MANORS
The manor of WINDSOR (UNDEROURE) is mentioned in 1291, when it
belonged to Reading Abbey. (fn. 1) It probably included the land lying between Windsor and
Eton north-west of the castle, (fn. 2)
extending down to the Thames.
It seems to have originally belonged to one Geoffrey Purcell, and to have been given
by the Empress Maud to Reading Abbey in the reign of
Henry I. This grant and
another which gave the abbey
a second hide of land in
Windsor were confirmed by
Stephen and by Richard I. (fn. 3)
The manor remained with
Reading Abbey until the date
of the Dissolution, (fn. 4) when it was granted to Thomas
Ward, from whose successor Richard Ward it was
purchased by the corporation in 1539. (fn. 5) The manor
was confirmed to the town in 1604, subject to a
quit-rent of £4 5s. 2¼d. (fn. 6)
Reading Abbey. Azure three scallops or.
The 'manor-house of Underore,' which stood at
the foot of the Hundred Steps, was let at a rent of
£1 yearly in 1638–9. (fn. 7) A wooden pile in the
Thames known as the Abbot's Pile, which can only
be seen when the river is low, was one of the
boundaries of the manor of 'Underoure.' (fn. 8)
A manor of NEW WINDSOR is often mentioned
in connexion with that of Old Windsor (q.v.), the
descent of which it has always followed. (fn. 9)
There were several mills in Windsor, the earliest
being the king's mill in Windsor Park. (fn. 10) The
chamberlain of Reading apparently owned a mill in
Windsor in the 13th century. (fn. 11) The mills owned by
the corporation stood nearly opposite Eton College,
and were usually let out on lease. In 1628 they
were rebuilt. (fn. 12)
CHURCHES
The church of ST. JOHN BAPTIST consists of a chancel with an
apsidal termination, north and south
vestries, nave, north and south aisles, and a west
tower with large vestibules on either side having
staircases rising to a gallery which extends along the
west end of the nave and over the aisles; the bottom
stage of the tower is used as the principal entrance
vestibule.
The present church was rebuilt in 1822, though
the chancel and vestries were again rebuilt in 1871,
and modern tracery has been inserted into all of the
windows of the aisles and the galleries over. The
chancel is in 14th-century Gothic style with an open
timber roof covered with slates. The walls are
externally faced with a 'quarry faced' granite with
freestone dressings. The older part of the church
is built in the 'Perpendicular' manner of the period.
Round the royal pew is a beautifully carved railing
by Grinling Gibbons, which was taken from the
private chapel at the castle and presented by George III.
The oldest monuments in the church are two small
stone tablets placed one above the other in the west
wall of the north entrance vestibule. They are very
much worn and are incised with small black-letter inscriptions, now almost illegible. The upper one is to
William Canon, Mayor of Windsor, who died in the
first year of Henry VIII, Elizabeth his wife and
their children; the lower one to Harry Wigge, who
died in the fifth year of Henry VIII. On the east
wall of the south aisle is a bas-relief marble tablet to
Edgar Jobson and Eleanor his wife, with their six
sons and four daughters. The man and five of his
sons are kneeling at a prayer desk, while on the
opposite side are the female figures similarly praying;
below the desk is a chrisom child. There is no date
on the monument, which is of early 17th-century
type.
On the north wall of the tower is an elaborate
mural tablet of marble to Nazareth daughter of
Robert Harris of Reading, who married firstly
Richard Vaughan, citizen and clothworker of London,
by whom she had one son and three daughters;
secondly, Zephaniah Sayers, citizen and haberdasher
of London, by whom she had three daughters'
thirdly, James Pagett, baron of the Exchequer, whom
she survived twenty-eight years. She, 'desiring to
lye here intombed with her 2d. husband,' died
22 July 1666, aged eighty-eight. The inscription
is set between two three-quarter Doric columns of
black marble with white marble capitals and bases
supporting an entablature of the same material
having a broken curved pediment within which are
the busts of Nazareth and her second husband
Zephaniah Sayers.
On the west wall of the north entrance vestibule
is a black and white marble tablet to Rebecca youngest
daughter of Sir George Southcot of Dartmouth. She
died in 1642, aged twenty. The monument was
erected by Richard Braham, who married Susanna,
her elder sister. Above the inscription is a bust
of the lady set under a broken pediment, in which
is placed a lozenge with the arms of Southcot. On
the same wall is a mural tablet to Edith Bostock,
widow of William Bostock of New Windsor, daughter
of Besils Fettiplace of Besselsleigh in Berks., who died
on 17 June 1643.
On the west wall of the north aisle is a black and
white marble tablet to John Hichmore of Aylesford
in Kent and Clifford's Inn, filacer of the court of
Common Pleas, who died on 6 March 1656, aged
sixty-five, leaving a son Charles and other issue by
his wife Joan daughter of Charles Sunnybanke.
Below the inscription is an impaled shield of arms,
evidently repainted.
On the west wall of the north vestibule is a mural
monument to Matthew Day, five times Mayor of
Windsor, who by his wife Mary Dowdeswell had six
sons and as many daughters. He died 28 December
1661, aged eighty-seven. His wife, who survived
him and is commemorated on the same monument,
died 29 August 1667, aged eighty-seven. On either
side of the inscription are marble pilasters supporting
a broken pediment in which is a shield of his arms.
On the east wall of the north vestibule is a small
black marble tablet to the memory of Elizabeth wife
of Thomas Howell, vicar of West Horsley in Surrey,
who died in the fifth year of Charles I. On the
same tablet are also commemorated his mother,
Martha the wife of John Whistler of Windsor,
her brother Knollys and her sister Dorothy.
On the east wall of the south entrance vestibule is
a small black and white marble tablet to Mary
daughter of Alexander Baker and wife of John Dugdale, eldest son of William Dugdale of Blyth Hall
in Shustoke, Warwickshire, who died in childbed,
9 January 1670, and was buried hard by with her
two children Elizabeth and John and her mother
Elizabeth, the daughter of Thomas Farrer of Harrold
in Bedfordshire. Above is a shield with the arms of
Dugdale impaling Baker.
On the west wall of the nave, to the south of the
principal entrance, is a small marble tablet erected
by Penelope, his only surviving child and wife of
Robert Lytton, to the memory of her father, Alexander
Baker of Windsor, who died 4 August 1685.
On the north wall of the north aisle at the west
end is a white marble tablet to Hartgill Baron, clerk
of the Privy Seal, and secretary to Prince Rupert,
who died 30 November 1673, to his children Hartgill, Penelope and Lucy, and his wife Anne daughter
of Philip Barret of Hampstead in Middlesex, who
died 22 February 1687.
On the south wall of the south porch is a white
marble tablet to John Topham, who died 8 December
1692, aged sixty-three, erected by Richard his son
and heir. Below the staircase on the south wall of the
north vestibule is a memorial tablet to Lucy wife of
John Heming, who died 28 August 1699, aged
forty-three, and to John Heming, who died in 1704,
aged forty-seven.
On the south wall of the tower is a large marble
monument by P. Scheemakers to Topham Foot, who
died in the twenty-third year of his age, August 1712.
Above a laudatory inscription is his bust set in an
architectural frame and surmounted by his arms, a
cheveron between three martlets.
On the east wall of the south vestibule is a mural
monument to Richard Hale, physician to Bethlehem
and Bridewell Hospitals. He died in 1728, and was
buried in the church; his sepulchral slab is in the
floor of the vestibule.
Against the west wall of the north vestibule is
an elaborate marble monument by Scheemakers to
Thomas Reeve, lord chief justice. He married
Arabella daughter of John Topham and widow of
Samuel Foot, and died in 1736, at the age of sixty-five. On the top of the monument are the busts of
Reeve and his wife, while on either side are amorini;
the figure on the left holds an oval plaque, on which
is represented the figure of Justice.
Over the staircase on the south wall of the north
vestibule is a large and elaborate mural monument of
17th-century date. The inscription once on the
central panel is now quite illegible; the heraldry,
however, proves it to be the memorial of Richard
Braham, who died 2 March 1618, aged thirty-three,
and his daughter-in-law Susanna Braham. It is in
black and reddish-coloured marble. On either side
of the panel are draped female figures standing on
pedestals and supporting an entablature surmounted
by smaller figures, while in the centre is a small panel
on which is a shield of Braham quartering Palmer.
On the pedestals below the side figures are shields,
Braham impaling Southcott, while the consoles supporting the pedestals are charged with the Braham
arms.
The floors of the western vestibule are paved with
old tomb slabs, most of which appear to be of
18th-century date, although the inscriptions are in
the majority of cases quite illegible. The pavement
round the outside of the building is formed of similar
material, the old church having served as a quarry.
In the pavement to the south-west corner of the
church are set four mediaeval slabs. Two have
matrices for brass crosses, one has a matrix for a
border, while the fourth shows evidence of having
had small shields set in the corners.
Over the gallery at the west end of the nave is a
large picture of the Last Supper. It was presented
to the church by George III in 1788, having previously been used as an altar-piece in St. George's
Chapel, where it was discovered behind the wainscot
in one of the chantries in 1707.
There is a ring of eight bells: the treble is inscribed, 'The Gift of the Honourable Samuel Marsham
Esq., cofferer to Queen Anne 1711'; the second and
third are by Richard Phelps, 1711 and 1730; the
fourth and sixth by T. Mears, 1824 and 1822; the
fifth by John Eldridge, 1711; the seventh, originally
dated 1730, was recast by T. Mears in 1822 and is
inscribed:
'I and my seven sisters here
Were given by the cofferer;
Whose name, if you desire to know,
My Eldest sister will it shew.'
The tenor is inscribed, 'The Gift of Samuel Marsham
Esqr.: Cofferer: to: Her Majesty: Queen Ann in
the year 1711: New Cast 1822. Thomas Mears of
London fecit.'
The communion plate consists of a silver-gilt
chalice of 1573, another of 1629, inscribed, 'The
Poore widdow Gappers mite'; two large silver-gilt
flagons of 1635, given by Mrs. Joan Sunnibank in
1640; a silver-gilt paten of 1637, given by John
Worsopp and Elizabeth his wife; another given to
the Rev. W. C. Cotton, M.A., by the ladies of New
Windsor, and dedicated to the service of the church
in 1842; a silver-gilt almsdish of 1732, given by
Mrs. Arabella Reeve; two silver chalices of 1777,
the cups of which are ornamented with a raised
design of strawberry leaves and fruit, while the stem
takes the form of an intertwining vine; a modern
plated chalice and paten and eight white-metal alms-dishes, four of which are dated 1800, but the other
four are more modern.
The registers previous to 1812 are as follows:
(i) all entries 1559 to 1696; (ii) 1696 to 1702;
(iii) baptisms and burials 1702 to 1792, marriages
1702 to 1754; (iv) baptisms and burials 1792 to
1812; (v) marriages 1754 to 1784; (vi) marriages
1784 to 1801; (vii) marriages 1801 to 1812.
The royal chapel of ALL SAINTS, Frances Street,
consists of a chancel with a royal pew on the south,
north transept with a vestry, nave, a south aisle,
south porch and a west bell gable, in which are two
bells. The chapel was erected in the year 1868,
and is built in 14th-century style with ashlar facings
to the walls. It serves as a chapel of ease to the
parish church.
ADVOWSON
There is no mention of a church
at New Windsor until the 12th
century. The new settlement which
had grown up under the walls of the castle probably
at first formed part of the parish of Clewer. It is
not possible to ascertain the exact date at which a
church was built at New Windsor, but by 1189–90
it had outstripped in importance the church at Old
Windsor, for in that year Richard I granted 'the
church of St. John the Baptist at New Windsor with
its chapel of Old Windsor' to the abbey of Holy
Cross, Waltham. (fn. 13) This grant was confirmed by
Henry III in 1226–7. (fn. 14) A few years later, in 1232,
the king directed that tithes from the royal garden
should be paid to Windsor Church. (fn. 15)
It is strange that the church of Windsor is not
mentioned by name in the valuation of 1291, but it
has been suggested that the entry of £13 6s. 8d. for
'the church of Waltham Abbey' represents the
churches of New and Old Windsor, both of which
belonged to that house. (fn. 16)
The sanctuary enjoyed by this church is mentioned
in 1309, when certain refugees from Windsor gaol
were recaptured, certain of them being 'slain and
beheaded.' By the king's order the survivors were
released from prison and taken back to the churchyard. (fn. 17)
In 1328 the Abbot of Waltham made good his
claim to tithes of the king's stud in the New Park, (fn. 18)
and this claim was allowed in later years. (fn. 19)
At the Dissolution the advowson of the church
of Windsor passed with the other possessions of
Waltham Abbey to the Crown, with which it has
since remained. (fn. 20) The rectory and rectory manor
were valued at £17 yearly in 1540, and the profits
of the manor court were 13s. 5d. (fn. 21) The rectory and
rectory manor were granted out on lease by the
Crown together with the rectory of Old Windsor
(q.v.) and both rectories afterwards followed the same
descent. (fn. 22)
From 15th and 16th-century wills and from other
sources it appears that there were many altars in the
church besides the high altar. The gild or brotherhood of the holy and undivided Trinity had its altar;
a will of 1503 mentions the altars of our Lady of
Pity and of St. Clement. Among the lights in
the church were the Rood Light, the lights of
St. Thomas, St. Clement, St. Stephen, St. Catherine,
St. Anthony, St. James, St. George, St. Cornelius, and
'St. Mary Assumptions,' each with its two wardens. (fn. 23)
The chantry belonging to the gild of Holy Trinity
is mentioned first in 1428, when two keepers were
appointed. (fn. 24) An obit was kept on Trinity Sunday
and a requiem mass was sung on the following day
'for the sowles of all the brethren and sisters of the
Trinity brotherhood there.' (fn. 25) Various gifts were
made to this chantry by burgesses of Windsor.
Thus in 1455 Richard Smith gave half a piece of
arable land situated near 'Spittleborne.'
According to the report of the chantry commission,
however, the fraternity or gild of the Holy Trinity
was founded by Oliver King, Bishop of Bath and
Wells, and one of the secretaries of Henry VII,
together with the Dean of St. George's Chapel and
the mayor of the borough, under licence from
Henry VII. The object of the fraternity was to
support a chantry in the parish church for the souls
of the inhabitants of the town; five obits were to
be sung yearly and alms were to be distributed to
the poor. At the date of the dissolution of the
chantries this fraternity owned land and tenements
in Windsor valued at £19 4s. 4d. yearly. The
priest's stipend was £7 6s. 8d., and he taught a
grammar school, 'wherof that town hathe great
need.' Alms to the poor amounted to 41s. 6d. per
annum. In addition the fraternity undertook the
repair of certain bridges, 'Swaines Bridge, Tayntershuche Woode Bridge, and Frogmore Bridge.' It was
reported that the town contained 900 or more house-holders, and as the vicarage was only worth £8 a year
a suggestion was made that part of the income of
the fraternity should be annexed to the vicarage. (fn. 26)
A petition presented to King James as patron of
the living, that a canonry in St. George's Chapel
should be annexed to the vicarage of New Windsor,
owing to its poverty, having failed, Charles I granted
it a fellowship in Eton College. The vicar now
receives an annuity from the capitular funds of
St. George's. (fn. 27)
On every alternate Sunday morning, when there
was no sermon at the parish church, the congregation
were accustomed after morning prayer to go up to
St. George's Chapel to listen to the sermon there.
Allusions to this custom are often found. (fn. 28)
The parish church was plundered by the Cromwellian soldiers, and the new organ was taken down
and sold for the price of the metal and wood of
which it was built. The church plate escaped, as it
had been sent by the churchwardens for safe custody
to the gildhall.
During the early years of the 19th century the
fabric of the parish church was in need of constant
repair. In 1815 it was reported that 'all the
external parts of the church were in a very dilapidated state, including the Tower and Belfry.'
Extensive repairs were undertaken, but several surveyors
declared that it was impossible to maintain the existing structure, and in 1818 it was decided that the
church must be rebuilt. (fn. 29) Thus the old structure
was pulled down, the first stone of the present church
being laid in 1820. (fn. 30) The new building was opened in
1822; £5,000 of the whole cost of £14,000 was raised
by subscription, the remainder was borrowed on the
security of the rates and was not paid off until 1839. (fn. 31)
The places of worship belonging to Nonconformist
bodies are the Roman Catholic church of St. Edward
in the Alma Road, the Wesleyan Methodist chapel,
also in Alma Road, built in 1876–7, the Congregational chapel in William Street (1832), two Baptist
chapels in Victoria Street (1838) and in Adelaide
Square (1881), the Primitive Methodist chapel in
Denmark Street, and the two chapels of the Brethren,
one in Sheet Street and the other in St. Leonard's Road.
CHARITIES
The municipal charities are administered under the provisions of a
scheme of the Charity Commissioners
dated 27 November 1903. The trustees thereby
appointed are directed (clause 28) to apply the income
of Thomas Alden's charity (deed, 1604), amounting to £31 13s. 8d., being the dividends on
£1,267 15s. 9d. consols (with the official trustees),
for the benefit of deserving and necessitous persons
resident in the borough, in donations in aid of the
funds of any dispensary, convalescent home, or any
institution in which children suffering from any bodily
infirmity are taught a trade or employment.
By clause 29 of the scheme the almshouse buildings
in Victoria Street and the Park Street Charity, together with the charities of Thomas Brotherton and
sixteen others (including the Sheet Street almshouses
and Sewell's almshouses) of old foundation, (fn. 32) and the
following charities of recent foundation, namely, Sir
John Elley's, by will proved in the P.C.C. 1839;
William Hanson's, by will proved 1867; Robert
Blunt's, by will proved 1874; James Griffin's, by
will proved 1881; Letitia Hamilton Hibbert's, by
will proved 1888; Sarah Wells's, by will 1874;
together with the charity of Mary Atkins Newton,
by will proved 1901, were consolidated under the
title of the Municipal Almshouse Charity.
The trust funds of the several charities consist of
sums of stock held by the official trustees, amounting
in the aggregate to £11,334 11s. 2d. consols and £400
India 3½ per cent. stock and £148 11s. India 3 per
cent. stock, producing in dividends £302 4s. a year,
which, with the rents, &c., of real estate, make a gross
income of £445 11s. a year, which is made applicable (clauses 33 and 34) in the payment of stipends
at the rate of not less than 5s. and not more than 10s.
a week to the almspeople, the full number of whom
is limited to twenty-four.
By clause 47 of the scheme the income of the
charity of Phoebe Thomas, (fn. 33) amounting to £130 12s.,
being the annual dividends on £4,875 14s. 11d.
consols and on £290 18s. 2d. India 3 per cents.
(with the official trustees), is made applicable for the
benefit of deserving and necessitous widows of not less
than fifty years of age bona fide resident in the
borough and members of the Church of England.
The remaining charities dealt with by the scheme
are those of John Heaver, Archbishop Laud and
Theodore Randue, (fn. 34) the annual income from which,
consisting of £187 5s. received from the official
trustees in respect of dividends on consols, India
3 per cents. and railway stocks held by them, and
£45 17s. 7d. receipts from rents, &c., of real estate,
is directed (clause 48) to be applied as to £120 in
marriage portions, apprenticeship fees for boys, and
in gratuities to young men who have faithfully served
their apprenticeships. Subject thereto the trustees are
to apply the income of the same charity (clause 49)
in the advancement of the education of children
attending or who have attended public elementary
schools, by prizes, rewards and exhibitions.
By an order of the Charity Commissioners of
15 June 1906 the charity of Sarah Bullen, by will
1839, trust fund, £33 7s. 8d. consols, and that of
Elizabeth Frances Wood, codicil to will 1854, trust
fund, £100 5s. consols, were placed under the administration of the trustees of the municipal charities, the
income to be applied towards providing medical attendance or a nurse for the inmates of the almshouses.
The sums of stock are held by the official trustees,
who also hold a sum of £3,773 6s. 8d. consols (formerly new 3 per cents.), transferred to them in 1884
in consideration of the redemption by His Majesty's
Treasury of a sum of £113 4s., representing various
royal grants for the benefit of the church and poor.
The annual dividends, now amounting, owing to
reduction of interest on the stock, to £94 6s. 8d.,
are also remitted to the trustees of the municipal
charities, by whom one moiety is applied for the
benefit of the poor and the other moiety paid to the
churchwardens for application in the cleaning, lighting, &c., of the parish church.
The parochial charities under the administration
of the vicar and churchwardens are regulated by a
scheme of the Charity Commissioners of 11 January
1887, and comprise the charities of Thomas Needham, founded by will 1 August 1603, whereby two
tenements near the church gate, subsequently known
as the Ship Inn, and one in Peascod Street, were
devised to the vicar and churchwardens, the rents
thereof to be distributed every Sunday morning to
twelve poor persons not inhabiting almshouses. The
Ship Inn is now let at £55 a year, and the property
in Peascod Street was by an order of the Charity
Commissioners of 6 February 1906 sold in consideration of a perpetual rent-charge of £35 per annum.
Mrs. Agnes Urmstone, by will proved 1614, trust
fund, £520 15s. 4d. consols, arising from sale of land
in 1900; income, amounting to £13 0s. 4d.,
applicable for the use of six poor widows.
William Galland, by will 1693, consisting of an
annuity of £3 issuing out of the 'Three Tuns' in
Windsor; applicable in the distribution of bread.
Mrs. Ann Church, by will proved in the P.C.C.
13 August 1711, trust funds, £214 6s. 5d. consols
and £54 9s. consols, dividends to be applied towards
apprenticing a poor boy.
Mrs. Elizabeth Metcalf, by will proved in the
P.C.C. January 1710, trust fund, £88 8s. 10d. consols,
income for poor housekeepers not receiving alms.
John Clarke, by will 1710–11, consisting of a
rent-charge of £2 10s. issuing out of a house on the
east side of the High Street, distributable in sums of
2s. 6d. each to twenty poor housekeepers.
Arabella Reeve, by will proved in the P.C.C.
1732, consisting of annuities of £11 charged on a
house on the west side of the High Street, of which
£6 is applicable for the benefit of six poor widows,
being lame or blind, born and living in Windsor,
and £5 in the distribution of one shilling's worth of
bread to 100 poor people on 20 May yearly.
Barbara Jordan, by will proved 1730, trust fund,
£1,817 19s. 8d. consols, arising from sale in 1884
of land at Brentford, in Ealing, taken by the London
and South Western Railway Co., the income, which
amounts to £45 9s., to be distributed annually on
St. Thomas's Day equally among three ancient
maidens born and residing in New Windsor.
Richard Topham, by will proved in the P.C.C.
28 April 1737, trust fund, £266 13s. 4d. consols,
arising from the redemption in 1884 by Her Majesty's
Treasury of an annuity of £8 charged by the donor
on certain premises, which became the property of
the Crown, of which £6 was applicable at Christmas
in sums of 10s. each to twelve poor housekeepers and
£2 among four almspeople.
Mrs. Mary Gregory, by will 1772, trust fund,
£50 2s. 6d. consols, interest to be laid out in bread
for the poor annually on 10 September.
Charles Ballard, by will 1803, trust fund, £200 10s.
consols, the interest to be laid out in bread or money
for the use of the poor.
Elizabeth Hopkins, by will 20 September 1803,
trust fund, £122 6s. 1d. consols, the interest to be
given to the poor on Sundays and Good Fridays.
In 1906–7 a sum of £56 1s. 5d. was applied weekly
throughout the year in bread, donations for the convalescent hospital, coal club, towards nursing expenses,
and subscription for the Church Lads' Brigade.
Robert Challoner, D. D., who died in 1621, by his
will charged certain property in East Oakley, Fyfield
and Bray with £6 a year for twelve of the godliest
poor to be chosen by the Dean of Windsor, the mayor
and the vicar, to each of the said poor 10s. The rent-charge was subject to deduction of 15s. 6d. for land tax.
In 1679 John Carey, by deed in satisfaction of a
gift of £100 by his then late wife, Mrs. Catherine
Carey, settled a yearly rent-charge of £6 issuing out
of his inn and premises called the 'Catherine Wheel'
at Colnbrook in Stanwell, Middlesex, to be payable
yearly on St. Thomas's Day, for distribution amongst
six of the poorest widows in New Windsor.
Trust for the minor canons and other officials
connected with St. George's Chapel.
—The Rev.
Thomas Cleaver, by his will proved in the P.C.C.
11 July 1729, demised to trustees a farm in Hamsey,
Sussex, and directed that the rents and profits thereof
should be equally divided among the petty canons of
the chapel, with 20s. extra for the elected steward,
subject to annual payments of 20s. each to the sexton
and bellringer, 30s. for a supper, £6 for widows of
such officials, 20s. for poor most constant in attendance at prayers, or failing them, amongst poor
families, and £4 yearly to the charity school.
In 1905 the farm was sold in consideration of the
transfer to the official trustees of £3,068 9s. 10d.
consols, out of which a sum of £160 consols was
set aside to provide £4 yearly under the title of
'Cleaver's Educational Foundation for the Charity
School.' In 1906 and 1907 the balance of the
stock, together with £355 18s. 4d. consols, arising
from sale of land to the London, Brighton and South
Coast Railway, was sold out and the proceeds invested
in the purchase of ground rents amounting to £105
a year, secured by long leases of property in Overcliff
Road, Lewisham. By an order of the Charity Commissioners of 19 October 1906 the Minor Canons
of St. George's Chapel were appointed to be the
administering trustees.
J. Chariott, by will proved in 1848, bequeathed
a legacy to trustees, represented by £15,037 12s. 2d.
consols, for charitable purposes, with a wide discretion
as to the objects. In June 1906 the consols were
sold out and the proceeds invested in the purchase
of £3,000 Great Western Railway 5 per cent. stock,
£3,000 New Zealand 3½ per cent. stock, £2,000
Hong Kong 3½ per cent. stock, £1,276 19s. Middlesex
County 3 per cent. stock and £3,000 Reading Corporation 3 per cent. stock, producing a gross yearly
income of £453 6s. 2d.
In 1907 £200 was paid to the treasurer of Chariott's
almshouses (founded by deed 1863) for current expenses and repairs, £25 to the Windsor British
schools, £55 to the deacons of William Street Chapel,
£20 to the Sunday school and £70 to six poor members
of the same chapel, £12 10s. to the Fyfield Mission
and £25 premiums on apprenticeships.
For Mrs. Mary Barker's charity see article on
Schools. (fn. 35)
The land belonging to the trust has been sold and
the proceeds invested in consols, with the official
trustees, of which one-third, i.e. £531 10s. 8d. consols, is held in trust for the share of New Windsor.
The charity school, now known as the Windsor Royal
Free and Industrial Schools. (fn. 36)
—A sum of £5,603 9s. 4d.
consols was held by the official trustees in trust for this
school, of which £40 consols (part thereof) was by an
order of 17 May 1904 directed to be carried to a
separate account in satisfaction of £1 a year applicable
for bread in respect of George Pyle's eleemosynary
charity (deed 1713); also £248 15s. consols, representing a legacy by will of James Griffin proved in
1881 (see also charity of Rev. Thomas Cleaver).
The Ladies' School, established by subscription in 1784.
—The official trustees also hold a sum of
£1,844 6s. 11d. consols arising from subscriptions, the
dividends, amounting to £46 2s., to be applied in
giving a free education in National schools to twenty girls,
who out of the same funds are clothed and receive an
outfit of £2 10s. for domestic service on leaving.
Other charities for educational purposes.
—In 1795
John Marratt by will bequeathed a sum of stock,
subsequently represented by £637 consols, for educational purposes in New Windsor and Clewer and for
sermons and bread.
In 1798 James Panton gave £50 for the Sunday
school, represented by £85 13s. 4d. consols.
In 1839 Sir John Elley, by will 1839, bequeathed
£50, represented by £51 13s. 7d. consols.
The several sums of stock were held by the official
trustees, who also held £158 6s. 5d. consols in trust
for the National school, belonging to the charities of
Ann Weal, by will 1827, and two other donors. In
1894, however, a sum of £400 consols was sold out
for effecting improvements in the National school,
subject to replacement. The amount so replaced in
April 1908 was £297 8s. 5d. consols.
In 1822 the Rev. G. Champagne by deed (inter
alia) gave to the vicar and canons of Windsor a sum
of £255 0s. 2d. consols, the income to be paid to the
vicar and curate, to be applied by them in gifts of
clothes or books for boys and girls attending the
National school for progress in religious knowledge
upon result of examination.