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Conveyance (B & S & release)
Additional settlement for the maintenance of the school. (i) Fra. Ashton, London, wid Jane Cart, London, wid Two of the sisters and coheirs of Wm. Chew citizen and distiller of London decd. Thos. Aynscombe, London, ( s & h of Hen. Aynscombe late citizen and haberdasher of London decd, and w. Eliz., the other sister and coheir of Wm. Chew) in his mother's right, coheir of Wm. Chew. (ii) Jas. Cart, London, gent, s & h of Jane Cart. Sam. Cart, late of St. Sepulchres without, and now of St. Andrews Holborn, Esq. Jn. Lord, snr. Dunstable, clerk Wm. Ginger, Edlesborough, Bucks, gent. [Reciting: AD 1471/2, BH 420:- Wm. Chew for many years before his death had provided clothing for 30 poor boys of Dunstable, where Chew was born, and before his death declared his intention of setting up a charity school for the teaching 40 poor boys of Dunstable reading, writing and accounts, and to provide clothes and books. (i) have therfore already erected the school and provided a master and given the boys clothing. (i) to (ii) in trust. --- the school house, Dunstable wherein the schoolmaster lives and the poor boys are taught --- farm, Caddington, Herts, occ. Hen. Long. --- farm, Scuridge End, Luton, occ. Thos. Swaine. --- parcel of land, H. Regis occ. Hen Tomkins -- parcels of land, Whipsnade & Flamstead occ. Wm. Howard. - so that the schoolhouse should be forever inhabited by the master and for the teaching of the charity boys. - the rents and profits from the farms to be used a) for repairs and maintenance of the farms and schoolhouse, then to apply £40p.a. for the master's salary. He is to teach the boys to end and write and cast accounts so as to fit them for apprentices, and to provide them with pens and ink. £37 p.a. to be applied for books, paper, firing, and other necessities, for repairs to premises, and towards defraying the cost of the annual dinner of the trustees. The residue to be used for placing out boys as apprentices to some handicraft trade, provided that the sum per boy does not exceed £5. The whole surplus to be accumulated until it amounts to £40, and in the meantime not to be broken into for apprentincing. Trustees to meet annually in the Thurs. of Whit-week at Dunstable, to elect the boys, whose parents are not dissenters but have been of the communion of the C of E for 2 yrs. previously, to inspect accounts, and make rules and orders. No. of trustees to be 7. £1 10 0 to be spent for cost of annual dinner, which is to be ehld at the Windmill and Still, the Sugar Loaf and the Black Lion and Maypole alternately while these inns belong to the family of descendants of (i) (i) to nominate the schoolmaster, for their lives, and their issue male, in default, the same to rest with the teustees; preference to be given to the kindred of (i) who apply for the post of masterm and are duly qualified. Boys to be 7 yrs old on admission - to be proved by certificate or affidavit, and not to stay beyond 14 yrs of age; not more than 1 child of same parents in school at any one time. When only 3 of original trustees remain, they are to make conveyance to new trustees, and so on whenever the number is reduced to 3. The master is to teach the boys so far as to make them perfect in the reading of the English tongue and in the rules of grammar and in writing and accounts so far as to fit them for handicraft trades, to find them with pens an ink, and keep a book where the names of the scholars are entered- admission, leaving, apprenticing, and to keep all accounts and orders of the trustees. Every Sunday and Holy-day and other days when divine service is performed in the parish church of Dunstable, the master is to take the boys to the service, and if any parents refuse to permit a boy to go to church ( except for sickness, or a fortnight in harvest time, or other extraordinary cause) such child on three successive defaults is to be expelled. If at any time there shall not be sifficient no. of poor boys in Dunstable to make the number up to 40, then the places may be filled by boys from Kensworth, Luton, Edlesborough, Caddington or H Regis. Strong chest with 3 locks to be kept in the schoolhouse for keeping the deeds and accounts. Trustees may make leases of the premises up to 21 years. Reciting: that the premises are only worth £111 6 8 p.a. (i) Have therefore purchased the farm at Sewell worth £41p.a. and have agreed to convey it to augment the original endowment] (i) to (ii) --- mess. & farm, H. Regis & Totternhoe purch of Wm. & Ruth Newman. occ. Ruth Newman. In trust for the purposes expressed above. The master is to keep in a book a careful copy of all leases and agreements. Apprenticeship premium now raised to £8. Wns. Jas. Osbaldeston, Marsh Dickinson, Thos. Athow, Wm. Besley.