42 Four Letters written by the Rev. George Millard. 



that George Speke Petty, of Haslebury, esq., in 1719 gave to the Charity 

 School the interest of .£100 for ever. 



By deeds of lease and release, dated 23 d and 24 th December 1719 Thomas 

 Speke, in order that a convenient house might be provided for the School- 

 master of the Charity School for ever to dwell in, and for the commodiousness 

 of the said school and poor children to be taught therein, conveyed his messuage 

 or tenement, and garden thereunto belonging, with the small piece of void 

 ground thereunto adjoining, on the north side of the said messuage, and 

 abutting against Box Church-yard, on the east end or side thereof ; and also 

 sufficient ground in the garden then in the possession of John Ford, not 

 exceeding two feet in breadth and 42 feet in length, whereon to erect the south 

 wall of the messuage when the same should be rebuilt ; to hold to G. Millard 1 

 and others, upon trust for the only benefit of the said charity school, and for 

 books for the children, and for instructing them according to the judgment 

 and discretion of the Vicar of Box for the time being, and other trustees, or 

 any two or more of them, thereof the Vicar of Box to be always one ; and 

 upon further trust, to permit the said messuage, garden, and premises to be 

 occupied, and the profits received and taken by the poor children, or else that 

 the same should be applied for their benefit and for defraying the charges of 

 books. 



By indentures of lease and release, dated 2 d and 3 d . September 1723, 

 Christopher Eyre, for better maintaining and continuing of the charity 

 school in Box, and instructing poor children therein, conveyed his messuage 

 or cottage, garden and appurtenances, containing half an acre, situate at 

 Henley, in the parish of Box ; also his other messuage or cottage, garden, 

 orchard and appurtenances, containing in the whole half an acre situate at 

 Henley ; and also his other messuage or cottage garden and appurtenances 

 situate at Henley 2 aforesaid ; to hold to the said Millard and others, to the 

 end that the said Millard 3 and others might, as they should think fit, 

 make sale of the premises, and employ the monies so raised, as well as 

 any rents thereof, in trust for the only benefit and better support of the said 

 charity school, and of the poor children, from time to time therein taught, and 

 for books for the poor children, instructing them according to the judgment 

 and discretion of the Vicar of Box for the time being and other trustees, any 

 two or more of them, whereof the Vicar of Box to be always one for ever. 



It appears by the same table of Benefactions, that Thomas Speke 4 of 

 Haslebury, esquire, gave to the charity school 100Z in 1726 ; that Mrs. Anne 

 Speke, relict of Thomas Speke, gave another 100Z for the same purpose in 



1 Bev. George Millard, and his successors, Vicars of Box, Giles Eyre, 

 Ambrose Goddard, and Samuel Webb, and their heirs. 



2 The land at Henley belonging to Box Charity is described in the Tithe 

 apportionment, 1838, as only 2r. 17^?., and only two cottages are mentioned. 



8 Rev. G. Millard and his successors, Thomas Speke, Giles Eyre, and Samuel 

 Webb. 



4 No will can be found either at Doctors' Commons or in the Registry at 

 Salisbury. 



