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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D253/A/PF/1/2
TitleFeoffment by William Hodgkinson of Overton gent. To Lawrence Bourne, William Hopkinson the younger, William Bower, John Gregory the younger and Edmund Hodgkinson of Ashover, gents - whereas Samuel Sleigh of Chesterfield, decd, devised by his will (20 May 1684) £4 a year provided that the inhabitants of Ashover should build a free school upon the common of Ashover Hill, near to a well called St William's well, the money to be for the use of the said school and paid out of his land at Wessington Hay, and also devised his lands at Kingslant in Ashover to his son Samuel Sleigh, charged with the payment of 20s a year towards the schoolmaster's wages - and whereas the said William Hodgkinson has, for upwards of 20 years, established and maintained such a school - to ensure the continuance of the school, of the said schoolhouse etc, upon trust that it may be used for ever as a free school for the instruction of the children of Ashover, subject to a peppercorn rent payable to Hodgkinson - with direction that Obadiah Bourne, the present rector, and his successors, after the death or retirement of Titus Wheatcroft, the present schoolmaster, shall have the power to appoint the schoolmaster, and that such appointment shall take place within three months of any vacancy, 3 Jun.
Microfilm M79 vol 5
Date1728
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorParish of Ashover All Saints
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