A HISTORY OF SUSSEX 



lodging and diet, for which he should teach the boys writing, arithmetic, and the mathematics. 

 The boys were to wear blue gowns, with his coat of arms on a badge, and quilt caps, and each boy 

 to have 201. a year to buy the clothes. 



In 1720 the trustees bought premises for the use of the school for 300. 



By an order of the Master of the Rolls, 25 May, 1828, the trustees were empowered to 

 increase the number of the boys from time to time as funds permitted. The number was gradually 

 increased to 46 by 1867. 



CHICHESTER, GIRLS' BLUE COAT SCHOOL. This school was established in 1710 by private 

 subscription, and with the addition of bequests from Bishop Manningham and George Sedgwick 

 22 poor girls were instructed at the National School for girls. 



CHICHESTER, BOYS' GREY COAT SCHOOL. Thomas Manningham, bishop of Chichester, who 

 died in 1722, gave 100 to be applied equally to the use of this school and the girls' blue coat school. 



George Sedgwick by will gave 400 in trust to apply the interest of one-fourth part equally to 

 the two schools. This legacy was invested in 1785. 



From these bequests 20 poor boys were clothed and educated at the National School. The 

 Charity Commissioners gave their assent to this plan by letter 9 March, 1861. 



HORSTED KEYNES FREE SCHOOL. Edward Lightmaker, of Broadhurst, Horsted Keynes, by 

 will 2 April, 1708, bequeathed a house near the church which he had built, and also a sum of 400 

 to purchase an annuity of 20 for the maintenance of a free school. For this the schoolmaster was 

 to teach 20 children of the parish, and he might take 21 paying scholars. No annuity seems to have 

 been bought, but the lord of the manor paid 20 a year to the schoolmaster till 1737, since which 

 time no payment has been made. The schoolmaster taught 12 poor boys and girls freely in return 

 for the use of the school premises. 



UCKFIELD, SAUNDERS' CHARITY. Anthony Saunders, D.D.,by will 31 October, 1718, devised 

 lands to 4 trustees, the rents and profits to be applied in teaching 6 poor boys of Uckfield and 6 of 

 Buxted to read and write and the Church Catechism. He also devised his library of books to be 

 kept at the schoolhouse, for the benefit of the master and scholars. He left other lands to provide 

 10 a year for the schoolmaster and the residue to be applied for apprenticing poor boys. In 1819 

 there was a schoolmaster in possession of the schoolhouse and land mentioned in the will, and of 

 the library, consisting of about 200 volumes, who also received jCio from the trustees, but he 

 kept a private school and paid 20 a year to the master of the National School to teach the 12 boys 

 freely. 



UCKFIELD, DOROTHY ELLIS'S CHARITY. Dorothy Ellis, of Lewes, spinster, by will dated 1 2 

 June, 1728, gave to trustees 300, out of the rents and profits of which 5 yearly was to be paid 

 to a woman living in Uckfield for teaching 10 poor children to spell and read English well. 



BURWASH. In 1731 a farm in the parish of Wadhurst was conveyed to trustees to pay the 

 rent to a person appointed by the trustees to teach the poor children of Burwash to read and the 

 principles of the Church of England. The farm was bought for 220 arising from a legacy left by 

 the Rev. George Barnsley by will in 1723. There was also a sum of 350 arising from the sale 

 of timber on the estate, and a legacy of 50 left by William Constable in 1811. The whole 

 income was applied to the support of the National School. 



SEDLESCOMBE. An estate and premises containing 2 acres called Darbeys, in the parish of 

 Westfield, were conveyed in 1729 to trustees for a charity school in Sedlescombe. This estate was 

 purchased for 184, part of a sum left by the Rev. George Barnsley in 1723 for the education of 

 poor children. A schoolmaster was paid a salary of 20 a year from the rents of the estate, and he 

 taught the three R's and the principles of the Church of England to 20 boys. In 1866 the income 

 had risen to 30 a year. 



BRIGHTLING. Mary Herbert, by will 4 April, 1728, gave to the minister and churchwardens 

 of Brightling 200 to be laid out in the purchase of lands, the rents thereof to be applied for 

 teaching poor girls reading, writing, casting accounts, and plain work. Each girl at the age of 1 5 to 

 have a Prayer Book, Bible, and Whole Duty of Man. The income of this endowment was paid to 

 the master of the National School in 1867. 



ROTHERFIELD. Sir Henry Fermor, bart., by will 21 January, 1732, directed trustees to lay out 

 1,500 in building a church and charity school in or near Crowborough for the use of the 

 parishioners of Rotherfield and Buxted, and 4,000 to be spent in purchasing lands, one-fourth part 

 of the rents to be applied for the maintenance of a schoolmaster and another 500 in lands, the 

 rents to be used for repairs of the church and schoolhouse, and a further 3,000 for the benefit of 

 the scholars. The children were to be taught the three R's and not to exceed 40 in number. Sir 

 Henry Fermor died in 1734, and the school and chapel were soon after built at Crowborough. Till 

 1796 his affairs were before the Court of Chancery. An order was then made to regulate the 

 charity. Thirty boys were sent to school from Rotherfield and 10 from Buxted. They received 

 clothing once a year and were supplied with books. 



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