Grammar-school of Queen Elizabeth of the Parishioners of the Parish of Saint Olave, in the County of Surrey:" and that Her Majesty's intent might take the better effect, and that the lands and revenues for the maintenance of the school might be better governed, she granted that there should be "sixteen men of discretion and most honest inhabitants "of the parish, who should be governors of the possessions of the same, and should be a body corporate and politic with perpetual succession.

The original endowment of the school consisted of a field, of about sixteen acres, in Horsleydown, which now produces a considerable income from buildings and other improvements. The present revenue of the school is stated to be nearly £3900 per annum.

The letters patent of Elizabeth were confirmed by a charter of Charles II. in 1675, which increases the powers of the governors of the school, and directs, "That the rents and revenues shall from time to time be converted to the maintenance of the master, and such usher or ushers, as to the governors shall seem fit, and for defraying the necessary charges in the execution of their trust; and for the maintenance and education of two scholars in the University, if any such shall be elected out of this school, until they have severally taken their degree of Bachelor of Arts, being first brought up in the school and inhabitants of the parish, which scholars are to be elected by the governors, and to be allowed such maintenance towards their education in the University as to them shall seem fit."

At the present time the governors are empowered to grant four Exhibitions at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge to scholars from this school, who may be recommended by the master and be reported by the examiners to be properly qualified for proceeding to the University.

These Exhibitions are each of the value of £80 a year, at the discretion of the governors, who decide according to the merits of each case, and they may continue the allowance for three years and a half to the exhibitioners if they are resident.

From the circumstance of the scholars being limited to the neighbourhood, and from the fact that some of the neighbours decline to make use of the exhibitions, as they are free, there are not always candidates for the exhibitions. It is stated on good authority, that before the appointment of the present head-master there had been only four exhibitioners since the foundation of the school in 1570, a.D.; but since his appointment there have been ten, two sent to Oxford, and eight to Cambridge.

GUILDFORD.

THE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.
FOUNDED 1539, A.D.

THE first foundations of the grammar-school in Guildford were laid by Robert Beckingham, citizen and grocer of London, who in his life-time gave a messuage and garden adjoining to the Castle-ditch, and by his will bequeathed lands, for the maintenance of the school.

The revenue arising from this bequest was augmented by the corporation, who in 1520 purchased a piece of land in St Mary's parish, and erected thereupon a building for the purpose of a school-house.

King Edward VI. in the sixth year of his reign, augmented the revenues of the school, and granted letters patent to the mayor and approved men of Guildford, with power to make statutes, with the advice of the Bishop of Winchester, for all matters concerning the management and good government of the school, as well as for the preservation and disposal of its revenues, for ever.

A body of statutes was drawn up in the year 1608 for the direction and management of the school.

1671. Joseph Nettle, Esq., by will, left property in trust, that the rents and profits should be applied towards the maintenance of a Scholar for six years at Oxford or Cambridge, the son of a freeman of the town of Guildford, who should have been taught and fitted for the University in Guildford grammar-school.

STOCKWELL.

PROPRIETARY GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.

INSTITUTED 1833, A.D.

THIS school was established with the design of providing such an education in classics, mathematics, the modern languages, and mercantile affairs, as may qualify the students for the Universities, the liberal professions, or commercial pursuits.

There is annually one Exhibition open to students from this school, which may be held for three years, at Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin, King's College, London, or Durham. It is given for classical or mathematical proficiency to scholars who have been at least three years at the school.

The value of these exhibitions is not less than £20, and not more than £30 a year, according to the state of the exhibition fund, which is maintained by a subscription of one guinea per annum from the friends of each scholar in the school.

COUNTY OF SUSSEX.

LEWES.

THE FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

In the year 1508, Edmund Dudley, Esq. gave to John Ashdown, prior of Lewes, Agnes Morley, and others, an annuity of £20 out of his manor of Hornsey, for the use of the said Agnes, who in 1512 bequeathed the said annuity for the endowment of a free grammar-school at Southover, which the trustees to her will, with the consent of the prior of Lewes, vested in George Hale, clerk, and his heirs, for the purpose of the bequest; and in 1537 Mr Hale made over this annuity to new trustees to execute the intentions of the donor. In addition to this annuity Mrs Morley bequeathed a garden and house for the use of a master and usher, to dwell and teach grammar there. In the year 1545 Richard Bellingham and Thomas Colbrand, the only surviving trustees, enfeoffed John Waller, of Firle, gentleman, with the premises and the annuity, upon the condition of re-granting them to new trustees, which he did; and in that manner the endowment has continued to be managed by successive trustees.

1661. Rev. George Steere, of Newdigate in the county of Surrey, bequeathed four houses in Lewes, the issues and profits of which were to be appropriated to the education and maintenance of a fit person, the son of godly parents, in or near the town of Lewes, and especially the son of a godly poor minister, at either of the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge, for four years; and at the end thereof, then to another, for the like term, and so on for ever. The nomination and choice is in the two chief officers, and four others, the most able inhabitants within the town, successively, for ever. The value of this exhibition is not fixed, being dependent on the rent of houses, but varies according to the amount expended in repairs. The average yearly value may be about from £25 to £30.

BRIGHTON COLLEGE.
INSTITUTED 1847, A.D.

THIS is a Proprietary College, instituted with the design of providing a sound religious, classical, mathematical, and general education of the highest order, so modified as to meet the demands for practical knowledge in the present age.

A Scholarship of £30 per annum, tenable for three years, is open for competition every year to candidates proceeding to Oxford or Cambridge, who have been students for three years in the college. But no one will be appointed who is not, in the judgment of the examiners, deserving of the distinction.

SHOREHAM.

ST NICOLAS' COLLEGE.

INSTITUTED 1847, A.D.

THIS college, a society of clergy and others, formed for educating all degrees of the middle classes, has in connexion with it a grammarschool at Shoreham, and another at Hurstpierpoint, at which a course of classical and mathematical instruction is pursued, the same as at the great public schools.

Exhibitions of the value of £25 a year, for a specified number of years, are granted to scholars of deserving character and competent attainments proceeding from these schools to Oxford or Cambridge.

The exhibitioners, at the discretion of the society, are elected to the fellowships at St Nicolas' College.

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WARWICKSHIRE.

RUGBY SCHOOL.

FOUNDED 1567, A.D.

LAURENCE SHERIFFE, a native of Rugby, one of the gentlemen of the Princess Elizabeth, and afterwards a grocer, and member of the Grocers' Company, in a paper annexed to his will, entituled, the intent of Laurence Sheriffe, declares, that his trustees should procure an honest, discreet, and learned man, being a Master of Arts, to take charge of the same [the school-house, &c. to be built], as a fres grammar-school, and that the same should remain and be so kept chiefly for the children of Rugby and Brownsover, and next for such as be of other places next, adjoining, for ever. That the same shall be called, The Free School of Laurence Sheriffe, of London, grocer, and that the master and his successors should have the mansion to reside in, without anything to be paid therefor."

The benevolent intentions of the founder do not, however, appear to have been scrupulously fulfilled by those in whom he had placed his confidence. He had devised by will his estates, in trust, to George

Harrison, of London, gentleman, and Bernard Field, of London, grocer, "his dear friends." Mr Harrison died soon after Mr Sheriffe, leaving Mr Field the surviving trustee, who thought proper to retain for his own benefit the third part of one of the estates devised for the maintenance of the school: which so continued in a state of alienation for many years. Several suits were ineffectually instituted by different masters of the school for the recovery of it, until, in consequence of the Act of the 43rd of Queen Elizabeth to redress the misapplication of funds given to charitable uses, a commission was issued in 1614, and an inquisition was taken before the Bishop of London and others, the result of which was a Report to the Chancellor in favour of the charity, and a restoration to the school of that part of the estate originally conveyed, with all arrears; and twelve trustees out of the most respectable gentlemen of the county and neighbourhood were appointed for the better securing of the same and the application of it to the uses intended.

Another estate, which Mr Sheriffe had left to his sister and her husband, at a certain rent during their lives, but which was included. in his trust for the school, having been claimed by the holders of it as their own, subject to the payment of the original rental assigned by Mr Sheriffe, for the lives of his sister and her husband; by an inquisition taken at Rugby in 1653, before John St Nicholas and others, the possession of the property was declared to have been an usurpation, and all the trustees appointed under the first inquisition being dead, except one, it was ordered that the property should remain vested in twelve new trustees and their heirs, to the uses appointed by the founder. It was further ordered that the payment of arrears and of sums which had been withholden to the amount of £742. 8s. 4d., should be made to the trustees, to be applied, first to the indemnification of those who had been injured by the usurpation in question, and then to the repairs of the school-house, &c.

In 1777, Sir John Eardly Wilmot, late lord chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas, became a trustee of the school, and under his direction another act of parliament was obtained for the better management of the school. Under this act the trustees were authorized to grant eight Exhibitions of £40 a year, for seven years, to any college or hall of Oxford or Cambridge, to students from Rugby School. In 1779, the trustees ordered that the boys belonging to the foundation should have the preference in elections to exhibitions, and in default of such foundationers, those boys shall be chosen who shall appear to