1.          William May, alias Mayes, by Will dated 24^th May, 1619, and proved at Peterborough 13th May, 1630, gave £100 to be laid out in land to the intent that out of the rent 6s. 8d. should be paid to the Church and 33s. 4d. to the poorest and most infirm folk at Rushden, and that the residue of the rent should be given yearly to the poorest of his kindred, and when none were left, he directed that all the money they should have should go to the poor of the town ; he also directed that the Charity should be distributed by the Churchwardens and Constables of the town and that of the 6s. 8d. for the Church, 3s. 4d. should go to a sermon and the rest to the Church and the repairs of a Prayer set on the wall nigh where he should be buried.

The sum of £100 was laid out in the purchase of land at Wollaston, in lieu of which on the inclosure of the parish in 1789, 9 acres 3 roods 38 perches of land were awarded to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the parish of Rushden and their successors. The land is now let at a rent of £20 a year.

2.          Nicholas Latham, generally known as Parson Latham, by the Statutes dated 1^st April, 1620, which he made for the ordering of the hospital at Barnwell, directed the Warden to pay yearly by his Bailiffs on the 24th of December, to six poor people in Rushden, where he was brought up in his youth, 10s. apiece for ever.

3.          Mrs. Mary Greaves, by Will dated 1740, gave a rent-charge of £3 a year for the poor of Rushden. This Charity was known at the date of the Printed Report as the "Bull Money".

Under an Order of the Charity Commissioners of 8^th August, 1905, the rent charge was redeemed by the transfer to the Official Trustees of Charitable Funds of the sum of £120 Consols in trust for the Charity.

In 1869 it was the practice to apply £5 a year out of the income of May's Charity (then amounting to £25 a year), and the whole of the income of Greaves' Charity to the support of a school which was carried on in a building which appeared to belong to the parish, was formerly used as a workhouse, was converted into a school in 1849 and was pulled down in 1874, when a Vestry was erected on the site. It does not appear when the practice of applying part of the income to educational purposes originated, but it appears to be subsequent to the date of the Printed Report.

By a Scheme of the Charity Commissioners dated 29^th May 1877, and made in the matter of the Charities of William May otherwise Mayes, the Reverend Nicholas Latham and of Mrs. Mary Greaves, or the Bull Money, the real estate belonging to the Chariteis was vested in the Official Trustees of Charity Lands and a body of Trustees was constituted, consisting of the Rector and Churchwardens of the parish of Rushden, on their signing in the minute book of the Trustees a memorandum signifying their willingness to act as Trustees and of eight non-official Trustees.

Clause 4 provides that when the number of non-official to three, a new Trustee or new Trustees, not exceeding three, shall be elected by the Vestry of the parish to hold the office for five years.

Clause 15 provides that the clear yearly income of the Charities, after the payment thereout of all necessary and proper outgoings and expenses of management, and, out of the proceeds of May’s Charity according to his will, of 6s. 8d. to the Church and 33s. 4d. to the aged, poorest, and most infirm folk of Rushden, and after the satisfaction of all other specific charges imposed for the benefit of poor kindred or otherwise on the said Charity estate by the instrument or instruments of Foundation shall be applied at the discretion of the Trustees in manner following, viz: