and also by some member of the corporation, either alderman or common councilman. Members are not limited as to the number of recommendations they may sign.

There is a general examination of the school previous to the summer holidays, when prizes of books are distributed among the pupils of each class, according to their proficiency and good conduct: also various other prizes, medals and scholarships are awarded.

The scholarships in memory of John Carpenter, the founder of the school, are eight in number, and are intended as rewards for proficiency and good conduct. The appointment to them is determined by examination. The candidates must be between eleven and fifteen years of age, and have been at least three years in the school. The advantages are, a gratuitous education, and supply of books to a value not exceeding £2 per annum, an allowance of £25 per annum towards maintenance, &c. and a premium of £50 on leaving school, to be applied towards the scholar's advancement in life, provided he continue in the school three years after election, and obtain a certificate of merit and good conduct during that period from the head-master.

If a scholar proceed to the University of Oxford, Cambridge, or London, with a view to taking a degree, the allowance of £25 per annum is continued to him for a further period of four years.

1836. Thomas Tegg, Esq. of Cheapside, bookseller and publisher, for several years a member of the corporation of London, being elected in 1836 to the office of sheriff, paid a fine of £400 to be excused from serving; and the corporation directed the amount to be appropriated for the benefit of this school towards the establishment of an Exhibition to one of the Universities. In 1844 Mr Tegg testified his approval thereof by adding a contribution of £100. The two amounts are invested in government securities, together with the interest arising thereon from time to time, as an accumulating fund for a scholarship, to be called "The Tegg Scholarship."

1841. The proprietors of "the Times' Newspaper *" founded a Scholarship to be called the Times' Scholarship, of £30 a year, tenable

* The origin of the Times' Scholarships is thus described on a marble tablet in the school:

This Tablet was erected

as a perpetual memorial of the foundation of
the Times' Scholarships:

one in connexion with the City of London School,
the other with Christ's Hospital,

for four years. A scholar is required to proceed to Oxford or Cambridge within three months of the election, which is determined by examination.

1844. Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy, Esq. F.R.S. citizen and distiller of London, vested in certain trustees the sum of £1717 in the three per cent. consolidated Bank Annuities for the purpose of establishing a Scholarship of £50 per annum, to be called "the Beaufoy Scholarship,” and designed to encourage the study of mathematical science, with an especial reference to its practical application to the use and service of mankind.

1845. Mr Beaufoy gave £1717. in the 3 per cent. Consols for the endowment of a second Scholarship of the same value.

1848. Mr Beaufoy gave £1716. 13s. 4d. in the 3 per cent. Consols for the endowment of a third Scholarship of the same value.

1850. Mr Beaufoy gave £1716. 13s. 4d. in the 3 per cent. Consols for the endowment of a fourth Scholarship of the same value.

The election to each of these four scholarships is made by the mathematical examiner of the school upon an examination on mathematical subjects only. The scholars are required to proceed to the University of Cambridge within three months after election, and may

for the benefit of pupils proceeding from those institutions
to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

The Endowment of these Scholarships

was effected out of the proceeds of a subscription
entered into by

English and Foreign Merchants, Bankers,
and other persons interested in the preservation
of mercantile confidence and security,
to testify their warm admiration, and grateful sense,
of the moral courage, indefatigable perseverance,
and distinguished ability shewn by
the Proprietors of the Times Newspaper,
A. D. M.DCCC. XLI.,

in the ready detection and fearless exposure
of a most extensive and fraudulent conspiracy,
which, from its subtle and daring character,
was unparalleled in the annals of commerce.
These distinguished services

derived an additional lustre from the
unexampled generosity and disinterestedness
of the Proprietors

in their refusal to be reimbursed any portion of the
heavy expenses incurred in the progress of
their noble and arduous exertions.

hold the scholarships for four years, receiving therefrom £50 per annum. There are other valuable benefactions given to the school by Mr Beaufoy, in addition to the four scholarships.

1845. David Salomons, Esq. citizen and cooper of London, vested in certain trustees the sum of £1666. 13s. 4d. three per cent. consolidated Bank Annuities, for the purpose of establishing a scholarship, to be called "the Salomons Scholarship," of the value of £50 per annum, for the benefit of pupils of the City of London school proceeding to the University of Oxford, Cambridge, or of London. The candidates for this scholarship are subjected to an examination, and the election is made in the same manner as for the Times' scholarship, and the conditions attached are similar.

1851. "The Lambert Jones Scholarship" was established by the subscribers to a testimonial for commemorating the public services of Richard Lambert Jones, Esq. a member of the corporation of London, in reference to his labours for many years in promoting various public works tending to improve and adorn the city. The nomination of the school to which the scholarship should be attached being left to Mr Jones, it was by his desire appropriated to the City of London school. The endowment consists of £725. 5s. 6d. three per cent. Consols. The mode of election is the same as in other cases, and candidates must have been at least three years at the school. This scholarship is not tenable with any other scholarship from the school which exceeds the annual value of £30. The successful candidate must, within fifteen

• A Tablet in the school thus commemorates the benefaction :

"This gift,

was designed by MR SALOMONS

to express his gratitude to his fellow-citizens
for having, in the year M. DCCC.XXXV.
under new and peculiar circumstances,

elected him High-Sheriff of London and Middlesex;
and to commemorate the removal

of those civil disabilities

which formerly attached to the Jewish subjects of this realm.
Under the conviction that this peaceful triumph

of the principles of religious toleration

is to be ascribed to the progress of education,

MR SALOMONS conceived that the best mode of perpetuating
his grateful acknowledgments for so great a blessing
would be by contributing to further the cause

which, under the guidance of

the Almighty Disposer of events,

has led to this great result.”

months from his election, matriculate at the University of Oxford, Cambridge, or London, and may hold his scholarship for four years.

THE MERCHANT TAYLORS' SCHOOL.
FOUNDED 1561, a.d.

THIS school was founded and is supported by the Merchant Taylors' Company. Richard Hilles, sometime master, and a leading member of the company, contributed £500 towards the purchase of the mansion in which the school began, and on the site of which the present school stands.

The school was designed "for children of all nations and countries indifferently—which in 1731 was interpreted to mean that Jews were to be excepted." The statutes appear to have been framed from those of St Paul's school, but with considerable alterations and additions. The number of scholars is limited to 250, who are admitted on the nomination of the members of the Court of Assistants of the Merchant Taylors' Company.

1638. Francis Dee, D.D. founded a Fellowship and two Scholarships at St John's College. (See p. 317.)

1659. Sir R. Wood founded three Scholarships at St John's College, with a second preference to students from Merchant Taylors' School. (See p. 318.)

1695. Rev. Moses Holway founded two Scholarships at St Catharine's Hall, Cambridge, with a second preference to students educated at Merchant Taylors' School, London. (See p. 280.)

1770. William Stuart, D.D. founded two Scholarships, one at Pembroke College, Cambridge, for superannuated scholars of Merchant Taylors' School. (See p. 225.)

1770. Rev. Charles Parkin, M.A. founded six Scholarships at Pembroke College, Cambridge, of which, five were designed for superannuated scholars from Merchant Taylors' School. (See p. 224.)

The principal scholarships, &c. appropriated to scholars from Merchant Taylors' School, are attached to St John's College, Oxford.

THE MERCERS' GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.

THIS establishment was originally the Hospital of St Thomas of Acons. Its constitution appears to have been purely religious, proceeding from the spirit of mistaken piety and charity, so prevalent in the middle ages: and the scholastic part, most probably, was an ap

pendage arising from the leisure, zeal, and literary talents of some of its members. Its first appellation or title was that of a cemetery, or charnel-house, for the interment of strangers; and it corresponded with those establishments of Christians in the Holy Land, that were partly military, partly religious. The existence of a school, however, in connexion with the establishment, is referred to the year 1447, as appears from a petition to the Parliament that sat in the twenty-fifth year of Henry VI. From a small beginning it rose to eminence, and at the time of its dissolution, in the reign of Henry VIII. its master was a mitred abbot, and its revenues were considerable.

This hospital and its revenues were surrendered to Henry VIII. in the year 1538, and afterwards were purchased by the Mercers' Company, through the means of Sir Richard Gresham, for the consideration of £969. 178. 6d. By an indenture, made in the thirty-third year of King Henry VIII. the Mercers' Company covenanted with the king, that at their own proper cost and charges they would find and keep a free grammar-school within the city of London, and find a master to teach twenty-five boys freely for ever.

In 1804 the situation of the school was removed to its present site, an enlarged course of studies was adopted, the number of scholars was increased to thirty-five in 1809, and subsequently to seventy.

1672. Thomas Rich, master of the school, by his will gave to the Mercers' Company, after the death of his wife, certain property in London, on condition that they should pay £6 yearly out of the profits to each of two poor scholars for seven years at either of the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge. The exhibitioners are required to have been taught in the Mercers' Chapel-school, to have conducted themselves well during their studies, to be reported by the master of the school to be duly qualified, and to proceed thence direct to the University.

In consequence of the increased value of the property, the Mercers' Company have raised these two Exhibitions, each to the value of £70 per annum. They are now tenable for five years.

ISLINGTON.

THE PROPRIETARY GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.

INSTITUTED 1830, A.D.

THE design of this institution is to combine the advantages of correct and sound instruction with the advantages of public education founded on Christian principles.