1778.

Edward Betham, fellow of Eton College, gave, in trust, to the provost and fellows £200, three per cent. New South Sea Annuities, the dividends of which are to be shared among three scholars or fellows of King's College. They are to be nominated by the provost, viceprovost, and head master, and are to be scholars of one, two, or three years' standing, who have conducted themselves satisfactorily at school, and whose parents are not opulent. These benefactions may be held for two years: a preference is reserved for the sons of clergymen.

1798. Thomas Chamberlayne, formerly fellow of Eton College, bequeathed an estate at Hingham, in Norfolk, after the decease of his wife and two sisters, to the provost of Eton College, in trust, that the clear income should be applied towards the maintenance of two superannuated scholars in either University. They are to be appointed by the provost of Eton, and to hold their exhibitions for The value of these exhibitions is about £40 per annum.

four years.

1804. Jacob Bryant, Esq. sometime fellow of King's College, left by his will £1000 three per cent. Consols, and directed that the interest should be applied to exhibitions, at the discretion of the provost, for superannuated collegers, to be tenable for five years if the exhibitioners be resident. The value of this benefaction is £36. 15s. 6d. per annum, and it is in the gift of the provost of Eton College.

1809. Jonathan Davies, D.D. provost of Eton College, left one exhibition, now of the value of £51. 10s. per annum, for a superannuated colleger at either University. It is in the gift of the provost of Eton, and tenable till the exhibitioner is twenty-four years of age. A preference is reserved for the son of a clergyman or of a widow with a large family, and a scholar higher in the school, cæteris paribus, is to be preferred to one lower.

Dr Davies left in the gift of the head master another exhibition, of £42 a year, tenable for four years, for a superannuated colleger, at either University, on the same conditions.

He left another exhibition in the gift of the head master, of £42 per annum, to a scholar of King's College, tenable for four years.

He also gave £15 a year to augment Dr Berriman's exhibition. 1835. A scholarship of £40 a year was founded by the master and fellows of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and appropriated to a student from King's College, London, or from Eton College.

1840. Joseph Goodall, D.D. provost of Eton, gave during his lifetime, £2000 in the three per cent. Reduced Annuities, and appointed that the interest should be given as an exhibition to a superannuated

Eton scholar, to be held for four years. The appointment of this exhibitioner is vested in the provost of Eton College.

1848. The committee appointed to collect subscriptions for a statue in memory of Provost Goodall invested the surplus, amounting to £818. 11s. 4d. in the 3 per cent. Consols; the interest to be given to any King's scholar superannuated within the last three years, who, in the opinion of the provost and head-master shall be the most deserving: if they disagree, the vice-provost to decide. Tenable three years.

In addition to the scholarships and exhibitions appropriated to students at Cambridge, there are others appropriated to students at Oxford from Eton College.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE.

CAMBRIDGE.

THE FREE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.

FOUNDED 1615, a.d.

THE Free Grammar-school in Cambridge was founded by Stephen Perse, M.D. a senior fellow of Gonville and Caius College.

By a clause of his will dated Sept. 27, 1615, he bequeathed the sum of £5000 for the purchase of an estate, and directed that the income should be applied to various uses, one of which was, that a school-house should be built in Cambridge within three years (if possible) after his decease, with apartments for a master and usher.

The scholars are required to be natives of Cambridge, Barnwell, Chesterton, or Trumpington, and are educated gratis. The number is restricted to 100.

Scholars who have been educated for three years at least at this school, have a preference, cæteris paribus, to the six Perse scholarships and the Perse fellowships at Gonville and Caius College. (See p. 237.)

WISBECH.

THE FREE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.
FOUNDED 1379, A.D.

THE Grammar-school at Wisbech had its origin in the reign of Richard II. By a charter granted in the second year of the reign of Edward VI. it was provided that the school should be supported by the capital burgesses of Wisbech.

In 1638, Mr William Holmes, of the city of Exeter, gave £400, which was laid out in the purchase of lands at Holbeach, partly for the maintenance of two scholars at St Mary Magdalene College, Cambridge,

but afterwards by his will, dated April 2, 1656, directed that the lands purchased with this money should be wholly appropriated to the scholars.

In 1765, as no scholars had been elected since 1752, the College filed a bill in the Court of Chancery against the burgesses of Wisbech, praying that the arrears due to the College might be paid, and that the trust of Mr Holme's will might be carried out into execution.

A scheme was drawn up by the College, and confirmed by the Court of Chancery.

In 1768 it was decreed that the annual income of the estate should be applied to the maintenance of two poor scholars for 7 years at Magdalene College, Cambridge," the most able and learned scholars of the said school, born in the town of Wisbeche, who shall have been brought up there by the space of three years, and whose friends' and parents' estates shall not be wholly sufficient to maintain them as scholars in the said University." The appointment of the scholars is vested in the capital burgesses and the master.

The balance of arrears due to the College, after payment of the costs, was invested in the 3 per cents, and subsequent accumulations have considerably raised the value of these scholarships. When there are two scholars, each receives one half of the annual income, and when either of the scholarships is vacant, the proceeds are added to the fund for increasing their value. The income from the estate and the funded property is now about £240 a year.

CHESHIRE.

CHESTER.

THE CATHEDRAL GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.

FOUNDED 1544, A.D.

THE Grammar-school, or as it is called, the King's school of the city of Chester, was founded by King Henry VIII. at the dissolution of the abbey of St Werburgh, and designed for twenty-four scholars to be appointed by the dean and chapter.

There are two exhibitions to Cambridge and two to Oxford from this school, in the gift of the dean and chapter. The statutable value of each is £5 per annum until obtaining the degree of B.A. and £6 per annum for three years longer until taking the degree of M.A.

Dr Oldfield founded an exhibition for a native of St Michael's parish, Chester, in either the university of Oxford or Cambridge. The present value of this exhibition is £80, or upwards, per annum,

MACCLESFIELD.

THE FREE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.

FOUNDED 1502, a.d.

SIR John Percyvale, Knight, sometime Lord Mayor of London, and who was born "just by the town of Maxfield," founded a freeschool there, that "gentil mens sonnes and other good mennes children in Maxfield, and the countrie thereabouts, might be taught grammar, &c.:" and by his will, bearing date the 25th Jan. 1502, he directed that lands of the yearly value of £10 should be purchased for the endowment.

In 1552, upon the petition of the inhabitants of the town, and some other persons, the school was re-founded by King Edward VI. and called "The Free Grammar-school of King Edward VI." who also gave certain lands and houses for the more ample endowment of the school.

In 1774 the governors of the school obtained an Act of Parliament whereby they were enabled to extend the range of instruction given in the school, and "to render the said foundation of the most general use and benefit, as the state of the revenues of the said school will admit."

At the time of passing this Act the revenues of the school estates were £170 per annum: the revenues now exceed £1500 per annum. The governors have, from the increased revenues, instituted two Exhibitions, (and propose to found another) tenable for three years at Oxford or Cambridge, of the yearly value of £50 each, for scholars from Macclesfield School.

COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND.

ST BEES.

THE FREE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.

FOUNDED 1583, a.d.

EDMUND GRINDALL, a native of Hensingham, in the parish of St Bees, at that time Archbishop of Canterbury, obtained from Queen Elizabeth letters patent for founding a grammar-school in Kirkby Beacock, otherwise called St Begh's, to be called "The Free Grammarschool of Edmund Grindall, Archbishop of Canterbury," for the instruction of youth. For the government and ordering of the school, and the management of the endowment, he drew up statutes and ordinances in the same year, and appointed seven governors. The

Provost of Queen's College, Oxford, is one of them, and the nomination of the master of the school is invested in him. The statutes require that the master shall take care that "with the knowledge of the tongues, his scholars may also learn their duty towards God and man.'

In 1585, a second patent was granted by Queen Elizabeth in confirmation of the former granted to the Archbishop, especially directing that his statutes and ordinances should from time to time for ever thereafter be observed and kept inviolable.

In 1604 King James I. granted to the governors of the school and their successors, considerable property for augmenting the original endowment, and the grant was confirmed by an Act of Parliament.

In 1629, William Hinchbarrow, the then master of the school, addressed a petition to the Bishop of Chester, in which he complained that " none of the founder's godlie statutes had bene observed for six or seven years,” and implored his lordship to help to reform the abuses and mismanagement of the school.

In the year 1842 the statutes of the school were revised, and considerably extended under a decree of the Court of Chancery, and a new scheme was then settled by a master in Chancery and confirmed by the chancellor's order, whereby it was decreed :—

That out of the money accumulated from the revenues of the school, a sum of £8000 should be expended in the building new schools and a house for the head master, and that the old buildings should be repaired, and thereafter form a boarding establishment, where 60 boys (natives of Cumberland and Westmoreland), should be boarded as "foundation scholars." That the head master should have a stipend of £300 per annum, a house rent and tax free, and be permitted to take 30 boarders.

That the second master's stipend should be £250 a year, with apartments in the foundation building.

That the first and second masters' assistants should each have a stipend of £100 per annum. The usher, writing-master, and teacher of foreign languages were also liberally provided for under the scheme, as well as the matron and servants for the foundation department.

The school has gradually increased under the new system, and the boys attending daily average about 180.

The school revenues are derived from colliery, quarry, land, and manorial rents, and from the dividends of funded property, the principal of which now amounting to nearly £26,000, is in the 3 per cant. Consols.