In the year 1899 the receipts from endowment, exclusive of the dividends upon the Hawkshead repairs and improvements fund, were 1921. 4s. 7d., and from tuition fees 447., and the following payments were made : Hawkshead £ s. d. continued. The balance in hand, which was 401. 2s. 9d. at the beginning of the year was reduced by the 31st December to 361. 2s.* The Rev. R. M. Samson, headmaster, is the secretary to the governors. The valuer's fee appearing in the above list was incurred in connection with the sale of Gallow barrow Cottage. A separate account is kept in respect of the Repairs and Improvements Fund. In 1899 a sum of 131. 5s. derived from the sale of coppice wood was also paid to the credit of this account. The dividends upon the capital sum of Consols amounted to 211. 4s. 8d., making the total receipts for the year 341. 9s. 8d. The payments for repairs during the year amounted to 267. 2s. 7d., and 10l. was paid to the Official Trustees towards the repayment of the loan above referred to, and the balance in hand, which was 167. Os. 3d. on the 1st of January, was reduced to 14l. 7s. 4d. by the end of the year.† The original letters patent and statutes were produced by Mr. Samson at the Inquiry, and also a large number of deeds, including the deed dated 10th February 1588-9, referred to in the Report of 1820, and a deed dated 13th February 1772, being the original conveyance of the property known as "The High." The Hawkshead Public Elementary School Foundation. School The establishment of the Elementary School as a separate Foundation under the above Hawkshead name, by a Scheme under the Endowed Schools Acts, approved by Her Majesty on the Public 9th May 1891, has been mentioned above, under the head of the Grammar School Elementary Foundation. A further Scheme under the same Acts for the regulation of the newly- Foundation. established Foundation was approved by Her Majesty on the same day. By this Scheme it is provided that the Foundation shall be administered by a governing body consisting of seven competent persons duly qualified to discharge the duties of the office, to be appointed, each for a term of five years, by the following electing bodies in the following proportions : Three by the Governors of the Hawkshead Grammar School; Two by the vestry of the township of Hawkshead and Monk Coniston with Skelwith; and Two by subscribers to the school of the Foundation, being in each year those who have subscribed and paid to the school not less than 5s. each in such year and also in the year before. After providing for the management of the Trust, and directing the Governors to render accounts to the Charity Commissioners and to exhibit copies of them for public * On the 31st December 1900 the balance in hand was 35l. 19s. 11d. † In 1900 a sum of 381. was expended on repairs, and at the end of the year there was an adverse balance of 21. 2s. 8d. Hawkshead Foundation -continued. Hawkshead. inspection in some convenient place in Hawkshead, and after vesting the freehold and leasehold land and bereditaments belonging to the Foundation in the Official Trustee of Public Charity Lands, the Scheme provides that the school of the Foundation shall be an Elementary Elementary School for boys, girls, and infants, to be maintained in the parish of HawksSchool head in the existing school buildings or in other suitable buildings thereafter to be provided for the purpose by the Governors, and shall be conducted as a Public Elementary School under section 7 of the Elementary Education Act, 1870. The Governors are empowered to appoint, pay, and dismiss all teachers in the school, and to charge such tuition fees suitable in an Elementary School as they shall fix from time to time. Religious instruction in accordance with the principles of the Christian Faith is to be given in the school, but the Scheme contains the provisions for exemption from attending prayer or religious worship, and from lessons on religious subjects, required by section 15 of the Endowed Schools Act, 1869. Secular instruction is to be given in the subjects prescribed by the regulations of the Education Department for the time being. Grammar School Library. Rev. William Gift. The Endowment of the Foundation consists only of the site and buildings of the Elementary schools, the particulars of which are set forth in the schedule to the Scheme, in the following terms: 1. All that piece of land in the above-named parish of Hawkshead, containing 413 square yards or thereabouts, bounded on the north by the Sun Inn and yard, on the east by the public highway, on the south by the Grammar or Upper School and playground, and on the west by the churchyard wall, with the building thereon lately used for the purposes of the English or Lower School of the above-mentioned Foundation named the Hawkshead Endowed School, with the yard, out-offices, and appurtenances thereunto belonging. 2. All that piece of land in the same parish, containing 417 square yards or thereabouts, with the buildings and erections thereon, bounded on the north, on the east, and on the south by land belonging to Myles Sandys, and on the west by the public highway, and lately used as a playground for the purposes of the said English or Lower School. 3. All that piece of land in the same parish, containing 530 square yards or thereabouts, bounded on the north by land belonging to Myles Sandys on the east, and on the south by land belonging to the said Foundation named the Hawkshead Endowed School, and on the west by the public highway, which piece of land, containing 530 square yards or thereabouts, with the building thereon lately used as an infant school, with the yard and offices and appurtenances thereunto belonging, was part of the land and buildings lately used for the purposes of the said English or Lower School. The governors of the Foundation at the date of the Inquiry were the following persons: Appointed by the governors of Hawkshead Grammar School Appointed by the vestry of Hawkshead and Monk Coniston, Thomas Satterthwaite. -{ Vacant. W. A. Rushworth. Dr. Allen represented the school at the Inquiry, and stated that it was conducted as a public elementary school. The Grammar School Library; Gifts of Daniel Rawlinson and Rev. Thomas Sandys (see page 4). The library is kept, as has been already stated, in a room on the first floor of the old grammar school building. It consists of the books given by the will of the Rev. Thomas Sandys, and of those subsequently purchased with the interest of the sum of 1,000l. bequeathed by him for the purposes described above in the report of 1820, with the addition of books purchased out of the gifts of Daniel Rawlinson and William Wilson. There are in all about 2,500 volumes, and some of the older books are said to be of considerable value. A catalogue of the library has recently been made as mentioned above, at the expense of Colonel Sandys. The Gift of the Rev. William Wilson (see page 5). At the time of the inquiry beld by Mr. Skirrow in December 1862, to which reference has been made above, the endowment of this Charity was represented by a sum of 1457. 4s. 4d. Consols, but very soon afterwards the amount was increased by the investment of moneys in hand arising from surplus income to 1917. 10s. 1d. This sum, with 9467. 4s. 2d. Consols standing in the same names, made up the total sum of Hawkshead. 1,1371. 14s. 3d. Consols mentioned on page 20 above. Both sums were transferred to the Official Trustees of Charitable Funds on the 21st April 1863. Rev. William Mr. Skirrow reported that the governors of the school expended the income in the Giftpurchase of prizes for the scholars and books for the library. The accounts of the continued. Charity were even at that time merged in those of the grammar school, and it is now made part of the Grammar School Foundation under the Scheme of 1891. Bequest of the Rev. Thomas Sandys, and Gifts of George Satterthwaite and An account of the origin and history of these benefactions, which now form part of Rev. Thomas the Grammar School Foundation administered under the Scheme of 1891, is given in Sandys' the Report of 1820. The boys boarded, clothed, and maintained out of the income of Bequest, &c. the Charity, as mentioned in that Report, were afterwards known as the "Blue Coat Boys," and the Charity was usually referred to as the "Blue Coat Charity." At the date of. Mr. Skirrow's visit the administration of the Charities was slightly different from that described in the Report of 1820, only two boys being boarded and clothed out of the income, although six were clothed and received their education free at the grammar school. The following passages are taken from Mr. Skirrow's report upon these Charities : "The governors of the grammar school (of whom the vicar now happens to be one) and the master of the same school have for many years acted as the trustees of the Charities. "As there is no boarding establishment connected with the Charity, two boys born in the parish and coming from a remote part thereof are boarded at a farmer's house in Hawkshead at 107. a year each, and four boys of the same class with their parents at Hawkshead at 57. a year each. They are clothed in blue and are called the Blue Coat boys; shoes and other garments are supplied by the Charity. "Dr. Hickie received 17. 8s. per head for giving a common English education to the boys in the grammar school, and providing them with books, stationery, &c. The Blue Boys are in future to attend at the National school at the same charge as the other children, viz., 2s. 6d. a quarter, whereby a saving to the Charity will be effected.” In the year ending 12th May 1862, a sum of 81. Es. was paid to Dr. Hickie for the education of six boys, and for their books and stationery, and 587. 12s. 5d. for the board of two boys at 107. each, and for clothing them and the other four boys. An account has been given above of the loan in 1839 of a sum of 1,1391. 5s. 1d. from the endowment of these Charities to the. governors of the grammar school in order to defray the costs of the Chancery proceedings in connection with the recovery of the Sun Inn, and also of the sale of the cottage and land at Gallowbarrow, and the investment of the proceeds in India 3 per Cent. Stock. By the Scheme of the 7th August 1863, of which the main provisions have been given above, these Charities were amalgamated with the Grammar School, and they are now included in the Grammar School Foundation constituted by the Scheme established under the Endowed Schools Acts in 1891. The endowment formerly belonging to them is included in the schedule of property belonging to that foundation appearing on page 18 above. The interests of poor children are provided for in the Scheme by means of the "Thomas Sandys scholarships, and by the clause empowering the governors to pay the tuition fees of poor orphan children in public elementary schools in Hawkshead, though the latter provision has been made ineffectual by the adoption in the public elementary schools of the provisions of the Elementary Education Act, 1891. The Rev. W. Wilson's Charity (see p. 7). Charity. The sum of 1507., which at the date of the Report of 1820 was in the hands of Rev. W. bankers at Ulverston, was invested on the 11th March 1823 in the purchase of a sum of Wilson's 1607. New 4 per Cent. Annuities. In August 1862 this sum was standing in the names of three persons, of whom two were dead, and under the authority of the Charity Commissioners it was transferred on the 20th January following to the Official Trustees of Charitable Funds. It is now represented by the same amount of New Consols in their names, producing an aunual income of 41. 8s. Rev. W. Hawkshead. Mr. Skirrow ascertained at his inquiry, held in December 1862, that the Charity was administered by the incumbent and churchwardens of the parish church of Hawkshead, and that the recipients were selected from the whole parish, and it may be presumed that this practice was in accordance with the wishes of the donor, who was about to be consulted on this question at the time that the Report of 1820 was issued. The income, which amounted at the date of Mr. Skirrow's visit to 47. 168., was distributed to poor persons of the parish in sums varying from 28. to 4s. each, and in this case also the direction of the donor, that the recipients should not be in the receipt of parochial relief, was disregarded. The Market The Charity was included in the apportionment Order of 1867, referred to on page 28 below, but was excepted from the Scheme of 1897, though power was reserved to the Charity Commissioners by the Order establishing the latter to establish a Scheme for this Charity and Park's upon the application which had been received from the trustees in each case. The administration of the Charity is still in the hands of the vicar of Hawkshead and the four churchwardens. Under the terms of the Order of 1867 the income is apportioned as follows:-37. 19s. 3d. to Hawkshead, and 8s. 9d. to Brathay. The distribution is made in small sums of money, from 2s. to 5s. in amount. The list of recipients, which is revised from year to year, is posted up on the church door. They are generally about 20 in number. The account book was produced at the Inquiry. The Market House. This Charity was not mentioned at the Inquiry, but has been brought to the notice of the Commissioners shortly before the printing of this Report. No documentary record of its origin is known to exist, but a full account of its history, and of the trusts, so far as they could then be ascertained, of the original building, is given in a petition to the lords of the manor of Hawkshead, which is not dated, but can from external and internal evidence be assigned with tolerable certainty to the latter end of the year 1789. The petition is in the following terms: To the Most Noble GEORGE DUKE OF MONTAGU and the Right Honourable EDWARD EARL OF The Humble Petition of the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor, Landholders, Customary SHEWETH: That a space of ground in the public and open market in the town of Hawkshead containing in length 47 feet and in breadth 18 feet, has been taken up and occupied by an erection and building called the Market Shambles or Butcher-house, and the yearly profits arising from the same applied from time to time for upwards of 100 years last, to the rebuilding thereof into its present form; and that there is now in hand together with the arrears of rent now due and to be collected, the sum of 70%. which remains to be appropriated. That after the most diligent search from the Parish Records, Wills at Richmond, and attentive enquiry among the landholders and customary tenants in the parish, no document can be found upon what principle or foundation the said building was first erected and enlarged, nor upon what exactitude of trust the said sum of money now due therefrom is to be disposed of save from a current accompt for the years 1764, 1765, and 1766, found in the Parish Chest that the yearly rents were for these years then applied to the repairs of the said building, a certain parcel of road leading from the town of Hawkshead and a coat or shedhouse situate at a place there called the Great Boat about four miles distant from the town of Hawkshead and in the said parish as a shelter from storms when travelling and returning to and from the ferriage across the lake called Windermere Water (there being formerly no dwelling-house or outhousing on the Lancashire side of the said lake there, but the said shed as a shelter seat or barbour for passengers with their goods by the ferry), nor has there been any yearly rent reserved or paid to the lord or lords lady or ladies of the said manor for the customary inheritance of the said shambles or butcher-house, and the ground and soil whereon the same stands. That from the uncertainty of the trust thereof it hath for many years last past been neglected and is now much out of repair, and in a ruinous condition, the upper appartments thereof consisting of five small rooms occupied as repository shops, and underneath the same a thorough open apartment called the Shambles or Butcher-house rented in several stands and used by the butchers on market and fair days. That the repairing of the said shed for passengers from alteration of circumstances and Improvements since made in the country may be almost saved to be or can be done away from any aid or assistance out of the rents or profits arising from the said Shambles or Butcher-house which is capable of being enlarged and made more useful and profitable than in its present state, the said shed at Great Boat being now and for a long time past disused, there being many years ago a new The Market continued. dwelling-house with suitable outhousing built there by the owner of the ferry and afterwards by him Hawkshead. and his posterity, and now is occupied as an Inn for the reception of travellers and lately with the said ferriage become the property of John Christian, Esq., a member of Parliament for the City of HouseCarlisle. That your Petitioners, therefore, in order that the said Shambles or Butcher-house may be preserved and perpetuated to the benefit of the public, and for use and ornament to the town of Hawkshead have proposed and resolved to pull down the present building with its appurtenances and make a new and more commodious erection upon the same ground, and an additional space more taken up thereto in length 28 feet, and in breadth 5 feet in no manner incommoding the public or interrupting private property, thereby making the whole of the intended new building to contain and take up in length 75 feet, and in breadth 23 feet of ground, in which new building will be contained a spacious and convenient hall or court room for the customary tenants of the manor to assemble in at days and times when the lords of the manor or their steward (for the time being) shall please to call upon them to pay their rents and fines and do fealty suit and service, as also to serve and be made use of for any public meetings and occasional parish business, there being no convenient room or place in the town of Hawkshead for any such purposes but by permission. That the liberal contributions of your petitioners, and other benefactors, that hereafter may be obtained, together with the said stock or sum of l., will enable your petitioners to effectuate and compleat the said intended new building according to the plan and dimensions thereof hereunto annexed, which exclusive of the old materials is by a skilful and experienced workmen estimated and computed to amount to the sum of 2247. or thereabouts. That your petitioners in order to borrow and sufficiently secure to any person and persons who may be pleased to advance such sum or sums of moneys from time to time as may be requisite, not exceeding in the whole the sum of 100l. to be borrowed upon the premises for carrying the same into execution, are advised that the lords of the manor should, if your lordships shall so think proper, be made a party in a deed of trust to be prepared at the expense of your petitioners, and approved by your lordships' counsel, to such uses, upon such trusts, and for such ends, intents, and purposes, and with and under such clauses and limitations therein to be specified, reserving such a yearly rent according to the custom of the manor of Hawkshead, as your lordships shall be pleased to affix thereon. That the said parcel of road which begins at a place called Bassfield Gate, and from thence leading to and ending at a place called the Sepulchre, containing in length to be kept in repair, 548 yards is now in complete condition, and a good road, and great care shall be taken to insert in its proper place in the uses of such deed of trust the perpetual preservation of the said road and the fence belonging to it out of the rents and profits arising and increasing from the said intended new building. Your petitioners therefore humbly pray your lordships to charitably and benevolently condescend to your petitioners' request in a matter so much wanted for the purposes aforesaid, and for the benefit of the country, the public good, and the community at large resorting to Hawkshead fairs and market, and therein to contribute such other relief in the premises as to your lordships' wisdom and goodness shall seem meet. And your petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray, and so forth. On the 1st December 1789, a parish meeting was held, after public notice, at which it was resolved that three of the principal inhabitants or landholders of each of the four divisions of the parish of Hawkshead, together with the minister and schoolmaster for the time being, should be appointed trustees of the Market Shambles or Butcher-house in Hawkshead, with free and full power to repair, rebuild, grant leases, collect and receive rents, and act in all respects concerning the property as to their judgments should seem best, subject, however, in the application of the said rents to the intention of the original foundation, so far as it could be known; that all business concerning the application of any money arising from the property should be transacted at meetings convened by public notice specifying the business to be transacted thereat, and should be decided according to the opinion of the majority of the trustees present, and that in order to give further authority to the trustees in the execution of the trust the lord of the manor should be requested to admit them, or some one or more of them, tenants to the said premises, reserving to himself such rent on the same as to him should seem meet. It was further resolved at the same meeting, after the individual trustees had been selected and appointed, that in case of a vacancy in the trust by death, alienation, or otherwise, the division to which such member of the trust belonged should elect a successor within three calendar months from the date of the vacancy, and should enter the name of the person appointed in a book to be kept for that and other purposes of the trust; that the election should be made by a majority of the electors attending in consequence of public notice given at the church, specifying the time, place, and business, and that in default of such election the appointment should devolve upon the surviving trustees. A At a court baron of the manor held on the same day (1st December 1789) a presentment was made to the jury setting forth a summary of the facts stated in the petition and submitting the names of the trustees appointed at the meeting for admittance as |