P83/25/21

Conveyance (enrolled) from John Atkinson of Henlow, clerk and John Crabb of Hitchin, Herts, brewer as trustees for John Atkinson to Henricus Octavus Roe of Baldock, Herts, gentleman.

1 March 1808

From: 1808 To: 1808

consideration £30 - 1 acre of arable land in Church Crofts, Stotfold, adjoining the churchyard E, land formerly of Edward Freeman, now John Atkinson W, abutting S on Church Close and N on Dark Lane, with tithes and now in occupation of William Fisher On the land a messuage was to be erected by H.O.Roe on trust that Roe, during life and after his death, the vicar and churchwardens of Stotfold, nominated a schoolmaster to keep a school for the instruction of poor children and to live in the messuage and occupy the close so long as he should diligently teach reading, writing and arithmetic and particularly the Church catechism and principles of the Christian religion to such reasonable number of poor children in Stotfold whose parents should be members of Church of England Witnesses: Joseph Eade; C.W.Gibbon; Jeremy Carter of Baldock; Ann Hill, servant to Mr.Roe

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Atkinson, John,
Crabb, John,
Roe, Henricus Octavus,
Freeman, Edward,
Fisher, William,
Eade, Joseph,
Gibbon, C.W.,
Carter, Jeremy,
Hill, Ann

Stotfold Endowed Boys School, servants, Stotfold Dark Lane