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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
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and Thomas Ladd, tho’ nott att home, is concerned 
in their apprehension. 
[ Endorsed. ] 
Coppy of a letter from M* Mascall, of New Rom- 
ney, dated 11 June, about the taking of S* Jno. 
Fenwick. 
The above appears to be a contemporaneous transcript 
of the original letter. I purchased it many years ago 
‘among a large mass of old Kent MSS. 
There is no superscription given; but doubtless it was 
addressed to the Duke of Shrewsbury, Principal Secretary 
of State, whose chief secretary or clerk was James Vernon, 
Esq. The writer, John Mascall, was a jurat of New Rom- 
ney, and had been mayor of that town two years before 
the date of this letter. L. B. L. 
Song on the Jesuits’ Chapel and Schools in the 
Savoy. — 
Tt is a curious fact that neither by Cunningham 
in his Handbook of London, nor by Timbs in his 
Curiosities of London, is there any reference to 
the spacious house, including a church and a 
school, which Macaulay (vol.ii. p. 98.) says was 
built in the Savoy for the Jesuits in 1686 : 
“The skill and care with which these fathers had, 
during several generations, conducted the education of 
youth, had drawn forth reluctant praises from the wisest 
Protestants. Bacon had pronounced the mode of in- 
struction followed by the Jesuit Colleges to be the best 
yet known in the world, and had warmly expressed his 
regret that so admirable a system of intellectual and 
mgral discipline should be subservient to the interests of 
acorrupt religion. It was not improbable that the new 
academy in the Savoy might, under royal patronage, 
prove a formidable rival to the great foundations of Eton, 
Westminster, and Winchester. Indeed, soon after the 
school was opened, the classes consisted of four hundred 
boys, about one half of whom were Protestants. The 
Protestant pupils were not required to attend mass; but 
there could be no doubt that the influence of able pre- 
ceptors devoted to the Roman Catholic Church, and 
versed in all the arts which win the confidence and 
affection of youth, would make many converts.” 
Strype, in his edition of Stow’s Survey of Lon- 
_ don (ed. J755,), vol. ii. pp. 103-4., says : 
* In the year 1687, schools were set up and ordained here 
at the Savoy; the masters whereof were Jesuits. Rules 
were provided for these schools and published in print. 
It was declared therein, that the intention of them was to 
teach youth virtue and learning. That those that came 
thither should be taught gratis, and to be at no further 
charge than in buying of their own pens, ink, paper, and 
books, That these schools should be common to all, of 
what condition soeyer, and none to be excluded, when 
they should be thought fit to begin to learn Latin, and 
wrote sufficiently well. In these schools to be taught 
Greek and Latin, poetry and rhetoric. And whether 
Catholics or Protestants came to these schools, yet in 
teaching, no distinction to be made, but all to be taught 
with equal diligence and care, And neither by master 
or scholar, and tampering or meddling, to persuade any 
one from the profession of his own religion. But few 
there were but did believe, nay, could but believe other- 
wise than that this pretended charitable project was for 
the advantages hereby to be compassed for the promoting 
the Roman religion. These schools were soon dissolved 
upon the ceasing of the Government of King James. And 
the clock that was made for the use of this Savoy school, 
was afterwards bought and set up upon a gentleman’s 
house in Low Layton, as was said.” 
Strong as was the popular feeling against this 
school — and the following contemporary ballad is 
given as evidence of that feeling—there can be 
little doubt that the cause of education was ad- 
vanced by this institution, since its establishment 
gave rise to many other schools in the metropolis. 
The Blue Coat School, in St. Margaret’s, West- ~ 
minster, is one of these. 
“RELIGIOUS RELIQUES 3 
Or, the Sale at the Savoy; upon the Jesuits breaking up 
their School and Chapel. 
de 
“TLast Sunday, by chance, 
I Encounter’d with Prance, . 
That Man of Upright Conversation, 
Who told me such News, 
That I cou’d not chuse 
But Laugh at his sad Declaration. 
2 
“ Says he, if you'll go, 
You shall see such a Show 
Of Reliques expos’d to be Sold, 
Which from Sin and Disease 
Will Purge all that please - 
To lay out their Silver and Gold. 
3 
“ Straight with him I went, 
Being zealously bent, 
Where for Sixpence the Man let me in, 
But the Croud was so great, 
T was all in a Sweat 
Before the rare Show did begin. 
4, 
“ The Curtain being drawn, 
Which I think was of Lawn, ? 
The PRIEST cross’d himself thrice, and bow’d; 
Then with a sour Face, 
Denoting his Case, 
He address’d himself thus to the Croud. 
5. 
“ You see our sad State, 
Tis a folly to prate, 
Our Church and our Cause is a-ground ; 
So in short, if you’ve Gold, 
Here is to be sold 
For a Guinny the worth of Ten Pound. 
6. 
“ Here’s St. James’s old Bottle, 
It holds just a Pottle, 
With the Pilgrim’s Habit he wore; 
The same Scollop shells, 
As our Holy Church tells, — 
Who denys it’s a Son of a W——, 
vi 
“ Here’s a piece of the Bag, 
By Age turn’d to a Rag, 
In which Judas the Money did bear; 
With a part of his Rope, 
Bequeath’d to the POPE, 
As an Antidote ’gainst all despair. 
