The late Rev. James Wood, D.D. Master of St John's College, (formerly an exhibitioner from this school) left by his will £500 for the increase of these exhibitions.

The rectors of Bury and Prestwich, together with the dean of Manchester, have the appointment to the Hulmian Exhibitions at Brasenose, Oxford, and the founder of Bury School recommends in the statutes his scholars to these trustees, hoping that they may sometimes receive a nomination from them.

HAWKSHEAD.

THE FREE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.

FOUNDED 1588, A. D.

THIS free Grammar-school was founded by Edwin Sandys, archbishop of York, who obtained letters patent under the great seal in the twenty-seventh year of Queen Elizabeth, by which Her Majesty granted that from thenceforth there should be one grammar-school within the parish of Hawkshead in the county palatine of Lancaster.

By virtue of the letters patent the archbishop drew up constitutions for the government and management of the school.

1674. Thomas Braithwaite, Esq. of Ambleside, bequeathed £250 to St John's College, Cambridge, for the maintenance of two Scholars educated at the grammar-school of Hawkshead or Kendal. (See p. 320, also 323.)

KIRKHAM.

THE FREE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.

FOUNDED 1655, a.d.

THIS school was originally founded by Isabel Wildinge, and endowed with a portion of the proceeds of the rectory of Kirkham, purchased by the Drapers' Company, with funds bequeathed to them in trust by Henry Colborne, Esq.

1670. Rev. James Barker, to testify his love to his native town of Kirkham, and to make some addition to the stipend of the master of the school, and some provision for a poor scholar at Cambridge, and for other uses, directed his executors to purchase lands, &c. of the value of £30 per annum or upwards, and that out of the profits, £10 should be paid to the schoolmaster, and £12 as an exhibition to a poor scholar from Kirkham school, for his maintenance in the University of Cambridge, for seven years.

An estate for these purposes was purchased at Nether Methop, in Westmoreland, for £530.

In consequence of the increased income from the estates left by Mr Barker, an application was made in 1806 to the Court of Chancery that the sum of £80 a year might be paid to such poor scholar of Kirkham school as should be qualified and nominated in the manner directed by the will of the founder.

A subsequent order issued by the Court of Chancery directed that the exhibition to a poor scholar should be increased from £80 to £120 per annum, and that the trustees should have power, in case the funds allow, to grant a second exhibition at one of the Universities, of an annual sum not exceeding £100.

It was also proposed, for the purpose of increasing the number of persons qualified to take the benefit of the said exhibition, that the qualification of an exhibitioner, as fixed by the will of Mr Barker, and thereby confined to a poor scholar born in the town of Kirkham, be extended to any poor scholar born in any part of the parish of Kirkham, and bred up and sent from the said school of Kirkham; but that a preference should be, in all cases, given to a poor scholar born in the town of Kirkham, in case one shall appear duly qualified.

1854. "There was an exhibition a few years ago, but the funds thereof were spent by the trustees in procuring from the Court of Chancery a new scheme for the better management of the school.'

LIVERPOOL.

THE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.

ESTABLISHED 1843, A.D.

THE Schools of this institution are designed to supply an education suited respectively to the wants of the three classes of society, the upper school providing an education similar to that given in the public schools and preparatory to the English Universities.

The following exhibitions to the Universities have been founded in connexion with the upper school, each tenable for three years and a half, and one of them becoming vacant every year. The candidates

for these exhibitions must be under twenty years of age.

1. The McNeile exhibition, of the annual value of £40, tenable at Oxford, Cambridge, or Dublin.

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The Gladstone exhibition, of the value of £40 per annum, may be held by a student at Oxford or Cambridge.

3. The Masters' exhibition, of the value of £50 a year, at Oxford, Cambridge, or Dublin.

4. The Canning exhibition, of £40 a year, tenable at Oxford or Cambridge.

LEICESTERSHIRE.

ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCH.

THE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.

FOUNDED 1567, A.D.

THIS School was founded by Henry, Earl of Huntingdon, Lord Hastings of Loughborough, Robert Brookesby, Nicholas Ashbye, and Robert Baynbrig, "for instructing youth in good Morals, Learning, Knowledge, and Virtue."

The endowment consists of houses in Ashby and seventy-five acres of land and the school is open to the children of all persons belonging to the parish of Ashby.

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By an order of the Court of Chancery, two Exhibitions have been established for scholars of this school who have been at least two years at the school, immediately before entering a college, to keep terms at either University. These exhibitions are each of the value of £40 per annum, and are tenable till the exhibitioner is of sufficient standing to be admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Arts.

1654. Francis Ash, Esq. founded ten Scholarships, each of £10 a year, at Emmanuel College, for which a preference is given to students who have been educated at the grammar-school of Ashby or of Derby. (See page 365.)

LEICESTER.

THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL.

INSTITUTED 1835, A.D.

THIS is one of the Proprietary Schools, and is designed to afford a sound religious, classical, and mathematical education.

There are two Exhibitions of £25 each at either University for three years from the school, and poor students cæteris paribus have a preference.

These exhibitions were established in the year 1852 by the Rev. A. Hill, M.A. the present head-master; the entrance fees of new scholars being devoted to the purpose of forming an exhibition fund.

LOUGHBOROUGH.

THE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.

THIS School is endowed with lands, originally bequeathed in 1495 by Thomas Burton, an inhabitant of Loughborough, and a merchant of the Staple at Calais, for the maintenance of a chantry in the parishchurch, but which were appropriated at the Reformation to the endowment of a grammar-school and other uses.

The rental of the estates is about £1400 per annum.

1682. Mr John Somerville, sometime master of the school, founded one or more Scholarships at Jesus College. (See p. 289.)

MARKET-BOSWORTH.

THE FREE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.

RE-FOUNDED 1593, A.D.

THIS school is one of the most ancient in the kingdom, having been founded as early as the time of Henry IV. It was re-founded by Sir Woolstan Dixie, Knight, lord mayor of London, who by his will vested the patronage of the school in the Skinners' Company, (of which he was a member,) with this reservation, that if they neglected or abused their trust, (which he hoped in God they would not) then by application to the Master of the Rolls it should be transferred to his heirs. The Skinners' Company do not appear to have exercised this power; and application having been made to the Master of the Rolls, the patronage was transferred to the heir of the founder.

The school is open to boys of the parish of Bosworth and Cadeby, and children of the tenants of the Dixie family from any part, for their instruction in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, free of expense.

Sir Woolstan Dixie founded two Fellowships and four Scholarships at Emmanuel College, and gave estates, situated in Sutton Coldfield in the county of Warwick, for the support of them. (See p. 364.)

1835. By an order of the Court of Chancery, dated July 24th, four Exhibitions, each of the value of £80 a year, were founded out of the surplus revenues of the property of the school. The candidates for these exhibitions are elected by the governors from those scholars who have been admitted on the foundation and have been educated at the school for three years at least. They are tenable for four years at any college at Oxford or Cambridge.

LINCOLNSHIRE.

LINCOLN.

THE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.

IN former times there were two grammar-schools in the city of Lincoln: one in the close under the control of the dean and chapter, a part of the original foundation of the cathedral. In this school, Leland, in his Itinerary, (Vol. vIII. page 3), states, that there were five Scholarships, founded by Bartholomew, son of Robert Burwasche, brother of Henry Burwasche, bishop of Lincoln.

The other grammar-school was founded in 1567 by the corporation. In 1583 the two schools were united, the dean and chapter reserving the right of appointing the master, and leaving the appointment of the usher to the mayor and aldermen.

1587. Sir Christopher Wray founded six Scholarships, and Lady Frances Wray one Scholarship, at Magdalene College, Cambridge, with a second preference to scholars from Lincoln school. (See p. 330.)

GRANTHAM.

THE FREE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.

FOUNDED 1528, A.D.

THIS free grammar-school was founded by Richard Fox, bishop of Winchester, the founder of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and a native of Ropesley, near Grantham, who left estates, now amounting to £1100 a year to the college, on condition that they kept the schoolhouse and mansion in repair, and paid £6. 13s. 4d. yearly to the

master.

The foundation of Bishop Fox was augmented in 1553 by King Edward VI. who upon the petition of the aldermen and burgesses by letters-patent, granted that there should be one grammar-school in the town of Grantham, to be called "The Free Grammar-school of King Edward the Sixth," "for the education and instruction of boys and youth in Latin and Greek, with one master or pedagogue for ever to continue;" and that it might be the better supported, he added to its endowments estates which now produce a rental of £800 a year.

The statutes for the government of the school and the management of the estates for its support, were devised by Nicholas, bishop of Lincoln, and Sir William Cecil, secretary of state to Queen Elizabeth,