SCHOOLS 



standing. The place was repaired by the parish, 

 and in 1827, 12 boys were taught free in return 

 for the endowment, and there were about 42 

 other boys paying a quarterage. The rent-charge 

 is still paid, but the scholars bave been transferred 

 to the National School, erected in i860. The 

 old building is used as a kind of vestry to the 

 church. 



WARTON SCHOOL' 



Matthew Hutton, bishop of Durham, after- 

 wards archbishop of York, founded a school and 

 hospital of Jesus at Warton in 1594, by letters 

 patent dated 15 November, 37 Elizabeth, 'for 

 the promotion of good literature and the relief 

 and sustentation of poor people of the said 

 parish.' The nomination to the mastership was 

 placed in the hands of the Huttons of Marske, as 

 heirs of the archbishop, who paid a rent-charge 

 of ^^46 13^. ^d. to the school until November 

 181 5, when the payments were withheld. After 

 the resignation of Richard Knagg in 1808 no 

 appointment to the head-mastership had been 

 made and the school was carried on by the 

 usher as an elementary school. After a suit in 

 Chancery the school was revived as a grammar 

 school in 1830 with head master and usher. 

 In 1874 under a scheme of the Endowed Schools 

 Commission the school was organized as ele- 

 mentary with an upper department where more 

 advanced subjects might be taught. The 

 elementary character of the school was confirmed 

 by a scheme of the Charity Commissioners in 

 1891. 



WIGAN GRAMMAR SCHOOL 



The date of the earliest of the surviving 

 endowments of the school is 1596 ; hence the 

 school was probably in existence before that 

 date. In 1619 James Leigh bequeathed rent- 

 charges of some £2S for the benefit of the 

 school, to which were added tenements in 

 Aspull. In 1723 Sir John Bridgman, bart., 

 having given ;^ioo towards a new schoolhouse, 

 the inhabitants and corporation subscribed ;£ioo 

 and purchased Cockerham's house and croft in 

 the Millgate, which were mortgaged for a sum 

 of ;^I93 9i. 9^. with interest. In 18 16 the 

 Aspull estate was sold for ;£3,796 and an estate 

 at Appleton was purchased. In 1879 the 

 school was rebuilt on a design by Waterhouse at 

 a cost of ;^i 7,000. The endowment now 

 yields about ;^300 per annum, with a Powell 

 exhibition of £iSO a year tenable for three 

 years at any of the universities. The school is 

 being reorganized and largely financed by the 

 borough education authority. There are now 

 142 boys in attendance. 



' Baines, Hut. of Lanes, iv, 577 ; Attorney- 

 General V. Hutton. 



HESKIN ENDOWED SCHOOL ^ 



This was founded in 1597 ^7 S"" James 

 Pemberton, a native of the parish, who became 

 a citizen and alderman of London, as a ' free 

 grammar school for the education of children and 

 young men in grammar.' Brasenose College, the 

 Goldsmiths' Company, and others were to be 

 governors. An endowment of ;^50 was given 

 by a rent-charge, and lands of the value of ^^70 

 might be held for the trust. Other gifts followed, 

 but though some of the scholars were sent to the 

 university in the seventeenth century — its build- 

 ings were then ' a tall and stately structure of 

 hewn stone' — it sank by 1865 to be 



an elementary school of a humble order. . . . The 

 master did not know Latin, and it is probable that for 

 many years before that date the school had given 

 nothing beyond elementary education. 



Official interference resulted in some improve- 

 ment, but the school is conducted as a public 

 elementary school. New buildings were erected 

 in 1896. 



CHURCHTOWN (OR KIRKLAND) 

 FREE SCHOOL, GARSTANG^ 



This school was founded in 1602, as appears 

 from 



an agreement of the administrators of Walter Rig- 

 mayden of Wedacre Esq. to bestowe 100 marks (as a 

 commemoration for theire comodities receaved of the 

 deceased) to bee the firste foundation of a Free Schoole 

 to be erected in the Parishe Churche Yard of 

 Garstang ' 



dated 9 March 1602. 



By indenture dated 12 October, 1635, certain 

 of the demesne lands of Catterall were sold to 

 the trustees, the sale to become void upon the 

 payment of J^ioo upon any second day of 

 February before i March, 1640, and a yearly 

 sum of ;^8. In 1709 the mortgaged premises 

 were released to the owner of Catterall on 

 payment of the ;^I00. Other bequests were 

 made from time to time and in 1 861 the total 

 sum invested was ;^785 i6j. jd. The present 

 school buildings, opened in 1876, were erected at 

 the cost of Mr. Edward Moon of Aigburth, 

 Liverpool, an old pupil. 



STANDISH GRAMMAR SCHOOL 



The free Grammar School was founded by 

 Mrs. Mary Langton, who left ;^300 in 1603 

 to Edward Standish esq. and other trustees ; 

 they obtained a yearly rent-charge of ;^i8 out 



' Ciar. Com. Re/>. under Eccleston ; Earwaker, 

 Loc. Glean, n, 105. 



" Baines, Hist, of Lanes, iv, 463 ; Char. Com. Rep. 

 xi, 223 ; Hist, of Garstang (Chtt. Soc. Iv), 201 ; Lanes, 

 and Chcs. Wills (Chet. Soc. li), 201. 



'Harl. MSS. 2176, fol. 46^. 



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