Sub-sub-series 28 - Hebblethwaite fellowships and scholarships

Henry Hebblethwaite, draper, of London, bequeathed on 27 June1587, £500 to buy property to endow 1 fellowship and 2 scholarships. The money was received from his executors, including James Heblethwait of Malton, Yorkshire, by 1 May 1589, when an Agreement was made with them for the endowment. The fellowship and the scholarships to be chosen by the same preferences, viz: 1) to be of the blood and name of Heblethwait and scholars of Sedbergh School; 2) of the name Heblethwait and scholars of Sedbergh School; 3) of the blood of Henry Heblethwait, natives of Sedbergh parish and scholars of Sedbergh School; (4) scholars of Sedbergh School; 5) those whom the College judges worthy. If no scholar be fit, then a a graduate to be selected by the same preferences. The foundation shall equal that of Lady Margaret’s in commons, stipend, chamber allowance, plus the ‘allowance for commons and diet...called detriments’, the [annual] wages of the scholars to be 26s. 8d., paid quarterly. The College agreed to elect a graduate, Robert Heblethwait, into the fellowship and a Lupton scholar, James Harrison, and a poor scholar, Richard Riddinge, into the scholarships. The performance secured by a forfeit of 20 shillings to King’s College for each default, and their right to distrain on the College’s Harlston lands in Cambridge and Chesterton.
Estates at Muggington and Ireton, Derbyshire, consisting of arable, pasture meadow and woods, totalling about 112 acres were bought for a total of £520 in 1590, from William and Mary Ireton and Richard Harpur (former archive references D35.33-35). Of these 89 acres 23 perches at Muggington were sold in 1866 to Lord Scarsdale. The awards were funded from general revenues and after 1926 from the Scholarship and Exhibition Fund Account.