1656. Two Exhibitions were founded by deed, at St John's College, for students from Shrewsbury school, under certain restrictions. These exhibitions are now each of the value of £35 a year, and they are tenable till scholars take the degree of Bachelor of Arts.

1713. Rev. Oswald Smyth, second master of Shrewsbury school, bequeathed property for founding two Exhibitions, tenable for seven years at Oxford or Cambridge. A preference is reserved for his relations, next for sons of burgesses, born in the town; after that, those born in the suburbs of Shrewsbury :-in default, any scholars born in the county of Salop, and educated at Shrewsbury school.

1724. John Millington, D.D. founded one Fellowship and four Exhibitions at Magdalene College, for scholars from Shrewsbury school. (See p. 333.)

1734. Mr James Millington founded two Exhibitions at Magdalen College, for students from Shrewsbury school. (See p. 334.)

1766. John Taylor, D.D. by his will, gave an Exhibition of £23 a year for four years, at either Oxford or Cambridge, for scholars from Shrewsbury school, with a preference to any descendant of Roger Owen, of Andover, though not brought up at the same school, but who should be thought duly qualified for the exhibition.

1844. Rev. R. B. Podmore founded an Exhibition of £30 a year, at Trinity College, Cambridge, tenable for four years, for a native of Shropshire. (See p. 353.)

NEWPORT.

THE FREE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.

FOUNDED 1656, A. D.

THIS School was founded and endowed by William Adams, citizen and haberdasher of London, who gave besides an estate at Woodease, in the county of Salop, in aid of the original endowment, lest there should be any deficiency for carrying out his design.

In 1660, the 12th year of Charles II. an act of Parliament was obtained, appointing the master and wardens of the Company of Haberdashers, in the city of London, to be the governors of the free-school and almshouses so founded by Mr Adams; and for the settlement of the lands and possessions upon them for the maintenance of the school and other charitable uses.

The founder in 1656 drew up statutes, constitutions, and ordinances

for the government of the school*. It is ordained by them that the school shall be for ever free for the teaching of the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew tongues, or any of them, unto fourscore scholars.

The statutes and orders are directed to be fairly written and suspended in a convenient place publicly in the school, and to be openly read in the school once a quarter from time to time, that so none may plead ignorance.

Mr Adams also founded four Exhibitions for scholars proceeding from this school either to Oxford or Cambridge. The nomination is

in the visitor and the head-master, and is to be made within the last two days of the month of February yearly. It is also provided, that if at the time of election any scholar born in Newport or Chetwynd End shall be fitted for that choice, then such to be first chosen: in case there be none such, then next any one born within three miles of that town, but within the said county, if fitted for it: and in case that none such be found fit there, then any other born elsewhere within the said county of Salop may be chosen, respect always had for the preferring of such that were born at the least distance from the said school: or otherwise in case of failure therein, then to make choice of any well qualified and fitted that hath been a scholar in the said school by the space of three years or upwards, so always that in all the respective places afore-mentioned, care be taken that the poorer sort be herein preferred, in case they shall be every way fitted for the same. These exhibitions are for the term of four years and no longer, and are each of about the value of £20 per annum.

The following are the tenth, twelfth, and eighteenth rules :

10. "The master and usher shall have a special care to the good manners and decent deportment of the scholars, and shall exemplarily punish all misdemeanours, especially the sins of swearing, cursing, lying, filching, filthy or obscene talking or acting, gaming for any thing of price, and foul language to any person, and in an especial manner shall diligently endeavour to see the Lord's day kept free from any profanation (as much as in them lieth) as well after as under the public ordinances by all these scholars."

12. "All disobedient and stubborn youths that are pertinaciously and exemplarily bad, after two admonitions, wherewith their parents or friends be acquainted, shall the third time be expelled from the school."

18. "No scholar at any time shall with knife, or otherwise whatsoever in stone, lead, or other materials, cut, notch, deface, or break the windows, wainscot, forms, seats, tables of orders, desks, doors, tables, in any part of the houses, school, or library, neither deface or in any kind abuse any of the books in the said library. The master upon conviction of such offender, or offenders, shall give him or them exemplary punishment for deterring others so to do."

LUDLOW.

THE FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

FOUNDED 1552, A. D.

THE free grammar-school of Ludlow was founded by King Edward VI.; the bailiffs, burgesses and commonalty, and their successors, being directed" always to find in the same town, at their own costs and charges, a free grammar-school, with a schoolmaster and an usher, for the erudition of youth in the Latin tongue."

There are three Exhibitions of £50 each for three years, (established under the scheme of 1847, by which the school is now governed,) tenable at any college of Oxford, Cambridge, or Durham. These are

for day-scholars exclusively, who must be sons (or living with persons in loco parentis) of persons residing in Ludlow, or within ten miles thereof, and a candidate must have been in the school two years before he can be elected to an exhibition.

SOMERSETSHIRE.
BRISTOL.

THE FREE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.

FOUNDED 1533, A.D.

THE hospital of Saint Bartholomew the Apostle, with the lands and tenements thereto belonging, having by licence of Henry VIII. in the twenty-fourth year of his reign, been purchased by the executors of Robert Thorne, Esq. were conveyed to the mayor, burgesses, and commonalty of the city of Bristol, for erecting a free grammar-school in pursuance of the will of the testator. His sons also, Robert Thorne and Nicholas Thorne, were great benefactors of the school. Ordinances and rules were ordained for the management of the school by the governors, the mayor and aldermen of Bristol, with the advice of the common council of the same city.

1625. Mrs Anne Snigge, by her will, among other things devised £200 to the mayor, burgesses, and commonalty of the city of Bristol, that they should retain and keep the said £200 for their own use, upon condition that they should pay yearly for ever thereafter the sum of £12 to and amongst two poor Scholars, sons of the poor burgesses of the said city, who should be educated in the free grammar-school there, called "The Bartholomew's," to be paid unto them for their better maintenance in some one or both of the Universities of Oxford

or Cambridge, namely, to each scholar £6 per annum, for four years, remaining there, and demeaning himself well.

1628. John Whitson, alderman of the city of Bristol, by his will, bequeathed to the corporation of Bristol a certain portion of his property for various charitable uses, as by the good discretion of the mayor and aldermen should be thought fit and necessary.

A declaration was made by the mayor and aldermen, of the charitable uses to which Mr Whitson's benefaction was to be applied; and among them, they declared that £20 yearly for ever should be employed towards the maintenance of two poor men's sons of the city in the University of Oxford or Cambridge that had first had their education and bringing up in the grammar-school of the city, called "The Bartholomew's," to each of them £10 per annum.

In the year 1847 a new scheme was approved by the Court of - Chancery for the management and administration of the estates and revenues, and for the future government of the free grammar-school of Bristol, and the trustees of the Bristol charities were appointed trustees of the grammar-school.

It was ordered that the surplus should be employed, among other things, in increasing the amounts payable as exhibitions under the gifts of John Whitson, Anne Snigge, and George White, or such of them as may be payable to boys proceeding from the said school to the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge, so as to make up the annual income of the said gifts equal to two Exhibitions of £60 each, to be payable to boys from the said school. Also after providing for these payments, any further surplus when it shall amount to £60 a year, shall be employed for a third, and after that for a fourth Exhibition. That the said trustees shall elect to such exhibitions only such boys as shall have been reported to be meritorious scholars, deserving of the same by the examiners, and that the said exhibition shall commence from the day of election thereto, and shall be continued during four years; but shall be determinable by the said trustees, if the exhibitioner shall not continue to reside in the University.

BRUTON.

THE FREE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.

FOUNDED 1519, A.D.

THIS free school was founded by Richard Fitzjames, bishop of London, Sir John Fitzjames, chief justice of England, and John

Edmondes, D.D. clerk, in the eleventh year of Henry VIII.; but on the suppression of charitable institutions in that reign, it came to the crown, and the school was re-founded by a charter in the fourth year of the reign of Edward VI.

In the year 1809, with the advice of the bishop of Bath and Wells, certain statutes and ordinances were made by the warden and governors for the management of the school, one of which directs, that exhibitions may be granted by the governors out of the profits and revenues to assist in the maintenance of scholars from the school at Oxford or Cambridge.

There are at present four Exhibitions granted, each of the value of £30 a year. One of these exhibitions is awarded regularly every year, if a fit and competent candidate come forward, and provided the funds of the school be found by the governors to be sufficient for the purpose. Two of the four exhibitions are confined to free boys, and two are open; but if there be no candidate from among the free boys for a vacant confined exhibition, the governors may in that case elect some other scholar. Candidates for an exhibition must have attended the

school for the three previous years. The exhibitioners are elected at a public examination of all the boys in the school held annually. The election is purely an election of merit, the governors being bound by statute in every case to elect that candidate whom the examiner shall report to be the best scholar.

CREWKERNE.

THE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.
FOUNDED 1449, A.D.

THE grammar-school of Crewkerne was founded by John Combe, B.D. precentor of Exeter cathedral, a native of the town, and endowed by him and subsequent benefactors with lands and houses, which now produce about £300 per annum.

By a recent order of the Court of Chancery the school is free to all sons of the inhabitants of Crewkerne, and within six miles of the town, for instruction in Latin, Greek, and the principles of the Established Church.

1847. Thomas Hoskins, Esq. the warden of the school, the late Lord Wynford, and the feoffees, founded from houses and funded property, three Exhibitions, each of the value of £25 per annum, and tenable for four years; the first two for students proceeding