424 TRURO GRAMMAR SCHOOL. 



Mr. Jane (Rector also as well as Master) had a son who was 

 student of Christ Church, Oxford ; and who at his death, left 

 several Hebrew books for the use of the rectors of St. Mary's. 

 It would be interesting to know what became of this old 

 library.* 



A chronological list of the masters of the Grammar School 

 in Truro is appended. (We have already heard of Richard 

 Fosse in 1547). 



1600. John Bodge (buried 15th October, 1600). 



1609. Thomas Syms (buried 28th June, 1609). 



1612. Matthew Sharrock, of Very an. His salary from the 

 Corporation was £10 a year. 



1618. Nicholas Upcott, of St. Austell. 



1620. George Pkippen (or Fitz-pen), Rector and Preacher, 

 who was buried in St. Mary's in 1624. (There was a monumental 

 slab to the memory of an Owen Fitz-pen in old St. Mary's 

 church. ) 



1635. William White (Nov. 17). 



1666. Richard Jag o. In September, 1685, this master was 

 "dismissed, and ordered to surrender the school-house and all 

 houses." (Carlisle). 



1685. Henry Grenfield (Sep. 9th) an account of him is given 

 by Hals; and also in the R. I. C. Journalfor 1870, p. 317. (See 

 also " Cornish Worthies," vol. ii, p. 37). 



1693 Simon Pagett (Dec. 21st), Rector of St. Mary's, Truro. 



1698. John Hilman (1693 to 1711). Dec. 16. 



1706. Thomas Hanky n (or Hunkin), Oct. 9th. Buried 20th 

 October, 1714. 



In 1879, a slab was found, face downward, buried outside the 



chancel in Truro Church. Christian name illegible. Surname, 



Hunkin — a head master of the Truro Grammar School, date 1714. 



" Here now he sleeps who taught and acted true 

 Gramer and vertue (Truro youth) to you 

 Let your faire copies of his honesty 

 Be your dead master's living elegy. " 



Joseph Jane (Buried Nov. 19th, 1745) Rector of St. Mary's, 

 Truro, 1711 to 1745. 



* The old School library is now, it is believed, kept in the Corporation 

 Muniment Room, in the Town Hall, 



