As the two foregoing scholarships are open to either University the Court of the Company have hitherto for the sake of fairness confined one to Cambridge and the other to Oxford. 1619. Robert Holmden, by his will, gave to the Company of Leathersellers property in London, upon condition that, among other things, they should pay £4 yearly towards the maintenance of a Scholar in one of the Universities of Cambridge or Oxford, to be taken out of the free grammar-school of Sevenoaks, for the space of four years, and so from time to time; and in default, then a scholar out of the free school of Tunbridge. In 1853 the company voluntarily increased the payment to the scholar under this trust from £4 a year to one-third of the clear annual residue of the rents and profits of this estate after deducting all outgoings. The scholar's income is accordingly about £36 a year. 1638. George Humble, by his will, gave to the Leathersellers' Company for ever a house in London, to the intent that out of the rents and profits thereof, the Master and Wardens should pay yearly each of two poor Scholars, one of Cambridge and one of Oxford, £4. for the first four years of their residence at the University. In the year 1815 the amount of each of these exhibitions was raised by the Company to £8 a year. In the year 1836, a scheme for this trust was granted to the Copany by the Court of Chancery, and by one of its regulations the pay. ment to each of the scholars is restricted to the original sum of £4 a yes. THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF FISHMONGERS. All worship be to God only. THE Fishmongers were amongst the earliest of the metropolita guilds. They were one of those amerced in the reign of Henry II. about 1154, and it is known that they had a charter at least as early as the reign of Edward I. This Company, one of the twelve principal companies, was formed of the union of two guilds or brotherhoods and incorporated by letters patent of Henry VIII. in the year 1536, by the appellation of "The Wardens and Commonalty of the Mystery of Fishmongers of the City of London." The Corporation now consists of a Prime Warden and five other Wardens, and a Court of Assistants: their Hall, which is a magnificent structure, is situated at London Bridge. The income of the Company is reported to be about £20,000 a year, of which £10,000 is expended in charities. 1513. Sir Thomas Kneseworth, Knt. bequeathed property to the worshipful Company of Fishmongers for various charitable and other purposes. As all the payments, excepting two, were directed in his will to be applied to superstitious uses, the lands out of which they issued became vested in the crown under the statute of the 1st of Edward VI. ch. 14, which passed in the year 1547. By letters patent of the 4th July, 1550, made in the fourth year of Edward VI. such sums, &c. so vested in the crown, were for valuable considerations granted by the king to the company. By the grant of these sums it was intended to secure the lands out of which they were payable to the Company; but doubts arising, an act of parliament was passed in the fourth year of James I. by which the lands became absolutely vested in the company for their own use and benefit, subject only to the payments referred to. In the year 1841, by a decree of the Court of Chancery, the estates alluded to in the annexed report were declared as not of the gift of Sir Thomas Kneseworth, but that they were taken from the Company; that the purchase of them from the crown was from out of the Company's own funds, and therefore the property is secured to the Company for ever, who are at liberty to employ the yearly income as they may please. 1563. Robert Carter, Esq. by his will, directed that the Wardens for ever should pay out of the rents of certain property £4 a year to a poor Scholar at St John's College, Cambridge, who has not above £4 a year by exhibitions or any other ways or means. 1582. Barnard Randolph, Esq. Common Sergeant of the City of London, gave £200 to the Company for several uses, one of which was, that they should pay £4 yearly "to some towardly scholar that should study divinity in the University of Cambridge," to be appointed by the Bishop of London, or, sede vacante, by the Lord Mayor the name of the person nominated to be signified to one of the Wardens, and in default, then the scholar to be nominated and appointed by the Wardens of the Company. 1601. Mr Leonard Smith, citizen and Fishmonger of London, founded one Fellowship at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and vested the appointment in the Wardens and Court of Assistants of the Company of Fishmongers. The Court also has the nomination to the Scholarship founded by Mr Smith at the same College, for persons sent from Holt School, being found fit by the master and fellows. In default, the master and fellows may choose any scholar in the college. An Exhibition of £20 a year is given to a free scholar going from Holt School to either University, upon the certificate and recommendation of the visitors and master. 1642. Mark Quested, citizen of London, left an estate to the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers, for various uses. He directed that, out of the revenues of the estate, the sum of £8 should be paid to each of four Masters of Arts, and £4 to each of four students every year, so long as they should abide at their study in either of the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge, being poor and having need thereof. The court has established from its revenues twelve Exhibitions to students in actual residence in either of the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge, or matriculated students of University College London, or King's College London, nominated by the members of the court in rotation. No one can be admitted, or continue to enjoy the exhibitions, who has an annual income exceeding £50. The exhibitions are held during the pleasure of the court only, and no exhibition can be held longer than seven years from the time the student is entered or matri culated at college. Students of Oxford or Cambridge must keep each term by actual residence. Students of University College, London, et King's College, London, must produce certificates of having, during each half year, attended at least three courses of lectures, and on appli cation for payment, students must forward a written declaration that they have had, during the half year, no certain income exceeding £50 per annum; and those of University College London, and King's College London, must also declare that they have not, during the half year, been engaged in any business or employment for reward. In the year 1805, the court raised the exhibitions from £10 to £20 per annum, and subsequently they have been augmented to £50 per annum. 1855. The court has munificently increased the annual value of these exhibitions from £50 to £100 per annum. THE END. Page 183. Add to subjects of the Seatonian Prize: 1855. "The Plurality of Worlds." Page 188. Add to subjects of the Members' Prizes: 1855. "Quasnam præcipue ob causas bellica virtus ac rei militaris gloria longo pacis intervallo integræ superfuerint?" (B.) "Milites Græci, Romani, Gallici, Anglici inter se comparantur." (U.) Page 189. Add to foot note: "The appellations of Whig and Tory, which have continued through all the subsequent reigns, originated in the feuds of that of Charles the Second; the respective parties distinguishing each other by those terms in derision. The courtiers reproached their antagonists with their resemblance to the rigid covenanters in Sotland, who were said to live upon sour milk, called whig, whence they were denominated Whigs. The country party discovered a similitude between their opponents and the Irish robbers and cut-throats, called Tories and however inappropriate, they are still regarded as characteristic of those parties, which are supposed to represent either the independent and popular interests of the country, or the more immediate friends of the crown as opposed to the rights of the people."Brayley's London, 1. 455. Page 191. Add to subjects for the Greek Ode: 1855. «Έσσεται ἦμαρ ὅταν πότ' ὀλωλῃ Ιλιος ἱρή. Page 192. Add to subjects for the Latin Ode: 1855. "Ciceronis Tusculanum. 1855. Page 193. Add to subjects for the Epigrams: Page 195. Add to subjects of Norrisian Essay: 1855. "The Providence of God has been signally manifested by the manner in which Error and Heresy have been made subservient to the Indication and Confirmation of Truth." Page 198. Add to subjects of Hulsean Essay: 1855. 1855. "The Influence of Christianity upon the Language of Modern Europe." Add to subjects of the Chancellor's English Prize Poem: Page 199. The War in the Crimea. Page 203. Add to subjects of the Camden Medal: 1855. "Loea Sacra apud Hierosolymam." Page 204. Add to subjects of Sir P. Maitland's Prize: 1855. "The Religious History of the Sikhs, considered with especial reference to the Prospects of Christianity in North-Western India." Page 205. Add to subjects of the Burney Prize: 1835. "To compare the incentives to virtue, as deduced by our natural reason, with the moral precepts of the Scriptures, and to shew how both derive sanction and confirmation from the Christian doctrine of a future life." Page 206. Add to subjects of the Le Bas Prize: 1855. "The History of Academic Study in England from the beginning of the thirteenth century to the Reformation, more particularly as illustrated by the Studies pursued in the Continental Universities during the same period." Page 207. Add to University Prizes, &c.: 1854. "His Royal Highness, Prince Albert, Chancellor of the University, offered an annual prize, a gold medal, for the encouragement of legal studies, as an important part of general education. The offer was accepted by the senate on the 27th Oct. 1854, and a syndicate was appointed to draw up a scheme of regulations for the institution of the prize. The report of the syndicate was confirmed by a grace of the senate on Feb. 21, 1855, and it was ordered that the subjects of examination should be in general, the Elements of Roman Civil Law, the Principles of International Law, the Constitutional History and Constitutional Law of England, and the principles of the general Law of England, viz. of the Law of real property, of the Law of personal property and criminal Law, and of Equity." The examination is open (1) to all students in Arts, who having passed the examinations entitling them to admission ad respondendum quæstioni, are not of sufficient standing to be created Masters of Arts; (2) to all students, who, having taken the degree of Master of Arts in right of nobility are not of more than seven years' standing from matriculation; and (3) to all students in Law or Medicine of not more than seven years' standing from matriculation, who have passed the examinations and kept the exercises necessary for the degree of Bachelor of Laws or Medicine. Page 246. Add to note: The following protests against the dissolution of the House are recorded in a book preserved in the Master's Lodge in Clare Hall: "Iff ytt shall plaese ye Kyngs Majesty to dyssolve thys Hows off Clare Hall, I shall be contented to departe owt off ye College before ye dyssolucion off ye same, not consenting unto yt.' John Hopper. "My conscience is not pacyfied: methynke that the study of Scripture is to be preferred before the study of the Law." Per me Edward Barker. 'My conscience is not pacyfied to consent to the dissolusion of this Colle savyng my obedience to the Kyngs Majestie notwithstanding." Edmond Anlebye "I Thomas Heskins felow off Clare Haule as an obedient subject to ye Ky Majeste am content to gyve place to Hys authoryte in the dyssolucyon of College off Clare Haule thogh my consent be nott agreable to ye same by reas of my othe to my College. By me Thomas Heskyns "Yff the Kyngs grace plesur be to tack Clar Hal withowt my consent, I am c tent.' per me William Archer. "I am nonne of thosse that doe hynder the Kyngs procedyngs in any Godly p posse and therfore I wyll goe my way." by me Christofer Carlell "I Robert Cootts fellowe of Clare Haule am content that the Kyngs Majeste ta it withowthe my consent." Robert Cootts. "I am content that the Kyngs plesure be fullfyllyd so that it be not prejudici to this College and that I doe nott consent to go from the College." per me Robertum Thomson. "Whan it was thought that not onelye the fundation and statutes of Clare Ha should be altered, but also the master and fellows thereof displaced contrary equitye and consciens, there was a division of plate made by the said master a fellows whose names hereafter followeth : Rowland Swynborne, Master; and Edmond Anlebye, William Archer, Thom Poley, John Hopper, Edward Barker, Christofer Carlyell, Robert Thomson, Thom Heskynes, Robert Cootts, John Jonson, Thomas Bayly (afterwards master) fellows Page 261, lines 15-17. This restriction has been recently abolished. Page 350, line 8 from bottom, for Cranbrook, read Combrook. Page 396. Add after the account of Macclesfield School, The Grammar-school at Stockport was founded by Sir Edmund Shaw, goldsmit and alderman of London, and brother of Dr Shaw, who preached the celebrate sermon at Paul's Cross, in favour of the claims of Richard Duke of Gloucester. There are attached to this school two Exhibitions of £50 per annum eart tenable for three or four years, as the governors think proper, to either University. The Grammar-school of Sandbach was established in the year 1577, and th founder directed that a certain number of boys should be "educated for the Um versities," implying an intention of maintenance during their studies there. The whole school-trust has been for some time in Chancery. A new scheme fo its management is in immediate prospect of being issued, by which the trustees wil be authorized to grant exhibitions at either of the Universities. (Jan. 1855.) Page 400, line 17, for Drokinsford, read Droxford. Page 402, line 11 from bottom, in the note, after the words "Inns of Court in London," add "or in the study of Physic in the Hospitals of London." Page 403, line 7 froin the bottom, in the note for Free School in Exeter, read Fre School of the City of Exeter. There is a scheme under consideration for altering the time and conditions o holding the Exhibitions in future, from the free Grammar-school of Exeter. Page 432, Add after line 13: "The funds and endowments of the school are under the investigation of the Queen's Charity Commissioners, and the result is not yet known." (Jan. 1855.) Page 410, add to line 8, "Its value is £30 a year, and it is open for competition to any one without regard to birth or place of residence; the only condition required being, that the candidate shall have studied at the school for two years. Page 422, Cancel the last four lines but two, and read instead, "The Grammar school of Huntingdon was founded by David Earl of Huntingdon, in the reign of Henry II. and the endowment now forms part of the revenue of the master and co-frater of the Hospital of St John the Baptist, in Huntingdon, which was als founded by the same earl, and at the same time as the Grammar-school. therefore one of the most ancient schools in the kingdom. Page 475, line 14, for £100 read £20. Page 480, line 18. Add after "Oxfordshire," ST PETER'S COLLEGE, RADLEY. It is An exhibition, called the Routh Exhibition, of £25 per annum, tenable for four years, at either university, has been founded, in memory of the late Dr Routh, President of Magdalene College, Oxford. Page 525, St Peter's Cathedral School, York. In the evidence in the Report of the Cathedral Commissioners, the grammat school is stated to have been "originally founded by royal charter of Philip and Mary, but principally endowed by James 1. of which the dean and chapter are perpetual trustees. The endowment is distinct from the property of the dean and chapter, and is wholly applied to the purposes of the school.' Page 547, The Worshipful Company of Bowyers. The Compiler has to express his regret that he has not received the revision and correction of the account of the exhibitions granted by the Bowyers' Company (March 20). |