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Title
Newton's Charity [Alderman Newton's Educational Foundation].
Date free text
1760
Production date
From: 1760 To: 1760
Admin/biog history
Gabriel Newton resided at Leicester and was an alderman of the corporation of that borough; he appears to have been connected with the Hawes family by marriage.
By deed, dated 15th March 1760, he settled certain freehold estates in Leicestershire upon the Corporation of Leicester and directed out of the rents of the same (among other charities) the sum of £26 per annum, to be paid to the Corporation of Bedford, towards the clothing and education of 25 poor boys in Bedford, sons of persons of the Established Church of England in the borough of Bedford under the following regualtions: the boys to be chosen from the age of 7 to the age of 14 years; each boy to be allowed annually, or once in 15 or 18 months, as the Corporation should think proper, a green coat, waistcoat and breeches not under 20d a yard; one shirt of flaxen cloth not under 13d a yard and such stockings, caps and other apparel as Alderman Newton had then usually allowed for some time past; the residue of the £26 to be paid to a master to teach the boys reading, writing, arithmetic, singing of psalms and toning of responses during divine service, in such parish church or chapel as the Corporation of Bedford shall think proper. No boy to be admitted whose parents receive any collection of benefit from the poor rates. No town is to receive the donation where the creed of St Athanasius is not publicly read in the church or chapel used for divine service on the days appointed by the rubrick and where the boys shall not be permitted to tone the responses in divine service.
As at August 2023 the governing document is the Scheme of Ministry of Education dated 21 Feb 1957, as amended by section 74 resolution dated 5th April 2006, as amended on 10 Mar 2020. The charity provides financial assistance in connection with courses undertaken by 13-25 year olds in the Borough of Bedford, including the rural area, and otherwise promoting the education of beneficiaries.
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