SCHOOLS 



man, received ;S20, but the usiier had £$ 



* for his better maintenance ' beyond his 

 wages of ;Cio. 



In 1608 we find the actor, Mr. John Trey- 

 hearn, elected a Governor, and next year 



* PhyUip Henslow,' the theatre owner, while 

 Edward Allen, his son-in-law, the actor- 

 manager, founder of Dulwich College, signed 

 the book as assistant. In 161 2-3, 30/. was 

 paid for * procuringe the sight of the orders 

 of divers famous Schooles, and for a collection 

 of them into one booke.' This collection 

 has, alas ! disappeared. But it resulted in 

 1 614 in new statutes for the school, which 

 were thought necessary, perhaps through 

 the purchase of the rectory, and the estab- 

 lishment of leaving exhibitions by John 

 Bingham, who like the former benefactor 

 Cure, was the King's saddler. 



The statutes were by way of ' further and 

 larger explanacion of the former orders,' 

 with the advice and approval of Thomas 

 BUson, then Bishop, who as we saw was an 

 ex-Head Master himself. 



The Master is now required to be chosen 

 ' with the advice of the Bishop of Winchester, 

 or in his absence some learned man at the 

 Governors' discretion,' The Governors were 

 empowered to increase the master's stipend 

 ' when the stock shall arise, or in the mean 

 space by encreasing of schoUers and fees of 

 strangers.' To the master's qualifications 

 were added that he was to be an M.A. 



sounde in christian religion accordinge to the 

 lawes of this land . . . well skilled in the 

 Latin tongue and able to teach grammar 

 oratorye and poetry and the Greeke, as also 

 the principles of Hebrewe . . . being much 

 approved for seaven yeares for a good facilitye 

 and dexteritye in teaching and profiting chil- 

 dren, he that is born in the parishe, and 

 brought up in the schole to be preferred. 



A curious negative qualification was ' not 

 to practize physick.' 



The two upper forms (it was formerly 

 four) ' shall onelye speak latine in the schole.' 



The Scholars of the highest form shall be 

 every year carried to the Merchant Taylors 

 School and to Westminster upon their election 

 days, that there they may see the manner and 

 fashion of the scholars, orations and exercises 

 which may serve for good directions to them 

 either to do the like or better approve their 



Repetition was not to be a mere exercise 

 of memory, but a lesson in deportment and 

 elocution 



* to frame the presence, good grace, counten- 

 ance, standinge, pronunciacion and every- 

 thinge that maye commende their carriage all 

 their lives.' 



When given play days 



* the highest forme shall declaim and some of 

 the inferior fourmes act a scene of Terence or 

 some dialogue. Theire plays shal be shootinge 

 in longe bowes, chesse playe, runninge, wrest- 

 linge, leapinge. Players for monye or betters 

 shall be severely punished and expulsed.' 



These are the earliest school statutes in 

 which games are mentioned otherwise than 

 as saying what boys shall not play. 



A quaint specimen is given of the form of 

 admission of a boy. 



' I, John Tompson (the first, second, or 

 third, &c.,) Sonne of Richard Thompson, of 

 the parish (etc.), chaundler, of the age of 

 7 years and 3 monethes, readinge and learn- 

 inge in the Accidents and enteringe into 

 propria quae maribus, &c., and also TuUy, 

 his second epistle amonge those gathered by 

 Sturmius, and Corderius Dialogues, &c, was 

 admitted into the Grammer Scoole (&c.), 

 19 January 1611.' 



Provision was made for two leaving 

 exhibitions tenable at Oxford or Cambridge, 

 endowed by John Bingham, Esq., one of the 

 Governors. He had given six houses in Kent 

 Street for the endowment. They were let on 

 10 March, 161 7-8 for 31 years at 40/. a year 

 each on repairing leases, 40J. fine being 

 paid down. Mr. Bingham survived till 1625. 

 The exhibitioners were to be poor, with 

 preference first to ' sons of some decayed 

 governors of the school or vestrymen,' next 

 to sons of parishioners, and thirdly to sons 

 of natives of the parish though living out 

 of it. 



On 10 April 161 8 the first master under 

 the new statutes was elected in the person 

 of Mr. Francke, out of seven competitors. 



In 1620, 27 May, a controversy arose 

 between the master and usher ' about the 

 breaking up of the Schoole ' and ' furriners,' 

 which was settled on the terms that ' of the 

 breaking up ' the master was to have two- 

 thirds, and the usher one-third, 'to be 

 gathered up by one of the auntientest schol- 

 lers and delivered to the school maister.' 

 So the freedom of the school was as usual 

 tempered by 'presents.' Of the foreigners 

 the master was to take the whole profit of 

 those under him, and half those under the 

 usher. In 1622 the master and the usher were 

 each given 50J. a quarter above their wages 

 * for their painfull and carefull care in the 



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