SCHOOLS 



'The yearly valewe^48.' This was nearly [j] apiece. As ^5 was then good pay for a chantry 

 priest and /3 6j. %d. was lavish for a University exhibitioner, tiiesc young gentlemen were well 

 endowed. 



The prebends were in the gift of the bishop, then Cuthbert Tonstall, which no doubt 

 accounts for one of these exhibitioners being John Tonstall. The case is interesting as showing 

 that it was not only the Reformers who saw the wisdom of applying the superfluities of ecclesiastical 

 to make up the deficiencies of educational endowments. 



The chief mischief of the dissolution of these colleges was that it swept into private pockets 

 vast endowments which might perhaps have been appropriated to education. This seems to have 

 happened at Norton where these prebends disappeared, the exhibitioners being pensioned. 



SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN THE COUNTY OF DURHAM 



' Mention in the Almoner's Roll of Durham Priory for this year of a schoolmaster from Darlington temporarily acting as 

 master of the Almonry Grammar School at Durham. Darlington Grammar School is mentioned and was continued by the Chantry 

 Commissioners in 1548. 



' Formation of Stockton High Schools Company, Limited. Boys' School and Girls' School opened i May, 1883. 



' Founding of the Blue Coat School. 



* Scheme under the Endowed Schools Acts taking over the Boys' School of the Company and annexing to it the Blue Coat 

 School endowment. 



' His will giving all the residue of his esute to literary, scientific, or educational obJecU was dated 15 Sept. 1855. The sum 

 applied to this school was ^3,000. 



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