Set up of Trust

Reference Number: 1074/C/1
Level of Description: Item
Title: Set up of Trust
Date: 26 Feb 1705
Extent: Extent: 1 item
Description: 1. Thomas Bridges of Keynsham Abbey, Knight.
2. Harry Bridges of Wells Esq, son & heir apparent, George Rodney Bridges Esq, Avington, Hampshire, son of Thomas Bridges, George Bridges son & heir apparent of George Rodney Bridges, Robert Langton Esq of Brislington, John Strechey Esq of Sutton Court, John Britton Esq, High Littleton, John Barrington Esq, Kelston, Thomas Brewer Esq, Paulton, Jeremiah Pearce, Brislington, Merchant.

Setting up of Trust to use £500 for the benefit of the education of the people of Keynsham. The Trustees could buy land or property & use the income from these to pay their own costs & use the remainder of the profits to employ an able teacher to teach grammar, latin, arithmetic, writing and anything else they were capable of to 20 poor boys of Keynsham until the age of 15.
After the first teacher then the vicar should be the teacher if possible. If the income was insufficient, 1. transfers the messuage or Manor House called Bickfolds Farm or Bickfold Court in Compton Martin, in the occupation of Ann Jones, widow, so that it could be sold to increase funds.