FLITT HUNDRED 



BARTON 



For the Free School, founded by deed 

 CHJRITIES 1807 by Edward Willes, augmented 

 by will of Thomas Wilshere, proved 

 P.C.C. 15 October, 1832 (;£300 consols with the 

 official trustees), see article on ' Schools,' above. 

 The ' Town Lands' consist of 8 a. i r. 36 p. 

 awarded on the inclosure of the parish in 1809 in 

 lieu of other lands held from time immemorial, the 

 rents of which — as appears from entries in the old 

 books of the parish commencing in 1 6 5 6 — were applied 

 in defraying the general and common expenses of the 

 parish. By a scheme of the Charity Commissioners 

 dated 24 August, 1869, the trustees thereby appointed 

 were authorized to apply four fifth parts of the net 

 rents towards providing a competent schoolmistress. 



jf 10 5J. to the Sunday schools, and £S 2S. \od, to 37 

 scholars in various sums. 



The Poor's Estate formerly consisted of 3 J acres 

 with cottage and buildings thereon, at Sharpenhoe, in 

 the parish of Streatley, awarded on the inclosure of the 

 parish in respect of lands in the Streatley Field, under- 

 stood to have been given by one Bodenham Rouse 

 for the poor, subject to the payment of I os. for the 

 poor of Streatley, and 10;. for the poor of Hexton. 

 In 1 90 1 the land was sold for a perpetual rent-charge 

 of £9, which — under the authority of an Order of 

 the Charity Commissioners of 27 November, 1903 — 

 became charged upon 6 a. 3 r. 21 p., with buildings 

 thereon, situate at Sharpenhoe, part of a farm known 

 as the Chantry Farm, recently purchased by the 



Barton-in-the-Clay Church 



and the residue of the income towards the general 

 support of the day and Sunday schools in the parish. 



A sum of £6^1 16s. id. consols is held by the 

 official trustees in trust for this charity, being the 

 balance of j^973 lis. consols, arising from the invest- 

 ment of moneys received in 1873 for digging copro- 

 lites, after providing a sum of /300 for the erection 

 of an infant school. The dividends are applicable 

 under a further scheme as to one moiety in the 

 establishment of annual scholarships not exceeding £4 

 each for boys and £i for girls, being not less than 

 eleven years of age, attending the public elementary 

 schools, and the other moiety towards the salary of 

 any master or mistress or other teacher in such schools. 

 In 1905 the land, which was let to various allotment 

 holders, produced £12 13/. 10-2'., which, with the 

 dividends amounting to £16 e,s. 8<?., was, after pay- 

 ment of expenses of management, applied in the pay- 

 ment of X'O to the Bedfordshire County Council, 



Drapers' Company, London, and upon two pieces of 

 land in Streatley, known as ' EUinghams,' containing 

 about 9 acres, belonging to the same company. 



In 1905 the rent-charge of £<) — after payment of 

 I OS. to the parish of Streatley, and i os. to Hexton — 

 was applied in adding a bonus to the clothing and 

 blanket clubs, and in thirty-five coal tickets for 

 i^ cwt. each. 



The Town Houses, formerly belonging to the 

 parish, were sold in 1852 for ^^l 09, of which ^20 

 was applied towards the payment of a loan advanced 

 by the Public Works Loan Board, and balance in- 

 vested in £88 y. \d. consols in the names of the 

 Guardians of the Luton Union for the benefit of the 

 parish. 



Unknown Donor's Charity. — An annuity of 10/. is 

 paid out of the Barton manor estate, under the title 

 of Goldsmiths' Charity, and applied in the distribution 

 of tea. 



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