218 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 



and doing the service intended by them. Some 

 of his sentiments concerning the material points 

 to be attended to in the regulation of schools 

 are as follows, being extracted from his letters 

 wrote on the said occasions. 



I. He observed, that little good ever came of 

 free grammar schools, where the endowment was 

 mean. If they turned to any account, it was 

 owing to a number of foreign scholars, who, not 

 being entitled to the privilege, paid well for 

 their learning. In all these foundations, there- 

 fore, the first thing to be looked at was the 

 provision of a sufficient encouragement for the 

 master, who ought to be a graduate in one of 

 our universities. And if the salary appointed 

 by the founder was not a competent and proper 

 subsistence for him, it ought to be a rule that 

 none should be received into the school, but 

 whose parents and friends should pay something 

 towards their teaching; provided such an impo- 

 sition upon the inhabitants were consistent with 

 the letters patent, charter, deed of endowment, 

 or other act or instrument whatsoever, whereby 

 the school was founded. For his own part, he 

 did not see why this, generally speaking, might 

 not be so, but the lawyers being the best judges 

 of that, he left it to their determination. 



II. Where it could be done, he judged three- 

 pence a week, or three shillings and six- pence 



