that £6. 13s. 4d. The college to be at the option of the dean or vicedean and chapter, who nominate the scholars.

These four exhibitions have been raised to the yearly value of £30. 10s. during residence, in consequence of an appeal to the Court of Chancery* made by the Rev. Robert Whiston, M.A., the present head master.

Mr Whiston has also raised a fund by subscription, from which is derived an exhibition of £5 a year for a scholar proceeding to either University.

There are other exhibitions from this school for students at Oxford.

TUNBRIDGE.

THE FREE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.

Founded 1553, a.d.

SIR Andrew Judde, Knt. lord mayor of London, in 1550, obtained a charter in the 7th year of King Edward VI. enabling himself and Henry Fisher to hold lands, &c., for the maintenance of a school at Tunbridge, his native place, and for no other purposes whatsoever. Under this charter lands were purchased for the endowment of the school, and conveyed to himself and Henry Fisher, as trustees, with power to the survivor to convey the said lands, &c. to the Skinners' Company, as the governors of the school.

It has been ordered by the Court of Chancery that there shall be 16 Exhibitions, each of the value of £100 a year, as a part of the establishment of Tunbridge School, to be given to fit students who may proceed to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

In the year 1824 it was thought expedient and proper that the privileges of the Tunbridge School should not only extend to boys and youths whose parents or guardians should be resident within the town and parish of Tunbridge, but also to such boys and youths whose parents or guardians should reside in any other parish or place in the county of Kent, within the distance of ten miles by the ordinary roads and ways from the church of the town of Tunbridge, which boys and youths should be considered as constituting the first class: and that there might be a sufficient number of scholars to receive the exhibi

* See Cathedral Trusts, and their Fulfilment, by the Rev. Robert Whiston, M.A. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Head Master of the Cathedral Grammar-school, Rochester; and the articles "On Cathedral Schools" in the numbers 86-93 of the English Journal of Education.

tions, it was thought proper and advisable by the Master in Chancery, that there should be another, or second class, comprehending all boys and youths of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, who being qualified, should be capable of receiving the exhibitions.

The governors ordered, in 1827, that no boy shall be eligible for an exhibition until he shall have been five years a scholar of the school.

It is also ordered, that boys of the first class of scholars, if duly qualified, shall be preferred to the exhibitions before those of the second class.

These exhibitions are to be tenable for four years, from the first term after the presentation, and for such part of four years only as the exhibitioners shall be bona fide resident during the usual terms: and in case any of the said exhibitions shall cease before the expiration of four years, then the said exhibitions for the residue of the period of four years shall be given by the governors to any youths then or formerly scholars of the school who shall have undergone the examinations, and proved themselves qualified for the exhibitions, although they failed in obtaining the same, and who shall be then resident members of one of the Universities, and be under the degree of Bachelor of Arts, always preferring youths of the first class to those of the second.

The examination for exhibitions is in the last week of July, and no one can sit for an exhibition who is more than 19 years of age.

1619. Mr Robert Holmden left an Exhibition in the gift of the Leathersellers' Company for a student at Oxford or Cambridge from Tunbridge School, in default of one from Sevenoaks School.

1624. Sir Thomas Smythe, by will, bequeathed to the Master and Wardens of the Skinners' Company certain houses in London for various uses, one of which was, that the said Company should, for the better encouragement and advancement of the poor scholars of the Free School of Tunbridge, pay yearly towards the maintenance of six poor Scholars at the Universities, to be from time to time elected out of the said school, the sum of £10 each yearly, and to be continued for seven years, and that vacancies should be filled up by the Skinners' Company as they should occur. They are now £16 per annum.

1675. Mrs M. Boswell gave a second preference to two Scholarships at Jesus College, Cambridge, for students from Tunbridge School. (See p. 288.)

Rev. Isaac Worrall founded two Exhibitions, each of £6 per annum, for two scholars from Tunbridge School going to St John's College, Cambridge.

Mr Lampard gave, by his will, an Exhibition of £2. 13s.4d. charged on a house at Lamberhurst, to a free scholar from Tunbridge School to either of the Universities, to be nominated by the vicar and churchwardens. This exhibition is paid by the proprietor of the premises to the scholar himself.

CRANBROOK.

THE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.

FOUNDED 1574, A.D.

THE Grammar-school in Cranbrook, commonly called "Queen Elizabeth's Free and Perpetual Grammar-school," was founded by Simon Lynch, gentleman, a native of the parish, in the sixteenth year of Queen Elizabeth, who gave certain lands for the endowment of the school.

There is an Exhibition of about £20 per annum to any college of either University for sons of inhabitants, who have been free scholars at the grammar-school.

LEWISHAM.

THE FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

FOUNDED 1647, A. D.

THIS school was founded by the Rev. Abraham Colfe, clerk, vicar of Lewisham, in his lifetime, who by his will devised certain estates to the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers, in trust, for various charitable uses, and principally for the support of the grammar-school, and of another English school in Lewisham founded by Mr Colfe.

In the sixteenth year of King Charles II. 1665, an act was obtained for settling Mr Colfe's charitable bequests. Seven scholars, after being strictly examined, and found every way fitting for their skill in the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew languages, by one of the chief schoolmasters in London, and the ministers of Lewisham, Greenwich, Deptford, Leigh, and Chislehurst, are to be sent to one of the Univer→ sities of Oxford or Cambridge, and to have each an exhibition of £10 per annum for seven years. These exhibitioners are to be children of persons not reputed to be worth above £500; and natives of Lewisham are to preferred.

Provision is made, in case at any time a scholar fit for the University should not be found in the school at Blackheath, that an

exhibitioner shall be chosen, first out of the children of persons belonging to the Company of Leathersellers,-next out of the free-school at Christ's Church in Canterbury,-and lastly, out of the free-school at Christ's Hospital in London, "alternis vicibus, one after the other, when and as often as the case so falleth out.'

This school is under the consideration of the Court of Chancery, and the exhibitions are for the present suspended.

SEVENOAKS.

THE FREE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.

FOUNDED 1418, a.d.

THIS school was founded by Sir William Sennocke, Knight, citizen and grocer, and Lord Mayor of London in the sixth year of the reign of King Henry V.: at which time calling to remembrance the goodness of Almighty God and the favour of his patron, Sir William Rumpstead, and the inhabitants of Sevenoaks, which had been so charitably extended towards him in his infancy, he determined to leave behind him a lasting memorial of his gratitude. Whereupon, at his own cost and charge, he founded an hospital for twenty poor people; and a free-school for the education of youth within this town, endowing them both with a proper and sufficient maintenance. To carry this purpose into effect, he devised by will, dated the 4th July, 1432, his lands and tenements to the rector, vicar, churchwardens and other parishioners of the town of Sevenoaks, for ever, upon trust, that they out of the rents and profits of them should found and maintain for ever, one master, well-skilled in grammar and a Bachelor of Arts, who should keep a grammar-school in some convenient house within the said town, to be purchased with his goods, at the discretion of his executors, and to twenty poor men or women, houses and 10s. a year each, to be received out of a good conscience, without any favour, according to the good discretions of the rector, or vicar and churchwardens, and of the parishioners, as they will answer before the Highest Judge in the last day.

Queen Elizabeth, by her letters patent, dated July 1st, 1560, granted and ordained that there should be for ever thereafter a grammar-school in the town of Sevenoaks, to be called "The Grammar-School of Queen Elizabeth," for the education, institution and instruction, of children and youth in grammar and other learning.

There are two Exhibitions each of £65 a year, tenable for four years, at Oxford or Cambridge, by students from this school, but for seven years if the exhibitioner has taken high honours.

1619. Robert Holmden, by his will, gave to the Company of Leathersellers his messuage in Great East Cheap, upon condition that they should pay out of the same yearly the sum of £12 for various uses; one of which was, £4 should be paid yearly towards the maintenance of a Scholar in one of the Universities of Cambridge or Oxford, to be taken out of the free grammar-school of Sevenoaks for the space of four years, and so from time to time: and in default, then that the said £4 should be paid to a scholar out of the free-school at Tunbridge.

SUTTON VALENCE.

THE FREE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.

FOUNDED 1578, A.D.

THIS school was founded by William Lambhe, gentleman of the chapel of King Henry VIII. and a member of the Company of Clothworkers in London, who, out of his great love for learning, and for the place where he was born, erected the school at his own proper cost for the education of youth, and endowed it with stipends for a master and usher. These endowments have been increased by the Cloth workers' Company, who are the patrons of the school.

1721. Rev. Francis Robins, B.D. founded two Exhibitions, each of £10 per annum, at St John's College, Cambridge, for scholars from Sutton Valence School. (See p. 322.)

The Clothworkers' Company have founded for the benefit of the school a Scholarship of £20 per annum at either Cambridge or Oxford. This same to be increased at their pleasure to any pupil shewing particular talent and industry. The Clothworkers have also several other presentations either to Oxford or Cambridge in their gift.

BLACKHEATH.

THE PROPRIETARY SCHOOL.

INSTITUTED 1830, A.D.

THIS school is designed to afford a sound liberal education, similar to that given in the public schools of England.