A HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 



Mr. Barnard deceased, in the vicarage of Upton and 

 was collated accordingly, prestitls prim etc. 



Whereas there is a Decree with respect to the 

 Vicarage of Upton made July 31. 1701. That it be 

 for the future disposed of to one of the Vicars Chorall 

 who is best qualified to be Vicar Chorall according to 

 the Statutes of this Church, which Decree is con- 

 firmed and extended to all the livings in the gift of 

 the chapter, after the refusal! of the Prebendaries, by 

 a Decree made 22 Oct. 1724. This Rule we think 

 proper to be generally observed ; but considering that 

 Mr. Hodgshon the present Schoolmaster is a diligent 

 man and lies under great discouragements with respect 

 to his School, the Salary of 10 per annum due from 

 the Exchequer having been stopt for 4 years past, 

 and it is uncertain when or whether ever it will be 

 paid, for his encouragement we do give him the 

 Vicarage of Upton, None of the other Vicars Chorall 

 who may be better qualified in Church Musick being 

 willing to accept it, except Mr. Bird, who was this 

 day presented by the Chapter to a living in Lincoln- 

 shire. 



A gallant and successful effort was then made 

 to get arrears of the grant from the Exchequer. 



On 28 Jan. 1728-9 Whereas there are 4 years 

 arrears due to the Schoolmaster Mr. William Hodg- 

 shon, out of H.M.'s Exchequer, Decreed that a 

 Petition be drawn up in Order to be presented to 

 Sir Robert Walpole, Chancellor of the Exchequer 

 which was drawn up accordingly and ordered to be 

 ingrossed and sealed with the seal ad causas and signed 

 by the hands of the prebendaries and is as follows, 



To the Right Honble Sir Robt. Walpole Chan- 

 cellor of the Exchequer and one of H.M.'s most 

 Honble. Privy Councill. The Humble Petition of 

 the Chapter of the collegiate Church of the Blessed 

 Virgin Mary of Southwell in the county of Notts. 

 Humbly sheweth 



That the free Grammar School of Southwell being 

 a very ancient foundation was endowed in the reign of 

 King Edward VI with a pension out of his Majesty's 

 Exchequer of ^10 per annum, in recompence we 

 believe for severall hardships which we find put upon 

 our church at that time, which pension appears to 

 have been duly paid till 37 Elizabeth when we find 

 a petition in our old Ledger Books from our Chapter 

 to Sir John Fortescue, then Chancellor of the Ex- 

 chequer, complaining that the said Pension had not 

 been paid for 6 years past and praying that he would 

 be pleased to grant a warrant to the Auditor or 

 Receiver of H.M.'s rents and revenues in the said 

 county of Nottingham, to allow and pay the arrearages 

 of the said pension and to continue the payment of 

 it, upon which we find it was ordered to be paid and 

 was accordingly paid, so far as appears to us, till the 

 year 1724, since which time the School Master tho' 

 he hath often applyed to the proper officers hath not 

 been able yet to get it paid We beg leave to represent 

 to your Honour that our present Schoolmaster Mr. 

 William Hodgshon is a deserving man and diligent in 

 his office, that he is obliged to teach all boys that are 

 sent to him belonging to the town of Southwell 

 freely, and that his salary is but small and that without 

 this Royall Bounty very far from being a suitable 

 reward. We therefore presume from this example 

 of our Predecessors to trouble your Honour with our 

 humble petition that out of your regard to piety and 



learning you would please to take our case into con- 

 sideration which we hope will meet with the same 

 favourable acceptance as that of our Predecessors did, 

 and that your honour will give effectuall orders for 

 the payment of the said pension, as well as of the 

 arrears due upon it ; which will be a great benefit to 

 this church and town and will engage our prayers for 

 your happiness. 



The petition was granted, and since that time 

 there have been no further difficulties with the 

 Exchequer payment, it having become insignifi- 

 cant with the fall in the value of money. 



25 June 1730. This day Mr. Henry Bugg, 

 clerk, was chose Schoolmaster of the free Grammar 

 School in Southwell in the room of Mr. Hodgshon, 

 deceased ; to be admitted when approved and con- 

 firmed by the Archbishop as the Statutes direct. 



N.B. Mr. Bugg was examined by the Residentiary 

 in the chapter house, and chosen before 2 others who 

 were examined with him. 



On 23 July 1730 Bugg having exhibited the in- 

 strument of confirmation under the seal of the arch- 

 bishop was duly admitted in a Latin form and to a 

 vicar choralship at the same time. 



Mr. Bugg seems to have been of a combative 

 disposition, quarrelling with the parents, the 

 vicars choral, and the chapter. The first quarrel 

 was with the parents, and the chapter found Bugg 

 in the wrong. 



On 21 Oct. 1731 Whereas Richard Lloyd and 

 Talbot Leybourne were upon some misunderstanding 

 between the schoolmaster and their parents taken from 

 the free Grammar school, and Mr. Bugg having 

 refused to take them into the school, and the reasons 

 he offered for it being no way satisfactory to the 

 Chapter ; It is hereby ordered that Mr. Bugg shall 

 signifye to the parents of the said children that he is 

 willing to receive the said children again into the 

 School and teach and instruct them as he does other 

 boys and according, Mr. Abson at Mr. Bugg's desire, 

 undertook to deliver a coppy of this decree to 

 Mr. Leybourne and Mrs. Lloyd. 



The same day it was ' Decreed that the Bill 

 relating to the repairs of the school be paid by 

 the clerk of the fabric.' 



The next quarrel was about his vicarial 

 duties. 



19 Apr. 1733. There having been some dispute 

 between Mr. Bugg, Schoolmaster and Mr, Cooper, 

 vicar of the parish of Southwell, about reading prayers 

 on certain days. It was agreed between them upon 

 the recommendacion and consent of the Chapter that 

 Mr. Cooper is to read prayers on St. Stephen's, St. 

 John's, Innocent's and Newyear's Day (except any of 

 these days happen on a Sunday, in which case Mr. Bugg 

 is to take one part of the day as usual] and in lieu 

 thereof Mr. Cooper is to read on Epiphany, when it 

 so happens, to make up 4 holy days every year) Mr. 

 Bugg to doe all occasionall offices as Christnings, 

 Churchings, or any other that shall happen at the 

 time of his reading prayers on Sundays in Mr. 

 Cooper's absence. 



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