for the government of the school was made and subscribed by the bishop of Winchester.

The governors are required by the statutes and ordinances "when God shall bless their store," to purchase some scholarships and fellow

conversation gentle, sober, honest, and virtuous, and discreet for learning, wellskilled in the Latin tongue, and able to teach Grammar, Oratory and Poetry, and the Greek; as also the principles of Hebrew. Especially he shall be well experienced and much approved, at least for seven years, for a good facility and dexterity in teaching and profiting children,-if such may be gotten, otherwise one that is as near to those qualifications as they can conveniently procure; if there be any such, he that is born in the parish of St Saviour, and hath been brought up in the said school, being the legitimate son of some man of good report, shall be first preferred before a stranger.

"He shall not have any benefice with cure, office, or service whatsoever, in any other place, that in the judgment of the governors may be any let or hinderance unto him, that he cannot attend and follow his charge in the best manner and to his best ability.

"He shall be a man of a wise, sociable, and loving disposition, not hasty or furious, nor of any ill example; he shall be wise and of good experience, to discern the nature of every several child, to work upon their disposition for the greatest advantage, benefit, and comfort of the child, to learn with the love of his book,-if such a one may be got.

"The master and usher shall wisely mix severity and lenity, by all means avoiding such correction as to the governors shall seem unreasonable, ever proposing by precept and example, to clear up and put life and spirit into the capacity, memory, love, patience, diligence, gentleness, and moderate desire of praise in the scholars; and prevent all means that may make them dull, forgetful, heavy, impatient, negligent, stubborn, and careless of good report, or have cause to speak ill of the school, or forsake it."

The sixth chapter of the statutes states that,

"Whereas it has pleased God to put into the heart of John Bingham, Esq. one of the governors of this school, out of his Christian charity, to found and to bestow maintenance for two poor scholars in Cambridge and Oxford; the election, during the life of the said Mr Bingham, is referred to the charitable disposition of himself the founder. After, upon the vacation of any of those places in Oxford or Cambridge, the governors, with the advice and assistance of some learned man, shall proceed to the election.

"They shall choose none but poor, and those of a toward disposition, and forward in such learning as may fit them to the University. In the choice, first, they shall choose the legitimate sons of some decayed governors of the school, or vestry-men of the parish of St Saviour's: next, such as have been born of some honest parents in the parish: thirdly, the sons of any parishioners that hath been born in the parish, although he hath lived out of the parish. When he is chosen, they shall admonish him to be thankful to God for this charitable provision, to call himself and so required to be called, Bingham's Scholar, to apply his study that he may prove a good member in the Church and Commonwealth; and if by this means he rise to preferment, to remember to be helpful to such other as shall come in like sort, to be likewise sent out of the same school."

ships in either Oxford or Cambridge, for such scholars as have been or shall be brought up in this school.

Mr Bingham's two Exhibitions have been augmented each to £50 per annum, and they are tenable for four years if the exhibitioner continues resident. Before a student can be elected to an exhibition, he must have been at least four years in the school.

1627. John Marshall, by will, devised certain estates in trust, among other things that his trustees should, after the death of two annuitants, bestow yearly the sum of £12 towards the maintenance of a poor Scholar for seven years, if resident, in either of the Universities. He directed that the scholar should be one born in the borough of Southwark or in the town of Stamford, and taught at the school in the parish of St Saviour, or any other school, at their discretion. He also directed that if he should after seven years take up his degree of Master of Arts, they should continue to him the further payment thereof for one year more, to the end that he might at that time provide for himself some place for the employing his talent and ability abroad, for the glory of God and benefit of His Church.

ST OLAVE'S.

THE FREE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.
FOUNDED 1570, A.D.

THIS free grammar-school was founded by letters patent, in the thirteenth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, which recite: "That whereas her well-beloved subjects, the inhabitants of the parish of St Olave within the borough of Southwark, of their godly affection and good disposition for the bringing up, education, institution and instruction of children and younglings of that parish, at their no little cost, labour, and charge, in laudable order and form, had of late ordained and erected in the same borough and parish one Grammarschool, in the which children and younglings, as well of rich as the poor, being inhabitants within the same, are instructed and brought up liberally and prosperously in grammar, in accidence, and other lower books, to the common utility and profit of all the inhabitants of the parish :" Her Majesty, upon their humble supplication, considering "their good, godly, and laudable intent," ordained that the said school should from thenceforth be a grammar-school, "for the bringing up, institution and instruction of the children and younglings of the parishioners and inhabitants therein, as well in grammar, as in accidence and in other low books, and in writing," to be called "The Free

Grammar-school of Queen Elizabeth of the Parishioners of the Parish of Saint Olave, in the County of Surrey :" and that Her Majesty's intent might take the better effect, and that the lands and revenues for the maintenance of the school might be better governed, she granted that there should be "sixteen men of discretion and most honest inhabitants" of the parish, who should be governors of the possessions of the same, and should be a body corporate and politic with perpetual succession.

The original endowment of the school consisted of a field, of about sixteen acres, in Horsleydown, which now produces a considerable income from buildings and other improvements. The present revenue of the school is stated to be nearly £3900 per annum.

The letters patent of Elizabeth were confirmed by a charter of Charles II. in 1675, which increases the powers of the governors of the school, and directs, "That the rents and revenues shall from time to time be converted to the maintenance of the master, and such usher or ushers, as to the governors shall seem fit, and for defraying the necessary charges in the execution of their trust; and for the maintenance and education of two scholars in the University, if any such shall be elected out of this school, until they have severally taken their degree of Bachelor of Arts, being first brought up in the school and inhabitants of the parish, which scholars are to be elected by the governors, and to be allowed such maintenance towards their education in the University as to them shall seem fit."

At the present time the governors are empowered to grant four Exhibitions at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge to scholars from this school, who may be recommended by the master and be reported by the examiners to be properly qualified for proceeding to the University.

These Exhibitions are each of the value of £80 a year, at the discretion of the governors, who decide according to the merits of each case, and they may continue the allowance for three years and a half to the exhibitioners if they are resident.

From the circumstance of the scholars being limited to the neighbourhood, and from the fact that some of the neighbours decline to make use of the exhibitions, as they are free, there are not always candidates for the exhibitions. It is stated on good authority, that before the appointment of the present head-master there had been only four exhibitioners since the foundation of the school in 1570, A.D.; but since his appointment there have been ten, two sent to Oxford, and eight to Cambridge.

GUILDFORD.

THE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.
FOUNDED 1509, A.D.

THE first foundations of the grammar-school in Guildford were laid by Robert Beckingham, citizen and grocer of London, who in his life-time gave a messuage and garden adjoining to the Castle-ditch, and by his will bequeathed lands, for the maintenance of the school.

The revenue arising from this bequest was augmented by the corporation, who in 1520 purchased a piece of land in St Mary's parish, and erected thereupon a building for the purpose of a school-house.

King Edward VI. in the sixth year of his reign, augmented the revenues of the school, and granted letters patent to the mayor and approved men of Guildford, with power to make statutes, with the advice of the Bishop of Winchester, for all matters concerning the management and good government of the school, as well as for the preservation and disposal of its revenues, for ever.

A body of statutes was drawn up in the year 1608 for the direction and management of the school.

1671. Joseph Nettle, Esq., by will, left property in trust, that the rents and profits should be applied towards the maintenance of a Scholar for six years at Oxford or Cambridge, the son of a freeman of the town of Guildford, who should have been taught and fitted for the University in Guildford grammar-school.

STOCKWELL.

PROPRIETARY GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.

INSTITUTED 1833, A.D.

THIS school was established with the design of providing such an education in classics, mathematics, the modern languages, and mercantile affairs, as may qualify the students for the Universities, the liberal professions, or commercial pursuits.

There is annually one Exhibition open to students from this school, which may be held for three years, at Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin, King's College, London, or Durham. It is given for classical or mathematical proficiency to scholars who have been at least three years at the school.

The value of these exhibitions is not less than £20, and not more than £30 a year, according to the state of the exhibition fund, which is maintained by a subscription of one guinea per annum from the friends of each scholar in the school.

COUNTY OF SUSSEX.

LEWES.

THE FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

In the year 1508, Edmund Dudley, Esq. gave to John Ashdown, prior of Lewes, Agnes Morley, and others, an annuity of £20 out of his manor of Hornsey, for the use of the said Agnes, who in 1512 bequeathed the said annuity for the endowment of a free grammar-school at Southover, which the trustees to her will, with the consent of the prior of Lewes, vested in George Hale, clerk, and his heirs, for the purpose of the bequest; and in 1537 Mr Hale made over this annuity to new trustees to execute the intentions of the donor. In addition to this annuity Mrs Morley bequeathed a garden and house for the use of a master and usher, to dwell and teach grammar there. In the year 1545 Richard Bellingham and Thomas Colbrand, the only surviving trustees, enfeoffed John Waller, of Firle, gentleman, with the premises and the annuity, upon the condition of re-granting them to new trustees, which he did; and in that manner the endowment has continued to be | managed by successive trustees.

1661. Rev. George Steere, of Newdigate in the county of Surrey, bequeathed four houses in Lewes, the issues and profits of which were to be appropriated to the education and maintenance of a fit person, the son of godly parents, in or near the town of Lewes, and especially the son of a godly poor minister, at either of the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge, for four years; and at the end thereof, then to another, for the like term, and so on for ever. The nomination and choice is in the two chief officers, and four others, the most able inhabitants within the town, successively, for ever. The value of this exhibition is not fixed, being dependent on the rent of houses, but varies according to the amount expended in repairs. The average yearly value may be about from £25 to £30.

BRIGHTON COLLEGE.
INSTITUTED 1847, A.D.

THIS is a Proprietary College, instituted with the design of providing a sound religious, classical, mathematical, and general education of the highest order, so modified as to meet the demands for practical knowledge in the present age.