See VCH, Lancs., II, 623; Gastrell, Notitia Cestrienses, II.i., 273. A 1752 conveyance specified that the master should teach and instruct in English any number of poor, necessitous children in Newton, not exceeding ten. In 1818 averaged between 70 and 100 children,mostly from Newton, taught reading, writing and accounts without any charge.