ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCH. 303 12 poor bops or girl!'! of Ashby, and six boys of . In 1812, the property was sold for £380, which, together with £60 of unapplied incomf', was lent at five per cent. interest, but is intended to be invested in land. For teaching 18 poor girls of Ashby at her own house, a mistress receives £7 a year; and £3. 10s. is paid for schooling 9 girls at Diseworth. Books to the value of £5 yearly, are also provided by the trustees, Mr. J. Davenport and others.. The National and Infant Schools, in Back lane, were established by subscription about ten years ago. CHARITIES FOR THE PooR.-Twelve trustees, comprising Messrs. E. Mammatt, T. Cantrell, J. Eames, and others, hold property which yields £82 a year, commonly called MARGARET WRIGHT'S CHARITY, being pur­ chased with £43 given by her, and £89 given by other unknown donors, in 1630 and 1669. About £62 of this income is derived from the moiety -of a farm of 84A. at N ewtown UnthanK; £12 from 8A. 2R. Hp. on Ashby

W olds ; £3 from 2A. 3R. in Sheepshead; and £5 from £1001 secured on the Tamworth and Ashby, and Sawley Ferry and Ashby turnpikes. Out of this income, the trustees have to pay the interest of £75, borrowed from other charities, and they dispose of the remainder in the purchase of clothes for poor men and women of the parish, and of a fourpenny loaf for each of the persons to whom the clothes are given. About 100 persons annually partake of this charity; and they are mostly such as attend the church regularly, and are not in receipt of parochial relief. A yearly rent charge of £3, out of land at and , left by Henry CU1'Zon, in 1633, is distributed with the foregoing charity. In 1661, SIMEON AsHES charged 48A. of land here, with the yearly payment of £10 for apprenticing two poor children; and with providing a weekly dis­ tribution of 12 penny loaves, and four bibles yearly to the poor. In 1737, Sir T. Abney, the only surviving trustee, sold the 48A. of land, subject to the y.early rent charge of £15 for the purposes the charity, and it is now dispensed as follows: £10 in apprentice fees; Is. a week in bread; and £1. 12s. in eight bibles yearly. Sir C A. Hastings, Bart. and others are the trustees. In 1672, James Orme charged a farm of 200A. at Donis­ thorpe, with provi.ding 6 penny loaves weekly for the poor of Ashby. For a weekly distribution of 12 twopenny loaves, Henry Sykes, in 1703, charged the Dog-pit Closes, in Blackfordby, with the yearly payment of £6, minus the land tax. In 1726, John Case left £150, to be laid out in iand, and the rents to be distributed by the vicar and churchwardens among the poor. The legacy was laid out in the purchase of land at , now consisting of 12.A.. 3R. 22p., let for £22. 12s. per annum, to which is added the interest of £200, derived from the sale of the coal nnder the land. This income, With £2. 12s. a year, left by Fras. Ashe, in 1654, is dispensed in weekly distributions of twopenny loaves every Sunday at the church, to about 50 poor persons residing in or belonging to Ashby parish, and in 26 twopenny loaves 011 the first Sunday of every month to the blue coat sch.olars. In 1790, ELIZ. WILKINS left to the vicar and churchwardens £200 three per cent. consols, in trust to pay the dividends yearly to the oldest and most necessitous poor women residing in and belonging to Ashby parish, during her life. The yearly sum of £6. 6s., derived from Hickling's and other Consolidated Chm·ities, i'l distributed on St. Thomas's day, bv the churchwardens, in money and c]othing; together with any sums re(;eived from private contribution. ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCH UNION, formed by the New Poor Law Commissioners, in 1835, comprises 28 parishes and townships, viz., Ashby, Blackfordby, Staunton-Harold, Packington-with-, Nether and Over Seal, , Whitwick, Swannington, Ravenstone, ,