1 66 SttERkORNfc AR13EY ANt> SCHOOL. 



suggested at page 261 in Hutchins' that "deeds and evidences" 

 of the parish, which had been put into the Almshouse for safe 

 custody, have been " purloined." This I do not believe ; I 

 fancy they are still there. 



The lists of the Bishops of Sherborne given on pages 221 and 

 222 have been corrected and made as perfect as possible by the 

 acute research of Dr. Stubbs, some time Bishop of Oxford. 

 Dr. Stubbs has shown that the person called Sighelm i., whose 

 figure appears in the middle window of the north clerestory of 

 the choir, was not a Sherborne Bishop. As regards -the list of 

 Vicars given on page 264, I have discovered the names of two 

 more viz., Roger Everard, who in 1229 witnessed a charter of 

 Richard Poore, Bishop of Sarum, by which that Bishop 

 gave certain burghal privileges to the free inhabitants of Sher- 

 borne living between St. Thomas' Chapel on the Green and 

 the Old Castle i.e., to the inhabitants of Newland. And in the 

 parish account of 1529 mention is made of "Master John 

 Poskyn, late Vikary of Sherborne," who is paid that year 

 i 6s. 8d. for money that he paid to the organ player. As to 

 the list of Head-Masters given on pages 289 and 290, I would 

 refer you to my "Short History of Sherborne," 2nd Edition, 

 where you will find a complete list from 1550 to the present day, 

 as well as a list of ushers or second masters from 1550 till the 

 abolition of that office in 1871. 



These lists I made from the School Account Rolls, which 

 contain matter of the highest interest for Sherborne history, but 

 which, I believe, I have practically exhausted. At page 285, 

 where the old Head-Master's house is described, no mention is 

 made of the fact that the Royal Arms on its south front were 

 taken down in 1650 by order of the officer in command of the 

 Parliamentary troops then occupying Sherborne, Captain Helyar. 

 The same fate befel the Royal Arms on the south wall of the 

 school-house dining hall. Both coats were, however, restored 

 to their old places at the Restoration in 1660, and there they 

 are still. In Hutchins' a doubt is expressed as to whose the 

 initials are on the south front of the old house ; they have all 



