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been identified as those of School Governors in the year 1560. 

 In Hutchins' eight are given wrong : H.I. should be H.S., A.T. 

 should be A.D., T.H. should be H.M., I.E., or E.F., should be 

 I.F., L.R. should be L.B., R.C. should be R.G., and W.I. 

 should be W.T. 



For the various omissions in Hutchins' as to the School old 

 buildings and for numerous mistakes, especially about the 

 " Abbey Lytten," I would again refer you to my " Short History 

 of Sherborne." On page 291 is given the School charter partly 

 in extenso. There are several mistakes in the version here given, 

 and an especially bad one in line 5, where " parochiae " is 

 read, instead of " patriae." The charter is in the School library. 

 No mention is made in Hutchins' of S. Ealdhelm's door at the 

 west end of the north aisle of the nave, nor of the date at which 

 the conduit was moved from the Monastic Cloister Court to its 

 present site. The School accounts show that this was done 

 before 1568. 



Sherborne has been in the past a very sensible place, and, till 

 the grey mist of Puritanism began to steal over England towards 

 the latter part of Queen Elizabeth's reign, a very joyous place. 

 I could tell you of the Church ales, the processions and the 

 plays on Corpus Christi Day, when a stage and seats were set up 

 in the churchyard, and part of the audience sat on the roof of 

 the south aisle of the nave. Perhaps the most interesting of the 

 many parish accounts, which refer to these plays, is that for 

 1572, when 6d. was paid for a " pecke of wheathen meal to 

 make Lot's wife," and a carrier was paid rod. "to bring Master 

 Poyntz regoules, and he that dyd playe upon the trumpete took 

 lod. for his payns." In another account Henry Stephens was 

 paid 145. "for canvass, gurswebbe, Tinsall, and nails, towards 

 making of the Giant." I could tell you how much the parish 

 paid for the extermination of foxes, badgers, bullfinches, pole- 

 cats, stoats, sparrows, hedgehogs, and rooks. I could tell how 

 the bells were rung for the "joyful and never to be forgotten 

 news of the happy deliverance of the Brave Dr. Sacheverill," for 

 the defeat and capture of King Monmouth, for the news when 



