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A HISTORY OF RUTLAND In 1 904 the rent of White Bread Close, which was let for £1^ per annum, was divided be- tween the Provident Club and the school. The school also enjoys Mrs. Edwards's endowment. Langham. — See under Empingham. North Luffenham. — This school is first heard of in connexion with property known as the ' Town Lands,' which formerly belonged to the Gild of Our Lady and seems to have been given by some unknown donor or donors for the use of the church and poor of North Luffen- ham and the schoolhouse there, and other public and charitable uses.' In an indenture of feoft- ment of 3 September 1538 the property is described as consisting of two messuages, two cottages, and four closes in North Luffenham, 97 acres of arable land in North Luffenham and Sculthorp, 32 acres of pasture, and 6 acres of meadow in North Luffenham, and i rood of meadow in ' Wellonde ' ; but the earliest declaration of trusts, already quoted, occurs in a later indenture of 13 October 1688, which mentions among the trust property 'a tenement in North Luffenham called the Schoolhouse.' The income of the charity estate in 1820 amounted to £~<^ 125., and, as for many years previously, was applied to the support of the school, the purchase of coal for the poor, and the provision of a salary for a town apothecary. Beside ^^3 for managing the Sunday school, the schoolmaster received ;/ 20 for teaching reading, writing, accounts, and the Church Catechism to ' There are 23 deeds in existence in connexion with the property, bearing various dates between 1309 and 1502. 1 5 poor boys of the day school ; he also taught girls, whose education was defrayed by subscrip- tion. No information was obtained concerning this school by the Schools Inquiry Commission in 1867. In 1907 the North Luffenham Church of England School, which was the property of the ' Town Trust,' had an average attendance of 74 scholars. In 1900 the school endowment was worth £^i a year. The pre- sent building was erected in 1858, and was much enlarged and improved in 1874. LiDDiNGTON. — Mary Parnham, by will 9 September 1 721, gave ;^300 to purchase land, one-third of the rents of which was to be em- ployed in teaching five poor children of the parish of Lon^ Liddington to read and write. An- other one-third was to be similarly employed in Lavington or Lenton, in Lincolnshire, and the remaining one-third in maintaining two parsons in their meeting-houses in Nottingham. The legacy was invested in land at Nether Broughton, Leicestershire, which in 1820 was rented at ;^37 35. id. Of this sum £^ lbs. lod. was paid to the schoolmaster at Liddington for instructing five poor children to read and write. He also received paying scholars. Two other sums of £<^ lbs. lod. were paid to the school- master of Lavington and the Meeting House Institution in Nottingham. In 1867 the in- come of the school at Liddington is given as ;^i I, and 10 boys received free instruction. In 1907 the Liddington National School had an average attendance of 73 scholars. The present building was erected in 1870. Thistleton. — -See imder Empingham. 300