The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-10-24 00:00:00

DANIEL TILYLOR'S SCHOOL CHARITY.

Is order to do justice to our account of this most im-
tenant subject, we shall this week give as nearly as
possible a history of the early life, character, and bine-
°eau of the donor of the charity, the purpose for which,
it was given, and the names of the present trustees.
In our next we shall enlarge on the subject, and endea-
vour to show that the pear of Bridporg do not get their
proper share of the charity.
The founder of this charity, Darnel Taylor, lived
during the Commonwealth, and the reigasef Merles * ,
James William 111. and Anne, and kept ra
shop which Awed on the site of the *hop and
premises now occupied by Mr. Reynolds, draper,
East-street. Part rrl the old building remains at
the p'esent time. There are differences of opinion
amongst those who have records ef Mr. Taylor as to
what business he carried on there, some thinking be
kept a general shop, and others toot he was a chemist.
We are iisixeed to adopt the latter opinion, for upon
the obverse side of a token of thet period, we 6nd in the
middle a pestle and mortar. and round this figure in
bold raised letters, "Daniel Taylor.' On the reveres
side, in the middle, are Daniel Taylor's initials "D. T.,"
and round the same "In Bridport, 1896." Dueled
Taylor was a Qoaker, and lived in trouhlous times. He
was in his yoeth, at a period when all classes of the
community evinced great one gy of mind, strong excite-
ment as to political events, and extravagant religious
fervour. The exteoded religious toleration of the
Commonwealth period led to the formation of a diver.
sity of sect., notable amongst them being the Qeakers
(1649). The distinguishing tenet of the disciples of
George Fox—that by the leading. moving, and drawing
of God, ought every Christian evangelist, to be held and
orderedin his labour of the Gospel as to the place where,
the persons to whom, and the times wherein he is to
minister—commended itself to many to whom the as-
sump tee of the prieetly office by men of other than
devout lives was repugnant. Daniel Taylor joined him-
self with the Quak,ra, or, ae they were called till 1660,
"The Frofe)aurs of Light." In 1650 George Fox was
imprisoned by the party then in power (the lades
pendenta) and Gervas Bennett one of the justioes who
committed him originated the designation "Quaker."
After Charles 11. ascended the throne Daniel Taylor
was more than ones imprisoned in Dorchester gaol for
preaching. Probably with many other non-comformists
ho wits aseounted seditious under the Conventicle Act
(May, 1664) whieh ordered that every meeting for
reit-ions purposes, of more than five persons in a-house-
hold. besides its ordinary members, should be amounted
seditious, and all present above the age of 16 were
amenable to fine, imprisonment and trensportation,
according as the offence might be repeated. Daniel
Taylor must have been in the prime of life at the time
of the Monmouth rebellion, but beings Qu Ater he was
of course a peaceful subject, and the oily further record
we have of him is his fennding an Almshouse ia Brid-
port in 16.46, and his founding the school charity in
1708.
By indentures of leas,. and release Fearing date 30th
and 31. t December, 1708, (the sixth year of Queen
Anne's reign) betweeti Daniel Taylor of the one part,
and John Nicholls andsix others of the other part, the
mid Daniel Taylor fisr assuring the hereditament§
thereinafter mentioned, for erecting and endowing a
free school in the town of Bridport, granted and re-
leased to the said John Nicholls, and others, and their
heirs, the weesuage, burgsge or tenement called the
Bull Inn, situate in the Eastoitreet in Brid port, then
in the ocoupation of Roger Penney, upon trust to de-
mise the same for any t me not itaseeding ten yews, at
the best relit that could be obtained, payable quarterly, .
and not dimpanishable of waste. upon treat to maintsM
I she premises in all necessary and r, quisite reparations,
and after effecting auch repairs and paying all other
neceseary disborammente, to pay over the clear yearly
rents of the premises as • yearly stipend for the only
benefit and behoof of such person as should be ap-
point3d schoolmaster, in the manner thereinafter ex-
pressed, and upon further trust within one moth attar
the death or removal of such schoolmaster, by such
means as are thereinafter mentioned, to appoint
an honest and discreet person, skilful, and experi-
enced in the arts of reading; writing and arithmetie,
and in such other useful arts and sciences as Inch
schoolmester should think at and convenleet, to teach
gratis and without an., ts oompense (other than the said
clear yearly rents) twelve of Await pour children, 8041 Of
the poor inhabitants of the borough (Us., the parish) of
Bridport, as the bailiffs for the time being, or other
principal offioer or officers of the raid borough, shonl4
within the space of two months eter the execution of
the said indenture, and so from time to time for ever,
within the space of two months next after the diminu-
tion of the said number of children nominate and ap-
point, and if the said bailiff*, or other principal airier
or officere of the said borough should neglect so to do
for the space of two months, then that the said trustees
or the eurvivors of them, shculd, from the poor children,
sons of ,he poor inhabitants of the said borough,
appoint twelve, or "so many as should be wanting
to make up twelve scholars, to be eduoated and
instructed by such schoolmaster, and it was pro.
vided that if the said yearly rents, after all necessary
rspairs and disbursements, should amount to more than
£l2, or should not amount to so much, then the bailiffs,
or, in their default, the said trustees should, ia
the manner therein mentioned, appoint so many, or
only so many, poor scholars, as the said rents should
produce pounds per annum, so that the said school-
roaster shall always receive out of the said rents twenty
shillings yearly for every poor scholar so appointed.
kroviaion is then made for removing immoral or
incompetent masters. And if in any interval between
the death or removal of one master and the appoint-
ment of another money should come into the hands of
the said trustees, they should expend itder apprenticing
sons of the poor inhabitants of the said borough of
Bridport, or, if none be appointed for twelve months, to
such charitable uses as the trustees approve.
When the trustees are reduced to three they are to
elect seven others from the inhabitants of and residing
in the borough of Bridport. . . .

The ant astoomeet ref caceonnt, in connection with
this charity, recorded in the vestry-book of the parish,
Is that for 1858. Ate :"resseipts' we have • Milano.
brought forward of el Is. 11d., and ah income for the
year of £l4O. The itemt of expenditure are two years
insurance £ll, land tax £3; interest on money due
£l9 Bs. W. (It would appear from • note appended to
the amount that this sum was for loan of /WO from
Altars. Colter, borrowed for the ntirse of enlarging
the premsea) ficuldry bills, £25 Oa. lid.- balance of
money borm wed 1 .T. Gundry, £34 ; leaving a.
balance in hand of £2 12s. 7d. From this it seems that
In iB5B put of a gross income of £l4O, only £3O were
expended in education, and that amount was added to
the funds of • school where payment is made for the
education of every pupil. Next week we shall have
various. 'remarks to make on this matter. The Ball
Hotel was sold to Mr. John Knight, in 1859, for £2,450.
We will continue our amount of the charity from that
time.

THE Cattle Disease is reported to have broken out in
PortugiL

New MAGISTRATES FOR EIOWERSITSHIRII. —The
Right Honourable C L. Porteseue, of Cheretou
Priority; and E. T. D. Jeme, Eaq., of Hinton House.
THE General Superlteliebdidtt of Swansea Harbour is
excited about the rvil which has been done the harbour
through the reported exurtenee of yellow fever in Heim-
rea. The trade of the port, he say% hoogreallyagffered.

THE rate of mortality it' Bristol ter th 6 past week has
been the same as it was the prevlmis one; Az., 21 ib
every 1,000; which Is the lowest of any of the large
towns in England compared by the Registrar-Gess*

"A fitrotrr COM," -Courrns.—lres, arChwan et the
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advertisement in another column.

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When hairsenes., sough, thick breathing, and the
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