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'''For pupils with leave dates from 1922- 1935 click [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Lacey_Green_School_Reunion_2000 Lacey Green School Reunion 2000].'''

'''For pupils with leave dates from 1936- 1948 click [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Lacey_Green_School_Reunion_2000_leave_dates_1936_-_48 Lacey Green School Reunion 2000 leave dates 1936 - 48].'''

'''For pupils with leave dates from 1949- 1958 click [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Lacey_Green_School_Reunion_2000_leave_dates_1949_-_58. Lacey Green School Reunion 2000 leave dates 1949 - 58.]'''

'''For pupils with leave  dates from 1959 -1971 click [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Lacey_Green_School_Reunion_2000_leave_dates_1960_-1971 Lacey Green School Reunion 2000 leave dates 1960 -1971]'''

'''For pupils with leave dates from 1972''' '''click [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Lacey_Green_School_Reunion_2000_leave_dates_from_1972 Lacey Green School Reunion 2000 leave dates from 1972]'''

click [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/1971_Lacey_Green_School_New_Hall_Dedication 1971 Lacey Green School New Hall Dedication]

'''1964.  An enquiry was raised with Charity Commission''' by Joan West, treasurer of the Managers of St John's School, Lacey Green after consulting John Gabbitas, solicitor.  She had realised that the vicar, Raymond Maynard had  put The School House up for sale.   This house belonged to Lacey Green School, The Trustees of both were the vicar and churchwardens, held by the Charity Commission for Lacey Green.   

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The letter on the left, dated  27 October 1964 was from the legal branch of the Department of Education and Sience.

The 2 paged letter on the right, dated 24 August 1964 confirmed enquiries made to the Charity Commission.



'''The Known Facts'''

'''24th March 1860     An established schoolroom is purchased.'''  ''(research note. This land adjoined the land of [[Stocken Farm]])''
[[File:Charity Commission 02.jpg|thumb|Full list of  charity trusts of  Lacey Green School.]]
Conveyance.    [[Charles Brown]] of Stocken Farm purchased from the executors of Sarah Shard of [[Grymsdyke]] Lodge a schoolroom and 2 houses (a block of land including a schoolroom and two semi-detached cottages in which domestic workers for Grymsdyke House lived, stretching to [[Slad Lane]]).  (For Sarah Shard click [[Sarah Shard born 1770]])

'''16<sup>th</sup> December 1870.   DEED of GIFT To the Church'''

Charles Brown gave the schoolroom to the Vicar and Churchwardens of St John’s Church, Lacey Green, as trustees.

'''1871.   The Church of England adopted the school, naming it “St.John’s School”'''

'''3<sup>rd</sup> February  1875.    Conveyance of Land on which the school is built, by''' '''Charles Brown to the Vicar and Churchwardens'''

'''Lacey Green School - Conveyance 1875'''

I, Charles Brown, of Lacey Green in the Parish of Princes Risborough in the County of Buckingham, gentleman, under the authority of an act passed in the fifth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria entitled “an act to afford further facilities for the conveyance and endowment of sites for schools” and of the act of the eighth year of the reign of her present Majesty explaining the same, do hereby freely and voluntarily and without valuable consideration, grant and '''convey unto the Minister and churchwardens of the Ecclesiastical District of St. John the Evangelist at Lacey Green''' in the parish of Princes Risborough aforesaid and their successors. '''all that piece or parcel of ground situate and being at Lacey Green in the Parish of Princes Risborough aforesaid, containing eleven poles or there abouts be the same more or less and measuring in length adjoining the High Road there twentyone and a half yards or thereabouts and in depth sixteen yards or thereabouts as the same is now fenced out and divided from other land of the said Charles Brown and which piece of land intended to be hereby conveyed was many years ago given by the said Charles Brown for the purposes hereinafter mentioned and on which piece of land schools and other buildings have for some years been created and built''' together with all easements ,appurts. and heredities corporal and incorporal belonging thereto or therewith and all my estate right title and interest in or to the same premises to hold the same unto and to the use of the said minister and churchwardens and their successors for the purposes of the said act and upon trust subject nevertheless to the proviso hereinafter contained, to permit the said premises and all buildings thereon erected or to be erected to be for ever hereafter appropriated and used as and for a school for the education of children and adults or children only of the labouring, manufacturing and other poorer class in the district aforesaid and as a residence for the teacher or teachers of the said school and for no other purpose. And it is hereby declared that the said school shall always be in union with and conducted according to the principles and in furtherance of the acts and assigns of the Incorporated National Society for promoting the Education of the poor in the principles of the established church throughout England and Wales – Provided always and it is hereby declared that the said Minister and churchwardens and their successors shall and may from time to time and at any time hereafter with the consent and at the request of the National Society for promoting the education, of the poor in the principles of established church throughout England and Wales, otherwise grant or. convey for educational purposes but not otherwise, to the body corporate or person the whole of the estate or interest hereby vested in their ,or any smaller, interest in the said school in such manner and upon such terms as the said society shall as aforesaid direct and subject to the declaration aforesaid, the said school and the funds and endowments thereof and the selection appointment and dismissal of the school teachers and their assistants shall be in all respects under the management and control of a committee to consist of the Minister for the time being of the said Ecclesiastical District, the chosen Curate or Curates if the said Minister shall appoint him or them to be a Member or Members of the said committee, the churchwardens of the said a District, if members of the Established church and subscribers of not less than ten shillings annually to funds of the said school and of three other persons being members of the established church and subscribers of not less than ten shillings annually to the funds of the said school and any vacancy which may occur in the said committee by death, resignation or otherwise of any of the aforesaid other persons, shall be filled up by the nomination on the part of the continuing or surviving member of another person or persons being bonefide in member or members of the Established Church and qualified as aforesaid.  Provided always that the religions instruction to be given in the said school and the entire central and management of any Sunday school held in the school premises shall be vested in the said Minister for the time being or in his absence in the officiating Minister.   And in case any dispute or difference shall arise on any matter respecting the religious instruction given in the said school an appeal may be made to the Bishop of the Diocese whose decision in writing upon the matter in dispute shall be final and conclusive and binding upon all parties. In witness whereof, I the said [[Charles Brown]] have hereunto set my hand and seal this third day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy five.

'''Signed Sealed and Delivered''' by the above named Charles Brown in the presence of Thos: Parrott, Aylesbury, Bucks, Solicitor.

'''March 15<sup>th</sup> 1926'''  William Saunders of Stocken Farm, conveyed quarter of an acre of land to the Vicar and Churchwardens (Trustees of St. John’s School).  For William Saunders click [[William Saunders & Bethia Janes]]

'''November 1<sup>st</sup> 1926'''    William Saunders of Stocken Farm, conveyed additional land to the Vicar and Churchwardens.

'''In the 1930s a House was built''' on [[Pink Road]], Lacey Green with the proceeds of the sale of [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Loosley_Row_School Loosley Row School].   It was vested in the Vicar and Churchwardens to be a house for the head teachers' of Lacey Green School to which the Loosley Row children now came.   See [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/The_School_House The School House] for more.    

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'''Lacey Green School - Conveyance 1875 (copy)'''

I, Charles Brown, of Lacey Green in the Parish of Princes Risborough in the County of Buckingham, gentleman, under the authority of an act passed in the fifth. year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria entitled “an act to afford further facilities for the conveyance and endowment of sites for schools” and of the act of the eighth year of the reign of her present Majesty explaining the same, do hereby freely and voluntarily and without valuable consideration, grant and '''convey unto the Minister and churchwardens of the Ecclesiastical District of St. John the Evangelist at Lacey Green''' in the parish of Princes Risborough aforesaid and their successors. '''all that piece or parcel of ground situate and being at Lacey Green in the Parish of Princes Risborough aforesaid, containing eleven poles or there abouts be the same more or less and measuring in length adjoining the High Road there twentyone and a half yards or thereabouts and in depth sixteen yards or thereabouts as the same is now fenced out and divided from other land of the said Charles Brown and which piece of land intended to be hereby conveyed was many years ago given by the said Charles Brown for the purposes hereinafter mentioned and on which piece of land schools and other buildings have for some years been created and built''' together with all easements ,appurts. and heredities corporal and incorporal belonging thereto or therewith and all my estate right title and | interest in or to the same premises to hold the same unto and to the use of the said minister and churchwardens and their successors for the purposes of the said act and upon. trust subject nevertheless to the proviso hereinafter contained, to permit the said premises and all buildings thereon. erected or to be erected to be for ever hereafter appropriated and used as and for a school for the education of children and adults or children only of the labouring, manufacturing and other poorer class in the district aforesaid and as a residence for the teacher or teachers of the said school and for no other purpose. And it is hereby declared that the said school shall always be in union with and conducted according to the principles and in furtherance of the acts and assigns of the Incorporated National Society for promoting the Education of the poor in the principles of the established church throughout England and Wales – Provided always and it is hereby declared that the said Minister and churchwardens and their successors shall and may from time to time and at any time hereafter with the consent and at the request of the National Society for promoting the education, of the poor in the principles of established church throughout England and Wales, otherwise grant or. convey for educational purposes but not otherwise, to the body corporate or person the whole of the estate or interest hereby vested in their ,or any smaller, interest in the said school in such manner and upon such terms as the said society shall as aforesaid direct and subject to the declaration aforesaid, the said school and the funds and endowments thereof and the selection appointment and dismissal of the school teachers and their assistants shail be in all respects under the management and control of a committee to consist of the Minister for the time being of the said Ecclesiastical District, the chosen Curate or Curates if the said Minister shall appoint him or them to be a Member or Members of the said committee, the churchwardens of the said a District, if members of the Established church and subscribers of not less than ten shillings annually to funds of the said school and of three other persons being members of the established church and subscribers of not less than ten shillings annually to the funds of the said school and any vacancy which may occur in the said committee by death, resignation or otherwise of any of the aforesaid other persons, shall be filled up by the nomination on the part of the continuing or surviving member of another person or persons being bonefide in member or members of the Established Church and qualified as aforesaid. Provided always that the religions instruction to be given in the said school and the entire central and management of any Sunday school held in the school premises shall be vested in the said Minister for the time being or in his absence in the officiating Minister. And in case any dispute or difference shall arise on any matter respecting the religious instruction given in the said school an appeal may be made to the Bishop of the Diocese whose decision in writing upon the matter in dispute shall be final and conclusive and binding upon all parties. In witness whereof, I the said Charles Brown have hereunto set my hand and seal this third day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy five.


Signed Sealed and Delivered by the above named Charles Brown in the presence of Thos: Parrott, Aylesbury, Bucks, Solicitor.

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[[File:Lacey Green School Schedule of Deeds.jpg|alt=.|center|thumb|Lacey Green School Schedule of Deeds]]For Speen and Loosley Row Schools click [[Loosley Row School]] for the Emma Grace Foundation