to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the last for the learned professions as well as the Universities. These exhibitions are open to all the scholars, and are awarded by the feoffees on the report of an examiner from one of the Universities. There are besides four Exhibitions, open to the free scholars from this school to Oxford. STAFFORDSHIRE. TAMWORTH. THE FREE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL. THE free grammar-school at Tamworth was first established out of the Guild of St George in that town. Queen Elizabeth in 1588 restored the free grammar-school; and "granted an annuity of £10. 13s. 2d. for the fee and stipend of the schoolmaster, out of the treasury, by the hands of the general receiver in the counties of Warwick and Stafford, yearly to be paid to such use as formerly it was paid." In the charter granted by Charles II. to the borough of Tamworth, the corporation are directed to appoint an able schoolmaster. The corporation are the trustees, by whom regulations are made from time to time for the government of the school. 1527. John Bayley founded a Fellowship at St John's College, for a native of Tamworth. (See p. 307.) 1691. Rev. S. Frankland founded a Scholarship at St Catharine's Hall, Cambridge, for a student from this school. (See p. 280.) WALSALL. THE FREE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL. FOUNDED 1554, A.D. THE free grammar-school at Walsall was founded by Queen Mary, and endowed with certain lands in the parishes of Walsall, Tipton, and Norton, in the county of Stafford, and formerly belonging to the dissolved chantries of Walsall, Bloxwich, and Lichfield. The management of the estates and revenues is vested in ten governors, who must be respectable inhabitants of the town and parish of Walsall, and resident in the same. They are incorporated by charter, and have the power of making statutes respecting the school, with the advice and consent of the bishop of Lichfield and Coventry. The present income arises from the original endowment, exclusive of some coal-mines under part of the estate. At the tercentenary commemoration of the foundation of the school in July, 1854, the Rev. J. B. Pugh, M. A. the head-master, opened a voluntary subscription for the purpose of founding an Exhibition to be open for scholars from Walsall school to either University. The sum contributed exceeds £600, which is to be allowed to accumulate till the annual proceeds are adequate to the object intended. COUNTY OF SUFFOLK. BURY ST EDMUNDS. THE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL. THE town of Bury St Edmunds seems to have enjoyed the advantage of a free school at a very early period. For Abbot Sampson, in the year 1198, built a school-house here, and settled a stipend upon the master, directing that forty poor boys should be exempt from every demand from the master with respect to their learning. The present free grammar-school was founded by King Edward VI. and was the first of his numerous foundations. The governors are sixteen in number, and must be gentlemen resident in the town; and the bishop of Norwich is the visitor of the school. It is the main design of the school to provide a direct and complete preparation for all the higher competitions in the English Universities, especially in the neighbouring University of Cambridge. The number of scholars on the foundation (called royalists) is not limited, but is generally about 40, and a warrant signed by three governors, addressed to the head-master, is necessary for admission. There is no restriction as to the number of other scholars (oppidans) which the master may choose to receive into the school. The scholarships at this school are awarded solely according to merit, which is determined by a public examination, conducted by two examiners from Oxford or Cambridge, every year at Midsummer. 1558. Dr. Laurence Moptyd founded a Scholarship at Trinity Hall, for a student educated at Bury or Ipswich school. (See p. 247.) 1569. Edward Hewer, citizen of London, by his will, gave a benefaction in the eleventh year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, to found four Exhibitions for students from this school proceeding to any college 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. 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. FOUNDED 1562, A.D. 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 |