Richard Elkington, of Shawell, by will dated 1607, gave £50 to be held in trust by the Corporation of Leicester, the interest of which was to be given to the parson and churchwardens of Lutterworth to give to five poor tradesmen each year. A similar amount was left to the St Martin’s parish in Leicester. This charitable donation, either from the neglect of the trustees or from some other cause, does not appear to have been ever carried into effect. In 1639, the Corporation used this money, together with £41 of their own, totalling £141, to purchase some property in Leicester. Almost two centuries later, in 1807, the Corporation tried to sell this property but their clerk noticed that they did not own it solely – in fact they only owned two sevenths of it. As a consequence of the clerk’s quick-thinking the case went to the Court of Chancery which made a decree in 1825 ordering that the property be sold and the proceeds invested and divided between the Corporation, which was allowed to keep two sevenths of the total sum, with the St Martin’s parish of Leicester and Lutterworth sharing the remaining five sevenths of the sum. The situation was finally resolved, and in 1875 Lutterworth Parish Officers received a sum of £1286.9s.7d. as their share of the charity. Part of this went towards building the Lutterworth Grammar School and the remaining sum of £660.17s,5d was left invested. I thought you might be interested in this. If you want to know any more I have a complete list of Elkingtons almost up to the present day. Regards JUDY ELKINGTON www.elkingtonfamily.com Elkington@rootsweb.com