Reference
P83/25/72
Title
Correspondence file
Date free text
1821-1923
Production date
From: 1821 To: 1923
Scope and Content
File of correspondence including, amongst other things:
- information on Stotfold Charities made in 1821 noting: Fields Charity – at Court Baron of Rectory Manor, Stotfold, on 28 Jul 1737 John Ward and four others were admitted as tenants to Cop or Copt Willow and Bushey Close, containing 3 acres, of which Edward Field died seised, to hold to the use of vicar and churchwardens under will of William Field, deceased; in 1821 the land, known as Withis Close, was let to James Rowley for £6 per annum of which part was for the vicar’s own use and part for distribution to the poor at Michaelmas; Fitzakerley’s Charity – the will of John Fitzakerley of 3 Sep 1610 left £5 per annum from 300-400 acres of fields in Stotfold, in 1820 in possession of Malcolm MacQueen of Ridgmont, for the poor of Stotfold, four years arrears were owed in 1819 and on receipt were used, with a further sum subscribed by inhabitants, to purchase blankets;
- Trimmer’s Charity – William Trimmer in his will of 27 Jun 1713 gave 5/- per annum from a close called Morrells in Stotfold, in 1820 in possession of Edward Saunders of Stotfold, to buy shoes for the poor;
- refusal of Charity Commission to Trustees’ request to omit a School Board member from governing bodies of Roe’s Charities [1894];
- Charity Commission ruling that a Board elected Trustee could not be omitted simply because the Trustees had not been officially notified of his election by the Board [1897];
- School Board letter to Charity Commission stating that Trustees had paid lump sums to boys the Board considered to be ineligible, ending “The Commissioners will thus see that so far from being used as a means for encouraging the continuance of education a number of boys have been rewarded for attending School during the time they were ineligible to leave and from an educational point of view the sums so paid have been thrown away” [1899];
- Charity Commission letter stating that they had been informed that the Trustees were apprenticing boys who were not scholars of Public Elementary School [1899]
- Trustees’ draft replies to Charity Commissioners defending themselves against a charge by School Board of “misapplying and throwing away” Trust money [1899];
- Charity Commissioners’ view that the Charities Order should be varied to allow the practice of the Trustees regarding payments [1899]
- draft notice to parents and school managers [see P 83/25/124];
- Charity Commission’s ruling that negotiation and probation counted as time in apprenticeship [1910];
- provisional valuation under Finance Act 1910 of 1/1/34 in Astwick belonging to vicar and churchwardens of Stotfold [1914];
- Charity Commission agreement that Trustees could outfit any boy who qualified for a payment [1914];
- Board of Education permission for Trust land to be leased to Parish Council [1917];
- dividends on stock to the credit of Roe’s Endowment for National School had been remitted to the account of the charities of Roe, Hindley and Vaughan [1920];
- Stotfold Parish Council request to renew tenancy of Wrayfield Allotment [1923]
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