SCHOOLS 



embodied in indentures of 25 March, and 23 

 and 24 June, 1664. These disappeared long 

 ago. 



The earliest masters are unknown. Mr. 

 Kemball was there in 1 730-4, ' and after this 

 the first name we meet with is that of the 

 Rev. George Wright, M.A., who advertises 

 that he will open the grammar school on 

 17 January, 1773, when he proposes ' to teach the 

 English, Latin, and Greek Languages, Writing 

 and Arithmetic,' adding that he will take 

 boarders on moderate terms. 2 



In 1785 the bishop licensed John Johnson 3 

 and William Doll 4 for this post. 



New trustees in 1801 filed a bill in Chancery 

 because Wright refused to receive scholars ' ex- 

 cept such as come to be taught Latin.' 5 The 

 bill was dismissed with costs. 



In 1823 Mr. William Blainey was appointed 

 to the mastership ; apparently he had conducted 

 a private school in the town since 18 12. 6 The 

 Commissioners' Report 7 shows that there were 

 in 1823 40 free scholars receiving elementary 

 e lucation, Latin being taught only if asked for. 

 Mr. Blainey 's salary gradually diminished until 

 1826, when he received practically nothing, 

 but after that date he was regularly paid 

 a salary of ^40. 8 The school then became 

 elementary. 



When in 1877 the old building was pulled 

 down and a board school erected, the endow- 

 ment was transmuted by scheme into two 

 j£20 scholarships tenable at Thetford. 



CAVENDISH GRAMMAR SCHOOL 



This school was founded by the Rev. Thomas 

 Gray, alias Bishop, rector of Cavendish, who 

 endowed it in 1696, for 15 poor children. The 

 master was to teach English, Latin, and Greek 

 and to prepare ' pregnant lads ' for Cambridge, 

 receiving in return ^15 annually and a dwelling- 

 house. A certain portion of the scholarship 

 fund was to be reserved for college expenses. 9 



A minute book relating to the school still 

 exists, and certain particulars about the masters 

 may be gathered from it. 



Mr. Hodson held the appointment from 1 72 1 

 to 1723, and was succeeded by Lewis Lewis, 

 B.A. Mathew Richardson was there from 

 1724 to 1739; Mr. Kendal, B.A., held office 

 for a year ; Thomas Best, a ' mechanic,' then offi- 

 ciated for 3 days, and after a year's interregnum 



1 Venn, Reg. ofGonville and Caius Coll. 



* Bury Post, 23 Dec. 1773. 



' Epis. Reg. 25 April. 4 Ibid. 22 July. 



s Bury Post, 18 Feb. 1822 ; Char. Com. Rep. xxii, 



'5: 



Bury Post, June, 181 2. 

 Char. Com. Rep. xxii, 157. 



' Vol. xxii, 157. 

 9 Ibid, xxi, 488. 



Christopher Gibbons, B.A., and, in 1742, 

 Mr. Hitchcock, each did a year's work. 



At last, in 1743, the mastership was saved 

 from becoming an annual appointment by Mr. 

 Stephen Brown, who did 36 years' successful 

 teaching before he resigned. During this period 

 a fair number of boys went up to Cambridge 

 from Cavendish, and his epitaph in Great Ash- 

 field churchyard 10 speaks of ' the Purity of his 

 Manners and the Unwearied Attention he paid 

 To the youth committed to his care.' 



The school advertisement in 1782 men- 

 tions the Rev. Mr. Waddington as master and 

 Mr. Seabrooke as assistant. 11 After this Thomas 

 Seabrooke, usher since 1766, took the master- 

 ship and held it to 1834, when he died. John 

 Clarryvince, future master of Woodbridge, was a 

 pupil from 1803 to 1805. About 1 81 6 a decree 

 in Chancery gave the trustees extended powers. 



In 1829 the master's salary amounted to ^30 

 a year, and the free scholars (nominated by the 

 rector) numbered 20. ls 



Mr. Seabrooke took boarders until prevented 

 by age, and the school being then limited to the 

 14 foundation scholars, it was found that none 

 required Latin. But though the Commissioners 

 of 1829 doubted the possibility of conducting it 

 as a grammar school, it gradually took position 

 again among classical schools. 13 In 1862, under 

 Robert Hurst, it regained its position. It is now 

 under Mr. B. H. Keall, B.A.Lond., late assistant 

 master at Chelmsford Grammar School. 



TUDDENHAM SCHOOL 



Bv will, 25 May, 1723, John Cockerton of 

 Tuddenham devised land to the minister and 

 churchwardens in trust for a free school where the 

 children should be taught to ' read, write, account, 

 and learn Latin as in other schools.' His own 

 house was to become the residence of the school- 

 master, Mr. Potter, who advertised a non-classical 

 syllabus in the Bury Post in 1796. 14 He was 

 succeeded in 1806 by Mr. West, who, in 1809, 

 gave place to Mr. N. Todd. Mr. Todd's adver- 

 tisement u is headed c Tuddenham Free Grammar 

 School,' and his syllabus includes Latin and 

 Greek. He states that he ' is about to remove 

 from the Parsonage to the Schoolhouse in the 

 centre of the village,' and that owing to the 



10 He died in 1786, aged 67. 



11 Bury Post, 21 Dec. 1782. 

 " Char. Com. Rep. xxi, 489. 



" 1 83+. John Sheal or Shiel ; 1837, Robert Simp- 

 son; 1848, Rev. W. M. Cox; 1850, Rev. Fred. 

 Toller; 1852, George William Shaddock; 1858, 

 Benjamin Brown (ejected); 1862, Robert Hurst; 

 1884, Harry A. Rumbelow ; 1886, C. Riches ; 1896, 

 Rev. Geo. Larder, M.A. ; 1 900, Rev. Thomas 

 Normandalc, B.A. 



" Bury Post, Dec. 1 796. Mrs. Potter kept up an 

 • academy for young ladies ' as late as 1815. 



15 Ibid. July, 1809. 



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