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There are two commodious dwelling-houses for the master and usher, and two large school-rooms. The number of scholars was, till recently, limited to 80, but the ushers school being now conducted on the national system, 130 boys were admitted. Beside the free occupation of the Town's-end Closes (9A. 2R., worth £30 per annum,) the master receives £200 yearly from the rents of the estates at Fullsby, Horncastle, and West Ashby, which are let for £239. 12s. per annum, of which £198 is derived from the Fullsby estate, one half of which ought to be appropriated  in maintaining poor boys of Fullsby and Legsby though there has rarely been more than one boy on this branch of the foundation. The Usher's estate at Ulceby has been increased by allotments awarded  to it under an enclosure act, passed in 1824, from about 50A.to upwards of 175A., and from the yearly value of £84 to £237, from which, however, there has to be deducted £157. 10s. per annum to pay the interest of £3500 borrowed to pay the enclosure expenses; so that the usher only receives £60 per annum, and the remaining £19. 10s. is retained to pay for repairs,&c. The founder also bequeathed a house at Gainsbro', to pay the expenses of the school trustees, and it is now let for £15 per annum. William Thorold, about the year 1664, left a yearly rent-charge of 40s., out of two cottages here, for apprenticing a poor boy. A Subscription Library was established here about eight years ago; and there is in the town an excellent Brass Band, established by the Earl of Yarborough, in connexion with his troop of Yeomanry Cavalry.