Catalogue description Dunchurch : Boughton Endowed School

This record is held by Warwickshire County Record Office

Details of CR786
Reference: CR786
Title: Dunchurch : Boughton Endowed School
Date: 1694 - 1981
Held by: Warwickshire County Record Office, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
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Boughton Endowed School, c 1707 -, Dunchurch, Warwickshire
Physical description: 9 series
Administrative / biographical background:

Under the will of Francis Boughton of Cawston Hall, Dunchurch, in 1707, a sum of £400 was left to seven appointed trustees to buy land and build a free school for all children of Dunchurch with a schoolmaster able to keep accounts, to be paid from rents of property in Coventry; and £200 of the sum was to buy land the rents of which were to support two poor boys of Dunchurch per year as apprentices
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