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 -                 HEAD MASTERS OF GRAMMAR SCHOOL SINCE 1800. -+++- Date of     |                            |            | Appointment. |                      |            |By whom appointed. -+++- 1801 to 1806.|Rev. Thos. Stevenson. |''pro. temp.''|Company of Drapers. In 1806. |Jas. Thos. Halloway, D.D.  |            |   "          " " 1808.    |Rev. Henry Dannett, B.A.    |            |   "          " " 1814. |Rev. Phipps Gerard Slatter, |           | |   M.A.                    |            |   "          " " 1815.    |Rev. Jas. Ratcliffe, M.A.   |            |   "          " Before 1837. |Rev. Rich^d Martindell Lamb,|            |             |    M.A.                    |pro. temp.|   "          " In 1837.     |Rev. Geo. Thistlethwaite,   |            |   "          "             |    M.A.                    |            | " 1845. |Rev. S. E. Wentworth, M.A. |            |   "          " " 1866.    |Rev. Jno. Burrough, M.A.    |            |   "          " " 1874. |Rev. J. Young, M.A.        |            |   "          " -+++-

From the vestry book of Kirkham, we learn that the charity known as "Bread Money" originated from the vicar and "Thirty-*men," who, on the 5th of April, 1670, "with the consent and countenance of some of the gentlemen and of the present church-*wardens, with some neighbours of repute in the respective townships," held a meeting, at which it was unanimously decided to raise £80, such sum to be laid out on good security, and the interest to be expended in providing "a dozen penny loaves for every Sunday in the year, Christmas and the king's birthday, and for every other holiday, to be given to so many of such poor as shall use to frequent the church and to those of distant town-*ships." The resolution continued:—"These loaves shall not be given to strangers or vagabonds, nor to children that shall but play about the church till sermon be passed, and then come in for a loaf, nor to any of the town of Kirkham in summer, but only in winter." In order to raise the fund agreed upon, it was resolved that "what could be got by contribution of the communicants at Easter should be thus employed;" vicar Richard Clegg promised £5, and stated that if he remained at Kirkham during the rest of his life, and had the means, he would at some future time give £15 more for the same object, an intention which appears subsequently to have been carried out by his daughter, Mrs. Mary Nightingale, who some years after his decease, contributed £20 towards the fund. £5 given for the use