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Ash next Ridley - Parish Information

The History of Education in the Village of Ash next Ridley, Kent. (1735-1950)
      by N. J. Muller.  An Historical and Sociological Survey

          Deed for the school signed by Lambarde       Page 68

I MULTON LAMBARDE of Beechmont in the Parish of Sevenoaks in the County of Kent Esquire under the authority of an Act passed in the fifth year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria entitled an Act to afford further facilities for the Conveyance and Endowment for Sites for Schools And of the Act of the eighth year of the Reign of Her present Majesty explaining the same do hereby freely and voluntarily and without valuable consideration grant and convey unto the Minister and Churchwardens of the Parish of Ash in the County of Kent and their successors ALL THAT tenement commonly known as the Girls school with the yards and outbuildings attached bounded on the north and west sides by a pasture field called The Vineyard and on the south and east by The Church Lane and by the public carriage road leading from the Parish of Ash to Wrotham belonging to the said Multon Lambarde which said premises are situate in the Parish of Ash aforesaid and are delineated in the

map drawn in the margin (see fig. 10) thereto together with all easements appurtenances and hereditaments corporeal and incorporeal belonging thereto or connected therewith And all my estate right title and interest in or to the said premises TO HOLD the same unto and to the use of the said Minister and Churchwardens and their successors for the purpose of the said act and upon trust to permit the said premises and all building thereon erected or to be erected to be for ever thereafter appropriated and used as and for a school for the education of the children only of the labouring and other poorer classes in the Parish of Ash aforesaid and as a residence for the teacher or teachers of the said school and for no other purpose which said school shall always be in union with and conducted upon the principles and in furtherance of the ends and designs of the incorporated National Society for 

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