

A HISTORY OF SUSSEX 



NEWICK, VERNON'S SCHOOL. George Venables Vernon and Louisa Barbara his wife granted to 

 trustees in 1771 a rent-charge of $ issuing out of the manor of Newick, and the messuage called 

 Newick Place, to pay ^15 a year to a schoolmistress who was to live in a house lately built for 

 that purpose, to instruct 1 2 poor girls of the parish of Newick in reading, writing, and needlework, 

 and another 15 a year for clothing the girls, and jiO a year more to the mistress to board and 

 lodge and teach one other poor girl to assist the mistress, and $ * year for clothing the said girl. 

 The remaining 5 was to be used for fuel and repairs. The trustees and the owners of Newick 

 Place were to have the management of the school and to appoint the mistress and children. No 

 children were to be admitted under six, or continue beyond fourteen years of age. Thirteen girls 

 were in the school in 1867. 



BATTLE. Elizabeth Langton by will 8 December, 1791, bequeathed to the dean, church- 

 wardens and overseers of the parish of Battle, ^1,500 four per cent, consols, the interest to be paid 

 to a man and his wife to teach 15 boys reading, and 15 girls reading, sewing, and knitting, 

 and she gave 200 four per cent, consols, the interest to be spent in spelling-books, Bibles, Testaments, 

 and Prayer Books, the children to be given their books on leaving school. 



