A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



John and retired from the schoolmastership. Whether it was filled up 

 or not does not seem certain ; but Mr. James Ordd, schoolmaster, is 

 recorded in the parish register as being buried on 20 April, 1737, and it 

 would seem that he'was de facto if not de jure schoolmaster. On Lytton's 

 retirement disputes arose as to the right of patronage. In 1732 the mayor 

 and corporation presented a petition to the Crown for the re-establish- 

 ment of the Fraternity of the Holy Ghost, which had again died (if it 

 had ever really been revived) with the death of the last alderman, Richard 

 Woodroffe, some years before, and for a grant of the lands. On 27 July, 

 1733, the law officers of the Crown reported that the lands could only 

 be leased in accordance with the Civil List Act of the first year of Queen 

 Anne. On i August the corporation raised the question whether the 

 lands were not the property of Lord Sandys and so had never come to 

 the Crown under the Chantries Act. A counter-petition was presented 

 to the Crown by John Wallop, Lord Lymington, Lord Harry Poulet, 

 Sir John Cope, Anthony Chute and others accusing the corporation of 

 misappropriating the revenues, especially Lancaster's gift to the usher, 

 they having only paid John Hyde, the then usher, appointed in 1724, 

 about a third of the salary to which he was entitled. Apparently how- 

 ever he was accused of neglect of duty or insufficiency, as on 23 May, 

 1735, he was called upon to resign. He did not however do so until 

 5 October, 1738, when he had become rector of Tunworth. He was 

 succeeded by Nathaniel Ball of St. John's College, Cambridge. But he 

 too seems to have been neglectful, and on 5 October, 1 740, was removed 

 by the corporation ' for absenting himself in parts remote from the town 

 and school, imposing one Mr. Wimbolt in his stead.' A week afterwards 

 the Reverend Samuel Loggan was appointed to succeed him as usher. 

 He, on 1 8 July, I743, 1 obtained a patent from the Crown appointing 

 him to ' the place or office of presbyter, minister or chaplain, as well for 

 the celebration of divine service as for the instruction and institution of 

 young men and boys, in the chapel of the Holy Ghost,' and thereon 

 resigned the ushership. Next year he petitioned the Crown for a 

 receiver of the rents, which he said amounted to only 26 a year, while 

 a surveyor had estimated that the repairs of the buildings would cost 

 357 8\f. 6</., or nearly fourteen years' rental. He objected that the 

 corporation had detained 2 acres of land worth 3 a y ear an d Wigg's 

 gift, while 5 acres were withheld by Edward Dennier, and more pro- 

 perty of the school might be discovered, but he could not afford actions 

 at law, so asked the Crown to conduct them for him. He had previously 

 asked the corporation to do the repairs. Not getting any satisfaction 

 he ' frequently absented himself from the town ' ; when there, only 

 ' attending school for one or two hours a day.' He was, in fact, curate, 

 becoming in 1746 rector of Stratfield Turgis. The corporation on 

 7 October, 1745, ordered proceedings to be taken, and in 1746 petitioned 

 the Lord Chancellor to make Loggan do his duty or resign office. As 



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