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| | | |  | 1 - Bargain and sale by George Marsh of Ashover, mason to Edward Rag, churchwarden of Ashover, in consideration of £5 paid by Anthony Storer of Heage, tailor, of a newly erected cottage upon the Hay, near to Joshua Woostenholme's cottage, with an adjacent parcel of land (3r.), being upon the Hay at Milltown, upon trust to the use of Storer for life and then to the use of the schoolmaster of the newly erected school (lately erected upon Ashover Hillside by William Hodgkinson of Overton, Merchant) - provided that if Marsh and his heirs shall pay 5s pa to Storer and 1s pa to the schoolmaster for Storer's life, and 5s pa thereafter to the school master, then Marsh and his heirs may occupy and enjoy the said cottage. - 12 Feb [1706] |
| | | | | 2 - Feoffment 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 - 1728 |