A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



ToTTiNGTON : LowER End. — In 1715 

 Thomas Nuttall built a schoolhouse in Tot- 

 tington and endowed it with an annuity of £1 

 from a messuage in Oldham. By will 14 March, 

 1726, he devised all his copyhold premises in 

 Oldham, the profits to be used for teaching eight 

 poor children appointed by trustees. The school 

 was enlarged by subscription in 1773. Ann 

 Baron, by deed 13 January, 1798, assigned to 

 trustees £2>^(> i6j. 8^., of which /^200 was to 

 be applied to the use of the schoolmaster. In 

 1827 15 children were learning the three R's 

 gratuitously, and there were about 50 paying 

 children. 



Farnworth : Dixon Green School. — By 

 indentures of lease and release, 28 and 29 March, 

 1 7 15, James and John Roscoe conveyed to 

 trustees a parcel of land, lying near the waste 

 called Dixon Green, on which a school had been 

 erected at the expense of James Roscoe and 

 others, where the children of inhabitants of 

 Farnworth might be taught to read and under- 

 stand the English and Latin tongues, or either of 

 them, and be instructed in the principles of the 

 Protestant religion by a person able to teach. 

 Nathan Doming, by will 22 May, 1728, be- 

 queathed ^^300 to buy land, the income to go, 

 half for the instruction of poor children in Farn- 

 worth in the English and Latin tongues, one- 

 fourth for the use of the schoolmaster, and the 

 other fourth for buying English Bibles, the 

 Assembly's Catechism, and the Scripture Cate- 

 chism, to be distributed yearly among poor chil- 

 dren of Farnworth. In 1828 there were 22 

 children in the school besides the free scholars. 



Newburgh in Lathom. — The Rev. Thomas 

 Crane in I 717, having already in 1 7 14 erected a 

 school in his native village, gave it to trustees for 

 the instruction of children, endowing it with 

 ;^I5 a year. This was supplemented by other 

 gifts, and in 1828 the income was £^2. In 

 1826 six or seven boys were learning Latin, and 

 the master had had pupils learning Greek. The 

 school is now a public elementary school. The 

 old building has been converted into a public 

 reading-room. 



Walmsley : Baldingstone School. — By 

 indenture 27 August, 17 16, Miles Lonsdale, for 

 encouraging the erecting of a school in Walms- 

 ley, conveyed to trustees a piece of ground on 

 which a school should be built ; as soon as it was 

 ready, some fit person, being a Protestant, was to 

 be appointed master. James Lancashire, by will 

 30 July, 1737, gave ^^50 for teaching not more 

 than 10 children. In 1828 there was a school 

 and schoolhouse in this township which had been 

 enlarged by subscription about forty years before. 

 There was also a school stock of ;^68 i8j. 4/:/., 

 the interest of which, at 4 per cent., was paid to 

 the schoolmaster. 



H.'iRDHORN WITH Newton. — James Baines or 

 Poulton, by will 6 Januar)', 1 71 7, bequeathed to 



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trustees the schoolhouse by him lately erected in 

 Hard horn cum Newton, to remain a free school 

 for ever ; and he gave lands, to the intent that 

 the clear rents, over and beside 101. a year to be 

 allowed the trustees for a dinner and all necessary 

 repairs, should be paid to a schoolmaster who 

 should teach and instruct in writing, reading, and 

 other school-learning all such children of Poulton 

 and Hardhorn cum Newton as should be sent 

 and behave themselves with care and good man- 

 ners, for such fee as their parents might give 

 voluntarily. The rent of the land was divided 

 between the upper and under master ; the upper 

 master received two-thirds, and the under master 

 one-third. All children paid a very small gra- 

 tuity at Shrovetide and Christmas. There were, 

 on an average, from 80 to 120 in the school who 

 were taught the three R's. 



Thornton. — James Baines, by will 6 Janu- 

 ary, 1 717, devised to trustees the schoolhouse 

 by him lately erected in Thornton Marsh, with 

 its site, to continue for ever as a free school ; and 

 also several closes in Castleton, the clear yearly 

 rents to support a schoolmaster. These premises, 

 in 1827, were let at ^31 lOf. a year, which was 

 paid to the schoolmaster. The master taught 

 all the children of the township, boys and girls, 

 free. The number in winter was sometimes as 

 high as 150; and in summer, generally up to 

 100, except during harvest. There were Latin 

 and English dictionaries in the school. In 1824 

 there were no boys learning Latin, but the master 

 had had classical scholars. Small gratuities were 

 given at Shrovetide and Christmas. 



ScARisBRiCK. — By indenture 28 August, 

 1 7 19, reciting that Henry Harrison alias Hill 

 and Thomas Hill, by deed 20 April, 1648, con- 

 veyed a piece of land in Scarisbrick to certain 

 inhabitants of Scarisbrick for erecting a chapel or 

 school, Henry Smith sold to William Smith and 

 others the piece of land, with the building erected 

 on it, for the use of the inhabitants of Scarisbrick. 

 James Carr, by will 19 October, 1720, gave 

 £100 to the chapel-school, the stock to remain 

 for ever towards bringing it on to be a free 

 school, and the interest to pay for the learning 

 of the poorest children of Snape and Scarisbrick. 

 About 1 819 a school, with a small schoolhouse 

 adjoining, was built on the old site. The master 

 received j^ 5 as the interest of ^{^ 100 left by James 

 Carr, and £s interest from lands given by Ann 

 Palmer, by will 5 July, 1782, in respect of 

 which he instructed in reading eight children, 

 appointed by trustees, free. There were on an 

 average about 30 children, boys and girls, in 

 1827, increased to 120 in 1867. 



Manchester: Hinde's School. — Anne Hinde, 

 by will II February, 1723, gave to John Moss 

 and five others, all of Manchester, all her messu- 

 ages and tenements in Fennel Street, Manchester, 

 upon trust, the rents and profits to provide for 

 the instruction of 20 poor children (10 to be 



