SCHOOLS 



both grammar and song schools were duly pro- 

 vided for. 



A master was to be set over the choristers that 

 the chapter may have boys rightly brought up, 

 both in modesty of manners and skill of singing 

 and was also to play the organ. The grammar 

 school was dealt with in chapter lo. 



Of the Teacher or Schoolmaster {De Didasculo she 

 LuJimagistro). That piety and good literature (liierae) 

 may daily flourish and increase more and more in the 

 said church and in neighbouring places, we ordain 

 that one learned in Greek and Latin, religious, honest, 

 industrious and sicilled in teaching, to be elected 

 by the said Chapter and approved and confirmed 

 by the said Archbishop when the see of York 

 is full, and by the Dean and Chapter of York 

 seJe vacante, be set over the Grammar School of 

 Southwell, who may continuously labour in instruction 

 both in learning and conduct (tarn Uteris quam moribus). 

 Whose office it shall be not only to read teach and 

 hear Latin and Greek grammar and humane literature 

 (' grammaticam Latinam et Graccam literasque 

 humaniorcs ') poets and orators, but also to imbue the 

 boys' minds as far as possible with the institutes of the 

 Christian religion. And to him we assign and order 

 to be paid the usual and customary salary. 



It is unfortunate that what the ' usual and cus- 

 tomary salary ' was is not stated. The statute 

 concludes by giving a power of removal, if the 

 master is found idle or negligent, after three 

 warnings ; and that he should take an oath to 

 faithfully perform all things belonging to his 

 fiinction in this behalf. By chapter 1 8 pro- 

 vision was also made, in revival of the chan- 

 cellor's theological lectures, for a prelector in 

 theology, who was to give two or three lectures 

 a week. Catechizing of the members of the 

 church by a canon elected by the chapter was 

 also to take place ; ' an explanation {explicatio) 

 of the catechism, that is the apostles' creed, the 

 Lord's prayer, the ten commandments, and the 

 sacraments of baptism and the Eucharist,' being 

 held at 2 and 3 p.m. on Sundays. At it the 

 vicars choral, choristers, and other servants 

 {ministri) of the said church, also the school- 

 master and his pupils, were to be present. 



On 10 October 1584 two of Cowper's 

 pupils were admitted to Gonville and Caius 

 College,^'" when he had already been made 

 a canon with the prebend of Normanton. On 

 6 August 1586 the chapter 'did release and 

 acquire ' him ' as well of and for all suche 

 summes of monney as hathe bene due to be 

 payde by him furthe of his said prebende, since 

 he hathe bene prebendarie of the same, unto the 

 Scholemaster of the gramer schole as also for all 

 suche summes as hereafter shalbe due.' In lieu 

 of the sum of £2 so released, on the admission 

 of John Bayly, M.A., as master, on 7 Novem- 

 ber 1587, the chapter granted him ^^3 6j. 8^. a 

 year, ' besides the yearly sum of ^^lo paid out of 

 the Exchequer.' 



William Dyson, M.A., succeeded at some 

 date unspecified ; for on 12 April 1589 he came 

 before the chapter and recited that because 

 ' through my own business I was unable to attend 

 and be present in the school as duty required, I 

 was by a decree of the charter removed and ex- 

 pelled from the prefecture and rule of the same,* 

 and then, ' to remove all doubt and question 

 merely and of my own free will I simply re- 

 signed the school into the hands of the chapter.' 

 William Cartwright was his successor ; but his 

 name only appears under the title of ' school- 

 master or gymnast of Southwell [ludtmagister 

 she gymnista) ' as being pronounced contumacious 

 for being absent from a visitation held by the 

 chapter on 10 July 1589. 



There was a great deal of scholastic activity 

 at this time in the chapter liberty ; for among 

 other persons who failed to attend the visitation 

 was Roger Swinscoe, schoolmaster at Caunton ; 

 and proceedings were taken against James Colly, 

 curate and schoolmaster of East Halam, for 

 failing to produce his ordination letters, and his 

 admission as master there was adjourned. At the 

 same time Alexander Barton of Oxton was 

 ' presented to teach children ' and summoned for 

 Tuesday week following, when he was inhibited 

 on pain of law not to presume to teach [in- 

 struere) until admitted by ordinary authority. 

 On 12 June 1592 James Horrocks of South 

 Muskham was presented at a visitation ' for 

 teaching of schoole without license.' He was 

 summoned and inhibited from teaching until he 

 had been admitted by authority of the ordinary, 

 i.e. the chapter. On 21 July 1593 Richard 

 Eirith or Ayray, B.A., of South Muskham, was 

 'presented to teach Mr. Marshall's children 

 privately and is not known to be licensed,' while 

 Ann Marshall was presented for ' not cumminge 

 to church nor communicatinge.' But Ayray 

 must have satisfied the inquisitors, for he was 

 the same day admitted ' to instruct boys in the 

 art of grammar in the parish of South Musk- 

 ham ' after being duly sworn. Two years later, 

 13 June 1595, William Garlande of Kirklington 

 was ' presented for teachinge of children with- 

 out license,' but he appeared and on affirming 

 that he only taught abecedarians, i.e. reading 

 (' affirmat se instruere abecedaries tantum '), he 

 was dismissed as regards this article, but inhibit- 

 ed against performing service in Kirklington 

 chapel or elsewhere unless duly admitted by 

 the ordinary. 



On 10 February 1594^° the chapter had to 

 petition Sir John Fortescue, Chancellor of the 

 Exchequer, for the annuity due ' to the master 

 of the free grammar school of Southwell,' six 

 years' arrears remaining unpaid. It appears from 

 an admission of Edward Manestie as master of 

 the choristers and organist on 6 April 1596," 



' J. Venn, Biog. Hist, i, 121. 



™ Chap. Act Bk. iii, beginning in 1 5 90, p. 37. 

 " Ibid. 46. 



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