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parents might choose to give. He also left ;^20, 

 the profits to be employed in buying necessary 

 books for the poorer children. Thomas Adamson, 

 by will 7 January, 1730, bequeathed the interest 

 on ;^40 for the schoolmaster of Whitechapel. 

 All the children of Goosnargh who applied were 

 taught reading, writing, and accounts free of 

 charge, except for pens and paper. There were 

 about 70 scholars, boys and girls. 



Warrington : Blue Coat School. — Peter 

 Legh, by deed 19 September, 1709, conveyed 

 houses and ground adjoining, on trust, to be em- 

 ployed for an elementary school. The school 

 was started in 17 11 with 24 boys, 12 of whom 

 were clothed yearly ; at fourteen they were ap- 

 prenticed out of the proceeds of a legacy of 

 j^i8o given by John Allen, of Westminster, in 

 1677, and gifts of lands from Dame Ann Edge- 

 worth, I January, 1705, and Thomas and 

 Margaret Sherwin, 3 May, 1692. Alexander 

 RadclifFe, 28 October, 17 17, conveyed a close 

 in Westleigh to trustees for the school. Eliza- 

 beth Dannett, 21 August, 1792, and John 

 Watkins, 23 February, 1797, also gave lands. 

 About 1780 a new building was erected. Till 

 1 8 14 only day scholars were admitted, but in 

 that year six boys and four girls were appointed 

 to be maintained in the house and clothed. In 

 1829 14 boys and lO girls were so kept, and 

 there were 120 boys and 30 girls as day 

 scholars. In 1867 there were 24 boys and 16 

 girls, all boarded and clothed. 



WoRSLEY : Row Green School. — Thomas 

 Collier, by will 25 December, 1 7 10, gave a 

 rent-charge of ;^5 to be paid to a schoolmaster 

 for teaching 20 children of the poor of Worsley 

 to read English. By indentures of lease and re- 

 lease 21 and 22 March, 1727, the Most Noble 

 Scroop, dxike of Bridgewater, lord of the manor 

 of Worsley, granted to trustees a plot of waste 

 land on which a schoolhouse might be erected 

 by voluntary contributions. In 1828 the master 

 taught 12 poor children in respect of the ^^5 

 rent-charge; other scholars paid. In 1867 

 there were about 60 children, 10 of them free. 



ToDMORDEN AND Walsden. — By indentures 

 of lease and release, 3 and 4 August, 1 713, 

 Richard Clegg granted to Henry Pigott and 

 others, on trust, a newly-erected building in 

 Todmorden to be used as a school by such 

 schoolmaster as the major part of the freeholders 

 in Todmorden and Walsden should nominate. 

 By indenture 5 August, 17 13, reciting that 

 Richard Clegg had collected ^^50, which, with 

 j^ioo which had been advanced, had been paid 

 into the hands of Henry Pigott, the latter declared 

 that he would put out the 2^1 50 to the best 

 advantage, the profits to provide for repairs of 

 the school and the salary of a schoolmaster, who 

 was to instruct gratis four children. The school 

 premises in 1827 consisted of a dwelling-house, 

 with a schoolroom, outbuildings, and a small 



garden. They were occupied rent free by the 

 schoolmaster, who kept them in repair. He also 

 received £(i i^s. per annum, the interest of the 

 ;£i50. For this he instructed without charge 

 four children in reading, writing, and accounts ; 

 other scholars paid. The average number in 

 attendance was about 40. 



WiNDLE. — Sarah Cowley, by will 25 Febru- 

 ary, 1 7 14, devised a messuage to Joseph Gilli- 

 brand, clerk, on trust, the clear yearly rents and 

 the residue of her estate to be used for bringing 

 up poor children in the schools at St. Helens, and 

 she directed that an annuity of ;^5 should be 

 added for providing books, as the Love Book, 

 the Primer, the Psalter, Testament, and the 

 Bible, till they should be able to read the Bible. 

 By indentures of lease and release, 13 and 14 

 April, 1724, Joseph Gillibrand conveyed to him- 

 self and others the messuage in Windle, on trust, 

 the residue of the profits to be employed for the 

 purposes of the will. A school was built by 

 subscription in 1793, when the old school in the 

 chapel yard, supposed to have been built by John 

 Lyon, was pulled down. There was a further 

 endowment of the yearly sum of ^^i lOx., charged 

 by will of John Lyon on an estate in Widnes, 

 and a legacy of ;^45 left about 1817 by Thomas 

 Barker. From 1 816 the interest of these sums 

 was paid to the schoolmaster, who instructed at 

 least 25 poor children without payment. There 

 were also some paying scholars. 



Great Bolton. — The interest of ^^ 150, given 

 by Thomas Marsden, by will, 17 14, was to be 

 employed in setting up and maintaining a charity 

 school, for as many poor children as possible, 

 within the town of Bolton, who were to be 

 clothed, and educated, and instructed in the prin- 

 ciples of religion. They were to attend public 

 prayers in Bolton church at all times when 

 Morning and Evening Service should be read. By 

 indentures of lease and release, 16 and 17 Octo- 

 ber, 1752, between Elizabeth Tire, and John 

 Parker, and others, reciting that out of the 

 5^150 a charity school had been set up, called 

 Mr. Marsden's Charity School, where six poor 

 children of Bolton were clothed and educated ; 

 Elizabeth Tire conveyed to John Parker all her 

 messuages and shops in Bolton, for the purposes 

 mentioned in Thomas Marsden's will. Susannah 

 Brookes, by will 10 August, 1744, gave ;^ioo, 

 the interest to be used for teaching poor and 

 orphan children to read the Holy Bible, in the 

 towns of Great Bolton, Tonge with Haulgh, ar.d 

 Breightmet. A salary of j^io ioj., arising from 

 lands in Bolton, given in 1788 by Marsden's trus- 

 tees, was paid to the schoolmaster, for which he 

 taught 20 children of Great Bolton, boys and girls, 

 reading and the Church Catechism without 

 charge, and writing or accounts at half the usual 

 fee. The master was allowed to take other chil- 

 dren, and in 1827 had about 90 scholars, and 

 135 in 1867. 



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