Gastrell (c. 1722), 'The Minister is obliged to teach School or allowed a schoolmaster half the profits of an estate left by Captain Sands v. Int[erest] of £50 left by Barth[olome]w Penington. Nomination of a master [resides] in Minister, Trustees of the said Legacy and Sidesmen'. Earlier in the same entry, Gastrell noted that Capt. Sands left £8 per annum 'for which the minister is obliged to teach School or allow a Master half the profits'. VCH records that Adam Sandys of Old hall in Booth left an estate at Cowridding in trust for 'a preaching schoolmaster...that is sound in doctrine, in life and conversation' who was 'to teach scholars within Colton and to officiate at the parochial chapel'. Bartholomew Penington's bequest in 1703 left £50 for a schoolmaster, but 'if the school should be taught by any minister of God's Word, living or residing at Cowridding', the interest for the time should go to Pennington's sisters or their heirs. Butler, Cumbrian Parishes, 84-5; VCH, Lancs., 8.386-7.