SCHOOLS take upon them to teach and instruct the poor children, in which case the salary was to be paid to them. Forster, by a codicil dated 10 September 1694, gave his house and lands in Thistleton wholly, and by another codicil dated 5 June 1700, other lands and tenements in Swineshead partly, for the purposes of his will. The total rents in 1820 were ;^393 QJ. Each of the schoolmasters received a salary of ^^lo, for which he was required to instruct all the poor children belonging to his parish in writing, reading, arithmetic, and the Church Catechism. A charge of about 2s. 3^. per child was made for slates, books, and firing, and the masters were allowed to take paying pupils. All the schools were conducted, as far as possible, in accordance with the National System. The number of free scholars at the schools was as follows : — Greet- ham 28, Exton 32, Langham 34, Empingham 26, and Thistleton 32. No particulars were given of these schools to the Schools Inquiry Commission in 1867, except in the case of Empingham. This school was conducted by the vicar with an assistant. Fifty boys and 13 girls received instruction at fees varying from 2d. to 4*/. and Gd. a week, and the amount received from endowment was ;{^35. The school was not under Government inspection. In 1907 the average attendances were — Greet- ham Church of England 87, Exton National 80, Langham National 108, Empingham National 122, and Thistleton National 23. Exton. — See under Empingham. Glaston. — William Roberts, by a codicil to his will dated 12 September 1725 gave to his brothers Thomas and Edward ;/^ioo to be invested in lands, the rents, after deducting taxes and necessary charges, to be employed in main- taining a schoolmaster or schoolmistress, to be appointed, ruled, and discharged by the said Thomas and Edward, their survivor and his heirs, who should instruct not more than 10 poor children of the parish gratuitously in reading the English tongue, and saying the Church Catechism. Suitable land for the invest- ment could not be obtained ; accordingly Thomas Roberts, by indenture dated I April 1734, gave to the Earl of Harborough for the pur- poses of the trust a rent-charge of ^5 a year on land belonging to him in Blaston, Leicestershire. The land from which the rent-charge was paid, and the right of appointment and dismissal of the teacher, had before 1820 passed to the Earl of Harborough through marriage. In 1820 ^^5 was paid to a schoolmaster for instructing 10 children, boys and girls, in reading and the Church Catechism. The admission age was four years, and the boys left at nine, the girls at ten years of age. In 1867 the income and number of scholars remained the same. The school has apparently ceased to exist. Glaston children now attend the school at Bisbrooke, erected in 1854 (upper department) and 1873 (infants' department) by the late Lord Carbery. Greetham. — See under Empingham. Hambleton. — Mark Clayton and Mary his wife by deed, 24 October 1760, assigned
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trustees, the yearly dividends to be paid to a schoolmaster or mistress at Hambleton, to be appointed by them, for instructing nine poor children of the parish, either orphans or such whose parents were not worth 40J. over and above their necessary household furniture, in the principles of the Church of England, in reading, writing, and casting accounts and other useful learning, or in work or employment fitting for such poor children. They were to be nomina- ted by the vicar between the ages of seven and eleven, and were not to continue in the school after fourteen years of age. The trustees were to appoint and dismiss the teacher, and the churchwardens and overseers, in default of the vicar, to nominate the scholars. In 1820 the dividends, amounting to £2 ^^- ^'^- ^ ye^f) vvere paid to a schoolmistress for teaching nine poor children of the parish to read, and the girls among them also to knit. The school does not occur in the Schools Inquiry list of Endowed Elementary Schools. The Hambleton Village National School had in 1907 an average atten- dance of 49. Clayton's Charity in 1 904 brought in /3 lOJ. The present building was erected by subscription on land given by the late Mr. George Finch. Ketton. — A piece of land called the White Bread Close, rented in 1820 at ;^io a year, had for a long time been devoted to the benefit of the poor. Previous to March 181 9 the rent had been employed in purchasing flannel and cloth- ing, but it was then decided to pay it to the master of the national school at Ketton. By her will 21 April i 791, Sophia Elizabeth Edwards, late of Ketton, directed that the sum of j^30, being interest on ;ri,000 reduced annui- ties, which she desired to appropriate to charit- able purposes, should be employed, either to the support of a school of industry at Ketton, if such should be established there on a liberal plan, well calculated to promote religion, morality, and industry amongst the poor, or to the education of poor female children born in the parish, by placing them at a school where they might acquire useful knowledge and habits of industry, and like moral and religious principles. Testatrix's executrix died in January 1808 intestate, and letters of administration of her personal estate were granted on 22 January to her brother. Sir Gerard Noel Noel. In 1820 nothing had been done by him to carry out his sister's intentions. The teacher's residence at Ketton was subse- quently built with the accumulations of this legacy. In 1907 the average attendance at the Ketton National School was 185. 299
