A HISTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE 



PEBWORTH. Thomas Eden, by deed (6 December, 1773) granted lands 

 in Gloucestershire and tenements in Bristol to maintain charity schools in 

 Pebworth, Weston Subedge, Weston upon Avon, Broad Marston, Old Strat- 

 ford in Warwick, and Newbold in Worcester, for poor children to be taught 

 to read and to learn the services of the Church of England. The six schools 

 were established in his lifetime. Broad Marston, Weston Subedge, and 

 Weston upon Avon schools were all upon the same foundation. In 1900-1 

 Pebworth had an average attendance of 109, Weston Subedge of 58. 



STONEHOUSE CHARITY SCHOOLS. John Elliot, esq., and others, in 1774 

 gave sums of money amounting to 612 los. to trustees to establish two 

 charity schools, one at Stonehouse, the other at Ebley, for teaching poor 

 children to read and for instructing them in the principles of the Church of 

 England. In 1826 the number at Stonehouse was 28 and at Ebley 16, but 

 in 1867 there were about 150 in all. In 1900-1, represented by board 

 school at Ebley, average attendance 128, and national school at Stonehouse, 



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MlTCHELDEAN : CHARITIES OF WlLLIAM AND AMY LANE. William 



Lane, of Gloucester, by will (30 March, 1789) gave to trustees 1,000 to 

 apply the income for various sermons and for a charity school for not less 

 than 20 poor children to be taught on Sundays as well as other days, and 

 Mrs. Amy Lane, his wife, by will 18 August, 1806, gave 300 to the same 

 object. The money was all laid out in three per cent, stock, producing 

 an annual dividend of 62 4-f. 4</. In 1826 about 30 boys were taught 

 the three R's and the Catechism, and taken to church twice on Sunday ; 

 but 40 years later there were 70 boys and 50 girls. In 1900-1; average 

 attendance 148. 



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