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00042 - PARISH OF ST GEORGE, BRAILES - Circa 1570-1997

1 - Incumbent

2 - Churchwardens

3 - Vestry

4 - Parochial Church Council

5 - Auxiliary Organisations

6 - Constables

7 - Overseers Of The Poor

8 - Highway Surveyors

10 - Charities

1 - Boys' School (Free School) and Church Charity

1 - Minutes

2 - Accounts and financial records

3 - Deeds and property records

1 - Conveyance by Barnabas Bishopp and other inhabitants of Brailes `late purchasers of the premises hereafter mentioned' to John Bishopp of Brailes and others of a chamber, a hall "late a guild there, of late converted to a school", 2 bedchambers with the lofts near the Churchyard and the garden adjoining, part of the possessions of the late Guild of Brailes, on trust out of the yearly rents and profits to repair the Church (added at the bottom of the deed). After £40 has been collected out of the rents and profits aforesaid they are to be applied to the use of the Free School. 20 October 18 James I. (1620). Deed and counterpart. - 1620

2 - Feoffment of new trustees for the Church and Free School Charity, 18 February 1684 (1685) - 1684

3 - View and Survey of Brayles Church rents, by Charles Gerard, schoolmaster of the Free School, 8 October 1684. (Endorsed) "No. 1 Brailes School Lands ...". Wallet for acquittances attached. - 1684

4 - Rental giving the names and holdings of the tenants at will of the feoffees (trustees). (Endorsed) "School Lands no. 2" - Circa 1684

5 - Memorandum including the annual stipend payable to the Free School out of the King's chief rents of Brayles and a list of lands in Brayles and Tysoe charged with payments for the benefit of the poor of Brailes, 1684. (Enclosed) "A Particular of School Lands in 1684. 4". - 1684

6 - Feoffment of new trustees for the church and School Charity 20 September 1763. (Endorsed) "Brailes School Feoffment" - 1763

7 - Rental of the lands and tenements belonging to the Free School at Brailes, collected Lady Day, 1775. (Endorsed) "Rental of Guild Lands" - 1775

8 - "Schedule" of the houses and lands belonging to the Free School at Brailes, by Richard Godson, Master of the School, 29 November, 1777. (Endorsed) "Schedule of the School Lands of Brailes" - 1777

9 - Feoffment of new trustees for the Church and School Charity, 13 May 1791 - 1791

10 - Lease and release to new trustees for the School Charity of Brailes, 19/20 June, 1812 - 1812

11 - Extracts from the patent rolls of royal grants of lands and tenements formerly belonging to the Guild of Brailes, the Guild of Knole and the late Chantry in Brailes, 6 Edward VI January 2 (1553) to 12 James I May 30 (1614). (Endorsed) "Brailes School". - 1820

12 - Schedule of deeds and writings relating to Brailes Charity, with receipt of the same, dated 1821, for deposit in the parish chest - 1821

13 - Conveyance by Joseph Spencer of Chelmscote, Wm. Baker of Lower Brailes and Edmund Morris of Upper Brailes (the surviving feoffees or trustees of the Trust Estate) to Wm. Harris, farmer, Thomas Wincott, farmer, Wm. Baker the younger, farmer, Thomas Davis gent., and John Cawley surgeon, all principal inhabitants of Brailes and nominated in public vestry to be new trustees of the same trust of all that messuage or tenement comprising and being used as the Free School and School House, together with other pieces of land and tenements comprising the Trust Estate, 19th May 1838 - 1838

14 - Order of the Charity Commissioners appointing new trustees of the Free. School of Brailes and vesting its property in the official Trustee of Charity Lands, 17 February 1863, with correspondence 1862-1863. - 1862, 1863

15 - Conveyance by Henry James Sheldon of Brailes House to the trustees of the Brailes Church and Free School Charity of 21 perches of ground south of the Six Bells Road in Upper Brailes, 31 December 1868, including plan. (On dorse) Memorandum of conveyance by the trustees to Brailes R.D.C. of 1.916 acres of the above land, marked blue on the plan in the deed - 1868

16 - Rental of property of the old Guild in Brailes, undated - nd

17 - Copy of exchange of allotments under the Lower Brailes Enclosure Award, dated 3 February 1787 between Richard Godson, trustee of the old Guild land, and Charles Bishop, undated. - nd

18 - List of repairs to John Wadups' (?charity) house, Nov. 1813 - 1813

4 - Appointments of schoolmasters

5 - Working papers

2 - William Baldwin

3 - Richard Badger's Charity

4 - Baldwin, Capell and Willington

5 - William Prestidge's Charity

6 - William Willington

7 - Francis Capell

8 - James Cooper

9 - Finlay Gibson

10 - Rev. William Richardson

11 - Schools

12 - Statutory Deposits

14 - Printed

15 - Miscellaneous

16 - Mission Churches

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