Bedford School: better management of estates given by Sir William and Dame Alice Harpur, and other provisions Act 1826
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1826 c. 29 |
| Year | 1826 |
ANNO SEPTIMO
GEORGII IV. REGIS.
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Cap.
29.
An Act for the better Management and Disposition
of the Estates given by Sir William Harpur
Knight, and Dame Alice his Wife, for a free and
perpetual School in the Town of
Bedford,
and
other Purposes, and of the Rents and Profits
thereof.
[26th May 1826.]
W
HEREAS His Majesty King Edward the Sixth, by His Leiters
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of
England,
bearing Patent,
Date the Fifteenth Day of August in the Sixth Year of 6 Edw"6'
His Reign, and inrolled in the Rolls Chapel in the sarae Year, on
the Petition of the Mayor, BailifFs, Burgesses, and Commonalty of
the Town
ofBedford,
to Him made, for the erecting and establishing
of
a
free and perpetual School there for the Education and Instruction
of Children and Youth, did of His special Grace, certain Knowledge,
and mere Motion, and by the Advice of His Council, grant and give
Licence, for Him, His Heirs and Successors, to the said Mayor,
BailifFs, Burgesses, and Commonalty of the said Town oi
Bedford,
and their Successors, that they or their Successors might and should
make, erect, found, and establish a free and perpetual Grammar
School in the said Town of
Bedford,
for the Education, Institution,
and Instruction of Children and Youth in Grammar, Literature, and
good Manners, to endure at all Times for ever, and the same School,
to be of
One
Master and One Usher, for ever to continue ; and did
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also grant and give Licence that the Warden or Keepei of the
College of the ßlessed Mary Winton in
Oxford,
commonl) called
New
College
Oxford,
and the Fellows of the same for the Time benag,
or the major Part of them for the Time being, from Time to Time,
when it should be necessary or just Occasion should require, by
their Discretion, should nominate, elect, and admit the said Master
or the said Usher of the said School in the said Town, and forgood,
just, and reasonable Causes and Occasions, change and remove them
from Time to Time, and nominate, elect, and admit other skilful
and fit Men in the said Places or Offices of Master or Usher of the
said School; and that the said Intention of the said Mayor, Bailins,
Burgesses, and Commonalty of the said Town should take the better
Effect, His said Majesty did also grant and give Licence to the said
Mayor, Bailiffs, Burgesses, and Commonalty of the said Town, that
they or their Successors might have, enjoy, perceive, acquire, pur-
chase, and receive Lordships, Manors, Lands, Tenements, Rents,
Reversions, Revenues, Services, and Hereditaments whatsoever, and
other Possessions whatsoever, to the yearly Value of Forty Pounds
above all Charges andReprizes, of the Gift, Grant, Bequest, Demise,
or Assignment of any Person or Persons whomsoever, willing to give,
grant, bequeath, or assign the same unto them, though the same
Lordships, Manors, Lands, and Tenements were holden of the said
King in capite, or otherwise, mediately or immediately, or of any
other Person or Persons, to have and to hold to the same Mayor,
Bailiffs, Burgesses, and Commonalty of the said Town, and their
Successors, in and to the Sustentation of the said Master and Usher,
and for the Continuance of the said School for ever, for the Marriage
of poor Maidens of the said Town, and for nourishing and educating
poor Children there, and also for the distributing in Alms the Residue
and Surplus of the Proceeds of the said Premises to the Poor of the
Grant from said Town for the Time being : And whereas by Indenture, bearing
SS""
Date the Twenty-second Day of April in the Eighth Year of the
Harpur/ Reign of Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth, inrolled in the High
22d April Court of Chancery the First Day of August One thousand seven
I56ß,
hundred and ninety-three, and made or mentioned to be made
between the Mayor, Bailiffs, Burgesses, and Commonalty of the said
Town of Bedford of the one Part, and Sir William Harpur Knight
and Alderman of the City of London, and Dame Alice his Wife, of
the other Part; after reciting the said Letters Patent, it is witnessed,
that the said Mayor, Bailiffs, Burgesses, and Commonalty, for and
towards the Erection of the said School, to be and to have Continu-
ance according to the Form and Effect of the said Letters Patent,
did thereby erect, make, found, and establish a free and perpetual
School within the said Town of Bedford, in a Messuage there, corn-
monly called The Free Schoolhouse, which the said Sir William
Harpur of late built, and the same School to be of One Master and
One Usher, for ever to continue; and the said Mayor, Bailiffs, Bur-
gesses, and Commonalty did thereby name, elect, and admit unto the
Place or Office of Master of the said School, Edmond Green, and
unto the Place or Office of the Usher of the said School, Robert
Elbone; mdthe said Indenture did further witness, that the said
Sir William Harpur and Dame Alice, for and towards the better
Mattitenance of the said School, did grant,
enfeoff,
and assure unto
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the said Mayor, Bailiffs, Burgesses, and Commonalty of the said
Town of Bedford, all that the Messuage of the said Sir William
Harpur, commonly called The
Schoolkouse,
in the Town of Bedford
aforesaid, and all the Houses, Backsides, Gardens, and Booms of the
said Sir William Harpur to the same Messuage adjoining, and then
in the Tenure or Occupation of the said Edmond Green, whereof
the said Sir William Harpur stood enfeorfed of any Estate of Inhe-
ritance, and also Thirteen Acres and One Rood of Meadow therein
particularly described, with their Appurtenances, lying in divers
Parcels in the Parish of Saint Andrew Holborn in the County of
Middlesex, to hold the same to the said Mayor, Bailiffs, Burgesses,
and Commonalty of the said Town of Bedford, and their Successors,
for and to the Sustentation of the Master and Usher of the said
School from Time to Time for ever, for the Continuance of the
same School for ever, for the Marriage of poor Maids of the said
Town, and for poor Children there to be nourished and informed
according to the Form of the said Letters Patent; and the said
Mayor, Bailiffs, Burgesses, and Commonalty aforesaid, did covenant
and grant for them and their Successors, to and with the same Sir
William and Dame Alice, their Heirs, Executors, Administrators, and
Assigns, that they the same Mayor, Bailiffs, Burgesses, and Com-
monalty, and their Successors, from Time to Time for ever thereafter
should employ and bestow all such Rents, Issues, Profits, and Com-
modities, as by any Means thereafter they should or might lawfully
and reasonably receive, perceive, levy, or raise of, for, upon, or by
reason of the said Thirteen Acres and One Rood of Meadow, or
any Parcel
thereof,
to the Uses, Intents, and Purposes expressed in
the said Letters Patent, and therein limited and appointed, and to
none other Use, Intent, or Purpose : And whereas by an Act of
Parliament made and passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His
late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for enlarging
the
charitable
Uses, extending the
Objects,
and regulating the Applica-
tion of the Rents and Profits of the Estates given by Sir William
Harpur Knight, and Dame Alice his Wife, for the
Benejßt
of
tlie
Poor
and other
Objects
of
Charity
of
the
Town of Bedford, after reciting
(amongst other things) as herein-before is recited, or to the like
Effect, and that after granting the said Thirteen Acres and One
Rood of Ground, some Part thereof was lost by Encroachments made
thereon, and other Part thereof was granted to Sir Thomas Fisher
Baronet, under the Authority of the High Court of Chancery, for
other Lands belonging to him, so that the same was reduced toabout
Twelve Acres One Rood Thirteen Perches, which was granted
upon Lease in the Manner mentioned in the said Act, and that in
consequence of granting such Lease as aforesaid, and other derivative
Leases, a great Number of Houses and Buildings were erected qa
the said Ground and Premises so granted and demised as aforesaid,
and that several new Streets were formed, designed, and made out
of Part of the said Premises for the Use of the Public; viz. Bedford
Street, Bedford Pow, Bedford
Court,
Princes Street,
TJieobald's
Road,
North Street, East Street, Lambs
Conduit
Street, Queen Street, Eagle
Street, Boswell
Court,
and other Streets and Courts thereto adjoining,
lying and being in the several Parishes of Saint Andrew Holbarn and
Saint George
Queen
Square, it was amongst other things eijacted,
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