Reference
CD401
Title
Potton Charities (See DDP and Char Com Rep pp32-5). Conveyance:
Date free text
15 Sep 1770
Production date
From: 1770 To: 1770
Accession number 1810, deposited 1947; Accession number 1811, deposited 1947 Accession number 1901, deposited 1949; Accession number 2134, deposited 1952; All catalogued at CD1-548
Scope and Content
(i) John Whittred of Cambridge, gentleman, alderman & wife Mary
(ii) William Hankin gentleman, Thomas Hankin, plumber & glazier
John Kitchin, baker, Stephen Raymond, wool stapler
John Whiskin, sadler, Henry Winn, grocer & tallow-chandler
John Raymond, woolstapler, Edmund Bumberry/Bunberry, turner;
Henry Sheffield, apothecary (trustees; all of Potton)
(iii) James Andrew of Holborn, gentleman
Recites:-
Will of Dame Constance Burgoyne (codicil) of Wroxall, Warwickshire, widow, 19 September 1710 left £100 for a charity school at Sutton or Potton. Vicars & churchwardens invested £53 (part), and with money from (ii) bringing it up to £60 it is now to be laid out;
--2 acres 20 poles in Over, Cambridgeshire, in a fen called Farther Bluntsmeer, adjoining land of heirs Christopher Green & of Thomas Johnson & of James Andrew; lately divided & stumped out from rest; being part of a 4 acre close (rest of close being conveyed to parish of Potton for charity school by James Andrew).
On trust:- from the proceeds is to be reimbursed the £6 lent; rest to be applied to maintenance of schoolmaster of sufficient capacity to teach as many Potton children reading, writing & arithmetic as the trustees think fit. When trustees are reduced by death to 3, they shall be replaced.
Witnesses: Searle Palmby, John Pedley, Henry Judd.
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