SCHOOLS 



Black Friars, situate in what is now called 

 Foundation Street. Here it remained for some 

 two centuries till 1763, when it was again re- 

 moved a few yards into the refectory of the Black 

 Friars, where it stayed till the demolition of that 

 building in 1851. 



John Scot was still master on 24 September, 

 1587,* when ' fower persons' were 



appointed to view what reparacions have been donne 

 to the Grammer Scole by Mr. Scott and the same 

 to allow or disallow in part or in whole, and to 

 cause payment to be made. 



This seems to have been on the retirement of 

 Scot, as in 1567 we find John Dawes master. 

 He held office till his resignation on 8 September, 

 1582. The corporation exercised their power 

 of making statutes in ' ordinancies made at a 

 Great Court held in the Moot Hall, in 

 1571': 



That the Master and Usher, with their Scholars, 

 shall, kneeling upon their knees, devoutly, every day, 

 say or sing such godly morning and evening prayers 

 or psalms as shall be written in a Table to be hanged 

 up in the Upper Part of the said School. 



The master was to be there 



by 7 of the clock and the Usher at 6, and there remain 

 and abide until II, and every afternoon to be there 

 at I of the clock, and to remain there until 4 through- 

 out the year. 



That there be ordained in the said school for ever 

 seven Forms . . . and that the Scholars in every 

 Form during their school times speak Latin the one 

 to the other. 



The Master and Usher every Saturday and Holi- 

 day even at afternoon ... to instruct them in Good 

 Manners and Behaviour towards their Parents, and 

 toward every other State and Degree. 



That the school be daily swept and made clean, 

 by the appointment of Master or Usher. 



Towards the latter end of John Dawes' time 

 his son was usher. On 14 April, 1580, 



Joseph Dawes, usher of the Grammar Schoole, hath 

 surrendered up his place, and the bailiffs and portmen 

 with the consent of Mr. Dawes, the schoolmaster, 

 shalle elect another in his roome. 



On 5 April, 1582, an exhibition of 4 a 

 year was ordered to ' be paid to Robert Dixon, 

 the town's scoller at Cambridge till midsummer 

 come 1 2 months.' On 5 December, 1580, it was 

 agreed by the corporation that ' on lettres com- 

 mendatory from Sir Christopher Wray Chief Jus- 

 tice of England,' John Smith ' shall be presented 

 to the bishop for his allowance of him to be 

 master of the Grammer Schoole.' 



John Smith, an Ipswichian born, fellow of 

 Queens' College, Cambridge, who took his B.A. 

 degree in 1576 and M.A. in 1579, owed his 



1 Bacon, Ann. 277. 



recommendation from Sir Christopher Wray to 

 a letter from Foxe the martyrologist : a 



JESUS. 



Forasmuch as thys yong man for whom I wrjte ys 

 not so well known to your honour peradventure r as 

 he is to me, by long acquayntance and continnuance, 

 to signifie thcrfore to your Lordshyp, not only upon 

 privat affection, but upon truth and knowledge in 

 hys behalf : thys ys breifly to testifie to your good 

 Lordship that if the town of Ypsewich stand in neade 

 of a worthy, godly, and lerned scholmaster, for all 

 such indowments and ornaments requisite in such a 

 function, as trew religion, lernyng, diligence, and 

 practice, for these and such other gyftes of abilitie, 

 I know not how, nor where, they may be better 

 spedd than in receavyng thys Mr. J. Smythe, beying 

 hymself born in the same town of ypsewych, whom 

 both present occasion of tyme, and the good vocation 

 of Jesus Christ, I trust, offereth now unto them. 

 Certifeyng moreover your good Lordshyp, and not 

 only you, but also the whole town of ypsewych, that 

 whosoever shall receave hym for guydyng of theire 

 schole, shal doe no such pleasure to hym, as profyts 

 to themselves, and commoditie to theire yougth. 

 Dominus iesus tibt benedicat et tuis. Amen. 



Yours in Christ iesu, 

 Lond. Noveb. 23. JOH FOXE. 



To ye ryght honorable and hys very good Lord 

 ye Lord Chiefe Justice of England. 



The corporation were taking time by the 

 forelock, for Dawes still remained master for 

 nearly two years more. On 6 April, 1582 



Mr. Sterne 3 having surrendered the usher's place . . , 

 Robert Brown shall be admitted thereto soe a 

 Dr. Norton, Mr. Pemberton, and Mr. Dawes doe 

 approve him for his learning and religion.' 



It was not till 8 September, 1582, that Smith 

 was formally elected master ' for life from 

 Michaelmas next.' On 15 October the garden 

 plot at the north end of the grammar school 

 was let to him with ' parcell of the tenement 

 next Shermans 'at 6s. a year 'during his con- 

 tinuance.' On 19 December he was granted 

 ' 401. for his paines and charges in presenting 

 certain publique pageants in joy of the queene's 

 coronation upon the last 17 of November.' So 

 that here as elsewhere throughout Tudor times 

 the schoolmaster was looked to for plays and 

 pageants. 



Mr. Smith stayed no long time. On 19 Sep- 

 tember, 1585, his petition to the corporation for 

 the admittance of Mr. Bartley to be master 

 ' upon the surrender of the said Mr. Smith ' 

 was referred to a committee. The committee 

 apparently reported favourably, as on 19 April, 



'Harl. MS. 416, fols. 135, 155 : printed by 

 Mr. C. S. Partridge in the ///. Sch. Mag. 



* Mr. Sterne can hardly have been, as suggested by 

 Mr. Partridge in the Ips. Sch. Mag. ]ohn Sterne 

 who matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 

 1560, and took his M.A. degree at St. John's College 

 in 1568, being then Usher at Ely Grammar School. 



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