SCHOOLS 



trustees, however, had more faith, and during 

 the next 40 years the standard of teaching was 

 raised to a much higher level. Mr. J. C. Sam- 

 mons, master from 1848 to 1857, stipulated, 

 when elected, for the enlargement of the existing 

 schoolroom, 1 and later on built the present school- 

 room which he then used for his private pupils. 

 Under the Rev. James Brown (1857-70), 

 his successor, the first and second of the three 

 classes in the school (i.e. two-thirds of the whole) 

 learnt Latin, and the character of the school was 

 generally raised. 



A new scheme under the Endowed Schools 

 Acts became law in December, 1872. Mr. R. 

 Hall became head master, and raised the school 

 considerably, and his good work was continued by 

 Mr. Cheal (1882-5), Mr. Boyce (1885-90), 

 Mr. Thomas Normandale (1890-99), and Mr. 

 W. Hen wood ( 1 900-3). 



At the present day the school is conducted as 

 a ' Public Endowed Secondary School,' under the 

 scheme of 1872, the head master, Mr. H. A. 

 Webb, B.A., B.Sc. (London), having been ap- 

 pointed in 1904. 3 



ELEMENT A RT SCHOOLS FOUNDED BEFORE 1800 



Wenhaston School. — Founded by William 

 Pepyn by will dated 20 January, 1562. He 

 gave land called Dose Mere Pightle for the main- 

 tenance of a free school in the town of Wen- 

 haston for the instruction of poor children in 

 learning, godliness, and virtue. Reginald Lessey, 

 by will, 1563, gave a piece of copyhold land near 

 Blythburgh for the same purpose. 



Stradbroke. — Michael Wentworth, esq., in 

 1 587, granted the town chamber for a school, the 

 master of which was appointed by the parishioners. 

 His stipend was £5 a year from the rent of land 

 given by Giles Borrett in 1667, for which he 

 taught five poor children, and ^15 a year from 

 the trustees of Warner's Charity, for which he 

 taught 12 poor children reading, writing, and 

 arithmetic. 



East Bergholt School. — Edward Lamb, by 

 deed of feoffment (25 September, 1589), con- 

 veyed to trustees a schoolhouse and a piece of 

 land in Bergholt for a free school. Lettice 

 Dykes (30 September, 1589) gave more lands by 

 deed for the maintenance and finding of poor 

 children in learning and virtue. Six were to be 

 taught to read and write, and six others of Berg- 

 holt and two of Stratford and Langham grammar 

 and good learning. Long before 1829 it was 

 elementary, and has remained so. 



Earl Stonham School. — The foundation of 

 this school is due to George Reeve, who in 1599 

 settled 20 acres of land in trustees to maintain a 

 schoolmaster. 



Beccles — The Free School. — Sir John 

 Leman, knt., by will (8 July, 1 63 1 ) devised to 

 his executors a schoolhouse in Beccles and other 

 lands that they should procure a licence in mort- 

 main and convey these to the portreeve and 

 corporation for a free school for 48 children, 

 who should be 8 years old and able to read per- 

 fectly on admission, and should be taught writing, 

 ciphering, casting accounts, and the religion 

 established in this realm. He appointed the 

 portreeve and 24 chief men of the corporation 



governors of the school. It was and is ele- 

 mentary. 



Bardwell School. — By a decree of the 

 Court of Chancery made in 1639 the town 

 estate was appropriated to public uses, one of 

 which was the allowance of j£ 1 3 a year for the 

 support of an elementary school. 



Hadleigh School. — Founded by John Ala- 

 baster, senior, who by will (20 April, 1667) gave 

 a tenement and 12 acres of land, the rents and 

 profits to be applied for the stipend of a school- 

 master to teach poor children the three R's. 

 Ann Beaumont, by will (5 August, 1701) gave 

 £5 a year to the schoolmaster of the free school 

 in Hadleigh for teaching 6 poor boys the 

 three R's. 



Fressingfield School. — William Sancroft, 

 archbishop of Canterbury, by deed (5 January, 

 1685), covenanted with the master, fellows, and 

 scholars of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, that 

 certain fee-farm rents should be charged with 

 the payment of £10 a year to a schoolmaster, 

 for which he should teach 5 poor boys of the 

 parish the three R's and the Church Catechism 

 and Creed. 



Worlingworth School. — John Baldry, by 

 will (14 April, 1689), gave lands in Monk 

 Soham for a schoolmaster to teach reading, 

 writing, and arithmetic to all poor children of 

 Worlingworth. John Godbold, by will (13 May, 

 1698), gave £120 for the yearly increase and 

 maintenance of a schoolmaster. A house was 

 built for the schoolmaster in 1825 by Mr. John 

 Corby. The school was free for all children of 

 inhabitants who occupy at rents not exceeding 

 {10 a year. It was, and is now, an elemen- 

 tary school. 



Ampton — Calthorpe's Charity. — By deed 

 (27 March, 1692) James Calthorpe, esq., con- 

 veyed a manor at Aldeby, in Norfolk, to trustees, 

 the rents to be applied in educating, clothing, 

 and feeding 6 poor boys. Henry Edwards, by 

 will (23 October, 171 5), bequeathed £100 to 



1 This room was the dining-room of the school in 

 1897 ; St. 'James's Budget, 26 Nov. 1897. 



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' I am indebted to Mr. Webb for much useful in- 

 formation contained in the Minute Books of the school. 



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