108 THE EXTERNAL GROWTH OF SHERBORNE SCHOOL. 



reygne of our Soverayn Ladye Qn Marye, until the said ffeaste of 

 St. Mychell the Archangell in the ffirste and seconde yere of the 

 reygne of Phillippe and Marye, by the grace of God, of Englonde, 

 Ffraunce, Napilis, Jerusaluni, and Irelonde Kynge and Queue," 

 that they gave ,40 to Sir John Horsey in part payment for this 

 old " Schole-house and the Plumbe House, with two gardens, 

 11 whereof one is called the Abbey Lytten, with all the void ground 

 " coming of the late Chappell called the Bow, and the Ladye 

 " Chappell, and all the ground belonging to the said Schole-house 

 " for the space of 99 yeres." In the next year they pay 

 ,10 more, and smaller sums in succeeding years, apparently as 

 quit-rents; until in 1629 the property is acquired absolutely, in 

 consideration of the payment of .12 to the trustees of one Coker, 

 who possessed the reversion. 



From an entry in the Minute-Book, bearing date June 12, 1596, 

 it appears that this old "Schole-house," of which no trace now 

 remains, was on the North side of the Church, probably adjoining 

 Bishop Roger's Chapel, now the Vestry ; a committee of the 

 Governors having been appointed in that summer " to make 

 convenient seats for the schollers in the rome adjoining Sir John 

 Horsey 's yle," which must have been a smaller room connected 

 with, or in close proximity to it. 



The premises thus acquired of Sir John Horsey formed the 

 nucleus out of which the School, as we now see it, has been 

 developed. Originally they included the two ruined Chapels of 

 our Ladye and our Ladye of Bow; the grave-yard of the Monastery, 

 which covered the ground occupied by the present entrance court 

 to the East of the Church, and a portion of what is now the Head- 

 Master's lawn ; a ruined Dortoir, or Dormitory, of which a trace 

 still remains in the marks of the pitch of its roof visible upon 

 the wall of the North transept ; the Schole-house already 

 mentioned ; the Plumbe-house, and the Conduit-house, then 

 standing in the centre of the Monastery quadrangle, now the upper 

 portion of the lawn. The site, on which the Head-Master's private 

 dwelling stands, was occupied in part at this time by the old Priory, 



