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adds, ' I marvell and am verie sorrie that there 

 came no more good schoUars thence to Oxford,' 

 it would seem to be clear that some came. 

 He goes on to say that if they want a school- 

 master ' here (i.e. Ch. Ch.) there be manie 

 well learned in Latin, Greek and Hebrewe 

 with whom wolde to God I might travell 

 for Guildforde. But were the Scheie once 

 finished and honeyste stipende with reason- 

 able conditions appointed for Master and 

 Usher yowe shold have shortlie I warrante 

 yowe suche sueters, as for all learninge never 

 came there yet.' 



The school was very nearly getting a very 

 magnificent endowment indeed. William 

 Hamond, ' beinge a man blessed with great 

 revenues, and no issue, nor like to have, 

 had a full determination to founde and erect 

 a coUedge at and nere the said schole, and 

 to endow it ' with ;£50O a year in lands. He 

 engaged Sir William Cecil and Sir Walter 

 Mildmay's interest, and with John Austen's 

 assistance the necessary license in mortmain 

 was ready drawn.' The College was to con- 

 sist of a President, three Preachers of the 

 Gospel, two ' ministers,' twenty scholars, 

 and six ' queristers' and singing men ' for 

 instruction and teaching of the sciences of 

 theology, philosophy and music and other 

 good arts,' and to be called ' The College of 

 the Holy Trinity in Guildford.' But after 

 Austen's death, being weak and ill, ' and ever 

 much inclyninge to the Romishe religion, 

 was by some favouring that sect discouraged 

 and dravrae back to bestow his revenues and 

 wealth some other way.' So he by ' the per- 

 swasion of one, Anthony Garnett, a massinge 

 preest and sometyme fellow of Balliol College, 

 and then stewarde to the Lord Mountague,' 

 gave it to Balliol. A letter is extant from 

 Lord Mountague to More of Loseley, 

 7 July 1573,^ asking him to find out from 

 Hamond whether he has changed that part 

 of his will by which he designs to provide for 

 a schoolmaster and usher, he having been in- 

 formed that he did. Hamond did indeed give 

 ;£i,400 to Balliol by his will, 4 March 1574, 

 if a debt of ;£i,ioo due by John Apsley of 

 Pulborough was paid. The school only got 

 by the Wf3l a confirmation of the presentation 

 to Stoke Rectory as already mentioned. 



Though it missed becoming a college, the 

 school seems to have had good masters and 

 done good work. A distinguished master was 

 Thomas Jarbarde or Jerbard, and who had on 

 26 July 1550,3 been admitted to the canonry 

 and prebend of Highleigh in Chichester Cathe- 



■ Austen, 42, 45. 



2 Loseley MSS. x. 48. 



3 Chichester Epis. Reg. Day, f. 59. 



dral, to which the headmastership of Chi- 

 chester Cathedral Grammar School, commonly 

 called the Prebendal School, was attached. As 

 this preferment was frequently held by per- 

 sons who had been headmasters of Winchester, 

 Guildford School must have been of high 

 status to draw Jarbarde away from his Chi- 

 chester canonry and mastership. He died 

 26 August 1572, and was buried in Trinity 

 Church, Guildford. An even more distin- 

 guished master was Roger Good or Goad, a 

 scholar of Eton and of King's, who is said * to 

 have been master here, when made Provost 

 of King's 28 February 1569-70. There is, 

 however, some mystery about the dates, as 

 they overlap with Jarbarde's mastership. It 

 looks as if Goad was usher only, and not head- 

 master of Guildford. The earliest distin- 

 guished pupil of the school on its present 

 site was Henry Cotton, who was at the school 

 under Jarbarde before 1566, when he matri- 

 culated at Magdalen College, Oxford. He 

 became one of Queen Elizabeth's chaplains, 

 and in 1596 tried,^ by the Queen's influence, 

 to get elected Warden of Winchester, in spite 

 of being ineligible by the statutes. Failing 

 in this through the stout resistance of the 

 Fellows, he was consoled with the bishopric 

 of Salisbury in 1598. William Cotton, almost 

 his contemporary at Guildford School, and 

 probably a cousin who went to Queens' College, 

 Cambridge, became Bishop of Exeter in 1598. 



Francis Taylor's rule, 1570 (?) to 1578, was 

 signalized by the presence of the six sons of 

 Maurice Abbot, clothmaker or shearman of 

 the town. The eldest, Robert, matriculated 

 at Balliol, Oxford, in 1577, aged 17, and in 

 1 61 5 succeeded Cotton as Bishop of Salis- 

 bury. George, another son, also went to 

 Balliol four years later than his brother. In 

 1 58 1 he became Master of University College, 

 then Dean of Winchester, and after holding 

 the bishoprics of Lichfield and London for a 

 year each, became Archbishop of Canterbury 

 in 161 1. To him Guildford owes its finest 

 building, the Trinity Hospital, or Abbot's 

 Hospital. Yet another brother was Sir 

 Maurice Abbot, M.P. for London, Lord 

 Mayor, and one of the earliest directors of 

 the East India Company. 



The school was vacant in 1578 when Sir 

 Francis Walsingham wrote to the Mayor 

 recommending as master John Sandford or 

 Sampford, who was thereupon appointed. 

 The letter is in the town archives. 



A glimpse of the inner life of the school, 

 or at least of what it was intended to be. 



* Diet. Nat. Biog. 



' F.C.H. H ants, ii. 319. 



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