In 1696 George Jepson of Over Staveley left 2 estates in land to a preaching minister who should keep school in Staveley, and although in 1717 repairs had cut into the return of these estates it was then hoped that they would yield £10 or £12 p.a. clear. 'The present Curate does not preach but teaches school in the chapel (there being no schoolhouse) but hath no salary', L.A.S. Butler, ed., The Cumbria Parishes, 1714-1725, from Bishop Gastrell's Notitia, with additions by Bishop Porteus, 1778-1779, Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Record Series, vol. 12 (1998), 122.