A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK 



more caused the original number to be restored. 1 

 The master's salary now became ^40. The 

 Court of Chancery ratified this arrangement in 

 1754, and ordered preference to be given to the 

 children of fishermen. 8 



In 1788 a new school building was erected 

 on the east side of High Street, and a further 

 change took place in 1791, when the Worling- 

 ham estate was exchanged for a farm called 

 Croatfield. 3 



When the Charity Commissioners visited the 

 place in 1829, the education given in the school 

 had become purely elementary, and the master 

 (appointed by the Norwich Chancellor) instructed 

 23 boys free besides paying pupils. The Com- 

 missioners note that ' it is not remembered to 

 have been ever kept up as a grammar school.' 

 The Endowed Schools Commissioners in 1866 

 found it purely elementary with 130 boys, stand- 

 ing on part of the premises of ' the elementary 

 school founded by will of John Wilde 22 July, 

 1735.' It has never emerged from that state. 

 There is, however, now in Lowestoft a Muni- 

 cipal Secondary School. 



BOXFORD SCHOOL 



A charter was obtained for Boxford Grammar 

 School in 1596, but Robert Jasper, John Pote, 

 and Thomas Whiting all entered Caius College 

 from ' Boxford School ' between 1560 and 1576, 

 so that it had been going on for at least 40 years 

 previously. Probably, however, it was not 

 endowed. In 1596 John Snelling and Philip 

 Gostlinge granted to John Gurdon and others 

 ' a messuage, garden and orchard in Boxford ' 

 for the school. Thirty-seven governors were 

 named who were to appoint the master and the 

 usher, the former being ' at least ' an M.A. 4 



The history of the school was uneventful. 

 During the seventeenth century it sent up 

 scholars to Cambridge, and we can therefore 

 ascertain the names of the more successful 

 masters. Mr. Hoogan was at Boxford from 

 1616 to 1623, and Mr. Granston (or Grand- 

 stone) from before 1667 until 1670. Mr. 

 Tatham was a successful master between 1719 

 and 1730, but must have left soon after that 

 date, as the names of Mr. Thomas and of Mr. 

 Woodrope (one of these probably being usher) 

 replace his on the registers. 



In 1777 the school received a new endow- 

 ment from John Gurdon, who left ^100 by will 

 to the master for teaching two poor children 

 from Assington, to be appointed by the owners 

 of Assington Hall. Mr. Wade seems to have 

 been master from 1775 until about 1792, and in 

 June of that year the governors elected James 



1 During the mastership of the Rev. J. Thoughton, 

 curate. 



1 Char. Com. Rep. xxii, 1 80. ' Ibid. 4 Ibid. xx. 



Adams, M.A., ' an able and experienced master.'* 

 Elections to the foundation scholarships were 

 advertised at the same time as taking place at 

 their September meeting. 



In 1810 the school estate consisted of: 



(1) A dwelling-house and schoolroom, where 



the master resides, and a garden ; 



(2) 10 ac. 19 poles in Edwardstone, let for 



^20 per an. ; and 



(3) 442 31. 3^. of Gurdon's legacy and 



other money yielding interest to the 

 amount of 13 5*. 



The Commissioners reported in 1829 that the 

 Rev. William Plumer, M.A. (appointed on or 

 before 1817),' had had no usher for many years, 

 while the school had ' long ceased to be maintained 

 or attended as a free grammar school,' and no 

 revival had taken place in 1869,* while in the 

 Schools Inquiry Report Boxford is classified among 

 elementary schools and so remains. 



BUNGAY GRAMMAR SCHOOL 



The present Grammar School in Bungay was 

 founded in 1592, but an earlier establishment is 

 mentioned in the Parish Book of St. Mary Mag- 

 dalen. In 1565 the churchwardens' accounts 

 contain these entries : 



Item paid for ij lods Rede and my charge 

 makyng the Chappell in ye Churchyard 

 for a gramer skole xxx/. \d. 



It. pd. for di. a Coke horde for ye skole 



wyndows iij/. 



Three years later the school was removed near 

 Bungay tollgate, 9 and in the same record we 

 read : 



Item paid for half a hundred poplyng 



bord for the skolehouse ij/. iiijV. 



In 1580 Lionel Throckmorton gave the 

 present school premises and lent 8 6*. 8< to 

 the ' Revys of Bungaie ' for building purposes. 10 



Before this date the school had justified its 

 claim to be a grammar school by sending up 

 boys to Cambridge, 11 and a close connexion 

 with Emmanuel College was established by the 

 Mildmay Scholarship. 13 



The ordinances of the school made in 1591 gave 

 the appointment of the master to Emmanuel 

 College, Cambridge, and limited the school to 

 50 unless an usher is provided by the master, in 

 which case every townsman was to pay 5*. a 

 child yearly. Vacancies among the Mildmay 



4 Ips. Journ. 26 June, 1792. 



6 Char. Com. Rep. xx, 552. 



7 Ips. Journ. Jan. 1817. 



8 Sch. Inq. Rep. 1869. 



9 Trans. Suff. Arch. Sac. iv, 76. w Ibid. 

 11 Venn, Reg. ofGonvilk and Caius Col. 



11 Char. Com. Rep. xxii, 234. 



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