The Brentwood School and Charity Act 1851
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1851 c. 22 |
| Year | 1851 |
ANNO DECIMO & DECIMO QUINTO
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Cap.
22.
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An Act to provide for the future Regulation and
Management of the Grammar School of Anthony
Browne, Serjeant-at-Law, at Brentwood in the
County of Essex, and of the Almshouses founded
by the said Anthony Browne, and of the Estates
and Possessions of the same School and Alms-
houses
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and for other Purposes.
[7th August 1851.}
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HEREAS an original Information was filed in the Court of information
Chancery on or about the Twentieth of April One thou-
m?*in
Court
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of Chancery,
sand eight hundred and twenty-five, by the then Attorney 20th April
General, against the Master of the Grammar School of Anthony 1825.
Browne^Serjeant-at-Law, in Brentwood in the County of Essex, and
the Wardens of the Lands, Tenements, and Possessions of the same
School,.and aka against Christopher Tower and Charles Tower, since
deceased, as Defendants, the Object of such Information being the
Establishment and ..Regulation of the above-mentioned School and
Charity, and the Estates and Income
thereof,
under the Order and
Direction of the said Court, and the Approval of a proper Scheme for
[Private.] 7 p the
14° & 15° VICTORIA, Cap.22.
The Brentwood School and Charity Act, 1851.
the Purposes aforesaid; and the said Information stated, amongst
other things, that King Philip and Queen Mary, by Letters Patent
bearing Date the Fifth Day of July in the Fourth and Fifth Years of
their Reign, on the Application of the above-named Anthony Browne,
Serjeant-at-Law, and Joanna his Wife, and of many others, in the
County of Essex, granted their Licence that the said Anthony Browne
and Joanna his Wife, and the Heirs and Executors of the said Anthony,
might found and establish a Grammar School in Brentwood in the said
County of Essex, to consist of One Master, being a Presbyter, and
Two Wardens of the Lands, Tenements, and Possessions of the same
School, of the Inhabitants of the Parish of Southweald in the said
County, to be appointed according to the Statutes, Orders, and Con-
stitutions of the said Anthony Browne or his Executors, to be made
and declared; in Writing, and that such School should be called "The
Grammar School of Anthony Browne, Serjeant-at-Law," and that such
Schoolmaster and Wardens should be a Body Corporate by the Name
of "The Master of the Grammar School of Anthony Browne, Serjeant-
u at-Law, in Brentwood in the County of Essex, and the Wardens of
"• the Lands, Tenements, and Possessions of the same School," and
should have a Common Seal, and that the said Anthony Browne and
Joanna his Wife, and also the said Anthony Browne, or his Heirs or
Executors, without the said Joanna, or any other Person or Persons to
be named by the said Anthony Browne in his Lifetime or by his Will,
might
give,
and grant various Manors, Lands, Rectories, Tithes, Rents,
and Hereditaments to the clear yearly Value of Thirty-six Pounds
beyond all yearly Charges and Reprises, to the said Master and War-
dens,
to hold to them and their Successors forever, to fulfil the Orders,
Statutes, and Constitutions to be made by the said Anthony Browne
or his Executors, and to be corrected when to them should seem meet,
and that the said Anthony Browne during his Life, and after his
Decease the'said Joanna Browne during her Life, and. after her
Decease the Heirs of the^said Anthony, and the Heirs of their Heir&,
should be the undoubted Patrons of the said School, and that the said
School should be altogether under the Patronage and free Disposal
of the said Anthony during his Life, and after, his .Decease/under
the Patronage and free Disposal of the said Joanna, and after her
Decease under the Patronage and free Disposal of the Heirs of
the said Anthony Browne, and that every Master of such School
should be named and preferred by the free Disposal of the said Anthony
and Joanna during their Lives, and after" their Decease by the free
Disposal of the Heirs of the said Anthony Browne, and the Heirs of
their Heirs, by Deed sealed, and that every Master so named should
hold the. School, and remain Master
thereof,
without any Presentation,
Institution, or Investiture, for the Term of his Life, according to the
Order of the Statutes aforesaid, and that the Wardens of the Lands,
Tenements, and Possessions of the said'Schobl should be preferred to
be
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