Reference
P84/29/2
Title
Certified copy of Conveyance
Date free text
20 April 1846; copy 4 May 1977
Production date
From: 1846 To: 1977
Scope and Content
i) John Charles Orlebar of Leighton Heath, Clerk
ii) Thomas Stevens of Egginton
iii) The Dean and Canons of St. George's Chapel, Windsor, Lords of the Manor of Leighton Buzzard otherwise Grovebury
iv) Chandos Lord Leigh, Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh, Warwicks., Lessee for a term of years of the Manor
v) The Vicar of Leighton Buzzard
Conveyance, grant and enfranchisement etc. by i) under "An Act for affording further facilities for the Conveyance and Endowment of sites for schools" with consent of ii), iii) and iv), to v) of
- all that allotment piece or parcel of ground (12p.) in Heath and Reach
-:N. allotment in possession of the Poor of Heath & Reach
-:S. allotment belonging to Anne Russell, widow
-:E. allotment belonging to Charles Major
-:W. High road leading from Woburn to Leighton Buzzard
To hold to Vicar and his successors as a site for a school for poor persons of Heath and Reach, and for the residence of the School Master, on the following trusts:
School to be in Union with the Incorporated National Society;
Minister of Chapelry of Heath and Reach to have sole direction of religious instruction;
General management to be vested in a Committee consisting of the Minister, Churchwardens, and two other persons [property qualifications etc. given] to be elected in March annually by subscribers to the School;
Minister to be Chairman of the Committee and to have a casting vote;
Managers to appoint and dismiss the schoolteacher;
School to be open to inspection by H.M. Inspectors
Endorsed: Note of enrollment in Chancery, 29 May 1846 [Close Rolls (Chancery) 1846, C 54/13375, part 58]
Witnesses: William Southam, David Stevens of Egginton Robt. Wood Lucas, William Robinson, clerks to Mr. Mortimer Sigs: i-iv)
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