The Reading School Act 1867
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ANNO TRICESIMO & TRICESIMO PRIMO
VICTORLE REGIN.E.
Cap.
5.
An Act for the better Regulation of the Grammar
School and John Kendrickes Loan Charity,
Reading. [12th August 1807.]
HERE AS Her Majesty's Attorney General on the Twenty-
ninth Day of May One thousand eight hundred and forty-
one filed an Information in the High Court of Chancery
in England against the Reverend John Cecil Grainger, the Reverend
John Ball, George Cooper, William Harris, Charles Shackelton
Robinson, and the Mayor, Commonalty, and Citizens, Governors of
the Possessions, Revenues, and Goods of the Hospital of Edward
the Sixth King of England of Christ's, Bridewell, and Saint Thomas
the Apostle, as Defendants, stating, among other things, as the Fact
was,
that John Kendricke by his Will bearing Date the Twenty-
ninth December One thousand six hundred and twenty-four gave to
the Mayor and Burgesses of the Borough of Reading in the County
of Berks the Sum of Seven thousand five hundred Pounds, upon
trust to purchase Lands and Hereditaments of the clear yearly
Value of Fifty Pounds, which said Sum of Fifty Pounds he directed
to be paid to his Sister Ann Newman during her Life, and after
her Decease the same was to be paid to the Overseers of the Poor
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30° & 31° VICTORIA, Cap.5.
'ihe Reading School Act, 1867.
of the said Town of Reading, to be by them bestowed and distri-
buted amongst the Poor of the said Town for ever in manner therein-
after mentioned, that is to say, the Money thereof every Half Year
in such Sums and to such Persons according to their Necessities and
Desert as the said Overseers should think meet, provided that this
yearly Gift should not abridge the said Poor of their ordinary
Allowance collected and assessed for their
Relief,
but should be an
Addition and clear Increase; and the John Kendricke directed that
if his Provision should be disposed of by the said Mayor and Bur-
gesses or Overseers contrary to his Meaning, or that the Distribution
thereof should be omitted by the Space of a Year, then that the
said Sum of Fifty Pounds yearly should be paid to the Treasurer of
Christ's Hospital in London for the Education of poor Children, or
that they should make over Lands and Hereditaments of the same
Value to the Mayor and Commonalty of the City of London for
the Use of the said Hospital; and the said John Kendricke by his
Will also ordered that with another competent Part of the said Sum
of Seven thousand five hundred Pounds the said Mayor and Burgesses
should purchase a fair Plot of Ground within the said Town of Reading
or the Liberties
thereof,
and thereupon should erect or purchase a
strong House of Brick fit for setting the Poor to work therein, with
a Garden adjoining, to be kept in sufficient Reparation by the said
Mayor and Burgesses for ever, and which House and Garden his
Will was should be occupied by such as the said Mayor and Bur-
gesses and their Successors should appoint for the employing of the
Stock of Money by him left and devised for that Purpose, and that
after the Purchase of the said Lands of the yearly Value of Fifty
Pounds and the said House and Garden, then the Residue of the
said Sum of Seven thousand five hundred Pounds was to be a
common Stock to be employed and bestowed in Trades of Clothing,
and also in working of Stuffs for Dyeing or otherwise, as to the said
Mayor and Burgesses and their Successors should seem meet, for the
Employment of the poor People, and for the Preservation and Increase
of the said common Stock ; and the said Mayor and Burgesses and
their Successors were to have the placing and displacing of all Persons
employed in husbanding the said common Stock; and the said Tes-
tator also desired that they should prefer the Poor of the said Town
of Reading to the said Work before those of other Places; and if the
said Mayor and Burgesses should neglect to perform or misemploy
the said Stock contrary to his Meaning, and such their Neglect
should continue at any Time by the Space of One whole Year
together, then the whole Legacy of Seven thousand five hundred
Pounds and every Part thereof should be utterly void, and that the
said whole common Stock should be by the said Mayor and Bur-
gesses paid to the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of London
to the Use of Christ's Hospital, according to his said Devise of the
said
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