A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



21 March 1730 conveyed lands in trust for the 

 benefit of the school, and it received two later 

 legacies, 200 from Mr. Hill, 1 1 September 

 1785, and 100 from the Rev. Dr. Cooke, 

 4 November 1798. Fifteen boys and 15 girls 

 increased to 1 6 about 1830 were taught the 

 three R's the girls needlework as well, and 

 were all supplied with clothes annually. There 

 were 96 children in the school in 1867, 1 6 boys 

 and 1 6 girls being free and receiving clothes. In 

 1903-4 it had an average attendance of 144 

 children. 



HANSLOPE : LADY PIERREPOINT'S SCHOOL. 

 A tablet in the church records that Lucy Dow- 

 ager Lady Pierrepoint gave by will 200 for 

 the education of boys, and the Parliamentary 

 Returns of 1786 state that this bequest was 

 made in 1721. In 1832 the money was on loan 

 at 5 per cent., and the interest, 10, was paid 

 to a master for teaching the three R's to eight 

 boys in the vestry-room. With paying scholars 

 there was an average attendance of 25. In 

 1867 the income was paid for the instruction of 

 some children in the infant school, and is now 

 annexed to the Church End Council School, 

 with an average attendance in 1903-4 of 100 

 children. 



WINSLOW. By will, 9 January 1722, Joseph 

 Rogers bequeathed ,600, to be invested in 

 land, for educating as many poor children of the 

 parish of Winslow as would answer. Land was 

 purchased 2 September 1724, and a body of 

 trustees, appointed on 25 September 1 727, made 

 regulations for the school. On 12 December 

 1807 the master's stipend was settled at ,27 I Of., 

 for which he was to teach 20 boys from five to 

 ten years of age. Twenty free boys and two 

 paying scholars at 8^. a week were in 1832 in- 

 structed in the master's dwelling-house. In 

 1867 there were 2O foundationers only, and 

 the endowment was 50 a year. On II July 

 1890 a scheme was made for it by the Charity 

 Commissioners. The school had in 1903 an 

 average attendance of 266 children. 



NEWPORT PAGNELL. The charity school at 

 Newport Pagnell must have been established 

 before 1730, as on 16 March of that year the 

 Rev. Lewis Atterbury, D.D., bequeathed to it 

 10 yearly, charged on his real estate, for the 

 teaching of 20 poor girls of Newport Pagnell to 

 read and write and do plain needlework. They 

 were taught in a house which had been built by 

 Samuel Christie about 1723, and given by him 

 for a workhouse for the poor. At a later date it 

 was converted into the schoolhouse. In 1867 

 there were six boys paying id. a week, besides 

 the 20 free girls. By a scheme of 8 August 

 1905 the endowment was made applicable for 

 prizes, technical instruction, outfits, or exhibi- 

 tions. 



BUCKINGHAM GREEN COAT SCHOOL. Ga- 

 briel Newton, an alderman of Leicester, on 



15 March 1760 conveyed lands to the corpora- 

 tion of Leicester, upon trust, among other things, 

 to pay the yearly sum of 26 to the mayor and 

 corporation of Buckingham, to be applied in 

 clothing, schooling, and educating 25 boys of 

 indigent parents of the established Church of Eng- 

 land in Buckingham. Each was to have a coat, 

 waistcoat, and breeches of green cloth, not under 

 2od. a yard, one shirt of flaxen cloth, not under 

 i-^d. a yard, and such other apparel as the trus- 

 tees should think proper. The rest of the money 

 was to be paid to a master to teach the boys 

 reading, writing, arithmetic, the singing of 

 psalms and intoning of responses during divine 

 service in such church as the trustees should 

 appoint. There was a proviso that the town 

 should not receive or should forfeit the endow- 

 ment unless the Athanasian Creed was read in 

 the church on the days appointed by the rubric. 

 For fourteen or fifteen years there was a Chan- 

 cery suit to set aside the will, and the sum which 

 accumulated in consequence was invested in 

 ^266 13*. tfd. three per cent, consols. The 

 payment of 26 was afterwards annually made 

 by the corporation of Leicester, and 25 boys 

 were clothed and educated in accordance with 

 the terms of the gift. The master also had 

 15 to 30 paying scholars in 1832. The school- 

 house belonged to the parish and was kept in 

 repair by the corporation. In 1867 the school 

 contained only 25 free boys. The same number 

 was in 1895 sent to the national school founded 

 in 1819 and rebuilt in 1856. 



FARNHAM ROYAL. Elizabeth Hetherington, 

 by will, 25 April 1764, proved 9 December 

 1776, gave jC<\-O to the parish of Farnham Royal 

 towards a school for poor children, and in a 

 codicil she gave 100 more. These sums were 

 invested in New South Sea annuities. Jacob 

 Bryant, by will, 15 July 1802, gave ^300 3 per 

 cent, consols for instructing the children of the 

 parish in reading, writing and the principles of 

 the Christian religion. The dividends were 

 used towards the payment of the salaries of the 

 master and mistress of Farnham School, which 

 in 1832 was said to be principally supported by 

 voluntary contributions and gave free education 

 to 1 9 boys and 1 7 girls. Twenty-two boys and 

 37 girls were paying id. and id. a week in 1867. 

 It was superseded by a national school built in 

 1874. 



RAVENSTONE. The Rev. Robert Chapman 

 of Ravenstone, by will proved 3 January 1786, 

 bequeathed the residue of his personal estate to 

 find 12 a year for a proper schoolmaster for 

 teaching all the children of Ravenstone to read, 

 write, cast accounts and say the Catechism, and 

 2OJ. a year for books ; the surplus was to be used 

 for clothing and apprenticing two children of 

 Ravenstone and one of Little Woolstone. In 

 1832 about 40 children received a free elemen- 

 tary education, and the income amounted to 



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