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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| ANCRUM | Ancrum (Parish) | Continued | The stipend consists of 16 chalders of Victual and £8.6.8 for communion elements. There are three schools in the parish, the Parochial, and two others. of the latter, there is one that is endowed, having been formerly the Parish School of Longnewton, where it is situated and still retaining the provision it had previously to the annexation of the parish of that name to the parish of Ancrum. Its endowment consists of £11.0.0 per annum, with a good house and garden for the accommodation of the teacher, and its patronage is vested in the proprietor of the Barony of Longnewton. In all these schools the ordinary branches of Education are taught viz English, English grammar, writing & arithmetic, in addition to which, in the parish school, instruction is given in Greek, Latin & French, Geography & practical Mathematics - for the three latter branches, however, the demand is very limited. |
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[Page] 5Parish of Ancrum W. Beatty
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