... some elementary instruction given by the ushers or under-masters. Eventually, as a result of the alleged situation the Charity Commission reported the matter to the Attorney General filed a suit in 1832. However the Tower family succeeded in postponing the matter for many years. The Rector of Ingrave and West Horndon near Brentwood finally called a public meeting in 1847 for the purpose of investigating the management of the school and as stated in the notice "what steps shall be taken towards the better and more effectual management of the benevolent intentions of it´s founder". Seventy people who appointed a committee to keep a close watch on a new scheme attended the meeting. At the time the case became notorious, but it appears from more recent findings that some of the allegations were either exaggerated or untrue. This gave rise to The Brentwood Schools and Charity Act of 1851 which ...

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