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Brownists, and has been hailed as ' the father 

 of Congregationalism.' He came under very 

 strict ' artycles,' signed by him in the 

 Governors' Minute Book, aimed at preventing 

 his recurring to the turbulent practices and 

 anti-episcopal preachings, which had led him 

 into defiance of the bishops of Ely and Norwich 

 and into several prisons. The article ; tied him 

 down not * to intermeddle with the mynestre 

 or disturbe the quiet of the parishioners by 

 kepinge any conventycles or conferences with 

 any disordered persons,' to take the children 

 to church, and attend communion himself. 

 He appears to have been desirous of turning 

 over a new leaf as he stayed at Southwark 

 quietly for five years,* and then only 

 left to take a living to which he was pre- 

 sented by Lord Burghley, who was a 

 relation, and had several times protected him 

 from persecuting bishops. At Southwark his 

 successor was appointed in the person of Mr. 

 Sadlington, on 25 June 1591. The unimport- 

 ance of the Grammar School may be gathered 

 from the Vestry's order, 19 July 1592, that 

 the treasurer ' shall convert the kitchen 

 presently to a schoolhouse for the gram- 

 marians.' 



Quiet times seem to have prevailed in the 

 school, as the Governors' minutes consist 

 of nothing else but appointments of new 

 Governors and letting of lands, until 18 

 June 1623, when the Governors decided 

 * to take counsel] about their difference with 

 Nathaniel Bugg, the then master.' The 

 difference seems to have been on the question 

 of pay, for on 25 July Bugg asked that ' he 

 might with their loves and leave depart and 

 rezine,' the Governors promising a 'gratuitie 

 towards his better preferment.' On 2 August, 

 Richard Vaughan, the newly elected master, 

 was made to sign the book to the effect that 

 if he ' be contentious,' or ' does not content 

 himselfe wdth the stipend allotted to him,' 

 he ij to be fined 20^. for the poor, and ' if 

 he continue ' to be removed. The masters 

 after this were generally required to sign 

 undertakings of the same sort in various forms 

 in the Minute Book, so that an excellent 

 series of their autographs is preserved. The 

 series is not complete, however, for no 

 record remains of the accession of the next 

 master, John ' Pemlabearey '(probably Pendle- 

 bury), but only of the election of his successor, 

 Alexander Blackhall, 20 April 1636. 



» In the Life by Dr. Jessopp in the Diet. Nat. 

 Bio. he is said to have been appointed master of 

 Stamford Grammar School at this time. Like 

 several other of the statements in that singularly 

 unsympathetic account this seems to be a mistake. 



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A school account during the time of the 

 Commonwealth * for the year 1655-6, shows 

 that Horsleydown was let for ;£ii2 a year, 

 Benjamin Chapman, the schoolmaster, was 

 paid ;C30, the writing master, William 

 Bassett, £1%, and Mr. Edward Hone, the 

 usher, or English master, ;£20. In that year 

 by a deed of 30 October 1656, the Governors 

 granted the churchwardens, for the relief of 

 the poor, a large slice of Horsleydown for 

 500 years at the rent of a red rose. This Red 

 Rose estate, as it is called, now produces 

 about £.1,^00 a year. Another large part of 

 the endowment was now alienated from 

 education altogether, the Governors being 

 empowered to apprentice boys, and also * to 

 set up a work house for the setting pore 

 persons of the parish att work.' In 1691 the 

 Artillery Hall on Horsleydown was used for 

 the purpose, but in 1725 a workhouse was 

 built. 



After the Restoration, the Governors ob- 

 tained a new charter, dated 2 May 1664. 

 One main object of it seems to have been 

 to restrict admission to the Governing Body 

 previously unhampered, to members of the 

 Church of England. It also enabled the 

 Governors to extend the elementary schools 

 by appointing several ushers. One solitary 

 thing was done for the Grammar School, 

 out of rivalry no doubt with the superior school 

 at St. Olave's, viz. licence to give leaving 

 exhibitions to the Universities. The licence 

 in mortmain was extended to lands of the 

 value of ;£5oo a year. 



In 1704 silver spoons were given as prizes 

 to the two best boys in the Latin school, 

 as it was now called. But the usual jealousy 

 of the upper school prevailed, and on 22 

 November 1705 it was ordered that the 

 second silver spoon was to be given to 

 the best boy under the usher. In 1706 

 the usher, Mr. Barrow, was given £^0 addi- 

 tional salary on condition of assisting at the 

 sacrament as often as there shall be need,' 

 so that the church took its toll even of a 

 purely educational endowment. This usher 

 was the usher of the Latin school. During 

 the eighteenth century the ushers generally 

 succeeded to the mastership. The revenue 

 rapidly grew, investments in South Sea and 

 India bonds being made at frequent intervals. 

 In 1705 the income was about ;^35o ; in 

 1725 over £^0 ; but the bulk of the increase 

 went to mulplying ushers and assistants 



^ ' In the possession of the writer,' Manning and 

 Bray, iii. 601, i.e. apparently Mr. Bray. If found, 

 it ought to be recovered by the Governors for the 

 School. 



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