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A History of the County of Oxford
… Wilcote manor to provide clothes for 6 men, 6 women, 3 boys, and 3 girls, resident churchgoers who were to wear …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was hoped to reintroduce free tuition for some Woodstock boys when income increased through rack-renting. 19 By the … the mid 18th century the pupils in 1825 comprised 20 or 30 boys, chiefly sons of the 'most respectable' townsmen. 24 … accommodation and a small, ill ventilated schoolroom; 15 boys, mostly from outside the town, were given a …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… vestry resolved to appoint a mistress to teach nine poor boys, 1 and the Clayton charity of 40 s. a year was paid … 4 In 1818 there were 120 children, 5 but in 1825 only 50 boys attended daily, with an additional 50 girls on Sundays; … land. 7 Apart from the National school, then reduced to 20 boys, there were two other day-schools containing 30-40 …
A History of the County of Somerset
… turnips and mangolds, plant beans, and hoe wheat. Young boys kept sheep in the Levels, drove plough horses, planted … 23 About 1825 the Sunday school taught 34 girls and 11 boys at the vicar's expense and 34 children paid to attend a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… have a small place of worship. A national school for boys, girls, and infants, built in 1832, and enlarged in …
The Environs of London
… of educating, clothing, and putting out apprentice, six boys, sons of shipwrights who have served their … At first there were not found a sufficient number of boys, properly qualified, to fulfil the donor's bequest, … more numerous, and the funds being adequate to it, eight boys are now educated, clothed, and apprenticed. This parish …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… for the maintenance, education, and apprenticing of twelve boys; in 1835 a school-house was built. Another school was …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… The school was closed in 1979. 83 CHARITIES FOR THE POOR. Boys born on the land of Wootton Rivers manor were entitled …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the time of that establishment by Henry VIII., for forty boys: there are two exhibitions to Balliol College, Oxford, … was instituted by Queen Elizabeth, in 1561, for twelve boys. It stands the third in claim to six scholarships … land for the maintenance and education of fourteen boys to be sent to either of the universities for seven …