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Poster 'Monstrous Proceedings at The Bedford Charity Board'.

16th July 1855

From: 1855 To: 1855

Poster addressed to the 'Inhabitants' advising that the Board has voted to take boarders at the Grammar School which will 'swallow up the funds of the Charity and ultimately deprive the Inhabitants of their Apprentice Fees, Service Clothing Money...and afterwards the Alms.' The poster includes a list of the Trustees with which way they voted and who was absent and reminds that 'the first six come out in November' i.e. are due for re-election.

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Smith, Jabez,
Wootton, Charles,
Trapp, John,
Higgins, George,
Baxter, John,
Howard, James,
Fanshawe, Frederick,
Hurst, George,
Blower, William,
Miller, G.H.,
Pressland, John,
Kilpin, W.W.,
Williams, W.,
Carling, Thomas,
Jones, William,
Knibb, Joseph,
Nash, W.J.,
Rolls, Samuel,
Verey, Henry,
Skene, George Robert,
Hornsey, Joseph,
Apthorp, James,
Ames, Joseph,
Clarke, Thomas,
Clifton, Thomas,
Shelton, Henry Robert,
Mantel, John,
Kingston, William,
Clifton, Benjamin,
Read, Charles,
Maynard, James,
Dines, Charles,
Wilson,
Aston,
Sheppard,
Tansley,
Leech,
Harrison,
Pestell,
Le Mesurier,
Livius

elections, Bedford Charity, BEDFORD