FAWLEY HUNDRED 



ALRESFORD 



book, and continued to 1768 ; the third book is a 

 copy of Nos. I and 2, with baptisms and burials 

 continued to 1812, and the fourth book is the printed 

 marriage register 1754-1812. 



New Alresford was formerly a 

 JDrOWSON chapelry attached to the rectory of 

 Old Alresford (q.v.). In 1291 the 

 church of Old Alresford, together with the chapel, 

 was valued at 26 131. 4^.," but in 1535 New 

 Alresford chapel was valued separately at 3 6s. Sd.^ 



The chapelry of New Alresford remained attached 

 to the church of Old Alresford and followed its de- 

 scent (q.v.) until the year 1850, when it was separated 

 and formed into a distinct ecclesiastical benefice. 66 

 The living is now a rectory in the gift of the bishop 

 of Winchester. 



In the parish of New Alresford there was a brother- 

 hood or fraternity called the brotherhood or fraternity 

 of Jesus, 6 ' endowed with a tenement in New Alresford 

 called Jesus House, a shop and another tenement 

 situated near the porch of the parish church of New 

 Alresford, 68 ' towardes the fyndynge of a priest called 

 the brotherhed priest to the intent that he should 

 synge within the parishe churche of New Alresford 

 as well for the ayde and helpe of the curate as also for 

 the ease of the inhabitauntes there.' 69 The brother- 

 hood was erected within the parish church of New 

 Alresford, and was of the yearly value of 3 14?., of 

 which the priest received 2 lew. SJ.'" On its 

 suppression in the reign of Edward VI its possessions 

 became the property of the crown. Part were granted 

 by Queen Elizabeth in 1589 to Richard Branthwaite 

 and Roger Bromley," while the rest remained with the 

 crown until 1618, in which year James I granted 

 them by letters patent to James Ouchterlong and 

 Richard Gurnard. 71 Jesus House was the property 

 and residence of James Apsdale in 1774," but the 

 further history of these tenements has not been traced. 

 The Town Trust. The Town 

 CHARITIES Trust property now consists of the 

 fire-engine house and site let to the 

 overseers for 6 a year ; tolls arising from fairs and 

 markets averaging ^80 a year ; a building known as 

 the Hurdle House in the Fair Field ; and two strips 

 of copyhold land at Pound Hill used as a recreation 

 ground. Also 205 1 js. "]d. consols with the Official 

 trustees of Charitable Funds, who also hold 60 3/. SJ. 

 consols received towards the repayment of a loan of 

 200 to Henry Perm's School. 



The administration of the trust is regulated by a 

 scheme made under the above-mentioned Act in 1 890 

 (modified by a scheme in 1894), whereby trustees 

 were appointed, who were authorized to contribute 

 out of the income a yearly sum of 20 for the public 

 benefit of the inhabitants of the parishes of Old 

 Alresford, New Alresford, and of Pound Hill, and the 

 maintenance of trees in Broad Street, and a yearly 

 sum of 2$ to Perin's School, and to apply the balance 

 towards the improvement of the water supply or other 

 public purpose. 



The trustees of the Town Trust also administer the 

 income of the following charities, namely : 



Charity of James Withers (1680), consisting of a 



rent-charge of t, received annually in respect of 

 land taken in 1 86 1 for the purposes of the railway, 

 and 99 1 2/. consols, arising from the sale of the 

 remainder of the land allotted on the inclosure in 

 1806, and an annual sum of 8/. received in respect 

 of property on the Dean. 



Charity of John Pink (1642), consisting of an 

 annual rent-charge of 10 received in respect of land 

 taken in 1861 for the purposes of the railway, and 

 234 1 1/. 9^. consols arising from the sale of the re- 

 mainder of the land allotted in 1 806. 



Susanna Eliza Coney's Charity for Poor (will 1885), 

 consisting of lJJ 6s. <)J. consols ; and 



Susanna Eliza Coney's Charity for Education, con- 

 sisting of 206 us. i oJ. consols. 



The several sums of stock are held by the Official 

 Trustees of Charitable Funds ; and by a scheme, dated 

 21 July, 1893, the income of the last-mentioned charity 

 is directed to be applied in the maintenance of ex- 

 hibitions tenable at Perin's School or other place of 

 higher education to deserving children bona fide 

 resident in New Alresford. 



Church Trust. From time immemorial the town 

 was entitled to common rights for the benefit of the 

 church in respect of which I r. 3 6 p. was allotted on 

 the inclosure in 1806, which was sold in 1865 for 

 60 ; a plot of garden ground containing 2 r. 8 p. 

 situated in the Dean was also held by the church- 

 wardens, which was sold in 1888 for .150. The pur- 

 chase moneys are now represented by 21 8 i8/. \\d. 

 consols with the official trustees. 



In 1696 Henry Perin by his will founded and 

 endowed a grammar school in this parish." By a scheme 

 under the Endowed Schools Acts, approved by Her 

 Majesty in Council, 7 October, 1 899, provision is made 

 for the establishment of foundation scholarships,each en- 

 titling the holder to exemption, total or partial, from 

 the payment of tuition fees at the rate of not more 

 than one scholarship for every five scholars, to be 

 awarded to boys and girls of the parishes of New 

 Alresford, Old Alresford, Bishop's Sutton, and Cheriton 

 (with a preference as to one-third for boys and girls 

 of the parish of New Alresford) qualified as therein 

 mentioned. 



The present endowment of the school consists of 

 the school, master's house, and garden in hand, 

 Jia. 3 r. 36 p. of land at New Alresford let at 41 1 2s. 

 a year ; a rent-charge of $ on land at Bishop's 

 Sutton ; and a yearly sum of 25 out of the income 

 of the New Alresford Town Trust. 



Certain works of improvement in the school build- 

 ings were effected in 1901 at a cost of 358 io/., 

 whereof 1 50 was provided by the Hampshire County 

 Council, and the governors of Perin's School were 

 authorized to borrow 200 from the Town Trust 

 at 3j per cent, to be repaid in fifteen years (see 

 above). 



William Todd (1681) gave 3 per annum to be 

 distributed in the church porch on Good Friday. The 

 rent-charge is duly received and applied. 



In 1831 Mrs. Jenny Harris by deed declared the 

 trusts of a sum of stock to produce 10 a. year to 

 be applied for the benefit of the poor in bread or 



" Pope Nicb. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 211. 

 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 9. 

 66 Woodward, Hist, of Hants, ii, 24 ; 

 Clergy List, 1850. 



W Eccl. Com. Ct. R, bdle. 136, No. I. 

 88 Vide Pat. 1 6 Jas. I, pt. 13, m. 



14. 



69 Chant. Cert. 52, No. 13. 

 Ibid. 



353 



7> Pat. 3 1 Eliz. pt. 1 1, m. 27. 

 7 s Ibid. 1 6 Jas. I, pt. 13, m. 14. 

 7 Robert Boyes' MS. HUtory of Aires- 

 ford (1774) penes Lord Swaythling. 

 7< f.CJJ. Hants, ii, 387, 391. 



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