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Here are four chapels, belonging to the Baptists and the Wesleyan, New Connexion, and Primitive Methodists. the first has a small endowment, and that belonging to the Wesleyans was rebuilt on a larger scale in 1821. the expenditure of the overseers of Epworth for the year 1729, was only £92. 2s., but in 1829 it amounted to £963. the Free School was built and endowed by subscriptions in 1711, and soon afterwards augmented with three acres of land, given by Ann Crossland and Charles Kelsey in 1728 and 1731, and a yearly rent charge of £2, left by Robt. Coggan, in 1713. An allotment of 3a. 3r. 2p. was awarded to the school at the enclosure, and its endowment now consists of 9a. 2r. 14p., and the above named rent charge, producing altogether £16 per annum for which, and the use of a good house, the master teaches 20 poor children to read, but charges 3s. per quarter for writing. the poor`s land comprises about 16 acres, of which about 11 acres were left by Richard Brewer in 1687; and the remainder by persons named Whiteley, Coggan, Maw, Whitelam, Bird, and Thorpe. The land is let for £37. 3s. per annum, which is distributed yearly among the poor, chiefly in clothing, together with£6. 10s. 10d., arising from eight rent charges, left by Ann Maw (£2) an unknown donor (£1) and persons named Ashmal, Coggan, Skerne, Tanner, Barnard, and Popplewell. A Carthusian Priory was founded at Epworth, in the reign of Richard 11., by Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Nottingham, but all traces of it are gone. It was valued at the dissolution at £290. 11s. 7d., and granted to John Candish. |
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