 1399 to the grammar schools at 

 Preston. Marshall was enrolled as a 

 burgess in 141$ ; Prnan Guild R. 9. 



** The story is given in Fishwick's 

 Pniion, 204-12. 



Peter Carter, the schoolmaster who 

 died in 1590, was author of Annotations 

 on Seton's Logic ; sec Did. Nat. Biag. 



See article on 'Schools,' Y.C.H. 

 Lanci. ii, 569, and /.',/. Char. Rep. Pres- 

 ton, 190;. 



M * An official inquiry was made in 

 Oct. 1904, and the report, published in 

 190;, includea a reprint of that of 1824. 

 Some earlier charities are recorded by 

 Bishop Gastrell, Noiitia, ii, 46;. 



**> The Grammar School, Blue School, 

 and Harris Institute and Free Library 

 are the principal of these. 



wl The Royal Infirmary has an endow- 

 ment of 2,148 a year; the Industrial 

 Institute for the Blind has about 300. 

 Mary Cross's gift for poor deaf and dumb 

 children, founded in 1899, produces an 

 income of 31. 



* The Blue School, founded by Roger 

 Sudell in 1702 in a cottage in Minspit 

 Weind, off Fishergate, is now absorbed 

 in the schools attached to the parish 

 church. The founder desired the vicar 

 'to appoint a sober and religious person 

 for a catechist, of the communion of the 

 Church of England, to catechize and 

 teach in the said school the poorest chil- 

 dren of Preiton and of the parish of 

 Preston, gratis, the true fear and wnrihip 

 of God, and to teach them to read Eng- 

 lish, that they might be better enabled to 

 attain to holineta' 



Maria Holland in 1873-7 R aye * capi- 

 tal fund of nearly 20,000 to found St. 

 Joseph's Orphanage for destitute female 

 children and for other charitable pur- 

 poses, of which 1,106 was devoted to 

 an institution for the sick poor, providing 

 an endowment of 38 13;. 4^. 



There are various smaller endowments 

 for religious purposes. 



*** The details here given are taken 

 from the report of 1905. 



111 A smaller gift of the same kind 

 was made by William Cooton in 1876, 

 by which 40 came to the poor of St. 

 Saviour's, Preston. The interest (281.) 

 is distributed by the vicar in small doles 

 of money and provisions. 



*" End. Char. Rip. Lane. 1902. 



*** George Rogerson in 1619 charged 

 his lands in Broughton with 13 a year, 

 payable 9 to the mayor of Preston for 

 apprenticing and 4 to the mayor of Lan- 

 caster for the prisoners there. Henry 

 Banister in 162; left sums including 200 

 towards the apprenticing of poor children 

 of Preston ; this is now represented by the 

 moiety of a rent-charge of i 6. Thomas 

 Winckley in 1710 left 50 for appren- 

 ticing. Henry Rishton and Eleanor his 

 wife in 1738 gave 300 for the poor, of 

 which half the interest was for appren- 

 ticing poor children. These sums with 

 various accumulations are intact ; but, as 

 applications for apprentice fees ceased, no 

 grants having been made since 1855, the 

 gross income (about 55) is applied to 

 scholarships at the grammar school. 



447 Her main gift was 100 for 

 ' twelve pious men or widows, 1 but she 

 added 6, the interest whereof was to be 

 spent in entertaining the trustees at the 

 'Hind* or elsewhere. The Hind Inn 

 is mentioned by John Taylor the 'Water 

 Poet' in 1618. 



** His gift was 100 for the poor and 

 for apprenticing in alternate years. 



The combined charity, represented by 

 a rent-charge of 10 101. on the 'Three 

 Legs of Man ' in Preston, with accumula- 

 tions of 289, is administered under a 

 scheme of the Charity Commissioners 

 made in 1904. The grots income is 

 18 121. 4</., of which 8 is for 

 nursing, subscriptions to dispensaries, 

 supply of clothes, &c., and the residue 



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primarily for apprenticing, and then 

 (should there be any balance) for outfit on 

 entering a trade, or on passage money or 

 outfit of emigrants. 



149 Henrietta Rigby in 1741 left 100 

 to the vicar and the mayor for the benefit 

 of six poor widows, housekeepers in 

 Preston. The capital is held by the 

 corporation ; 2 a year is distributed by 

 the mayor to three poor widows, and 2 

 likewise by the vicar. 



William Rishton in 1729 left 100 to 

 the mayor and aldermen, the interest to 

 be given to the poor at Christmas. This 

 is preserved, the mayor distributing 4 

 in doles of is. each. 



Thomas Hogkinson in 1697 be- 

 queathed $o for the poor, and in respect 

 of it 2 is distributed by the mayor at 

 Christmas in doles of if. to zj. 6</. 



Elizabeth Parker in I7<!7, acting 

 according to the desire of her father 

 Joseph Chorley, gave a rent-charge of 4 

 on land at Claughton (as the interest of 

 100), half to go to the poor of Preston. 

 This 2 is now distributed by the mayor 

 in gifts of 21. 6./. each. 



A moiety of the gift of Henry and 

 Eleanor Rishton, already named, has 

 recently been administered by the mayor ; 

 but this appears to be an irregularity. 

 The amount is 4 141. 4,!. 



tu Bartholomew Worthington, a bene- 

 factor of the grammar school, in 1663 

 directed his wife to build a small alms- 

 house on the waste near Fishergate bars. 

 It was built, but there was no endowment, 

 and, on its falling into decay, the materials 

 were told, and the money, with an 

 addition, applied to build an almshouse 

 at the east end of the town. Here there 

 had been a range of almshouses, of un- 

 known origin, managed by the corpora- 

 tion, which in 1790 were replaced by si> 

 houses, Worthington' > being a seventh. 

 The corporation nominated the inmatet. 

 There were three other almthouses occu- 

 pied by poor persons put in by the mayor. 

 The almshouses were sold in 183;, the 

 corporation being under no known obli- 

 gation to maintain them. 



*' It was a turn of 301. a year paid 

 out of the Blue Coat charity fund for 

 bread for the poor on Sacrament days 

 It ceased about 1812. 



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