It appears from the Report of the Charity Commissioners, that the administration of this charity had not been satisfactory. There are now under this bequest six Exhibitions, tenable for seven years, each of the value of £5 per annum for three years, and £56 per annum for the remaining four years. It is intended to found additional exhibitions when the increase of the revenue admits of it. 1691. Rev. Samuel Frankland founded a Fellowship at St Catharine's Hall for persons educated at the free-school of Coventry. (See p. 280.) STRATFORD-ON-AVON. THE FREE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL. FOUNDED 1482, A.D. THIS school was founded by Thomas Jolyffe, a native of the town, and one of the brethren of the ancient Guild of the Holy Cross. At the dissolution of the monasteries, the estate was seized by Henry VIII. but was afterwards restored to the corporation, and the school was refounded and incorporated in the 7th year of the reign of Edward VI. In 1843 a new scheme was issued by the Court of Chancery for the management of the school. 1855. The Rev. T. R. Medwin, M.A. the present head-master, has raised about £800 towards founding an Exhibition for scholars who may proceed from this school to the University. LEAMINGTON COLLEGE. INSTITUTED 1844, A.D. THE object of this proprietary institution is to provide a sound classical, mathematical, and general education. An Exhibition has been founded by the late Dr Jephson, of the annual value of £40, which is tenable for three years, at Oxford or Cambridge, by a student from Leamington College. COUNTY OF WESTMORERLAND. HEVERSHAM. THE FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL. FOUNDED 1613, A.D. THIS school was founded by Edward Wilson, Esq. of Heversham Hall, and endowed partly by him, and partly by subsequent benefactors. In the year 1803, when the commons and waste lands of the parish were inclosed, an allotment was assigned to the grammar-school. In 1788, the school-house, which was much dilapidated, was repaired at the joint expense of Bishop Watson and Bishop Pearson, who had been exhibitioners from the school, the former to Trinity College, Cambridge, and the latter to Queen's College, Oxford. 1652. Mr Wilson, by will, charged upon the tythes of Leck, in the parish of Tunstall, in the county of Westmoreland, two sums of £6. 13s. 4d. each, to be paid to Queen's College, Oxford, and to Trinity College, Cambridge, for the maintenance of two scholars from Heversham school, one at each college. It is required that the two scholars should be poor men's sons, whose fathers are not able to allow them a competent maintenance, and that they should be nominated by the heirs male of Edward Wilson, or in their default, by the feoffees of the school. The payments were to be made for four years, and no longer, unless there should be no scholar qualified to succeed, in which case the payments might continue for two years longer. In consequence of Mr Wilson's executors refusing to pay these exhibitions, an application was made to the Court of Chancery, and by two decrees in 1696 and 1762, the executors were obliged to pay all arrears, which occasioned a very considerable increase of the value of the exhibitions. These exhibitions are open to candidates who have been three years at the school, and are now in the gift of the trustees. They are each about £45 per annum. • Richard Watson was born in 1737, one year before the death of his father, who had with great reputation been the head-master of Heversham school for nearly 40 years. He received his early education at Heversham school, and came up to Trinity College, Cambridge, with the exhibition founded by Mr Wilson. He subsequently became bishop of Llandaff, and was the author of "The Apology for the Bible," &c. In the anecdotes of his life, written by himself, the following passage occurs: "It has been a custom with me, from a very early age, to put down in writing the most important events of my life, with an account of the motives, which, on any occasion of moment, influenced my conduct. This habit hath been both pleasant and useful to me: I have had great pleasure in preserving, as it were, my identity, by reviewing the circumstances which, under the good providence of God, have contributed to place me in my present situation; and a frequent examination of my principles of action has contributed to establish in me a consistency of conduct, and to confirm me, I trust, in that probity of manners in my seventy-fifth year, with which I entered into the world at the age of seventeen." 1722. Rev. Thomas Millner founded four Scholarships at Magdalene College, for students from the schools of Heversham, Leeds, and Halifax. (See p. 333.) KIRKBY LONSDALE. THE FREE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL. FOUNDED 1591, a.d. THIS free-school was founded by letters patent of Queen Elizabeth granted in the 33rd year of her reign, and was endowed by several benefactors. On the enclosure of the lands in the manor of Kirkby Lonsdale in 1808, an allotment was made to the school. The school is under the direction of twenty-four governors, as directed by the letters patent for the foundation. 1626. Rev. T. Wilson endowed three Scholarships at Christ's College for students from Kirkby Lonsdale school. (See p. 298.) 1692. T. Otway, D.D. founded three Scholarships at Christ's College, with a first preference to scholars from Kirkby Lonsdale school. (See p. 299.) KIRKBY STEPHEN. THE FREE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL. FOUNDED 1566, A.D. THIS school was founded by Thomas, Lord Wharton, under a charter granted by Queen Elizabeth in the eighth year of her reign, and by him endowed with a house and garden, which endowment was subsequently augmented by a rent-charge given by Sir Thomas Wharton, brother of Philip, Lord Wharton. The founder framed the statutes and appointed governors for the management of the school. He also directed that out of the endowment there should be paid yearly the sum of £3. 6s. 8d. to each of two scholars from this school at Oxford or Cambridge, as exhibitions tenable for seven years at the most. 1623. Rev. Mr Knewstubb gave a benefaction to St John's College for a poor scholar from the grammar-school of Kirkby Stephen or Appleby. (See p. 315.) KENDAL. THE FREE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL. FOUNDED 1535, A.D. THIS school was originally founded by Adam Pennyngton, of Boston, in Lincolnshire. It received endowments successively from King Edward VI., King Philip, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, and other benefactors. The master and usher are appointed by the mayor and aldermen of Kendal, and the school is open to all boys from whatever quarter they may come. 1674. Thomas Braithwaite, Esq. endowed two Scholarships at St John's College, for students from the grammar-school of Kendal. (See p. 320.) There are several exhibitions from this school for students at Oxford. WILTSHIRE. MARLBOROUGH. THE FREE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL. FOUNDED 1551, A.D. THIS school, situated in the parish of St Mary the Virgin, was founded by King Edward VI. in the fourth year of his reign, and originally endowed with lands in the town of Marlborough, and in some of the adjacent parishes. The appointment of the schoolmaster was vested in the first Duke of Somerset, the lord Protector, and his heirs in succession: it now rests with the Marquess of Aylesbury. The mayor of the town is the visitor, and the corporation are the trustees of the school. 1622. The Right Honourable Sarah, Duchess Dowager of Somerset, established scholarships at St John's College, Cambridge. There are at present six Scholarships, each of the value of £40 a year, and fourteen Scholarships of more than £20 each a year, for scholars who are to be chosen every third turn from the grammarschool of Marlborough. (See p. 321.) In the case of failure of qualified candidates from the schools of Hereford and Manchester in their turn, these scholarships are available for the scholars of Marlborough school. MARLBOROUGH COLLEGE. FOUNDED 1843, A.D. THIS collegiate institution (incorporated by a charter in 1845, and by an additional charter in 1853), was originally designed for the sons of clergymen, but by the first charter it was provided that one-third of the whole number of pupils might be sons of laymen, and that proportion has by the second charter been extended to one half of the number. By the bye-laws the number of pupils is limited to five hundred, who are not admitted under nine years of age or above fourteen, and they are not allowed to remain after eighteen years of age, except with the master's permission. No pupil who may be so permitted to remain, shall be elected to an exhibition, if he shall have completed his nineteenth year on or before the first day of January next before the examination. There are six Exhibitions permanently founded, three of £50, and three of £40 a year, tenable for three years at any college or hall in Oxford or Cambridge. One exhibition of each class is vacant annually. WORCESTERSHIRE. STOURBRIDGE. THE FREE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL. KING EDWARD VI. in the sixth year of his reign, at the request of the inhabitants of the town of Stourbridge, and parish of Old Swinford and others, issued letters patent for founding the free-school there, “for the education, teaching, instruction, and learning, of boys and youths in grammar." The letters patent appoint eight governors to be a body corporate, and order that all the issues and revenues of the endowment should be applied to the support of the master and usher, and to no other uses whatsoever. Certain orders and rules were made and approved by the Bishop of Worcester and the governors in the reign of Charles I. and were revised about the year 1700 and among other things it was ordered, that if the schoolmaster or usher should offend, either by wilful neglect of the statutes, or "by not applying themselves with diligence to the teaching and governing of the scholars, or if it should be found their |