Note, 'In Acton ... Lady Conway's bequest of 1637 provided one shilling a week to teach six poor Acton children to learn to read English and was regularly used until, in the 19th century, it became impossible to get anyone to teach six children for a shilling and the money was then paid to the National school.', From: 'The Education of the Working Classes to 1870', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 1: Physique, Archaeology, Domesday, Ecclesiastical Organization, The Jews, Religious Houses, Education of Working Classes to 1870, Private Education from Sixteenth Century (1969), pp. 213-40. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22123&strquery=acton. Date accessed: 23 April 2007.