The endowments were augmented in the time of Queen Mary b Thomas Dowman and the Rev. Thomas Mountfrith, and they no yield a considerable revenue. The school was at first intrusted to the master, wardens, and br thren of the guild at Pocklington; but upon the dissolution of the guil by an act of Parliament passed in 1552, the school was so far trans ferred to the master and fellows of St John's College, Cambridge that in them was vested the nomination of the schoolmaster; who i to be appointed within two months after a vacancy, otherwise, th appointment for that time lapses to the archbishop of York. The master and usher, who by the act form a body corporate, an required to be "discreet and well learned men." The founder appropriated five Scholarships at St John's College for scholars educated at this school. (See p. 306.) The property producing the payment for these scholarships is now worth £600 a year. RICHMOND. THE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL. FOUNDED 1567, A.D. THIS school was founded and endowed by the burgesses of town, who petitioned Queen Elizabeth for her royal licence to erect "Unam Scholam Grammaticam ad bonam educationem et instructionem puerorum et juvenum ibidem et circa partes vicinas habitantium et commorantium." The four bailiffs of the borough were, by the letters patent, appointed governors of the school and its possessions, with perpetual succession to be a body corporate; and it was ordered that they should convert all the profits of the estates to the support of the master and the maintenance of the premises, and to no other purpose whatever. On the renewal of the charter of the corporation in 1668, the nomination of the master, and the government of the school with the management of its revenues, devolved upon the mayor and aldermen, as the successors of the bailiffs mentioned in the letters patent of Queen Elizabeth. 1659. John Bathurst, M.D. of London, by will devised his estates to certain trustees, and directed that a rent-charge of £12 = year should be paid to the aldermen and burgesses of Richmond, ef which sum £8 should be employed by them towards the yearly main enance of two poor Scholars in the University of Cambridge, that should be found to be pious, virtuous, and competently learned, during their continuance at the University until they were Masters of Arts. He also directed that the payment should cease to such as should discontinue above one quarter of a year together, or such as should be ployed out of the University in any other calling or employment. The exhibitioners are elected by the trustees from the free scholars as vacancies occur, and the sons of poorer parents have a preference, who receive the accumulations (if any) during the vacancy. When there is only one exhibitioner, he is allowed to hold both the payments These exhibitions are generally held until the ex from year to year. hibitioner is admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Arts. 1730. Rev. William Allen, LL.D. founded two Scholarships at Trinity Hall, and granted a second preference for students from the grammar-school of Richmond. RISHWORTH. THE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL. THIS school was founded and endowed by John Wheelwright, gentleman, for twenty scholars and a schoolmaster "sufficiently skilled in the Latin and Greek languages, and of sound principles, according to the doctrine of the church of England." He also directed that one of the boys of the school that should be best capable of University education, should at the age of 18 years, or so soon as he should have school-learning sufficient, be sent to Cambridge or Oxford, and should there be maintained by the trustees out of the estate at the rate of £40 a year for four years; and that such boy should be chosen by the trustees with the advice of the head schoolmaster. The trustees, with the advice of the head-master, may grant exhibitions to any scholars educated in the school, though not natives of Rishworth; but then all those who are, or have been scholars, must have been regularly chosen from the poorest tenants' children living upon the charity estates: and such as are not so chosen, must be chosen out of the poor of the parish where the school stands. He also ordered that whatever surplus might arise out of the estates above the discharges of the several trusts, should be applied by the trustees to the purchasing of lands; and that the profits thereof should always be applied to and for the better maintenance and support of the said twenty children, and to the enlarging of the number of scholars, for the sending of more of them to the University, as the said augm tation might allow of, in such manner as his trustees should think fit In 1816 an information respecting this school was filed in Court of Chancery, and a report of a master was made, and in 182 new scheme was confirmed for the management of the school. Amo other rules it was ordered that one scholar should be selected eve second year and sent to one of the Colleges of Oxford or Cambrid with an Exhibition of £150 a year for four years; that upon the ex mination of the candidates for the University by an able and sufficie person in public before the trustees and master, the trustees should at liberty to apply £100 for the benefit of the boy who should appe next in merit to the successful candidate. There are two Exhibitions, each of £150 a year, tenable for foi years at Oxford or Cambridge: one of them, however, from temporal circumstances, is not at present available. SEDBERGH. THE FREE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL. THIS school was originally founded by Roger Lupton, D.D. provost of Eton, and was endowed with the rents and revenues of chauntry, called Lupton chauntry. Dr Lupton directed that the master and fellows of St John's Col lege should be the visitors of the school, and should always appoint the master within a month after every vacancy certified to them, and upon their default, then the governors, with the consent of the diocesan, should elect for that turn. By the act for dissolving chauntries, in the reign of Edward VI. the lands came into the possession of the crown; but on the petition of the inhabitants of the town, his majesty re-established the school, and restored the estates, which now produce a revenue of above £600 a year. He also ordained that there should be within the town and parish of Sedbergh, twelve men of the more discreet and honest inhabi tants of the said town, who should be called the governors of the pos sessions, revenues, and goods of the said school. The school has always been maintained as a grammar-school, free without restriction, for all boys properly qualified to enter upon an education in grammatical learning. Dr Lupton, the founder of the school, also founded two Fellowships and eight Scholarships at St John's College, for students who should come instructed from the grammar-school of Sedbergh. (See 309.) 1587. Henry Hebblethwaite founded one Fellowship and two Scholarships for poor friendless scholars, especially such as come from &dbergh grammar-school. (See p. 312.) 1692. Thomas Otway, D.D. founded three Scholarships at Christ's College, with a second preference to students from Sedbergh school. (See p. 299.) 1619. Francis Harrison left £60 to the governors of the school, in trust, to apply the interest as an Exhibition for the use of a poor scholar from Sedbergh school. 1710. Posthumous Wharton left £20, the interest of which he directed to be applied towards maintaining a poor Scholar at St John's College, born in the parish, and educated at the school of Sedbergh. 1735. Richard Holmes, clerk, left £100 in trust, the interest to be applied yearly as an Exhibition, towards the maintenance of a poor scholar born in Sedbergh, who should go from the school there to St John's College. The interest of the three last named benefactions has been consolidated into one yearly Exhibition, which is given by the governors to a scholar from Sedbergh school, proceeding to St John's College, and is tenable for three years. Accumulations which arise from a vacancy are given to the student who is the next appointed. SKIPTON-IN-CRAVEN. THE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL. FOUNDED 1548, A.D. THIS School was founded and endowed by the Reverend William Ermystead, canon residentiary of St Paul's, London. By a late decree of the Court of Chancery, a new scheme was ordered for the management of the school. There are two Exhibitions at Christ's College, Cambridge, open to scholars from this school. (See p. 309.) THORNTON. THE FREE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL. THIS School was founded by Elizabeth, Viscountess Lumley, a endowed for a master in holy orders, to teach the school, and to r prayers in the chapel. There are five Exhibitions which may be held by students fr this school. (See p. 180.) THRESHFIELD. THE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL. THE grammar-school of Threshfield, in the parish of Linton, founded pursuant to the will of the Rev. M. Hewett, who bequeath certain rent-charges on his estates for the maintenance of the mas and usher. Mr Hewett also founded four Exhibitions at St John's Colles for students from this school. (See p. 319.) WAKEFIELD. THE FREE GRAMAR-SCHOOL. FOUNDED 1592, A.D. THIS School was founded under the authority of letters patent Queen Elizabeth, in the thirty-fourth year of her reign, at the humbl suit of the inhabitants of the parish. By the letters patent power is given to the governors, with the schoolmaster's advice and consent, to make statutes and ordinances i writing, for the management of the school. 1764. John Storie, by his will, devised some estates in the county of York, for the maintenance and the bringing up of thre Scholars, whose parents are not able to maintain them at Oxford a Cambridge. The governors of the school now grant three Exhibitions to scholars from this school, for four years, at Oxford or Cambridge. Candidates must have been at least three years at the school, and a preference is given to natives of the town, and in default to other scholars, if they are duly qualified. These exhibitions have averaged for some years past £80 per annum. |