SCHOOLS 



Winchester and Eton, were distinguished as 

 ' the children.' The master and warden 

 pretending that the order could not mean 

 that the schoolmaster was to have double pay, 

 Colby appealed to the Committee, who de- 

 cided against him. But a petition, being 

 presented by the inhabitants of Dulwich show- 

 ing that the ministers had already gone and 

 that ' the Scholemaster was ready to remove 

 for want of maintenance, whoe hath done 

 more good in his place than ever any man 

 did,' the Committee ordered that besides the 

 actual ' dyett ' the schoolmaster was to be 

 allowed £io for the ' dyett ' of one of the 

 vacant fellowships. 



In IS July 1647, 15J. was paid for ' a bible 

 for the Hall for the boys,' and on 19 February 

 ' For a primere for Fox a boy 3^.' was paid. 



Under the fostering influence of the Par- 

 liamentary Committee, the first poor scholar 

 was sent to the University on 4 September 

 1650, in the person of John Brooke from 

 Cripplegate, and was allowed ;£20 a year. 

 He went to Christ's College, Cambridge, and 

 his outfit (paid for on 9 February 1657) in 

 clothes, books, etc., cost ;Cio 13/. iid} A 

 second exhibitioner was sent on 4 March 

 1658, Thomas WoodaU of Bishopsgate to 

 Exeter College, Oxford, with £16 a year, St. 

 Botolph's parish finding £s ' fo"" ^^^ fitting 

 out in clothes, and monie towardes buyeing 

 him books.' In answer to a petition of the 

 College, Oliver Cromwell, as Lord Protector, 

 on II February 1655-6, appointed a com- 

 mission of visitors in place of the archbishop. 

 On 19 March 1657-8, John Bradford, B.A., 

 •■ of Brazen Nose College in the University of 

 Oxon,' was elected schoolmaster-fellow, and 

 Henry Tilley, B.A., late student of Christ 

 Church, was elected usher-fellow, and the 

 other two fellowships were filled up with 

 Cambridge men. Tilloy retired in Decem- 

 ber 1659, and Bradford in November 1661 

 passed on to be master of Camberwell Gram- 

 mar School. The example set by the Par- 

 liamentary visitors of sending scholars to the 

 Universities was followed for some years. 

 Roger Bailey, sent to Wadham in 1662 with 

 an outfit costing £iy los. lod., on 8 December, 

 became usher-fellow on Lady Day, 1671. 



A visitation of the College by Archbishop 

 Sheldon, begun in 1664, reported as to the 

 fellows that ' the Mr and Warden being lay- 

 men, and they priests and University schoUers, 

 they think they have advantage thereby to 

 despise them,' especially as in chapel the 



1 St. Saviour's Southwark contributed j^S to 

 this favoured youth, ' sent of Mr. Bingham's 

 money.' 



fellows wear their hoods and ' the Master and 

 Warden without any appear to these younger 

 fellows but as singinge men.' The visitors 

 found as to the school,' that the hours are not 

 observed, ' but we feare that by the passion 

 and indiscretion of the schoolmaster the 

 school is not so well governed as it ought, nor 

 in so good reputation as might be wished.' 

 In the Orders ' issued by the archbishop 

 9 October 1667, the schoolmaster and usher 

 were admonished to be 



careful in performing their duty of instructing 

 the scholars, as well forrayners as the 1 2 poore 

 boys, and forbear from all passion towards the 

 scholars but especially from blows, and that 

 they give no other correction to any but with 

 the rod or ferula, and the same with mildness 

 and consideration. 



As this order was accompanied by an increase 

 of stipend to the masters of £20 a piece and 

 of ' diet ' from £10 to ;£i5 a year, it was no 

 doubt easily borne. 



The usher, Roger Bailey, seems however 

 to have resigned. But the master, Francis 

 Brockett, of Queens' College, Cambridge, 

 notwithstanding several proofs of a very vio- 

 lent temper and in spite of quarrels with the 

 archbishop and the master and warden about 

 the accounts and the ' out-members,' re- 

 mained in office till his death in September 

 1680. On 27 October 1677 his arrest * was 

 ordered for causing Thomas Bowdler of 

 Camberwell ' to be violently assaulted and 

 wounded by several of his schoUers, and the 

 said Brockett had threatened to teare the said 

 Deponent in peaces.' In 1679 complaint was 

 made to the archbishop that he had ' a 

 curateship in London and is absent 2 or 3 

 days a week, the inhabitants' children ought 

 to be taught freely, paying only for entrance 

 and 2s. a year, which the schoolmaster refus- 

 eth unless he also is paid.' He did however 

 his duty by the twelve boys. In 1678, for the 

 first and only time in the history of the college 

 before the scheme of 1882, there were, as pro- 

 vided by the statutes, four scholars up at 

 Cambridge at once, each receiving £iS a 

 year. 



At the end of Brockett's time, perhaps 

 during his illness, when his work was being 

 done by his eventual successor, John Black- 

 burne, there was great activity in book buying 

 for the school. 



On 22 March 1680, a Lily's grammar was 

 bought for IS., and a week later a ' construing 



2 Young, i. 149. ' Ibid. 



< Ibid. i. 167. 



150. 



205 



