A HISTORY OF SURREY 



be ratyfied and confirmed to be made a free 

 scholle for the children of the sayd parishe, 

 untyll suche tyme that they sayd children can 

 be lerned to rede awrighte sufficiently tyll 

 they be abell to goo to servyce, or elles other 

 wyse to goo to grammer, as their frendes 

 shall thinke for them most fetyst at that 

 tyme. 



' An order for the scholemaster and hussher 

 and schollers,' made the same day, directed 

 that they should be there at 7 a.m., through- 

 out the year. On Wednesdays, Fridays and 

 Sundays they were to go to church ' to 

 remayne untyll all service be done to helpe 

 to singe the psalmes and saye the servys.' On 

 the other days of the week eight of them were 

 to be sent to morning and evening prayer 

 ' servinge of God,' taking it in turns ' where- 

 by they may be the better edyfied in ther 

 learninge.' 



As the two schools of St. Saviour's and St. 

 Olave's were not above 100 yards apart, 

 being separated by little more than the 

 width of the approach to London Bridge, 

 it would have been best for both if they had 

 remained as they were, one the Grammar 

 or upper school, and the other elementary. 

 But Leeke's bequest was an apple of discord. 

 St. Olave's school not having been erected 

 within the two years, St. Saviour's ' brought 

 a suit against Leeke's executors for the be- 

 quest, which St. Olave's, on 10 April 1567, 

 directed the churchwardens to defend. On 

 3 April 1568, Thomas Cure and others were 

 directed by St. Saviour's ' to talke with the 

 parishioners of Saynt OUyves and come to 

 agreement with them and looke what order 

 the parties shall take for the matter in con- 

 troversy for the scole,' and on 12 May £S 

 was paid in part payment of ' costs of the 

 suet.' The suit was not ended till 1570, 

 when it apears to have been settled on the 

 terms of each parish taking half the bequest 

 for its school. The suit drove St. Olave's 

 into making their school a Grammar School. 

 On 21 January 1569-70, new ' Ordres for 

 the schole ' were made, a new entrance fee 

 being imposed, ' Yf he be a grammaryon, 

 zs. 6d.' ; while ' every scholar shall bringe 

 quarterlye 2d. to the master towards roods 

 (rods) bromes and ink . . . and yerly ^s. for 

 candell,' but ' the master shall take nothinge 

 of dutie of any scholler when they do breake 

 up scholle.' On 11 April it was settled that 

 the master was to have 20 markes {£1^ 6s. 8i.), 

 and the usher, William Stanmore, 20 nobles 



I Called in the St. Olave's Vestry Book ' St. 

 Mary Audereys.' 



{£6 13s. 4</.). On 25 > July 1571, letters 

 patent establishing the school were obtained. 

 The queen granted that the school so erected 

 should be a Grammar School for the 



mstruction 



of the boys and youths ' of the parishioners 

 and inhabitants as well in grammar as in 

 accidence and other low books and in 

 writing . . . and shall be called the Free 

 Grammar School of Queen Elizabeth of the 

 parishioners of the parish of Saint Clave 

 in the county of Surrey, 



consisting of a master and under master or 

 usher. The governors were to be sixteen in 

 number. Those named were headed by 

 Anthony Rushe,* the parson, or rector, and 

 William Bond, minister, or, as we should say, 

 curate-in-charge. The license in mortmain 

 was up to £^0. Though St. Olave's obtained, 

 and St. Saviour's did not, the use of the 

 Queen's name in its title, it is clear that the 

 school was of a lower type altogether than 

 that of St. Saviour's, and, though grudgingly 

 made a Grammar School in name, it was made 

 clear in the charter that accidence and lower 

 books were allowed, which they would not 

 be in a Grammar School proper. 



On 24 March 1 571-2, Statutes were made. 

 The Governors determined to appoint two of 

 their members wardens or overseers for the 

 year. On 2 August 1571 



the expences and charges that ys rysen and 

 grone about the sute to the prince and to the 

 Parliament-house for the obtayninge of the 

 Queen's majesties letters patents amountinge 

 to the sume of 



(an exasperating blank in the MS. prevents 

 us from knowing how much), was defrayed 

 out of ' the money collected for the setting 

 forth of souldyers ' against ' the Rebellion in 

 the North.' The ' Scholemaster ' and the 

 ' Hussher ' were directed to ' teach the 

 schollars no bookes in Englishe, Latten or 

 writing that is not lawful by gods lawes and 

 the princes godly procedings.' Greek is not 



* The date is given as 27 July by Carlisle, ii. 578 ; 

 26 July by the Governors, in Schools Inquiry Report, 

 iii. 73 ; and 27 July in the translation of the charter 

 at p. 70. The right date is 25 July. 



3 Wrongly translated ' children and younglings,' 

 S.I.R., iii. 73. But juvenes, so far from meaning 

 something younger than children, means youths, 

 those who had just past boyhood, which ended at 

 fourteen. 



* Carlisle, ii. S.I.R., iii. 74, and elsewhere, mis- 

 read into Bushe. 

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