A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



June, 1 587 ; Courteenhall, usually attributed to Sir Samuel Jones, who died 

 in 1672, but who was only further endowing a grammar school, which 

 as we saw, apropos of Blisworth, was flourishing in 1593 ; Preston Capes, 

 founded by Richard Fawsley, by will 25 January, 1647 ; Aynho 

 founded in 1654 by John Cartwright ; Little Harrowden, erected by 

 deed of WilHam Aylworth, 17 January, 1661 ; Pytchley, by the same 

 founder, 13 August, 1661 ; Clipston, by Sir George Buswell, 18 March, 

 1667 ; Blakesley, by William Foxley, i January, 1669 ; Guilsborough, 

 existing when Charles Colt of Lincoln's Inn, by will 20 March, 1656-7, 

 gave £10 z year to it to buy books, but endowed or refounded by deed 

 of Sir John Langham, 8 March, 1668, with ^Tioo a year to teach Latin, 

 Greek, and Hebrew. Guilsborough was as late as 1750 of the great public 

 school order, and most of the schools mentioned were of good status at first. 

 But they were all endowed with fixed rent-charges, which, as the value of 

 money fell, became inadequate to support a university graduate, which 

 in most cases the master was required to be, and when the means of 

 locomotion improved people sought the best and not the nearest school, 

 and so they dwindled away. 



CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF GRAMMAR SCHOOLS 



' Mention of a school in the Pipe Roll for 1 176. 



' Release to schoolmaster in roll of Mayor's Court. ' Patent for founding Higham Ferrers College. 



* Grant by King Henry VIII to Robert Dacres of college property subject to maintenance of school. 



' Licence to rector of Barnack to get a master to teach. 



' Continued by warrant of Chantry Commission. ' John Abbot's Will. 



' Letters patent for foundation of chantr}' school. 



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