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Copy Trust deed: (1) Gabriel Newton of Leicester, gentleman (2) Nicholas Throseby esquire, Mayor of Leicester, and the bailiffs and burgesses of Leicester. 60 acres in Barwell, Leicestershire, (named) and barn etc "hereon, capital messuage in Shilton, messuage in Shilton, and lands in Shilton and Earl Shilton; impropriate tithes of Bushby in the parish of Thurnby; lands in Great Stretton, Leicestershire, for charitable purposes, including £26 per annum to the mayor, bailiffs etc of Bedford, to clothe, school and educate 25 boys of indigent parents of the Established Church of England."

15 March 1760 (copy c1806)

From: 1760 To: 1810

Newton gives his reasons for establishing the charities as follows: 'Whereas it has pleased God to endow the said Gabriel Newton with a plentiful fortune but to take away his only son whereby he is left childless and therefore the said GN being desirous of settling great part of his substance to charitable uses and having it much at heart to Establish such a charity as may be most condusive to promote the General Good of Mankind from a long series of reflection and observation of life the said GN hath sufficient reason to conclude that a religious education of children will of all others be the most extensive branch of charity as its salutary effects may possibly operate in some degree to the latest posterity. For if children whose parents are not able to bear the expense of putting them to school and either totally negligent or not capable of instructing them at home are by the beneficence of others taught to read and write and therewith for a series of years obliged daily and duly to attend and join in the service of the church may it not reasonably be hoped that they are in the most likely way to receive such impressions of religion as may sometime work together for their future happiness as well as be a means to improve their condition in this present life and that such children so educated (with the assistance of God's Grace) becoming men of truly virtuous and Christian Lives may possibly by their shining example in the deportment of themselves and the prudent government and pious instruction of their families so effectually implant amongst their children servants and neighbours such principles of religion and virtue as may happily derive to future generations inestimable blessings.'

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paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1806'

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Newton, Gabriel,
Throseby, Nicholas

gentleman, Mayor, EDUCATION, religious education, Leicester, Leicestershire