APPENDIX B 441 Morgan.
Edward Roberts James Standish Daniel Hutchinson John Preston Richard Tygh and Thomas Hooke their heirs and assigns for ever.
To the use ofthe said Erasmus Smith for and during the term and time of one hundred and forty years to begin from 1st day of May next ensuing the date hereof.
Yielding and paying for and out of the same £300 sterling current and lawful money of and in England on the 1st of November and the 1st of May yearly during the said term free acquit and discharged of all manner of contributions assess and charge whatsoever or within sixty days after each of the said days of pay¬ ment by even and equal portions.
And of the reversion of the premises together with the said rent to the proper use and behoof of them their heirs and assigns.
But yet in trust and confidence that the said Henry Jones Samuel Winter Thomas Harrison Henry Wootton Samuel Mather Eobert Chambers William Bassil John Byss Thomas Herbert Jerome Lanckey John Bridges Anthony Morgan Edward Robert James Standish Daniel Hutchinson John Preston Bichard Tygh and Thomas Hooke their heirs and assigns and the survivors and survivor of them shall stand seized of all and singular the premises to the purposes and intents hereafter mentioned that is to say—To the intent and purpose that out of the rents issues and profits of the premises the said Trus¬ tees their hens and assigns and the survivors or survivor of them and his heirs shall in case the said Erasmus Smith do it not procure and defray the charge of passing an Act of Parliament for the settling of the said lands and premises according to the true intent and meaning of these presents or otherwise to obtain license from His Highness the Lord Protector under the Great Seal of England for incorporating themselves in succession and to retain the said lands and premises to them and their successors notwith¬ standing the Statute of Mortmaine to the uses hereafter to be expressed.
And after the said Act shall be passed or license so obtained as aforesaid and also before to the intent that out of the annual profits of the premises the said Trustees and the survivors or survivor of them and his heirs or the said Corporation and their successors shall cause five school-houses for the teaching of grammar and the original tongue and to write read and cast accounts to be built in the places following (viz.)
One in the town of Sligo.
One other school upon the said Erasmus Smith's lands about Galway.
One other school upon his lands in the Barony of Clanwilliam in the County of Tipperary.
One other school upon his land in the Barony of Dunluce in the County of A ntrim.
Another where Ms lands that are deficient (which is .£2700)
shah be fixed.
And it is the intent that the said Trustees their heirs and assigns shall pay and allow out of the rents issues and profits of the premises the sum of £40 sterling and not under to one Schoolmaster and so to every one of the said five Schoolmasters for teaching the poor inhabiting on the premises to read write and cast accounts and grammar as they shall be found capable without any other allowance for the same.
But the said yearly stipend in every of the said five schools the sum of £40 by the year yearly during his or their continuance in the said employ¬ ment on the 1st of November and the 1st of May yearly or within sixty days after every of the said days at *eir house and where the Schoolmasters shall be settled.
And.
to the further intent that out of the surplusage ofthe said rents and profits there be allowed to the Clerk or Registar attending the said Trustees a yearly sum of money not exceeding Twenty Nobles at most during the continuance of the Lease of forty-one years limited by these presents to the said Erasmus onuth.
And when the rents shall increase the said allowance not to exceed £10 and payable at the days aforesaid during his the said Register's continuance in tbe said employment.
Provided always and it is the Sfif?0nr°f
%he Parties t0 tliese presents that not¬ withstanding these presents or anything therein contained the said Erasmus Smith may assign the
said Lease unto whom he shall think fit.
And that the said Donees in trust shall accept of such Assignee or Assignees to be their tenants and that the said Erasmus Smith his executors administrators and assigns shall be no way impeached or troubled for or concerning the same.
The said Erasmus Smith or his Assignee or Lessee delivering a true or exact rent roll of the said lands to the said Trustees and their heirs or the said Corporation and their successors conveying the lands of* the under terre tenants and of the utmost value of rent and other customs which they pay out of the premises with the number of acres which each under tenant doth enjoy with the timber rents and duties payable thereout at four several times during the continuance of the said Lease of forty-one years when it shall be demanded of the said Lessee or Lessees which rent roll so often as received to he fairly entered by the Register in their books of entries to which rent roll the Trustees in letting the premises or any part thereof are to have respect unto.
And the intentions of all parties to these presents is that the children of the poor tenants inha¬ biting on the lands aforesaid and the children of such as are poor or lived by their labour are to be taught at the said schools free and without paying anything for their teaching to the said Masters.
And that such of the said tenants on the said lands their children as shall be made fit for the University or Trinity College near Dublin shall have out of the remainder of the said rents and profits of the said premises (as far as they will reach) the former charge first discharged towards their maintenance the sum of £10 by the year for each of the said children so fitted for the first four years that such person shall be admitted into the said College of Dublin.
Provided that in the first place the children of the tenants and inhabitants of the said land and other the lands ofthe said Erasmus Smith and his heirs in Ireland to be first provided for and after them such as shall be educated in the said schools being poor and for want of such for the relief of such other poor scholars as in the judgment of the said Trus¬ tees their heirs and assigns (provided that there be no fewer than seven of them to consult about the premises-or of the said Corporation and their successors) shall be held fit to receive the same.
Provided always that the two latter sort of poor shall give place to the former as they shall grow up and be fit to be entered in the said College or University and that no one poor scholar fto be maintained in the University or Trinity College aforesaid) shall receive out of the profits of the pre¬ mises above £10 sterling by the year and not to con¬ tinue longer than four years after their respective enterings into the said College or University.
And that it shall be lawful for the said Trustees their heirs-and assigns and the survivor and survivors of them or the major part of them and the said Corporation and their successors to remove the said Schoolmasters-and every of them from time to time for insufficiency neglect scandal or roguery.
And that the said Trus¬ tees and the survivors of them their heirs or assigns or the major part of them or the said Corporation and their successors shall meet twice every year in some convenient place and agree about the manage¬ ment of the said trust.
And shall have power to extend out of the rents and profits of the said lands and premises for two dinners on the said two days of meeting for themselves forty shillings for each dinner and no more.
And the said Erasmus Smith doth further declare that if after the expiration or other determination of the Lease to be made by the said Eramus Smith the said lands and premises shall exceed the sum of £300 by the year being let at the best value that then the surplusage of the said rents and profits to be employed for the maintenance of five schools now to be rected where the Trustees shall judge most meet on any part of the said Erasmus his lands and premises in Ireland for teaching speaking and reading the English tongue.
And that each Master or Mistress employed therein shall not exceed a yearly salary of £10 sterling by the year.
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Appendix B.
