A HISTORY OF SURREY 



deren, shoemakers or such like,' who were to 

 be employed in their trade, ' both in making 

 the poor scholars apparell and shoes and other- 

 wise.' They were also 



in the afternoon to teach their trades to such 

 of the poore schollers as shall be found unfit 

 for the Universitye ; and that they may not 

 loose their musique half the number shalbe 

 taught the trades one aftemoone and the other 

 of them the other aftemoone. 



In fine, Allen contemplated a sort of Royal 

 College of Music. But as soon as possible 

 after Allen's death the College took counsel's 

 opinion whether the addition of chanters not 

 being provided for in the charter was not 

 ultra vires, and were advised that it was. So 

 none were ever appointed, and the musical 

 college came to nothing. A similar addition 

 of thirty out-pensioners also failed of effect.* 

 The revenues would have then been wholly 

 insufficient. 



So the educational part of the establish- 

 ment resolved itself into the second Fellow 

 being schoolmaster, the third usher and the 

 fourth organist. The statutes however had 

 reduced the salaries of the master and usher 

 from £20 and ;Ci3 6s. %d. to £\o a piece, the 

 two preachers receiving £iz each, the Warden 

 £10, and the Master £^0. 



The twelve poor scholars, like all the other 

 members of the College, were chosen by a 

 mixed process of election and chance. When 

 a place was vacant three or four pwor children 

 were to be elected by the vestries of the 

 parishes and sent to the college, the Master 

 and Wardens chose two from them who were 

 to draw lots as solemnly provided for. 



12. The manner of drawingeof the said lot 

 shall be thus : Two equal small rowleses of 

 paper to be indifferendy made and rolled up, 

 in one of which rolls the wordes ' Godd's 

 Guift ' are to be written, and the other rowle 

 is to be left blank and so put into a boxe ; 

 whiche box shalbe thrice shaken up and downe, 

 and the elder person of those two that are 

 elected to drawe the first lot, and the younger 

 person the second ; and whiche of them 

 draweth the lott wherein the wordes ' God's 

 Guift ' are written shalbe forthwith admitted. 



The loser was consoled with a gift of so 

 much of the pay of the vacant place as was 

 due from the time of vacancy to the time of 

 election. It might be thought that this 



• They were afterwards introduced by an In- 

 junction of Archbishop Sheldon in 1667 (Young, i. 

 155), and finally extinguished bj; a judgment of 

 Lord Chancellor King, 4 April 1728 (I'oung, i. 247). 



provision at least was original and unique. 

 But there still exists at Kirkby Ravensworth, 

 in the North Riding of Yorkshire, a similar 

 mode of election of the two wardens. 



The provisions as to the school seem to 

 have been submitted for the advice of the 

 Warden of Winchester, Dr. Nicholas Love, 

 who had been Headmaster of that school. 

 Some one from Winchester, probably the 

 Bursar, wrote to Allen,* saying that the 

 Warden had made the following among other 

 remarks on the proposed statutes. 



4. There must be a table of orders made 

 for ye schoole at watt houres in ye morning 

 and aftemoone ye scoUers must be in ye 

 schoole, and at watt houres to depart, at watt 

 houres ye junior fellowe shall be tyed to come 

 into schoole and howe longe to staye in, watt 

 assistance ye sennior fellowe shall doe to ye 

 schoole and watt power he shall have over it. 

 Ye dutyes of bothe ye fellowes to be in a table 

 particularly expressed, watt they shall per- 

 fourme towards teaching the schollers. 



5. What number of outcommers there 

 shalbe admitted at one time to be taught in 

 your schoole. If ye senior fellowe helpe not 

 to beare the burden of teaching it will not doe 

 well if you admitt more than 20 outcommers 

 to be taught with your 12, for it will cause 

 that neither the one nor the other to be 

 well attended.' 



It would appear from these remarks that 

 Allen's original design was to have only two 

 fellows, who were to be schoolmaster and 

 preacher and usher. It was a misfortune for 

 the utility of his institution that he departed 

 from this, and made the school thereby a 

 much less important part of the foundation. 



The statutes as to the school do not appear 

 to have been very clearly thought out. The 

 poor scholars were to be (Stat. 3) four or- 

 phans, or at least children of those in receipt 

 of parish alms, of the age of ' 6 or 8 yeares 

 thereaboute ' at the time of admission, but 

 to remain as at Winchester and Eton ' untill 

 they bee eighteene yeares at the most, and 

 then at the charge of the coUedge to be put 

 forth either for schollers ' (i.e. for the Uni- 



» Dulwich College MSS. v. 136. In Warner's 

 Catalogue it is numbered 47. But as the only 

 numbering in the present arrangement in bound 

 volumes is one of pages, the numbering in the cata- 

 logue is misleading and almost useless. Some one 

 at the time has written on this MS. ' Notes from 

 Mr. Doctor Lodge, Warden of Winchester Col- 

 ledg.' Lodge is simply a mistake for Love. 



^ There are several other points touched on, but 

 only points of management. A letter of advice 

 from ' Eaton Colledge ' refers only to the ' Order 

 of Bread and Beer ! ' 



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