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Title: A history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Doubleday, Herbert Arthur, 1867-1941
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Westminster (Constable)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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is paid to the Education Committee ofthe Hants County Council and £$ to the managersof the Barton Stacey School. In 1791 the same Elizabeth Wright by deed(enrolled) gave a further sum of £700 stock upontrust that the income should be distributed every St.Thomass Day among poor inhabitants not in receiptof parish relief The trust fund now consists of£yoo consols producing yearly £lj 10s. In 1907sixty-six persons received gifts of money. In 1905 Mrs. Martha Sharrow, by will proved29 July, bequeathed to the vicar and churchwardens^100 upon trust to invest the same and apply theincome—subject to the repair of grave—to somedeserving old man or woman resident in the parish.The legacy was invested in £ll$ 2s. id. consols,producing yearly £z 1 js. \d. The several sums of stock are held by the officialtrustees. 108 Inq. a.q.d. file 66, no. 2 ; Abbrev. 110 Egerton MS. 2031, fol. 12.Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), i, 159. 111 Cal. S. P. Dom. 1635, p. 520. 109 L. and P. Htn. VIII, xvi, 878. 422
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BARTON STACEY HUNDRED COLEMORE Colemere (xi cent.) ; Colemeare, Connere (xivcent.) ; Colemore (xviii cent.). The parish of Colemore or Colmer contains 1,472acres of land; though less picturesque than theneighbouring parish of Priors Dean, it is in themidst of well-wooded and undulating country. Thereare 779 acres of arable land, 558J under permanentgrass and 31 acres of woodland.1 Colemore village liesin the north-east part of the parish. John Greaves,the celebrated mathematician, was born at ColemoreRectory in 1602. He was appointed sub-warden ofMerton College, Oxford, and ejected by the Parlia-mentary visitors in 1648, when he lost many of hisbooks and manuscripts. Some of these were after-wards recovered for him by his friend Selden, butafter his death they were dispersed ; his astronomicalinstruments, however, were left to the Savilian Library,Oxford. John Greaves was the eldest son of therector of Colemore, Rev. John Greaves, the tutor ofGeorge Wither, the poet, who wrote an affe

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