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| Borough Schools | Borough Schools | George Tate Esqr | About 850 links SW of | An excellent stone building of modern erection | ||
| Endowed | Borough Schools | F. Holland Esqr | Pottergate Tower | and consists of four apartments the one in the | ||
| (Boys and Girls) | Borough Schools | Mr Thompson | West Wing is used as a Girls School, and the other three | |||
| as Boys Schools, there is also a good house used | ||||||
| as the Masters residence, attached to the establishment. | ||||||
| The Schools including the Masters Residence was | ||||||
| built at the expense of the corporation who have the | ||||||
| appointment of the Master and Mistress and the payment | ||||||
| of salaries &c. The Schools are endowed in the following | ||||||
| Manner. Mark Forster by his will bearing date 20th | ||||||
| September 1726 left a rent charge of Ten pounds a year | ||||||
| payable out of the Lough House Estate and a House | ||||||
| in Clayport Street for the Education of poor Freemen’s | ||||||
| children, and Benjiman Barton by his will dated 17th December 1737 bequeathed | ||||||
| the interest of Fifty Pounds for the education of unfreemen’s children of the | ||||||
| Borough of Alnwick. The Grammar School which forms a portion of this | ||||||
| establishment is endowed by £4.1s.8d paid annually by the commissioners | ||||||
| of Woods and Forests which sum is augmented by a vol |
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| corporation and all sons of Freemen who apply are taught classics free | ||||||
| and the children who attend the school |
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| have to pay from 10 to £15 a quarter to the corporation for their Education | ||||||
| at these Schools. David Allison AM Esq Master.Miss Crerer Mistress | ||||||
| Edw. Gillespie SREngs | ||||||
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