SCHOOLS 



The school in September, 1901 ^ numbered 289, of whom 20 were day-boys. The bulk of 

 tlie boarders came from the 3 counties, viz. 112 from Durham, 66 from Northumberland, 69 from 

 Yorkshire. In 1905 the numbers were 253. 



VVOLSINGHAM GRAMMAR SCHOOL 



This school was founded, presumably, by William Grimwell, Merchant Taylor of London, 

 who is the first named of eight persons to whom, 14 October, 1612, a parcel of the waste of the 

 manor was surrendered for building 'a common and free school,' while 16 acres called the Batts 

 were included in the same surrender as endowment for the use of a Free Grammar School and a 

 master, to be appointed by the bishop, ' to teach boys in the rudiments of the Christian religion and 

 grammar.' 



In 1829^ the master was the Rev. Philip Brownrigg, appointed in 1821, on the obligation to 

 teach 18 boys free in the three R's and 'classics if required.' The endowment was £^^ los. a year, 

 in respect of ;^7 ioj. of which, arising from gifts by wills of Jonathan Wosler, 3 August, 1789, and 

 George Wosler, 12 IVLay, 1829, he had to teach 4 more free scholars. He had 30 day-boys and 

 about 1 1 boarders besides the free boys, and 2 assistant masters, one for writing, the other for 

 mathematics. When Mr. Henry Wade was appointed master in 1847, though nominally required 

 to be competent to instruct in classics, the school became wholly elementary, and according to 

 Mr. Finch, reporting to the Schools Inquiry Commission s in 1866, bad at that, with 18 free 

 boys in it. 



From this deplorable condition an endeavour was made to rescue the school by a scheme under 

 the Endowed Schools Acts 28 June, 18S0, which erected a representative governing body of 9, 

 appointed 2 by the vestry (now parish council) of Wolsingham, 2 by the Petty Sessions, and 5 co- 

 optatives, to whom by a subsequent scheme of 13 May, 1896, were added 2 representatives of the 

 Durham County Council and I of the College of Science at Newcastle. Mr. Henry Wade was 

 given a pension of ^^50 a year, which came to an end with his death in the following year. In 

 1885 the school buildings were enlarged, but unfortunately on the old site, below the churchyard. 

 The Rev. F. H. Coles, M.A., Dublin, was appointed headmaster. On 27 November, 1890,* 

 there were 33 boys in the school, 9 of whom were boarders. In 1901 the number had slirunk to 

 18, of whom 4 were boarders. The tuition fee is £4. a year, with extra fees for Greek or German. 

 The chief achievement of the school has been winning 3 scholarships at Christ's Hospital between 

 1892-7. 



HEIGHINGTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL 



The Free Grammar School at Heighington, which has long ceased to be a Grammar School 

 except in name, was founded at the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign by Elizabeth Jenison, with the 

 endowment of a fixed grant of ;^i I a year. By deed, i October, 1 601, she gave a rent charge, 

 which was charged on the lands of George Freville of Bishop Middlcham by a deed of a month 

 before, i September, 1 60 1, to trustees to 'dispose of the same for the yearly maintenance of such 

 schoolmasters teaching and instructing children within the parish of Heighington in grammar and 

 the principles of the Christian religion, as should from time to time be elected and confirmed 

 according to certain articles thereto annexed.' New trustees were to be appointed by the dean 

 and chapter of Durham. The articles^ provided that the school should be kept in Heighington 

 in such place as the dean and chapter should appoint. It was to be 'free' for the children of all 

 inhabitants of the parish or born within it, ' paying only ^.d. apiece at entering and 2d. quarterly.' 

 For other children 'the schoolmaster might take 2s. apiece yearly, and no more, of the poorer sort ; 

 but for rich men's sons and gentlemen's sons such wages as he and they should agree upon.' The 

 instruction was to be ' in the accidence and Lily's grammar, and also in the Greek grammar, and 

 other easy Latin and Greek authors according to their capacities and as the bishop of Durham 

 should direct.' Upon festival days and other convenient (!) times ' writing and accounts were to 

 be taught, and the master was weekly to peruse their writing and cyphering and set them copies, 

 without taking anything other than was above limited.' 



The dean and chapter were to appoint the master, and the bishop, or a nominee, was to be 

 the visitor, with power to depose or remove the master on breach of the articles or other just 

 cause, the deprivation to be publicly read in the church during Sunday morning service. Tlie 



1 Endoued Charities of Durham, i. 450. - Char. Com. Rep. xxi. 108. 



8 S. /. R. xix. 58. ' Endowed Char. ii. 578. 



* Char. Com. Rep. xxi. 88, where they are set out in full. 



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