A HISTORY OF SURREY 



Leeke was a parishioner of both parishes, 

 as he described the Dolphin Inn which he be- 

 queathed to his daughter as situate in both, 

 though his mansion house with brew-house, 

 wharves, etc., was in St. Olave's. The mil 

 was proved on 13 April 1560, and it is perhaps 

 significant that it was on 21 April that, as we 

 saw, St. Saviour's bestirred itself, ' to know the 

 benevolens of the parish.' 



On 22 February 1563-4, a Committee was 

 appointed to 'survey what and how much 

 of the churche lands and tenements are mete 

 to be assured to the Governors of our new 

 erected Grammar School,' and to ' exhibit a 

 paper book drawn thereof at large ' before 

 Lady Day. There is no entry of what was 

 done, and it is probable that unfortunately 

 nothing was done. From the earliest extant 

 account of the School Governors, that for 

 1 57 1,' it appears that the endowment con- 

 sisted only of a rent of £s paid by John 

 Peycock, the property in respect of which it 

 was paid not being specified ; 26/. Sd. of 

 John Phillpott for the gift of Thomas Dove ; 

 and 39/. ■ of the stewarde of the Ospytall ' 

 for the gyfte of Mr. Cure.' The other two 

 items were £^ of Mr. Leeke's gift, and £n 

 ' in reddye monye ' from the churchwardens 

 which the Vestry Book shows to have been 

 ' levid and gathered of the parishioners at 

 the rebellyon of the North in anno 1571,' 

 but not used. The payments, quitrents, and 

 other outgoings only show repairs and build- 

 ing of a ' kyttchen ' at the master's house. 

 The only school item is ' For the dynner 

 2 September, at the scoole howse for the 

 Disputacion day for the children, £^ Ss. 

 For 7 bookes for the children the same daye, 

 7/.' The master and usher were paid their 

 salaries of ;C20 and £10 a year direct by the 

 churchwardens. When the freehold of the 

 rectory was, in 161 2, bought from the Crown 

 for £600, the grant unfortunately specified 

 those sums as the salaries of the master and 

 usher with the result that the churchwardens 

 never paid any more,' and these sums being 



> Preserved in the earliest extant Governors' 

 Minute Book, beginning in that year. 



^ St. Thomas' Hospital. The gift was of four 

 houses in Chequer Alley by deed of 1559. In 1594 

 they were let for ^10 a year, but out of this £2 a 

 year had to be paid in doles. Cure, generally 

 called in the accounts ' Mr. Cewer Esquire,' was 

 Sadler to Elizabeth, as he had been also to 

 Edward VI. and Queen Mary. A modern and 

 faulty reproduction of the inscription on his tomb 

 is to be seen in the N. aisle of the Chancel of St. 

 Saviour's. He founded also a ' College ' or Alms- 

 house. 



^ Though in 1661 the stipends of the chaplains 



also mentioned in an Act of Parlianaent of 

 1661, which substituted a rate for tithe in 

 respect of the rectory, they came to be re- 

 garded as a fixed rent-charge, and are still 

 paid as such. 



So in yet another school was the design of 

 the founders frustrated by legal misinter- 

 pretation of practice. 



There is very little evidence forthcoming as 

 to the state of the school. In the account 

 for 1575-6, there are entries of fees paid by 

 seven ' foreigners,' or outsiders ; one from 

 Barmsey, i.e. Bermondsey, two from the 

 Hospital!, i.e. St. Thomas' Hospital, Thomas 

 Galyarde and John de Courtey, who paid 5/. 

 a quarter, while Harrysonne, ' the glazier in 

 the Spittell,' paid 2s. 6d. a quarter ; the rest 

 varying between 2s. and 2s. 6d. a quarter. 

 In the same year three entrance fees are 

 recorded. 



Thomas Bracebridge (Brasbrygs), who was 

 High Master from 1578 to 1581, had money 

 difficulties. For in the former year he was 

 ordered to pay 40J. to his brother's widow, 

 and in the latter year he had extracted from 

 his successor, Thomas Rawlings, payment of 

 £^ 4J. 6d. for certain fixtures including a 

 ' poumpe ' and a ' waynskot ' (wainscot), 

 whereas he ought not ' to ax or demaunde 

 enythinge.' On 24 December 1582, entry is 

 made in the Governor's book with some 

 solemnity how ' Mr. George Wall was 

 stalled master of our free gramer skole by hus 

 the Governors.' In 1584* the detailed bill 

 for the apposition dinner is preserved, but 

 as it is not stated how many people attended 

 we do not know how ' 3 pottells of claret 

 wine for 2s., 3 quarts of sack for is. 6d., and 

 other 3 pottells of claret for 8d., and ale, $d.' 

 compare with modern examples. 



In 1594-5 the Governor's accounts are 

 extant,^ and show receipts £^2, including 

 ;C20 from the churchwardens for the wages 

 of the master, Mr. Yemans, while Mr. Madox, 

 ' houssher,' received half that from the endow- 

 ment. In 1596 the Governors' Minute Boob ' 

 record that Mr. Yemans was given ' towards 

 hys housekepeyng, and gret charge thys hard 

 yere past, £$ 6s. Sd., and farder that his wages 

 shalbe hereafter, ;C26 13/. ^d.' In 1604 his 

 next successor but one, Mr. John Faucett 

 (Favsett or Fawset), had reverted to ;C20. 

 In 161 2-3 Mr. William Todd, an Oxford 



which were £30 in 1612 had been increased to 

 ^100. 



* St. Saviour's Vestry Muniments. 



" Ibid. 



° Muniments at St. Olave's and St. Saviour's 

 Grammar School. 



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