| Reference Number | DSCAM/6/2/6 |
| Title | Material relating to Dudley Blue Coat and Mr Taylor's Charity School |
| Description | DSCAM/6/2/6/1-2: Maps of houses, lands and estates belonging to the Dudley Blue Coat and Mr Samuel Taylor's Charity School, prepared by John Orme Brettell, mine and land agent, surveyor etc., Dudley, 1840. Duplicate copy annotated. |
| DSCAM/6/2/6/3: Attetsed copy of the release [lease wanting] (dated 7 Oct. 1785) from the old trustees (James Hayward Shaw, late of Dudley, now of London, gentleman, Thomas Jackson of Dudley, school master, and Benjamin Payton, late of the parish of Dudley, now of the City of Bristol, farmer) to the new trustees (Revd Joseph Cartwright, Clerk, Joseph Bourne the elder, grocer and chandler, Joseph Wainwright, surgeon, Abiathar Hawkes, white glass maker, Gilbert Shaw, surgeon, Edward Dixon, hop merchant, Bate Penn, hop merchant, Edward Hancox, currier and maltster, William Dudley, thread maker and John Hancox, cooper and maltster, all of Dudley, Worcs.) of Taylor's Charity of the charity lands (5 acres called Smallwood's Inhedge, 3 acres called Wright's Inhedge, half an acre from Preston Field, three quarters of an acre at Dig Lake, 2 acres at Springe Mire, three quarters of an acre called Black Acre, 3 acres called Mutts Inhedge, 2 acres called Neyley's Inhedge, an inclosure adjoining Oakey Well and another adjoining Martins Hill, all Dudley, as specified). Examined 18 July 1791. |
| DSCAM/6/2/6/4: Copy of bargain and sale and enfeoffment (dated 24 June 1808) by the Revd Joseph Cartwright, Vicar of Dudley and Joseph Cartwright of Dudley, surgeon (surviving trustees of Taylors Charity School), to the Dudley Town Commissioners and James Bourne of Dudley, gentleman (their Clerk and Treasurer) and Henry Pitt of Dudley, innkeeper and William Bunch of the same, broker (trustees for the Commissioners), of 4600sq. yds of land and 2 messuages erected thereupon, near Shavers End, adjoining the Dudley to Wolverhampton turnpike; consideration of £432 10/-; livery of seisin subjoined. |
DSCAM/6/2/6/5: Bargain and sale and enfeoffment (14 June 1811) from the old trustees (Revd Joseph Cartwright, Vicar of Dudley and Gilbert Read Shaw of Dudley, surgeon), to the new (William, Lord Viscount Dudley and Ward, the Hon. John William Ward, Thomas Hawkes, Esq., Edward Dixon, banker, Samuel Bennitt, nail ironmonger, James Bourne, gentleman, Daniel Shaw, surgeon, William Fellowes, gentleman, Cornelius Cartwright, surgeon, and Timothy Hill, nail ironmonger, all of Dudley, and the Revd Thomas Shaw Hellier of Wolverhampton, Staffs., Clerk); livery of seisin endorsed
Memorandum that deed found to be void as Cartwright and Shaw were not the [sole] surviving trustees. |
| DSCAM/6/2/6/6: Lease (3 Oct. 1849) by the Blue Coat trustees (Cornelius Cartwright, Esq., Edward Dixon, Esq., John Roberts, Esq., Joseph Green Bourne, gentleman, all of Dudley, the Revd William Henry Cartwright, late of Dudley, now of Butcombe, Somerset, Clerk, the Revd Edward Harper Cartwright, late of Dudley, now of Acton Burnell, Salop, Clerk, the Revd Edward Davies of Himley, Staffs., Clerk, the Revd Proctor Robinson, late of Dudley, now of Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire, Clerk, Thomas Hawkes, late of Dudley, residing at Caen in Normandy, France, Esq., and Joseph Bennitt, late of Dudley, now of Compton, parish of Kinver alias Kinfare, Staffs.), to Peter Wright of Dudley, vice maker, of a plot of land near Black Acre, Dudley (2r. 15p.) adjoining the road from Oakey Well Lane to Dixons Green, and the engine house etc. erected by Wright thereupon, for a term of 21 years, at a rent of £20 p.a.; plan endorsed. |
| DSCAM/6/2/6/7: Account from John Allen for surveying property of the Blue Coat Charity, 1818. |
| DSCAM/6/2/6/8-13: Details of proposed exchange of land at Defford, Worcs. between the School and Sir Thomas G.S. Sebright, Bart, with related correspondence of J.G. Bourne, Cornelius Cartwright, Sir T. Sebright and others, plan and calculations; 13 Aug. 1852-3 Apr. 1854 and 24 Aug. 1858-23 Mar. 1859. |
| Date | 1785-1859 |
| Related Material | Pr/Du (T) - Dudley, St Thomas parish records |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Extent | 13 items |
| Level | Item |