governors and bishop should deem advisable. At this period the annual
income of the school amounted to £900.
From the Charity Commissioners’ Report, published in 1830, we learn that
the total income of the school property for the year ending December
31st, 1828, amounted to £2,740. 2s. 9d. The following will show the
particulars of the property held by the governors:—The tithes of
Albrighton, in the parish of St. Mary, £101. 15s. 6d.; the tithes of
Chirbury, £1,045. 13s. 4d.; tithes of Clive, in the parish of St. Mary,
£347. 13s.; tithes of Astley, £221. 15s.; tithes of Oxon and Shelton,
£71. 4s.; tithes of Frankwell, £56. 14s.; tithes of Betton, £129. 1s.;
tithes of Whitley and Welbatch, £99.; tithes of Leaton, £150; tithes of
Wollascot, £13.; tithes of Woodcote, Horton, Bicton, and Calcot, £397.;
tithes of Almond Park, Berwick, and Newton, £52. 10s.; tithes from Castle
Foregate, £18. 18s.; schoolhouse at Grinshill, built in pursuance of one
of the orders of Thomas Ashton, for the scholars to retire to in case of
infectious disorders, let for £4. 4s.; spiritual jurisdiction of St.
Mary’s, demised by the corporation to the Rev. W. G. Rowland, the office
of the said ecclesiastical, spiritual, peculiar, and exempt jurisdiction,
with all the profits thereto belonging, and the seal of office for
twenty-one years, at the yearly rent of £1. 6s. 8d., payable to the
governors and trustees of the Free Grammar School, dated 29th January,
1828; Chief rents at Astley and Sansaw, 18s. 3d.; for encroachments on
school garden, 3s.; and £30 per annum arising from the sum of £1,000
invested in the three per cent. consols, purchased in 1828. In January,
1829, the amount of stock was £14,570. 10s. 4d. three per cent consols.
This was subsequently reduced by sales, made under the directions of the
Court of Chancery, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of repairs
on the estates, to £13,311. 19s. 6d.
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