moneys from
Northcave, Rise, etc., acquaint at least one of ye Governours,
when such moneys are paid to them, give the said Governour or
Governours an acquittance under their hands, and ye moneys
receiv'd to be entred into the schoole booke and the private
acquittance given to be delivered back to the masters on the day
of meeting in march aforesaid.

4. That ye masters shall take the rents of the Keasden lands,
when due, and give an acquittance for the same to the Governours
on the usuall day of March.

5. Whereas ye statutes enjoyn that the Governours, when they
meet about ye business of ye school, shall be content with
moderate charges, it is agreed that those moderate charges on ye
usuall day of meeting in March shall not exceed at any one
meeting the sum of one pound per Annum.

To ye above written articles, I, John Carr, A.B., give my
consent and promise to observe them.

JOHN CARR.

It cannot be explained why these regulations were made, but probably the
real point of friction had lain in the collection of rents, or perhaps
in the choice of the Writing Master. It is clear from the second clause
that the original custom has not changed much. The Ancient Statutes of
1592 had given the Master power to appoint a three weeks vacation, when
he wished, in order that the "scollers" might "be exercysed in wrytinge
under a scriviner" and it is the same in 1712. It proves that, although
the School was a free school and was the place of education for the
whole township of Giggleswick and the surrounding neighbourhood, it was
not a place for elementary education and never had been.

The fifth paragraph bears reference to the agreement made with John
Armitstead in 1705, by which the Masters ceased to provide the
entertainment at the Governors' Meetings. Henceforward the amount to be
expended is limited to one pound per annum.

In 1720 Richard Thornton was allowed to act as Clerk to Charles Harris,
Esq., for six months. It does not transpire who Charles Harris was, but
the case is somewhat paralleled seventy years later, when in 1793 Robert
Kidd is "to take the trouble of keeping accounts, etc., for the
Governors and be allowed an additional sum of two guineas per annum."

In 1726 Richard Thornton resigned and George Carr took his place.
Nothing worthy of note is recorded until John Carr's death i