Catalogue description Saunders' Charity

For other records of the Charity, including deeds, 1651-1896; receipts and bills, 1761-1959; apprenticeship indentures, 1736-1845, and correspondence and papers, 1736-1957, see D/P 32/25/6-99.)

(This Charity, for the education of eight poor boys, was founded by the will of William Saunders, proved 3 November 1720. He bequeathed £560 for the purchase of land to provide for the employment of a schoolmaster, for the rent of a schoolhouse and for the clothing and education of eight poor boys from Chaddleworth, Leckhampstead in Chieveley, Brightwalton, Fawley and Great Shefford.