in Cambridge or Oxford. The present value of each of these exhibitions is £40 a year, and they are tenable for four years. 1600. W. Spalding founded a Scholarship at St John's College, for a boy educated at Bury Schorl. (See p. 313.) 1670. John Sudbury, D.D. dean of Durham, founded three Exhibitions at Bury school, for scholars going to Oxford or Cambridge. These exhibitions are tenable for three years, and are now each of the value of £20 per annum. IPSWICH. THE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL. THE establishment of a grammar-school at Ipswich is of very ancient date; for at a great court which was holden there in 1477, the seventeenth year of Edward IV. it was ordered that "the master of the grammar-school shall have the government of all the scholars within the liberties of the town, taking such salary as by the bishop of Norwich is appointed." In the year 1482, it was ordered that "every burgess inhabitant should pay to the master of the grammar-school for a boy eightpence per quarter, and no more." King Henry VIII. granted a charter to the school, which was renewed, confirmed, and enlarged by Queen Elizabeth, on the 18th March, 1565. By the charter, the corporation are authorized to appoint a master and usher, and to make rules for the government and preservation of the school. 1558. Lawrence Moptyd founded a Scholarship at Trinity Hall, for a scholar from Ipswich or Bury School. (See p. 247.) 1598. W. Smart founded a Bye-fellowship and two Scholarships at Pembroke College, for scholars from Ipswich School. (See p. 222.) 1601. Ralph Scrivener gave a preference to scholars from Ipswich school for the four Scholarships which he founded at Pembroke College. (See p. 223.) 1621. Richard Martin gave by deed in trust to the bailiffs and portmen of Ipswich, that they should, after the decease of some persons to whom he gave annuities, pay yearly out of the sums and profits of the same, £20 to two Scholars at the University of Cambridge as were formerly scholars in the free school of Ipswich; to one of them being a Bachelor of Arts £14, and to the other £6, being both resident in the said University: to be continued for so long and such time as the bailiffs and majority of the portmen should appoint. Mr Martin reserved a preference in favor of such persons as might be in any ways related to himself or his wife, if any of these should be a scholar or scholars in the University. It may be remarked that a similar arrangement will probably be made with respect to the scholarships at Pembroke College for students from Ipswich School, as has been made in reference to those for students from Christ's Hospital. (See p. 227.) BECCLES. THE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL. FOUNDED 1713, a.d. THE present school at Beccles was founded under the will of the Rev. Henry Fauconberge, LL.D. a native of the town, who bequeathed his real estate (after the death of certain relatives, which took place in 1774,) in the county of Suffolk, to certain trustees, for the objects of the foundation. The appointment of the master is vested in the bishop of Norwich, the archdeacon of Suffolk, and the rector of Beccles, or any two of them, and he is required to be "a person well learned in the Latin and Greek tongues, so as to capacitate youth for the Universities." 1591. Mr Roberts founded three Scholarships at Magdalene College, for students from the grammar-school at Beccles. (See p. 330.) REDGRAVE. THE FREE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL. FOUNDED 1557, a.d. THIS school, situated in the hamlet of Botesdale, was founded by Sir Nicholas Bacon, knight, lord keeper, and endowed with a small rent-charge. Sir Nicholas Bacon also founded six Scholarships at Corpus Christi College, appropriated, first, to students from Redgrave school, secondly, in default of such, to any students. (See p. 256.) SUDBURY. THE FREE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL. THE free-school of Sudbury was founded by William Wood, warden of the College of St Gregory in that parish, who endowed it with an estate of about ninety acres in the parish of Maplestead in Essex. 1623. Rev. Mr Knewstubb founded two Scholarships at St John's College, and directed that one of the scholars should be a native of Cuckfield, and in default, a scholar educated at Sudbury School. (See p. 315.) 1616. John Hopper, Esq. gave a benefaction for two Subsizars at St John's College, especially out of Boxford and Sudbury schools. (See p. 314.) COUNTY OF SURREY. SOUTHWARK. THE FREE GRAMAR-SCHOOL. THIS School was founded for 100 scholars by the inhabitants of the parish, for which purpose Queen Elizabeth granted a charter in the fourth year of her reign, by which the governors of the school are constituted a body corporate. The charter appears to have been confirmed by an act of parliament in the same year. The statutes for the management of the school bear the date of 1562, and among other things it is ordered, that "once a year, that is to say, in the month of September, or after Bartholomew-tide, the wardens shall devise together, and assemble such men of learning and worship, as shall seem good to them, and on a day appointed for the same shall bring them into the school or church of St Mary Overey's, there to examine the scholars, and try how, and what sort they profit, at the which time, the name of every scholar, with his age and form in the school, shall be taken by the apposers. By this means, the master's diligence shall be known, and what dexterity he useth in teaching, and how the children go forward in their learning." It seems, however, to have been some time before the governors proceeded further in the establishment of the school. For the patent of the first year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth granted a lease of the rectory for 60 years, in order that a school should be erected; but by the patent of the 33rd year of the same Queen, it appears that it had not been built until after the year 1585. In the year 1614, a more enlarged code of statutes and ordinances * * These statutes and ordinances among other things direct that : "The schoolmaster shall be a Master of Arts, a man sound in Christian religion, according to the laws of the land, sound and whole in body and mind, in his for the government of the school was made and subscribed by the bishop of Winchester. The governors are required by the statutes and ordinances "when God shall bless their store," to purchase some scholarships and fellow conversation gentle, sober, honest, and virtuous, and discreet for learning, wellskilled in the Latin tongue, and able to teach Grammar, Oratory and Poetry, and the Greek; as also the principles of Hebrew. Especially he shall be well experienced and much approved, at least for seven years, for a good facility and dexterity în teaching and profiting children,-if such may be gotten, otherwise one that is as near to those qualifications as they can conveniently procure; if there be any such, he that is born in the parish of St Saviour, and hath been brought up in the said school, being the legitimate son of some man of good report, shall be first preferred before a stranger. "He shall not have any benefice with cure, office, or service whatsoever, in any other place, that in the judgment of the governors may be any let or hinderance unto him, that he cannot attend and follow his charge in the best manner and to his est ability. "He shall be a man of a wise, sociable, and loving disposition, not hasty or furious, nor of any ill example; he shall be wise and of good experience, to discern the nature of every several child, to work upon their disposition for the greatest advantage, benefit, and comfort of the child, to learn with the love of his book,—if such a one may be got. "The master and usher shall wisely mix severity and lenity, by all means avoiding such correction as to the governors shall seem unreasonable, ever proposing by precept and example, to clear up and put life and spirit into the capacity, memory, love, patience, diligence, gentleness, and moderate desire of praise in the scholars; and prevent all means that may make them dull, forgetful, heavy, impatient, negligent, stubborn, and careless of good report, or have cause to speak ill of the school, or forsake it." The sixth chapter of the statutes states that, "Whereas it has pleased God to put into the heart of John Bingham, Esq. one of the governors of this school, out of his Christian charity, to found and to bestow maintenance for two poor scholars in Cambridge and Oxford; the election, during the life of the said Mr Bingham, is referred to the charitable disposition of himself the founder. After, upon the vacation of any of those places in Oxford or Cambridge, the governors, with the advice and assistance of some learned man, shall proceed to the election. "They shall choose none but poor, and those of a toward disposition, and forward in such learning as may fit them to the University. In the choice, first, they shall choose the legitimate sons of some decayed governors of the school, or vestry-men of the parish of St Saviour's: next, such as have been born of some honest parents in the parish: thirdly, the sons of any parishioners that hath been born in the parish, although he hath lived out of the parish. When he is chosen, they shall admonish him to be thankful to God for this charitable provision, to call himself and so required to be called, Bingham's Scholar, to apply his study that he may prove a good member in the Church and Commonwealth; and if by this means he rise to preferment, to remember to be helpful to such other as shall come in like sort, to be likewise sent out of the same school.” ships in either Oxford or Cambridge, for such scholars as have been or shall be brought up in this school. Mr Bingham's two Exhibitions have been augmented each to £50 per annum, and they are tenable for four years if the exhibitioner continues resident. Before a student can be elected to an exhibition, he must have been at least four years in the school. 1627. John Marshall, by will, devised certain estates in trust, among other things that his trustees should, after the death of two annuitants, bestow yearly the sum of £12 towards the maintenance of a poor Scholar for seven years, if resident, in either of the Universities. He directed that the scholar should be one born in the borough of Southwark or in the town of Stamford, and taught at the school in the parish of St Saviour, or any other school, at their discretion. He also directed that if he should after seven years take up his degree of Master of Arts, they should continue to him the further payment thereof for one year more, to the end that he might at that time provide for himself some place for the employing his talent and ability abroad, for the glory of God and benefit of His Church. ST OLAVE'S. THE FREE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL. THIS free grammar-school was founded by letters patent, in the thirteenth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, which recite: "That whereas her well-beloved subjects, the inhabitants of the parish of St Olave within the borough of Southwark, of their godly affection and good disposition for the bringing up, education, institution and instruction of children and younglings of that parish, at their no little cost, labour, and charge, in laudable order and form, had of late ordained and erected in the same borough and parish one Grammarschool, in the which children and younglings, as well of rich as the poor, being inhabitants within the same, are instructed and brought up liberally and prosperously in grammar, in accidence, and other lower books, to the common utility and profit of all the inhabitants of the parish." Her Majesty, upon their humble supplication, considering "their good, godly, and laudable intent," ordained that the said school should from thenceforth be a grammar-school, "for the bringing up, institution and instruction of the children and younglings of the parishioners and inhabitants therein, as well in grammar, as in accidence and in other low books, and in writing," to be called "The Free |