Gents Mag 1823 part 2 p.325

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1823 part 2 p.325 remains for the benefit of the School. A rent charge of 5l. a year was also left to this School by Philip Lord Wharton, payable out of an estate at Raine, in the parish of Orton. STANEMORE, in the parish of Brough, founded in 1594, by Cuthbert Buckle, who by his will left 8l. a year, payable out of his estate at Spittle. In 1699 Thomas Earl of Thanet repaired the Chapel, and built a School-house near it, and enclosed a large track of waste land for the benefit and profit of the Curate and Schoolmaster. SWINDALE, in the parish of Shap, founded in 1703, by Thomas Baxter of Truss Gap in this place, who gave to it an estate, consisting between two and three hundred acres of land, called Wastdale Foot, adjoining the Spa of Shapwells. The trustees, in 1750, improperly sold it to John Brown of Wastdale Head, subject to a rent charge of 10l. a year; he sold it along with his estate of Wastdale Head to the the late Sir James Lowther, who, about the year 1775, from some cause or other, refused the payment of this 10l. a year, and witheld it during his life; but when the present William Earl of Lonsdale came to the Lowther estates in 1802, he agreed with the trustess henceforth to allow 25l. a year out of the Wastdale Foot estate, instead of paying up the arrears due from his predecessor. TEBAY, in the parish of Orton, founded by Robert Adamson, esq. in the year 1672, and endowed by him with estates at Ormondil Biggin and Blacket-Bottom in Grayrigg. THRIMBY, in the parish of Morland, founded in 1681, by Thomas Fletcher, esq. and endowed by him with a rent charge of 10l. a year, issuing out of his messuage and lands called Bryham Tenement, and High and Low Sandriggs. WAITBY, in the parish of Kirkby Stephen, founded in 1680, by Mr. James Highmore, Citizen of London, and a native of this place, and endowed by him with 400l. which was laid out in purchasing an estate called Cantley Thwaite, in the parish of Sedbergh. WINTON, in the parish of Kirkby Stephen, built in 1659, at the expence of the Rev. Wm. Morland and other principal parishioners, and endowed in 1681, by Robert Waller of Winton with divers parcels of land in the neighbouring township of Kaber; and in 1722, Richard Munkhouse, esq. of Winton, gave the sum of 100l. for the benefit of the School at Winton, on condition that the nomination of the Schoolmaster should be vested in his family. H.L.
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	-- Waitby School
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