taken at Huntingdon on the 5th April, 1570, to be “for the maintenance and relief of poor people and the keeping of a free grammarschool, at the cost and charges of the said house for the time being." 1558. Mr Robert Broadbanke founded a scholarship at Christ's College for a native of Huntingdon, if there be one meet for the same. (Sec p. 296.) 1683. Thomas Miller, Esq. founded a scholarship at St Peter's College, with a preference to a student from the grammar-school at Huntingdon. (See p. 211.) COUNTY OF KENT. CANTERBURY. THE KING'S SCHOOL. FOUNDED 1542, A.D. THE King's School at Canterbury was founded by Henry VIII. who, by the Charter of Foundation which he granted, in the 33rd year of his reign, to the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Christ, constituted the school a part of it-to consist of a master, an usher, and 50 scholars *. * "When the Cathedral Church of Canterbury was altered from monks to secular men of the clergy, viz. prebendaries or canons, petty canons, choristers, and scholars. At this erection were present Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop, with divers other commissioners. And nominating and electing such convenient and fit persons as should serve for the furniture of the said Cathedral Church, according to the new foundation, it came to pass that, when they should elect the children of the grammarschool, there were of the commissioners more than one or two who would have none admitted but sons or younger brethren of gentlemen. As for other, husbandmen's children, they were more meet, they said, for the plough, and to be artificers, than to occupy the place of the learned sort; so that they wished none else to be put to school but only gentlemen's children. Whereunto the most reverend father the Archbishop being of a contrary mind, said, “That he thought it not indifferent so to order the matter; for," said he, "poor men's children are many times endued with more singular gifts of nature, which are also the gifts of God, as with eloquence, memory, apt pronunciation, sobriety, and such like; and also commonly more apt to apply their study, than is the gentleman's son, delicately educated." Hereunto it was on the other part replied, "that it was meet for the ploughman's son to go to plough, and the artificer's son to apply the trade of his parent's vocation; and the gentlemen's children are meet to have the knowledge of government, and rule in the commonwealth. For we have," said they, "as much need of ploughmen as any other state; and all sorts of men may not go to school." "I grant,” replied the Archbishop, “much of your meaning herein as needful in a commonwealth; but yet utterly to exclude the ploughman's son and the poor man's son from the benefits of learning, as The King's scholars are elected according to merit, to fill up vacancies, from those boys who have been some time in the school, and who may have come from any part of the kingdom, and must be between the ages of nine and fifteen years: an exception, however, is made in favour of those who have been choristers in the Chapel Royal and in Canterbury Cathedral. 1569. Archbishop Parker founded, out of the revenues of Eastbridge Hospital, two Scholarships of £3.6s. 8d. each, in Corpus Christi College, during the space of 200 years, for the maintenance of two scholars, natives of Kent, and educated in this school, to be nominated by the dean of Canterbury and the master of Eastbridge Hospital, and to be called "Canterbury Scholars," and to have all the benefits which any other scholars enjoyed in the College. Archbishop Whitgift, in his ordinances relating to that hospital (which were confirmed by Act of Parliament in 1585) renewed this foundation, which is now perpetual; but instead of the dean's he made the archbishop's consent necessary to the appointment. (See p. 255.) though they were unworthy to have the gifts of the Holy Ghost bestowed upon them as well as upon others, is as much to say as that Almighty God should not be at liberty to bestow his great gifts of grace upon any person, nor nowhere else but as we and other men shall appoint them to be employed, according to our fancy, and not according to his most goodly will and pleasure, who giveth his gifts both of learning, and other perfections in all sciences, unto all kinds and states of people indifferently. Even so doth he many times withdraw from them and their posterity again those beneficial gifts, if they be not thankful. If we should shut up into a strait corner the bountiful grace of the Holy Ghost, and thereupon attempt to build our fancies, we should make as perfect a work thereof as those that took upon them to build the tower of Babel; for God would so provide that the offspring of our firstborn children should peradventure become most unapt to learn and very dolts, as I myself have seen no small number of them very dull, and without all manner of capacity. And to say the truth, I take it, that none of us all here, being gentlemen born (as I think), but had our beginning that way from a low and base parentage; and through the benefit of learning, and other civil knowledge, for the most part all gentlemen ascend to their estate." Then it was again answered, that the most part of the nobility came up by feats of arms and martial acts. "As though," said the Archbishop, "that the noble captain was alway unfurnished of good learning and knowledge to persuade and dissuade his army rhetorically; who rather that way is brought into authority than else his manly looks. To conclude: the poor man's son by painstaking will for the most part be learned, when the gentleman's son will not take the pains to get it. And we are taught by the Scriptures that Almighty God raiseth up from the dunghill, and setteth him in high authority. And whensoever it pleaseth him, of his Divine Providence, he deposeth princes unto a right humble and poor estate. Wherefore, if the gentleman's son be apt to learning, let him be admitted; if not apt, let the poor man's child that is apt enter his room.' With words to the like effect, such a seasonable patron of poor men was the Archbishop.-Strype's Memorials of Cranmer. Archbishop Parker, by his will dated in 1575, also founded three Exhibitions at Corpus Christi College, of the yearly value of £3. 68.8d. each, and gave the right of nomination, in the first place, to the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, who are to appoint such sons of their Norfolk, Suffolk, and Lincolnshire tenants as are educated in the King's School. 1580. John Parker, Esq. founded three Scholarships at Corpus Christi College, out of an annuity of £10 from his estate at Lambeth. The Archbishop of Canterbury is the patron of one scholar, who is required to be a native of Canterbury, and educated in the King's School there. (See p. 256.) 1618. Robert Rose, Esq. of Bishopsbourne, gave 26 acres of land in Romney Marsh, for the assistance of four Scholars at either University, being such as were in the King's School at Canterbury, of which he had been usher. These exhibitions were to be of the yearly value of £6 each, and to continue for seven years, if the scholar should remain so long there unpreferred to a living of £20 per annum above the exhibitions. 1625. William Heyman, of Canterbury, gentleman, by indenture, vested 27 acres of land, in the parish of Warehorne, in the county of Kent, in certain feoffees, to apply five parts out of six of the rents, to two poor scholars only, to be placed in the King's School at Canterbury, to be nominated by his next heir and the majority of the feoffees; such scholar to be descended from the body of his grandfather, Peter Heyman, Esq. or to be natives, or born of such as are natives, of Sellinge. The scholar so to be chosen to be full eight years old, who should hold his exhibition for nine years, and if he should go to any college in Cambridge, to be continued for seven years from his leaving school: and if he should take orders in the first five years of the seven, the same to be continued to him for three years more, that is, ten years in the whole, at the University. 1643. Henry Robinson, Esq. left lands to St John's College, Cambridge, for founding two Fellowships and two Scholarships, for natives of the Isle of Thanet, and brought up at the King's School in Canterbury, or in default, for natives of the county of Kent, brought up in the same school. in the same school. In 1652, by an order of the Court of Chancery, it was decreed, that four Scholarships should be established for ever instead of the original appointment, and that the profits should be applied, according to the direction of the donor, towards the maintenance of the four scholars only. 1656. Rev. Abraham Colfe, among his other benefactions, gave seven Exhibitions of £10 a year each for scholars from Lewisham School at either University. In default of claimants from that school, then from the adjacent Hundreds, and from members of the Company of Leathersellers, (who are the patrons of the school and possessed of the estates bequeathed by Mr Colfe;) he directed these exhibitions to be filled up by scholars from the King's School in Canterbury, and from that in Christ's Hospital, London, alternately. He added these two schools, which he judged would at all times supply the deficiency, in case that Lewisham School might not produce enough to fill all his exhibitions: and assigned this reason, because his father was educated at Christ's Hospital, and he himself was born at Canterbury. 1712. A society was begun in this year by some of the former scholars, which subsequently was named the " King's School Feast Society ;" and now consists principally of inhabitants of Canterbury and the neighbourhood, with the members of the chapter, and other clergymen. In 1718, an annual contribution was begun by those who were then present, and has since been continued, and from the proceeds of the contributions, two Exhibitions, each of the value of £60 per annum, have been established, tenable for four years at Oxford or Cambridge. The general fund of the society now consists of £3900 three per cent. Consols, besides a special fund of £582. 7s. 4d. in the same stock. Besides the two exhibitions of £60 a year at either university, the two exhibitions at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, have been augmented from this fund to the sum of £60 each per annum for four years. 1719. George Thorpe, D.D. founded five Scholarships at Emmanuel College, now each of the value of £30 per annum. A preference is reserved for the sons of orthodox ministers of the Church of England and of the diocese of Canterbury, and such as have been brought up at the King's School there. (See p. 367.) 1728. George Stanhope, S.T.P. dean of Canterbury, bequeathed £250 in the New South Sea Annuities, to found one Exhibition of £10 per annum, for a King's scholar of the school of Christ Church, Canterbury, to be nominated by the dean and chosen by him, or the vicedean and chapter, for seven years, but the exhibition is to cease at the Michaelmas after his commencing Master of Arts. The reduction of interest having made an alteration in the annual value, and the exhibition having been vacant, with that accumulated amount, and a contribution from the Dean and Chapter some years since, the sum of £50 stock was purchased, so that the exhibition is now worth £9 per annum. 1736. John Brown, B.D. founded two Greek Scholarships at Emmanuel College, each of the value of £8 per annum, for scholars from the King's School at Canterbury, and in default, from any other school in Kent, and in default from thence, then from any other school. (See p. 368.) Rev. George Shepherd, D.D. gave £500 in the 3 per cent. Consols, the dividend on which he directed to be paid by "the King's School Feast Society," once in two years to an exhibitioner appointed by this society, as soon as he shall have commenced his residence at Oxford or Cambridge. ROCHESTER. THE CATHEDRAL GRAMMAR-SCHOOL. FOUNDED 1542, A.D. THE Royal Grammar-school in the city of Rochester dates its origin from the foundation charter of the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church in the 32nd year of Henry VIII. About three years after, his majesty gave a code of statutes for the government of this church and its appendages, in which it is ordained, that there shall be "Duo informatores puerorum in Grammatica, quorum unus vel præceptor, alter, sub-præceptor, viginti pueri in grammatica erudiendi.” The statutes also prescribe the allowances "pro mensa, pro vestibus et pro stipendiis." Since the appeal of the head master the twenty king's scholars are educated free of the charge of tuition, and receive an annual allowance of £16. 13s. 4d.; their selection is vested in the dean and chapter, and any boy between the ages of 9 and 15 is eligible. The statutes also direct, that Exhibitions of £5 a year each shall be paid to four scholars, two at each of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge: the scholars to be more than 15 and under 20 years of age, to be chosen from this school in preference; but if none such are here duly qualified, then from any other school, so that they be neither fellow nor scholar in either University. The said pension to continue until they commence bachelor, and that within the space of four years; after which they are to enjoy the same for three years; when commencing Master of Arts, they are to be allowed £6 per annum, and after |