SCHOOLS 



in spite of the smallness of ihe endowment, 

 about ;C400 a year, there were, in 1864,* 

 109 boys in the school under the Reverend 

 Edmund Soger,' a fellow of Exeter College, 

 Oxford. They were all day boys as it was not 

 worth any one's while to keep only eight 

 boarders. Open scholarships and appoint- 

 ments in the Indian Civil Service and the 

 like were still gained by the school. The 

 street, however, in which the school was built 

 was narrow and mean, the surrounding 

 population sank into a lower and lower 

 class, and the whole neighbourhood had 

 become less and less residential, except for 

 the very poorest. So in Canon Boger's later 

 years, from 1875 onwards, the school began 

 to dwindle until, in 1883, it contained only 60, 

 and in 1892 only 28 boys. Canon Boger 

 retired soon after the coming into operation 

 of a scheme under the Endowed Schools 

 Acts approved by the Queen, 15 October 

 1894. A Cambridge Wrangler succeeded, 

 but with the then site and buildings nothing 

 could restore the school. In 1896 it numbered 

 19 boys. When finally closed and merged in 

 St. Olave's Grammar School by a scheme 

 approved by the Queen in Council, 20 Novem- 

 ber 1899, only three or four boys represented 

 this ancient foundation in the amalgamated 

 school, called St. Olave's and St. Saviour's 

 Grammar School. 



Its name is also preserved in the fine girls' 

 school, known as ' St. Saviour's and St. 

 Olave's Grammar School for Girls,' estab- 

 lished under the same scheme out of the 

 joint funds of the two schools. This is 

 situated in New Kent Road, Southwark, 

 and was opened by the Princess of Wales on 

 14 March 1903. There Miss Frodsham, one 

 of the products of the Holloway College, with 

 a staff of ten mistresses (exclusive of visiting 

 teachers for special subjects) now shepherds 

 a flock of 186 girls. If this school can do as 

 good work as its male progenitor did for over 

 three centurise, Thomas Cure and John 

 Bingham and the other Elizabethan worthies 

 of St. Saviour's may ' watch from their 

 graves ' with interest this novel result of their 

 labours and benefactions. 



ST. OLAVE'S SCHOOL 



St. Olave's parish first set to work to 

 found a school on 13 November 1560, when 

 the churchwardens were directed, in the same 

 terms as had been used at St. Saviour's, ' to 

 sake to knowthe benevolence of the inabytance 



> Schools Inquiry Commission Report, x. 121. 

 ' Transformed into Bodger in the Report. 



. . . watte theye will gyve towards the 

 settying up and mayntenaunce of a free 

 skolle,' and notice was given to the tenants of 

 ' romes, wych ys apoynttyed to make a fre 

 skolle of, for to departe ' at Midsummer 1561. 

 It is noticeable how much worse the spelling 

 and writing is in St. Olave's than in St. 

 Saviour's Vestry Book. 



On 22 July 1 561 the churchwardens of 

 St. Olave's were ordered to receive the monies 

 due from Leeke's executors ' towards the 

 ereccyon or setting up of a fre scolle graunted 

 by hym in hys wylle . . . and to prepare a 

 scolle master for to teche the pore menes 

 cheledarne there accordying to the queues in- 

 gounccyones (i.e. injunctions), and furdar to 

 prepare a scollemaster, wyche shalbe suffy- 

 cyent to teche the cheldarne ... to write 

 and rede and caste acompthe.' He was only 

 to take ' mene cheledarne.' The 'churche- 

 hawle ' was 'to be made ready with benchys and 

 setts and al thyngs necessary for the said 

 scolle . . . agenste,' Michaelmas. Presum- 

 ably therefore Michaelmas day 1561 is 

 the beginning of St. Olave's School. 



We hear no more of it till 26 February 

 1563-4, when John Tyler, ' scoolemaster of 

 the free scole,' was hired for 13/. \d,. a year 

 to act as Vestry clerk ' to rejester all such 

 orders and decrees as the said vestry shall 

 decree.' Under the designation of ' Mr. 

 Tyller,' on September 1565 he ' grauntted to 

 gyve up the skowUe mastershipe ' on Michael- 

 mas day ; having his ' wages then dew,' being 

 ^£5, and for ' of affrey (a free) gift loj.' The 

 Vestry ' payking Q. packing, dividing) how 

 (who) should be skowllmaster, fell to William 

 Johnson one hand more than to our usher 

 and mecator (mister) dark was electyd ussher, 

 the skowllemaster to have £12 by the yere 

 and our new housher £\ by yere.' It is fair 

 to schoolmaster Tyler to say that he did not 

 make this entry in the Register, the minutes 

 during the time he acted as Vestry clerk 

 being quite lucid intervals of spelling and 

 diction compared with those before and after. 

 At the same vestry ' it was decreed that the 

 skowUemaster to have at the entry of every 

 skoUer, 6d., and at what tyme every suche 

 skoller is so lernyd that he begynneth to 

 wryte, the skowllemaster then to have 8(i.' 

 From all this it is clear that the school was of 

 quite a different grade to that of St. Saviour's, 

 and was indeed purely elementary. This is 

 made even clearer by a minute of 10 June 

 1566, when the churchwardens and ' assist- 

 ence ' were given 



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aucthoritye to seke by all wayes and 

 meanes to have the schooll of the paroche to 



