• Reference
    P106/25/3
  • Title
    Loose papers concerning the school
  • Date free text
    1851 - 1881
  • Production date
    From: 1851 To: 1881
  • Scope and Content
    a) Note on legacy of £100 (less legacy duty and plus interest from 5 Feb.1850 to 25 July 1851) from Mrs. Pritchard to be used towards the erection of a schoolroom and master's house at Wilden, being £95 6s. nett, n.d. [1851], with (on back) notes on contributions (total £435) towards the cost of the school n.d. [1851] [Formerly in P106/25/4] b) Certificate of the school proprietors concerning the completion of the new schoolroom, on fire insurance, on financial arrangements, and on the school site vested in the trustees by conveyance enrolled in Chancery, requesting payment of grant from the "Bedfordshire Board of Education in connection with the National Society" 2 July 1852 [Formerly in P106/25/4] c) Letter [incomplete] headed "Wilden Endowed National School (Peats Charity)" concerning alleged misrepresentation of the Rev.R.G.Chalk over the issue of the management of the charity and the appointment of a new schoolmaster and the selection of Nonconformist candidates for the post. Reciting various events in the recent history of the school n.d. [post 1856] [Formerly in P106/25/19] d) Schedule of deeds to the Wilden School Estate, listing (with names of parties) deeds of 18 Dec. 22 Jas.I [1624], 14 June 5 Chas.I [1629], 23/24 November 1796, 5 February 1834, and 2 September 1851, countersigned with receipt for deeds by Sharman & Smail [solicitors, Bedford], 18 May 1881. Formerly P106/25/3
  • Level of description
    file