A HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 



that he was nearly as well paid as the grammar 

 schoolmaster, receiving 10 as organist and 2 

 as master of the choristers. 



It would appear that already the Keton 

 scholarships were being fraudulently given to 

 boys who only qualified for them by being 

 colourably admitted choristers. For on 16 Sep- 

 tember 1596 the appointment, 6 April of the 

 same year, of John Grace as chorister, was read in 

 chapter, and a testimonial of his good conduct, 

 with a petition for his admission to St. John's 

 College, Cambridge, as a pupil or scholar (dls- 

 dpulum sive scholarem) according to Keton's deed, 

 was sealed with the chapter seal. 



The school must have been of good 

 status at this time, for among the entries at 

 Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 32 on 

 27 September 1596, was Francis son of Francis 

 Leek, esq., of Sutton Scarsdale, Derbyshire, 

 educated at Southwell Grammar School, admitted 

 as a fellow commoner at the age of fourteen, 

 with Francis Carter of Somerlay, also educated 

 at Southwell, as his servitor. Leek was a royalist 

 and made Earl of Scarsdale in 1645. 



At some time not stated Richard Potter 

 became master of the grammar school. After 

 Potter's resignation on 3 May 1615 John Bayes, 

 M.A., formerly master of Lobthorpe School, 

 Lines., was admitted in solemn form in Latin, 

 which recited that he was first sworn ' not only 

 to the oath prescribed by an Act of Parliament 

 of 23 January 1558-9 and to obedience to the 

 chapter, but also to the new ecclesiastical canons 

 or royal constitutions required in this behalf.' 

 The chapter also granted him their licence ' to 

 exercise and execute the duty and office of 

 schoolmaster and public instructor in the school 

 aforesaid, and of publicly professing the art of 

 grammar and of reading good and approved 

 authors as well Greek as Latin to his scholars, 

 according to the capacities of the hearers.' 



The printed register of St. John's College, 

 Cambridge, comes to our assistance in the next 

 few years. It shows that Mr. Satchell, Setchell, 

 or Sechell, as he is indifferently spelt, was master 

 from at least 1625 to 1640. William son of 

 William Horborie, husbandman, of Walkering- 

 ham, who had been seven years under Mr. Se- 

 chell, was admitted a pensioner 29 May 1632 ; 

 Edward Mason, son of the rector of Hockerton, 

 was admitted 4 June 1634, and John Marler, 

 son of the late rector of Aperston (Epperstone), 

 who had been four years at the school, was 

 admitted 27 May 1639. The Civil War made 

 no difference to the school. On 5 June 1645 

 Thomas son of John Holecroft of Balderton, 

 gentleman (and gentleman then meant gentle- 

 man), was admitted sizar at the age of eighteen, 

 having been under Mr. Palmer at Southwell 

 School, and on 10 June 1647 Jervas son of 

 Miles Lee, who had also been under Mr. 



" Venn, Biog. Hist. Gonville and Caius Coll. i, 1 60. 



Palmer, was admitted pensioner, or paying under- 

 graduate, at the age of fifteen. When the 

 college of Southwell was once more abolished 

 with other cathedral and collegiate churches by 

 Act of Parliament in 1649, s P ec ial provision 

 was made for the preservation of the schools and 

 other charities attached to them. So we find 

 William son of Herbert Leeke, gentleman, of 

 Halam, admitted a pensioner at St. John's 

 25 October 1649. A little later, 7 April 1652, 

 an order, 33 made by the Trustees for Plundered 

 Ministers and Schoolmasters, to whom this 

 matter was delegated, recites : ' Whereas the 

 yearly stipend of ^14 heretofore payable to the 

 Scolemaster of the Free Schole within the towne 

 of Southwell in the county of Nottingham out 

 of the revenues of the late prebend of Southwell 

 is now chardged and payable by the said Trustees ; 

 It is ordered that the said yearly stypend of ^14 

 be continued and paid to Mr. Henry Moore, 

 Scholemaster of the said Schole, togeather with 

 the arrears payable since the i6th of Oct. 1650.' 

 A few days later Mr. John Gary, receiver, 

 was ordered to pay the said stipend ' from tyme 

 to tyme ... for and during such tyme as the 

 said Mr. Moore shall continue to educate the 

 youth in good litterature there and untill further 

 order of the said Trustees.' He was duly paid 

 on 25 March 1651. 



On 4 May 1654 two boys from Southwell were 

 admitted to St. John's, Cambridge ; viz. Samuel 

 son of Thomas Leeke, clerk, bred under his father 

 (who was head master of Nottingham School), 

 and also a little time in Southwell School, 

 ' aliquamtillo etiam tempore in schola de South- 

 well,' no doubt to qualify for a Keton scholarship, 

 and Matthew Sylvester, son of a mercer, two 

 years under Mr. Henry Moore. 



In 1655 Moore had given place to Mr. 

 Francis Leeke, an order of the trustees M being 

 made, 24 January 1655, f r payment of the 

 sum of 14 a year to him, ' hereby appointed 

 scholemaster of the said schoole, out of the rents 

 and profits of the impropriate tythes of Oxton 

 and Scarrington ... to be continued ... for 

 such time as he shall discharge the duty of 

 schoolemaster there, or untill further order of 

 the Trustees, And Lewt. Col. John Robinson, 

 receiver, is appointed to pay the same accord- 

 ingly.' Leeke continued master to the Restora- 

 tion. When the minster was restored and the 

 canons and vicars returned after the third dis- 

 solution and restoration, one of their first 

 capitular acts 31 on 12 September 1660 was to 

 appoint Francis Leeke surrogate and deputy for 

 probate of the residentiary canon, John Niele. 



83 Lamb. MSS. Aug. Bks. 969, p. 95 ; 978, p. 

 452 ; 1019, pp. 49, 70. 



34 Ibid. 967, p. 15. 



** Southwell Minster Chap. Min. 166070, under 

 date. This is the first Chapter Act Book the pages 

 of which are not numbered. 



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