A HISTORY OF SURREY 



clerk, was presented to the rectory of Bed- 

 dington (Bedington) in place of Charles 

 Carewe, last incumbent deceased. Among 

 the ' Remembrances ' or Memoranda of 

 Thomas Cromwell, for loNovemberi 539/ is 

 ' Charles Carew, his servants,' and others, 

 including ' one of the Lady Karew's servants ' 

 for robbery. On 20 November, Charles Carew 

 is noted among the prisoners in the Tower, 

 and the same day Maude Carew wrote to 

 thank Cromwell for his favour in redressing 

 her late great losses. Charles Carew, thus 

 condemned through Cromwell, was among 

 those specially exempted, with Cromwell 

 himself, from the king's general pardon just 

 after Cromwell's fall. Under the descrip- 

 tion of Charles Carew, late of Benington' 

 (which must be a misreading or misprint for 

 Bedington), Surrey, gent., ' who has with 

 divers others committed an abominable rob- 

 bery, and vnth great violence spoiled and 

 robbed Maud Carewe, widow, to her utter 

 undoing, which robbery the said Charles has 

 confessed,' he was included in an Act of Attain- 

 der of 1540.' Maud Carew was the widow 

 of Sir Nicholas Carew, who had himself been 

 attainted only a year before for his share in 

 the Marquis of Exeter's rising. She was 

 robbed of all her money, plate and rings, but 

 all was recovered except £8 (in our money, 

 £160) already spent by the robbers. It 

 seems certain that this Charles Carew was 

 the same person as the warden of St. Mary 

 Magdalen chapel, and rector of Beddington, 

 and was proceeded against by Act of Attainder 

 instead of by a prosecution for felony, to pre- 

 vent his getting ' the benefit of clergy.' It is 

 quite possible, of course, that he was not in 

 holy orders, though he held the rectory of 

 Beddington and ^the wardenship of the chan- 

 try chapel, and so was properly described as 

 ' esquire.' ^ It seems probable that the second 

 priest, John Debenham, was continued in 

 receipt of his salary until the Chantries Act 

 of 1548, because he was schoolmaster. 



A movement seems to have been already 

 on foot for the re-endowment of the school, 

 when by will of 7 March 1556-7,* Robert 

 Hamonde of Hampton-on-Thames, gave his 

 great close in the New Field to his wife 

 for life, and after her death to his daughter 

 Jane. 



' Cal. Sta. Pa., under date. 



« 31 Henry VIII. c. 13. 



' In Fd. Eccl. ii. 47, taken in 1535, he is how- 

 ever described as ' dericus '. 



* He directed his body to be buried in the 

 Tnnity chancel in Kingston church before his seat 

 next the wall, WiUs P.C.C. 18, Wrastley 



And I will that the said Jane shall pay yerely 

 during the term of 21 yeres next following 

 after my decease unto the Baylyfs and freemen 

 of Kyngston £6 ip. 4^. to the intent that there- 

 with the said Baylifs and Freemen shall within 

 2 hole yeres nexte after my decese erecte and 

 sett upp a Free Grammar Scole in the said 

 towne of Kyngeston to contynue for ever- 

 more, or ells I will that my said daughter shall 

 not paye the said money nor any parte thereof. 



He also gave the vicar and churchwardens 

 of Hampton a house and an acre of land, the 

 rent to be applied for fitting it for a ' Free 

 Scole,' and then the vicar to have the whole 

 rent, ' so that he will teach children freely.' 

 But this is not called, and does not seem to 

 have been intended to be, a Grammar School, 

 but an Elementary School. This will was 

 proved 17 June 1557. Again, the absence 

 of documents prevents our knowing for cer- 

 tain whether this devise took effect. But it 

 seems probable that the Bailiffs and the Free- 

 men obtained the letters patent for the present 

 schools partly in compliance with the terms 

 of Hammond's will. 



The letters patent are dated i March 1561. 

 They recite that ' at the humble petition of 

 our beloved subjects the Bailiffs and Freemen 

 and inhabitants of our town of Kingston for 

 the erection and establishment of a Grammar 

 School,' the queen granted that there should 

 be in Kingston such a school ' for the edu- 

 cation, institution and instruction of boys and 

 youths in grammar to endure for ever,' to 

 consist of a Master (pedagogo sive magistro) 

 and Usher (sub-pedagogo sive hipodidasculo) .'^ 

 The two Bailiffs were incorporated as ' the 

 Governors of the possessions, revenues and 

 goods of the Free Grammar School of Queen 

 Elizabeth in the town of Kingston-upon- 

 Thames, in the county of Surrey '. William 

 Matson and George Snelling, the then bailiffs 

 being named as the first governors. The 

 queen then granted 



all that our free chapel called Marye Magda- 

 lene chappell, in Norbiton in Kingston with 

 its garden on the east, and a little chapel called 

 St. Anne Chappell ; a small study (unum 

 parvum le " Studie) and an inner chamber 

 with the Hawkes Mew over it and S. Loye's 

 chapel on the south side with a little place 

 underneath it; and an old kitchen and a 



» Heales, p. 237, from Pat. 3 Eliz. pt. xi. m. 14. 



" It was the practice from very early times when 

 words in the vernacular, then French, were intro- 

 duced into Latin documents, to preface the ver- 

 nacular word by the French article ' le,' and the 

 practice was continued for centuries after English 

 had become the vernacular language of England. 



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