Acquittance: John Ramsden, schoolmaster of the Grammar School of Penistone (with the consent of Elkanah Rich, John Wood, William Fenton, George Walker, John Micklethwait, gents. and Edmund Hough, vicar of Peniston, feoffees of the school), to William Bosseville of Gunthwait, esq.

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For £20 under Will of George Sedasque, great uncle of W. B. by marriage, for the benefit of the master of the school. Further to a recited order under a Commission for Charitable uses (5 December 1715). There are 9 witnesses and 15 'principle inhabitants' of Peniston sign as agreeing to the payment

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