SCHOOLS 



ning and Bray, in 1811, quote a School 

 Wardens' book, but it too has perished. The 

 archdeacons of Surrey would have inquired 

 as to the maintenance of the school in their 

 visitations, but no record of these visitations 

 remains. 



So we hear no more of a school at Kingston 

 until 3 April 1528, in the will' of Isabel 

 Rothewood, widow of a London girdler, or 

 girdle-maker. She, while directing her body 

 to be buried in All Hallows, in Honey Lane, 

 London, and giving munificent bequests to 

 the ' Gurdelers ' Company, seems to have 

 been a Kingston heiress, and therefore gave a 

 tenement and garden at the east end of the 

 church to the ' Brige-maisters ' for the sup- 

 port of Kingston bridge, and an obit in the 

 church. She also directed her feoffees ' to 

 stand seased ' of two other tenements with 

 gardens, one 



between the water of Thames on the partie 

 of the west and the king's highway on the east 

 and the other in the south part of Clatteryng 

 (now Clatter) bridge, to the use, maynten- 

 aunce and supportacion of suche a free schole 

 as shall be purchased, obteyned and gotten in 

 Kingston aforesaid within 3 years next after 

 my deceas ; for the erudicion and techyng of 

 scolers there forever, and that the said two tene- 

 ments with the appurtenances be then made 

 assure to the said freschole or to the use of the 

 same, as by lamed counsaill shal be advised for 

 the mayntenaunce and supportacion of the 

 same for evermore. 



In case the said ' freschole ' was not obtained 

 within three years, then she directed the tene- 

 ments to be sold and the proceeds divided 

 into three parts, ' whereof I wall and bequeth 

 one equall parte to the fynding of pour 

 scolers in the Universities of Oxford and Cam- 

 bridge, ther studying Arte or divinitie ' : 

 one-third for an obit in ' Alhalowen,' Honey 

 Lane, and the other one-third among the 

 poor. The will was proved 11 May 1528. 

 What became of the bequest does not appear. 

 It must not be argued from it that the old 

 school had ceased to exist. It may be that 

 the old school was not free, but that, as was 

 usual with these ancient schools, tuition fees 

 were charged, and this endowment was in- 

 tended to make it free. 



It has been said ^ that Lovekyn's chantry 

 came to an end by the forfeiture of Charles 

 Carew on 12 March 1539-40. The whole 



1 P.C.C. 31 Porch 4b. 



> Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surrey, i. 356, 

 quoting an Inquisition held under a commission 

 from the Exchequer 4 January 1562-3, 5 Eliz., 

 which Major Heales says he could not find. 



chantry did not, however, come to an end. 

 For the chantry certificate ' of 1546 mentions 

 among those dissolved since 27 February 1535, 

 the chapel of St. Mary Magdalen, of which 

 * the yerely valew as apperyth by the Survey 

 is £,l\ lf)s. 8|i., whereof to the bailiffs of 

 Kingeston, £^ 6s. ^d. ; the priest for his 

 salary, £6 i p. ^d. ; bred, wyne and waxe, 8j. ; 

 ;£li 8/. ; and so remayneth, 41/. Sid.' The 

 Ministers' Accounts* for 1546-7, show John 

 Debenham, clerk, still celebrating, and receiv- 

 ing £6 1 3 J. ^d., while 5/., was paid for bread, 

 wine and wax. A certificate of pensions " of 

 chantry priests, which may be 1548 or may 

 be later, shows John Depenham (sic) receiv- 

 ing a pension oi £^'' a year in respect of his 

 salary of £6 Jp. ^d., less the tenth to the king 

 of 13/. 4^. 



These accounts record the property as hav- 

 ing been acquired by the king from John 

 Leygh, esquire, ' as appears by a rental of 

 Geoffrey Chamber, surveyor of the lands 

 acquired by the king, 23 May 1541.' The 

 total value had been £2i\. i^s. lod. But at 

 the date of the account, all the property let 

 on rents at wiU amounting to £2 12s. a year, 

 and all of it in Kingston worth ^£3 a year, with 

 the chapel mills worth £^ a year, had been 

 sold 10 December 1545 to John Broxholme 

 and John Bellow (noted speculators in the 

 lands of dissolved monasteries), to hold of the 

 honour of Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire. There 

 was therefore left only £2 6s. 6d. of rents of 

 assize, and ;£ii a year from the chapel farm, 

 which was let to John Evelyn, and 10s. a year 

 for the rent of the chapel itself, with kitchen 

 chambers and stable, let to John Warmesley. 

 It has been conjectured '' that the forfeiture 

 incurred by Charles Carew was due to some 

 religious offence under the Six Articles Act. 

 But unless there is a strange coincidence, 

 without identity, of persons and names, the 

 forfeiture was by Act of Attainder for the 

 vulgar offence of robbery, and that of a rela- 

 tion. On 8 August 1540,^ Richard Benese, 



3 Chan. Cert. 47. It is said to be ' founded by 

 Edward Lovekyn as the Commissioners be certified 

 by report, for there is no foundacion,' i.e. founda- 

 tion deed, ' to be showed, to pray for the King's 

 Maiestie, John Lovekin and Mabel his wife and all 

 Christen souls.' 



« Heales, p. 203, Min. Ace. 38 Henry VIII. — 

 I Edward VI. (incorrectly given as 38-39 Henry 

 VIII. by Heales, p. 195). 



" Chan. Cert. 48, Heales, p. 230. 



* Not as Heales, p. 230, through some mistake of 

 his copyist or printer, 5^-. a year. It is cs. in the 

 original. 



' Manning and Bray, he. cit., and Heales, p. 194. 



8 Pat. 32 Henry VIII. p. vi. m. z8. 



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