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' Y REV, ROBERT BARLOW GARDINEf
Fourth Master,
n;RLT EXHIBITIOJTER OF ST. PAVL'S SCHOOI., AND SCBOLA. COLLEGE, OXFORT>.
■: ITII APPENDICES.
Uontion GEORGE BELL
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THE
ADMISSION REGISTERS OF-
ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL,
from 1748 to 1876. '
EDITED, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES
NOTES ON THE EARLIER MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE SCHOOL, FROM THE TIME OF ITS FOUNDATION,
By rev. ROBERT BARLOW GARDINER, M.A.,
Fourth blaster,
FORMERLY EXUIBITIONER OF ST. PAUL's SCHOOL, AND SCHOLAR OF WADHAM COLLEGE, OXFORD.
WITH APPENDICES.
GEORGE BELL AND SONS,
YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1884.
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^0 the Memotu of
JOHN COLET
A FOUNDER
AS FAR-SIGHTED AS HE WAS GENEROUS,
A PRIEST
AS LIBERAL AS HE WAS DEVOUT,
A MAN AS LOVEABLE AS HE WAS LOVING,
BY ONE WHO OWES ALL TO HIS MUNIFICENCE.
" A most far-sighted man, Colet saw that a nation's chief hope lay in having the rising generation trained in good principles."
Erasmus' Letter to Justus Jonas (Lupton's Translation, page 28).
" Even so with regard to a man's last will and testament, which lawyers call a just decision about what we should wish to have done after our death. In this case also we may say that it is not broken or infringed from having a better development given it after the testator's death by some godly man ; and from more good being done by a better will than the dying man could have wished for. To act thus is not to infringe but to perfect a will : it is not to do away with it but to establish it. We believe that the testator also wished for what was best and most acceptable to God : and that when he died he was minded to have that last will of his made perfect in a better will if any such there should be."
Colet's Ex2?osition of St. PauVs Epistle to the Romans, Ch. iii.
" From numbers of the tenets most generally received in the public schools {i.e. at the Universities) at the present day he widely dissented, and would at times discuss them among his private friends. When with others, he would keep his opinions to himself, for fear of coming to harm in two ways, that is to say, only making matters worse by his efforts, and sacrificing his own reputation."
Erasmus' Letter to Justus Jonas (Lupton's Translation, page 38).
" Wherefore I pray you al lytel babys and lytel children lerne gladly this lytel treatise and commende it dylygently unto your memoryes. Trustynge of this begynnynge ye shall procede and grow to parfyt lyterature and come at the last to be grete clarkes. And lyfte up your lytel whyte handes for me whiche prayeth for you to God."
Colet's " Lytell prohem6 " to his Accidence.
PREFACE.
Brother Paulines,
I commend to your charity this my effort to perpetuate the records of our School,
In the year 1878 the present High Master suggested to me that it was desirable that the records of St. Paul's School should be published. After some consideration and with much diffidence I undertook to collect some materials for such a work, trusting that if our School could not again produce a Leland, a Camden, or a Strype, there might yet be found a Gale, a Knight, or a Fosbrooke to whose antiquarian zeal and learned leisure I might commit my collections.
It was thought however that the approaching crisis in our School's history would justify the publication of its records, and so 1 venture to intrust to your kindness the results of my work, undertaken in the leisure of a Schoolmaster. I am sensible that another ten years' labour would still have left the work imperfect, but I hope that the interest of the present juncture will excuse its production.
Originally it was only intended to publish the Captains' Registers (1806 — 1876) preserved in the School Library : to these after some consideration I resolved to prefix the Register of Names, dating from 1751, collected by Dr. Kynaston from the Presentations ; together with
PREFACE.
the names of sucli earlier Paulines as were found in Kniglit's Life of Colet and other works.
The work was almost completed in this form when, by the kindness of the Mercers' Company, I obtained access to the Eecords of Admissions preserved in com- pleteness at their Hall from 1748. This obliged me to rewrite the work from 1748 to 1806, and shortly after- wards I received information from other books in their possession, from which I collected the greater part of the facts which fill the first eighty pages of this book : my previous notes therefore on early Paulines had to be fitted in to this new matter. Let this rewriting be pleaded as an excuse for any inconsistencies which may be discovered between the earlier and later portions of the work.
In compiling the notes I have asked for help far and wide, and I beg to tender my thanks to all who have kindly furnished me with information. Above all, my thanks are due to the Court of the Mercers' Company, not only for their permission to use their Eecords, but also for the generosity which enabled me to send the book to the press, and which embellished it with its frontispiece.
My thanks are also due to the present High Master for the interest which he has taken in the work, and the encouragement which he has given me to persevere in it ; to the Eev. J. H. Lupton, Surmaster, not only for contributing one of the Appendices from his store of Coletine learning, but also for his kindness in reading proofs and suggesting sources of information ; to John Watnev, Esq., Clerk to the Mercers' Company, for assisting me in one of the Appendices, and for his unfailing readiness to help me in all matters of detail ; to tlie authorities of the British Museum, to whose care
PREFACE.
I was committed by J. Winter Jones, Esq. (O.P.), late principal Librarian, especially Edward Scott, Esq., Dorset EccLES, Esq. (O.P.), and Freeman Donoghue, Esq. ; to the Bursars and Librarians of the Colleges at Oxford and Cambridge, who have been most kind in furnishing in- formation, especially W. Aldis Wright, Esq., Bursar of Trinity College, Cambridge, to whose labours I owe the list of Perry Exhibitioners ; to Sir Albert Woods, Garter King-at-Arms ; to J. E. Gardner, Esq., and Eev. C. J. Eobinson, the Editor of the Merchant Taylors' Eegisters. To these I must add the names of R. Harris, Esq., whose drawing of the exterior of the School is here re- produced ; Samuel A. Walker, Esq. (O.P.), who presented his photographs to the work ; and John B. Chubb, Esq., who assisted me in the plans upon which the Appendix on the Site and Buildings is based ; the printing and publication of the work have also been kindly under- taken by Old Paulines.
To conclude, while I regret the scantiness of our early records, I hope that I have collected sufficient to show how Colet's scholars have endeavoured to fulfil their daily prayer " ut bene pieque eruditi Ecclesise et Kei- publicae tandem utiles evadamus," and venture to express my belief that the -generation o/ Paulines among whom this work is published will find in it a reason for strenuous efi'ort to maintain the glory of their School, and while cheerfully accepting in the true spirit of their Founder such changes as are demanded in a course of nearly four centuries, will take care that, there shall be no break in its career of producing "men qualified to serve God in Church and State."
ROBERT B. GARDINER.
St. Paul's School, Jpril, 1884.
PLAN OF THE WORK.
After the Introduction and tlie Fasti, the work is divided into Sections, according to the reign of each High Master.
The name of the High Master is followed by that of his Surmasters and other Assistants : then come the names of his reputed scholars. These are arranged as far as possible in chronological order, their position being determined more or less conjecturally from the date of birth or of admission to the University, Thus up to the year 1748 each High Master is credited with the boys who left the School under his Mastership, but from the commencement of the Registers he is credited with the boys whom he admitted.
Several times it has been necessary to insert lists of the names of those who are known to have been at the School before a certain period, but as to whose exact date it has been impossible to obtain a clue. The names also of pupils who are known to have been at the School under a certain High Master, but whose relative date is uncertain, will be found at the end of his reign.
Note that curious instances of mis-spelling have been generally preserved, such as BayHall (Balliol), Woodham (Wadham), Polls (Paul's), but ordinary errors have been corrected without notice.
I desire to call particular attention to the use which I have made of two MSS. at the British Museum. (1) Additional 5885. A tran- script of the list of all the Bachelors of Arts graduated at Cambridge from A.D. 1500 to A.D. 1716, in the collection of Mr. Cole. (2) Ad- ditional 19209 and 19210. Graduati Cantabrigienses, 1659—1823, with MS. additions, by D. E. Davy.
The School Arms are blazoned — sable, on a chevron between
three hinds trippant argent as many annulets of the first, for
Cold — whence the School colours, sable and argent or black and white.
THE ILLUSTRATIONS.
A Facsimile of the Cover of the Statutes of the School, preserved at Mercers' Hall Frontispiece.
Presented to this work by the Court of the Mercers' Company.
This cover was painted in 1585 by an artist named Segar (see Fasti). It reproduces to a certain extent the monument of the Founder in St. Paul's Cathedral : but the artist has inserted a portrait of the Dean instead of the Bust ; a true representation of the monument may be seen in Dugdale's St. Paul's (1656), and Knight's Life of Colct ; but this picture retains one peculiarity of the Bust which disappears in the engraving, namely, the finger holding the pen: of this fact we are assured in spite of the engravings from the following entries in the Accounts 1588—89, " for mending the pen and new-making the finger and hand of Mr. Colet's tomb, twice, iiis. vijd.," and again 1632-33, "to Edmund Kinsman for making a new finger of stone for the Statue of Dr. Colet in St. Paul's Cathedral, xs." On this tomb the Mercers' Company spent a large sum for marbles, &c., in 1575—76, and they again rej)aired it in 1617—18 at the cost of XX lib. viijs. iid.^
A Facsimile of the Portrait of Colet attributed to Holbein, from the Queen's Library at Windsor To face 'page 1.
N.B. — Colet died in 1519, and Holbein first visited England in 1525.
1 This Monument perished in the Fiie, the publication of this Facsimile will
and Colet has now no monument in the stimulate Paulines to fresh efforts to place
Cathedral. A Fund which was originated in the Cathedral a monument worthy of
by the late Dr. Kynaston with a view to our Founder. The Trustees of the Fund are
piaiing a memorial of the Founder in St. Baron Pollock and J. A. Kingdon, I'^sq. ;
Paul's Cathedral now amounts to £200 ; the Hon. Sees, the Rev. F. "Wallis, of
but double this sum is ref^uired before Caius College, Cambridge, and the Editor. auj-thiug cau be douc. It is hoped that
THE ILLUSTRATIONS.
A View of the Exteriok of the Present School.
To face page 251. Drawn for this work by R. Harris, Esq., Art Master of St, Paul's School, and photographed by Samuel A. Walker, Esq. (O.P.).i
A View of the Interior of the Present School.
To face page 299. Photographed by Samuel A. Walker, Esq. (O.P.), and presented to this work.
A Facsimile of Three Autographs of the Founder.
To face page 371. From the MS. of the Statutes preserved at the British Museum, (i.) " Joannes Colet fundator schole manu sua propria." (ii.) Statuta Paulinae Scholse.
" hunc Libellu ego Joannes Colet tradidi in manubus Magistrj Lilij xviij° die Junij a° x' MCCCCC xviij ut eum in scola servet et observet." (iii.) " Joannes Colett fundator Nove Scole manu mea propria."
A Facsimile of the First Page of the Statutes, preserved at Mercers' Hall with the autograph of the Founder.
To face page 375. " Joannes Colet fundator scole manu sua ppria." (For the rest see Appendix B — IL).
Four Plans To foUoio page 459.
(1) Supposed site of St. Paul's School, 1514.
Drawn from measurements by J. B. Chubb, Esq.
(2) Site of St. Paul's School, 1782.
From a plan in the Grace Collection, British Museum.
(3) Ground plan of the Second (1670) School.
Drawn in 1817.
(4) Ground plan of the Third (1824) School.
Drawn in 1873. (3) and (4) are from plans furnished from the Surveyor's Office of the Mercers' Company.
' lleprodnctions of the oiigiual drawing by photolithography cau be obtained at the School (10 inches by 15).
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Introduction ,
Fasti of the School
High Mastership of —
William Lily
John Eitwyse .... Richard Jones .... Thomas Freeman . . .
John Cook
William Malym . . . John Harrison .... Richard Mulcaster . . Alexander Gill .... Alexander Gill (Junior) John Langley ....
PAOE
17 20 21 22 23 25 27 29 32 38 41
High Mastership of —
Samuel Cromleholine Thomas Gale . . . John Postlethwayte Philip Ayscongh . Benjamin Morland Timothy Crumpe . George Charles . . George Thicknesse Richard Roberts . John Sleath . . . Herbert Kynastou
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7
49 55 65 71
78 80 81
84 143 250
298
APPENDICES.
APPENDIX A.
I. Colet's Conveyance of Estates in Bucks 371
IL Colet's Testament bestowing realty upon the Mercers' Company . . 372
• APPENDIX B.
I. Colefs Statutes 375
II. Amending Ordinances of 1602 388
APPENDIX C.
Surveyor-Accountants of St Paul's School 392
APPENDIX D. Captains of St. Paul's School 397
APPENDIX E.
I. The Foundation of the School (Pauline) Exhibitions, with List of
Exhibitioners 398
II. Extract from liord Campden's Will fur the Foundation of Exhibitions,
with List of the Campden Exhibitioners 40G
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III. Foundation of Sir Robert Wood's Scholarship 411
IV. Extract from the Will of Rev. William Perry, with List of Perry- Exhibitioners 411
V. Extract from the Will of Dr. Humphrey Gower, with List of Gower
Exhibitioners 415
VI. Extract from the Will of Rev. George Sykes, with List of Sykes
Exhibitioners 416
VII. Extract from the Will of Mr. John Stock, with List of Stock
Exhibitioners 418
VIII. Foundation of the Barnes Scholarsliip, with names of Scholars. . . 420
APPENDIX F.
I. Foundation of the Governors' Prizes for Composition (Latin and Greek Verse, English Essay and Poem, French Prose), with List of Winners 421
II. Foundation of the Sleath Prize (Latin Prose), with List of Winners . 427
III. Foundation of the Thruston Prize (Latin Verse), with List of
Winners 432
IV. & ) Foundation of the Truro (English Essay) and Milton (English Verse) V. ^ Prizes, with Lists of Winners 433
VI. Foundation of the Keen Scholarship, with List of Scholars .... 438
VII. Foundation Deed of the Kynaston Prize, with Names of Winners . 439
VIII. Foundation Deed of the Bedford Prize, with Names of Winners . . 440
APPENDIX G. Apposers of St Paul's School 441
APPENDIX H.
The School Feast 447-
APPENDIX I. The School Library 451
APPENDIX K.
The Buildings and Site 454
Additions and Corrections 461 j j
General Index 465
Index of Names 467
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INTRODUCTION.
[{OUT the close of the reign of Ilenry VII., Johu O'K t T*»ea; ■>*> •'^aul's, son of Sir llenry Colet, citizen and more .r 01 London, eomiueuced the work of edu' Hid by establishing a school in Lo.i.Ion, which, : led in honour of " Christ Jeau in 2iU€ri:ia, ai.d ' ^r.'iry," soon bccamt; known (probably from ihe oi... v. -.j ,m ...-, as ^>T. Paul's School. Colet, during his travels abroad, [(ttceived the importance of the Revival of Learniitg, and desired ,uip the children of his own country i t u ■ i'l -i i ; >., t^ by the '){ the learned men of other nations. Statutes
ndix B.) that he founds ' ' -i
tud countres indiffere.. . i8e knowledge and worshipping ut . and good Cristen lyfe . ^ t to effect by encouraging t'
England), and of clean and cL.. .. ; Latin of the Schoolmen. " AU .:.
'K; <.'rist •Aih. Le- ' iine not lu cuutiust to tho . ^tionjil designs of ilefoiTuers of Leai-ning were carried out in the new institution. ■ i. ' ..f instruction were supor>>eded by fresh gr^iinrrnrs uis and other sell olar.s for its use. Lily, an Oxtord ■nb, who had studied Greek In the East, was placed at its head. ' ■ did tho study of fJreek creep grjidually into the schools i:->ted, but the example of Colet was followed by a crowd rs. More granimar schools, it has been said, were founded . -Iter years of Henry VIII. than in the three centuries before. uTammar schools of Edward VI. and of Elizabeth, in a word, the '" middle class education, which by tli^ 'v
,:^d the very face of FuLrlnnd, .\ ore the : •• '■
1 of St. Paul's." 1
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ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL.
INTEODUCTION.
About the close of the reign of Henry VII., John Colet, Dean of St. Paul's, son of Sir Henry Colet, citizen and mercer, twice Lord Mayor of London, commenced the work of educational reform in t England by establishing a school in London, which, although originally founded in honour of '' Christ Jesu in puo'icia, and of his blessyd Mother Mary," soon became known (probably from the situation of its buildings) as St. Paul's School. Colet, during his travels abroad, had perceived the importance of the Revival of Learning, and desired to equip the children of his own country to take their place by the side of the learned men of other nations. He declared in his Statutes (see Appendix B.) that he founded the School " for the children of all nacions and countres indifferently," and that his intent was " to increase knowledge and worshipping of God and our Lorde Crist Jesu, and good Cristen lyfe and manors," a purpose which he hoped to effect by encouraging the study of Greek (up to his time not taught in England), and of clean and chaste Latin, in contrast to the depraved Latin of the Schoolmen. " All the educational designs of the Reformers of Learning were carried out in the new institution. The old methods of instruction were superseded by fresh grammars composed by Erasmus and other scholars for its use. Lily, an Oxford student, who had studied Greek in the East, was placed at its head. Not only did the study of Greek creep gradually into the schools which existed, but the example of Colet was followed by a crowd of imitators. More grammar schools, it has been said, were founded in the latter years of Henry VIII. than in the three centviries before. The grammar schools of Edward VI. and of Elizabeth, in a word, the system of middle class education, which by the close of the century had changed the very face of England, were the direct results of Colet's foundation of St. Paul's."^
' Green's Sliort History of the English People.
INTRODUCTION.
I
THE BUILDINGS.
He placed his school on the site apparently of an older school at the east end of St. Paul's Cathedral. In those days the Cathedral, a magnificent structure in the Gothic style, stood within a walled and gated inclosure : the busy traffic which now circles round the Churchyard, passed through Old Change on the east, Carter Lane on the south, Pater Noster Row on the north, and Creed Lane and Ave Maria Lane on the west. We know but little of Colet's Building, which was finished in 1510, except that Strype, who was educated in the first and lived to see the second building, tells us, that after the Fire the School "was built up again much after the same manner and proportion it was before, together with the library and an house on the south end thereof for the Second Master, whose dwelling before and from the first founding of the School was in the Old Change adjoining to the said School." The original building consisted of four parts (as described by Erasmus), the first or porch for catechumens ; a great schoolroom divided by a curtain ; and a little chapel for divine service, together with chambers for the High Master and Surmaster.
This building perished in the Fire of London (1666), and was shortly replaced by another, which stood within the memory of living Paulines. It consisted of a large schoolroom with a flat roof, and at the end was a room (described as small and dark) which served as a library. There was also a house at each end, that on the north for the High Master, that on the south for the Surmaster, while the Chaplain (or Usher) was provided with a house in Old Change. The rearrangement of thoroughfares, which brought the stream of traffic from east to west down Cheapside through the Churchyard to Ludgate Hill, materially interfered with the quiet and seclusion of the School. The building of 1670, in spite of various repairs, was found to be in a dnngerous condition in 1814 ; and on the occasion of the visit of the Allied Sovereigns to. the city, its roof was supported with shores which were not subse- quently removed till about 1823, when the Mercers' Company, having acquired some additional ground to the North, proceeded to pull down the old buildings and set up the present ones, con- sisting of a large schoolroom over a cloister with two houses at either end, whereby the Fourth Master, who had been added to the teaching staff some twentv yenrs befor^o, and had hitherto had
INTRODUCTION.
an allowance for a house, acquired an official residence. The whole School continued to be taught in one room till 1854, when Dr. Kynaston, the High Master, who had long ceased to take boarders, gave up to the School the boarding-rooms of his house, whereby the size of the Library was doubled, so that it could be used as the High Master's Class Room, and the Uj)per Class Room was brought into use for the Fifth and Sixth Classes, then taught by the Surmaster; subsequently also the Lower Class Room was occupied by the Third Master.
THE GOVEENOKS,
Colet wisely intrusted the management of his new foundation to the Mercers' Company, of which his father had been a member : and under their care his school survived the storm of the Reformation, wliich swept away so many endowments. For more than three centuries and a half, under their careful and judicious government, the School continued to fulfil the purpose of its founder, supplying men, as this work I hope will prove, qualified to serve God in Church and State. By tlie careful management of its property its income was raised to £10,000 a year. In accordance Avith the Founder's Statutes the Mercers appointed annually two Surveyors — the Surveyor Accountant (who of late years was usually the outgoing Master of the Company) and the Surveyor Assistant (the Master of the Company for the year) — to manage the affairs of the School. But on the 24th of March, 1876, a new scheme, made by the Endowed Schools Commissioners (1869), received her Majesty's sanction, whereby although the management of the estates remains Avith the Mercers the government of the School is transferred to a body of t\\enty- two Governors, of whom the Mercers appoint nine, together with their Master and three Wardens for the year, and the remaining nine are appointed equally by the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and London, This arrangement seems to carry out Colet's wish expressed in the statutes that " the Wardens and assistences of the felowshipp of the Mercers may adde and diminish into his boke and supply in it every defaute with suych other counsel as they shall call unto theme, good litterid and lernyd menne" (.see Appendix B.).
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INTRODUCTION.
THE MASTEES.
Colet provided that his scholars slioiild be taught by two masters, the High Master and the Surmaster : he also desired that they should employ the assistance of the Chaplain, if he were found qualified. This arrangement appears to have held good for nearly thi'ee hiindred years, the High Master teaching the Upper Classes while the Surmaster, assisted by the Chaplain (or Usher), took charge of the younger boys. In the time of Thicknesse and the early part of Roberts' High Mastership, about one half of the School was under the Chaplain in the First and Second Classes ; another quarter under the Surmaster in the Third and Fourth ; while the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Classes, under the High Master, were barely a quarter of the School. At length, however, under Dr. Roberts, a more even distribution was made, and he obtained the services of an Assistant or Fourth Master, who relieved him of the Fifth and Sixth Classes. This arrangement lasted till 1854, when, on the death of Mr. Roberts the Fourth Master, Mr. Carver, the then Surmaster, took over the Fifth and Sixth, the new Fourth Master, Mr. Hudson, taking the Third and Fourth : and when, on the resignation of Mr. Cooper, Mr. Hudson became Third Master (Chaplain or Usher), he retained charge of his Classes, the noAv Fourth Master taldng the First and Second Classes.
THE STUDIES.
Colet founded his School to give instruction in Latin and Greek ; and except that Writing and Arithmetic appear to have been taught to some selected boys during the eighteenth century, nothing beyond Latin, Greek, and Hebrew was taught in the School for over three hundred years. Soon after the appointment of Dr. Kynaston (1838) an Arithmetic and Mathematical Master was for the first time added to the Staff, and about 1853 French was introduced as a subject of study. Hebrew was taught in the School by Langley (1640-57) ; and Strype, writing after the Fire, speaks of the boys as then instructed in Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and sometimes other Oriental languages. Pepys heard the "head Forms posed in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew" in 1662; and in 1710 Hebrew was among the subjects offered at the Apposition by the Seventh and Eighth Classes.
I
INTRODUCTION.
THE SCHOLAKS.
Colet offered his scholars a higher education than any which existed in his day ; no child was to be admitted who could not read and write ; and none were to be retained in the School but such as were likely to make jDrogress. It seems, then, that Colet, while welcoming the poor scholar to his school, expected liis foundation to be used by the upper class of citizens. By the children of these the School was mainly occupied till men ceased to reside in the neighbourhood of the School. There have at times been non- foundationers admitted, and the reputation of some of the High Masters, notably Gale (1672-lG97j, attracted boarders other than the sons of citizens. In 1 748, when the Registers begin, the School appears to have been going down under the High Mastership of Dr. Charles (1737-1748), for Mr. Thicknesse (in whose first year of ofiice it rapidly filled again), reports that only thirty-eight boys were on the foundation a few months after his appointment. This may have been owing to some financial difficulties under which the Mercers' Company (and with them the School) appear to have been suffering at that time, which are described at large in the Report of the Commissioners of Endowed Charities (1820). The head boy in each class was called the Captain ; the head of the Eighth Class was the Captain of the School ; — this post was usually held for a year, and the subjoined list of Captains will be found a roll of not undistinguished names (see Appendix D.). From the earliest times (1564) boys who reached the top of the School were sent to the Universities by the liberality of the Governors, ancf after a time in addition to these (who are called Pauline Exhibitioners in the following pages) others were sent to Trinity College, Cambridge, by the liberality of Viscount Campden, whose benefaction, dating in 1629, now produces £1,000 a year. These latter are called Campden Exhibitioners ; the suc- cessive phases in the management of this endowment will be found in Appendix E. 2,
Other exhibitions were subsequently founded in Cambridge, at Trinity and Corpus Christi Colleges, which will also be found described in the A.ppendix (E. 4, 6, 7). The present century witnessed the institution of the prizes for Composition known as Governors' Prizes, to which several endowments have been added in the last thirty years.
INTRODUCTION.
THE EECOEDS.
It only remains to explain the authorities from whence this book is drawn. The early part is simply a comjiilation from various sources, such as the Accounts of the School and the Acts of Court preserved among the archives of the Mercers' Company, and the lists of exhibitioners (Campden, Perry, Sykes, &c.), to which has been added information collected from works in which St. Paul's School is alluded to or described. The lists from 1748 to 1806 are printed from the Registers of the Admissions of Scholars, which are preserved at Mercers' Hall and have been kiudly placed at my disposal by the Court, From 1806 to 1876 a record of admissions was kept by the Captain in the School Library : and from this my lists are printed ; the Christian names of the parents which the Captain did not record, being added from the Mercers' Hall Registers. There does exist in the School Library a very imperfect record of admissions from 1751 to 1806, but it was made by the late Dr. Kynaston from the volumes of presentations which exist in the library, and is of no independent authority.
It is much to be regretted that the registers mentioned in the Fasti under dates 152-i and 1712 have not been discovered.
FASTI OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL.
1508. The School was begun according to Alexander Nevyl :
and Polydore Vergil mentions its foundation at the end of his account of the reign of Henry VII.
1509. The School was begun according to Grafton and
George Lily.
1510. The School was begun according to Holinshed and
Cooper. „ April 9 — " Master Doctor Colet of Poules for the
Schole " (M.). 1 „ Aug. 1 — Colet dedicates to William Lily his work entitled Lihcllus de construdione octo jpartium oraiionis. Aug. 13 — " For the Schole of Poules" (m.). „ Aug. 17 — " For the Schole House at Poules" (m.). Sept. 23 — " For the Schole at Poules " (M.). In this year the School building was finished.
1511. June 6 — Letters Patent granted to Colet for the
foundation of the School. „ July 11 — Colet's conveyance of Estates to the
Mercers' Company. (Appendix A. 1.) „ July 21 — "The Wardens to have the order of the
Scole." „ Nov. 4 — Colet's Testament (in Latin) for the
foundation of the School.
1512. Sffltlllam Uilg, i^iaf) JUastcr.
„ March 30 — "The Master and Wardens to conchide with
Mr. Deane of Poules " (m.). „ July 17 — Colet's Statutes, "The Poke of Ordinance of the
Scole of Powles was exhibited by Mr. Deane" (m._).
* (m.) signifies an extract from the mar- or Minutes of the Proceedings of the Court giual Notes or Index to the Acts of Court of Assistants of the Mercers' Company.
FASTI OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL.
1512. Sept. 6 — Indenture for a grant of land at the east end of tlie chapel of St. Dunstan of the Church of St. Paul, made between the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's and the Mercers' Company.
1514. June 10— Colet's Will, bestowing realty upon the Mercers' Company for the maintenance of the School. (Appendix
A. 2.)
1518. Colet delivers his Statutes to William Lily. (Appendix B. 1.) „ Aug. 22 — Colet's two Wills for his remaining realty and
personalty.
1519. Sept. 16— Death of the Founder (so Knight, but Fuller says,
Sept. 4).
1522, June. — Oration to tlie Emperor Charles V. on his visiting
the City. Dec. 10— 3Jo]bn Miltogsf, |^tg]& iWaSto:, vice Lily, deceased.
1523, The first Chaplain appointed (Sir John Thomson).
1524, Two lovers (louvres) were ordered to be made in the roof of
the School (m.). „ A book was purchased "to register the children's names in"(A.).i 1527, Nov. — The boys of St. Paul's School acted a play at Greenwich when Ritwyse was paid 3.s. 2d. for the food of xxxviii, children and 45s. Qd. for " kosts."
1532, l^irtartJ 51°'^^^) ?^iSt) JWastrr, vice Ritwyse, removed,
1533. ]\Iay 31 — Anne Bole}^, on her passage through the City at
her Coronation, was entertained by the boys of St. Paul's School with verses in praise of the King and her, wherewith she seemed highly delighted.
1543. Sept. 27 — The School ordered to cease " until such time as the
plage be ceased " (m.).
1544. Procession of the children of Pawles Scheie with the Litany
in English. (Harrison's Chronology).
1546. Procession of "the Childerne of Powlles Scole " to St. Peter's
upon Cornhill (Monumenta Franciscana).
1547. Dec. 17 — Examination of Jones and Jacob, the Schoolmasters
of Paul's (m.),
1548. Aug. 5 — The School to surcease till Michaelmas because of
the greate deathe (m.).
1549. Oct. 8— tirtomas dFrrcmnn, |^ig]^ JWastfr, vice Jones,
deceased,
^ (a.) signifies an extract from tlie Ac- and the former half of the nest. Each
counts of St. Paul's School, preserved at extract, therefore, has a double date, unless
Mercers' Hall. The accounts run from the occurrence can be fixed more exactly
Michaelmas to Michaelmas, so that each ac- from internal evidence, ciunt contains the latter half of one year
FASTI OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL.
1554. Jan. 25 — Procession through the City, in which the children of St. Paul's School took part (Stow). March 8 — Procession repeated (Stow).
The following entries in the Accounts indicate the effect of the accession of Queen Mary : — 1553-4. " Two candlesticks for the chappell, 3s. 4f^."
1554-5. " Paid for two altar clothes, two towelles, and corporous [sic) cloth and mass book, 41s. Id." „ " Vestment, rearedore and foredore and covering for the
altar . . . ., 53s. 4d" „ " For waxe spent in the chapell of the Schole this year, 3s. 4fd."
1555-6. "For a narrow wighte clothe for an albe and \
linen, V 7s, 7d."
„ " Two elles of Holland for an altar cloth, J
„ " Waxe for the chapell, 8s."
1556-7."For waxe, 6s."
„ " The picture of Jesus set up agayne " (m.).
„ " Paid to Dyrricke Cure, Carver, for new making the
picture of Jesus in the Schole, 20s." „ " Paid for payenting and gilding the same picture, 20s."
1559. ^Olbn Coofe, l^tcjl) piaster, vice Freeman, retired. „ Address to Queen Elizabeth on her Accession. „ " Paid for the hyre of a blewe cloth for their standing ayonst the corronacion, 3s. 4d."
1559-60. "To be allowed for the fall of money that was lost in tes- ternes that fell from 6d. to 4<d., £10 10s. 7d." (a.).
1561-2, "Paid for taking away the pictur out of the Scole where the Master sayeth prayers, 8d."
1564. June 2 — It was resolved that Exhibitions should be given to two Scholars, one at each University, especially to promote the advancement of the scholars of St. Paul's School. The " articles " or terms on which the Exhibitions were to be held, drawn up by the Bishop of London (Edmund Grindall), were laid before the Court of the Company, July 26th, 1564. The first Exhibitioner was elected on September 26th. The Exhibitions were fixed, to be of the value of £5 per annum, January 9th, 1565 (Appendix F. 1),
1572, The Company obtained judgment (which was entered in the Exchequer in Trinity Term, Anno. Eliz. 15) against Mr. Knevet who had laid an information against them for " concealed chauntery lands" {i.e. Colet's endowment for a chaplain), but who failed in his " profes " : nevertheless by the mediation of Sir Walter Mildmay and others, " out of their meere liberalitye," they gave Mr. Knevet
]0 FASTI OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL.
40 lih. sterling. This trouble recurs frequently in subse- quent years. In 1579—80, the Company again entered an appearance in the Exchequer on the same complaint ; and in 1580, a fine of £300 was recorded against the Compan}'^ for the same matter ; but it does not appear to have been paid out of St. Paul's School funds, though there are further entries on the same subject in 1582-83 (a.).
1573. July 28 — The boys may have license to play every Thursday
afternoon, "so that one of every of the forms in the Upper School by turn one after another first make an epistle to their Master for the same " (m.).
Christmas— SSHtlliam iliJlalgm, l^tat .plaster, vice Cook. „ In this year " a shedde or lyttel house of tymber, now at the East end of St. Paul's Church under St. Dunstan's Chapel, where the children's pissing place' stood," was repaired and made into a residence " for the pore man, the porter of the Schole, to be more readier to attend upon the said Schole and to keep it clean."
1574. It was agreed between the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's and
Jesus College, Cambridge, that two of the Scholars on the foundation of Dr. Reston should be nominated by the Dean and Chapter, the Candidates to be chosen from St. Paul's School, or, in defect, from any other School.
1575. Oct. 29 — The morrow after Simon and Jude, Mr. Malym's
Scholar made an oration on a " skaffolde " set up at Paul's School, when Mr. Ambrose Nicholas, then Lord Mayor, returned from Westminster (A.).
1575-6. A grant is made to John Meeke, chief bellringer of Pawles, towards his paines in bringing to light an old " pervy of easement" (i.e. privy) "that some time longede to the Children of Pawles Schole,^ and also for the easement of all inhabitants thereabouts." From subsequent entries it seems that Meeke became involved in a lawsuit with Abraham Vele,^ bookbinder, who had taken the said "pervy" into his shop, and in 1577-8 Meeke received a further grant, but it does not appear whether he was successful in his suit.
1578. William Malym delivers an oration (in Latin) to Duke John
Casimir.
1579. July 28 — It was resolved " that such as have the reversions of
Scholarships be examined at Polls " (Paul's).
1 For the use to which this "place" his Court attending a sermon at Paul's
was put, see Colet's Statutes (Appendix B.) Cross on March 26, 1620. The brick
under the headiug "The Children." cessiJool belonging to it still remains in
^ See, However, Colet's Statutes (Ap- situ, and was uncovered when the gardens
pendix B.), under the heading " The were hitely made.
Children." A view of the pervy may lie ^ Jq 1556^ Abraham Veale, at the sign
seen in an engraving in the Grace Col- of the Lamb in Paul's Churchyard, printed
lection representing King James L and Pobyuson's translation of More's Utopia.
FASTI OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL. 11
1581. Nov. 8— 3JoIjn l^arn'son, W%\f it\ast£r, vice Malym,
resigned. „ "A number of our Company assembled, with Mr. Deane of Powel's (Alex""- Nowel) and other learned men, for the tryall of the said Schole Master's sufficiency " (a.). On this occasion " Mr. Wilkinson, reader of the Greek Lector at Cambridge," was the defeated candidate for the High Mastershij), and received a present for his expenses. „ The first mention of tlie Apposition. " Paid for dinner at the Examination of the Scholars at Candlemas (February 2)" (a).
I.jS'I. Thomas Gyles, Master of the Quiristers in St. Paul's Cathedral, is directed to instruct them in the Cate- chism, Writing, and Music ; and then suffer them to resort to St. Paul's School that they may learn the principles of Grammar : and after, as they shall be forwards, learn the said Catechism in Latin, which before they learned in English, and other good books taught in the said School. (Churton's Life of Nowel, page 190).
1585-6. The cojDy of the Statutes,^ now preserved at Mercers' Hall, was rebound, as appears by these entries : — „ Paid "for a cover of vellom for Mr. CoUette's book of ordenaunce wherein his own handwriting is : the said Mr. CoUette's picture is now newly made on the outside, and for stringe of silk and for binding the same, 6s." „ Paid to Segar " for drawing the picture of Mr. Dr. Collette upon the cover of vellom of the book of ordenance very fair in cuUors, 40s."
1588-9. "The tenement at the end of Poules Church (see under 1572-3) has now been converted into a house for the Under Usher ; in the following year this house was beaten down with the fall of a stone (" a pynnakell ") from Poull's Church by the great wynd (A.).^
1592. Feb. 5 — The dinner was held at Mercers' Hall instead of at the Schole " for that two or three had died of the sickness lately." „ An inventory was made of the implements at the School, " both before Harrison's time and since bought."
1594. Speech of the boys of St. Paul's School to the Masquers of Gray's Inn.
^ Printed at. large in Appendix B. men's houses, and overtbrewe many cliim-
' 1589. The fift of January, about fiue nies, and caused many men feare the over-
of the clocke in the euening, before the throw of their houses : one of the three
Twelfth day, began a great and terrible West gates of Saint Paules Cliurch, to wit,
Tempest of Wind in tlie Soutli-West, which that next to the Bishoppes Palace, was
continued with great veheniency till about broken witli the bolts, barres, and lockes
11 of the clocke of the same night ; thi.s of the same gate, so that it was blowne
iu the City of London blew the Tiles off over. (Stow's Annals, London, 1631.)
12 FASTI OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL
1595. Feb. — " The audit dinner for the accompt was holden at
Mercers' Hall this year, for that Harrison still kept j)OSsession of the School House."
The details of this quarrel are yjreserved among the records at Mercers' Hall. " Proceedings in the Court of Chancery, Richard Smith and Francis Herring (1596), Schoolmasters, against the Company ; also letters of sundiy Honble personages, and said Harrison's appeal into the Archers {sic) and Bill of Articles to my Lord of Canterbury, with the Company's severall answers to every of the same."
From the following entries it seems that while the dispute went on the scholars were transferred to the care of Mulcaster: —
159G-7. " Paid to Christopher Johnson for his paines in teaching under Mr. Mulcaster till Lady Day in Lent last" (a.).
„ " Paid to John Be vane for reward for teaching the schol-
lers of Poules one quarter under Mr. Moncaster in Mylk Street " (A.).
„ " To Mr. Mansfield, late Mr. Moncaster's ussher" (a.).
1596. Aug. 5— IRt'cljartl JHliIcaSlfr, ^iglb iKlaster, vice Harrison,
removed. „ March 4 — "The assistants and learned men" met at Mercers' Hall to establish orders for the Schole.
1600. The Usher's house was raised and comi^ensation paid to " Thomasyn Rode, widdowe, for hurtes done " thereby to her house. „ " Given to Mulcaster to distribute among the boys at the apposition, 5s." Apparently this is the first "Distribution of Prizes." The sum distributed was increased to 10s. in 1601, and 20s. in 1602 : and at this it remained till 1630-40, when it appears to cease.
1602. June 24 — Amending Ordinances made by the Court of As-
sistants of the Mercers' Company signed by " Mr. Fleming, the King's Solicitor, and Mr. Sergeant Foster," to whom payments were made for their counsel in 1602-3. (See Appendix B. 2.)
1603. Oration of one of Mr, Mulcaster's Scholars to King James I.
1608. Tvfarch 10— aicxanUct CSill, f^icrf) iiJlaStfV, vice Mulcaster, resigned.
1612. The Exhibitions to the University were increased in value
from £5 to £10. 1614-15. " Paid to Pawle Jackson for setting up Dr. Collette's picture
at the upper end of the Schole, £3 10s." 1617-18. The Scholars of Pawles made a play in Mercers' Hall on
quarter day.
FASTI OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL. 13
1619. Sept. 10 — The boys of Paul's acted a play in Mercers' Hall
at the Wardens' Feast.
1620. The House at the East end of Powles is pulled down "by
order of the Lords of the Privy Council." From this time till the Fire the Under Usher has an allowance (£3 Qs. 8d.) for house rent.
1626-7. "Paid to the citty waites for Music at the play that was acted by the Schollers, 5s."
1629. Oct. 13 — Foundation of the Campden Exhibitions by the will of Sir Baptist Hicks, Viscount Campden. Brought before the Court November 21 and December 3, 1632. (Appendix E. 2.)
1635. Nov. 18— ainantifC (ffiftll (Junior), J^igj^ ittastn", vice Gill, deceased.
1640. Jan. 7— gjolju Eaitglcg, it^tgi) J^astfr, vice Gill, "displaced." 1644. No Exhibitions were paid in this year, nor in 1645 nor 1646, but payments were resumed in 1647.
1645-6. During some part of this year the Schollers were taught in the Convocation House in Paules (a.).
1646. " Eight paires of gloves for the Scholars who made orations, 12s." (a.), and in the next year "Sixteen paires."
1657. Sept. 14— Samuel OTromlf^Cihlte, Wsf) iWastrr, vice Langley, deceased.
1659. Sir Richard Wood's Scholarship founded at St. John's College,
Cambridge. (Appendix E. 3.)
1659-60, In this year certain quit-rents, which, since 1649, have been entered as " due to the Commonwealth," are again entered as " due to the King's Majesty " (a.).
1660. Jan. 25— The Feast of the Scholars was first held. (Ap-
pendix H.)
1663-4. "To Mrs. Segood in lieu of a book of the orders of Paul's which she did (give) to the Company, £1 " (A.).
1664-5. Four years was fixed for the time for Scholars to be in the School before they sue for Exhibitions.
1665. No Apposition holden by reason of the great visitation of the
plague. ,, On Midsummer Day the School was dismissed, to be reopened
when it seemed good to the Surveyor- Accountant. „ Mr. Cromleholme wrote a Sche(hde of Books in the School
Study.
1666. Sept. 6 and 7 — The First School Buildings perished in the
Fire of London. „ Oct. 19 — The School was ordered to cease, the buildings being down and the scholars scattered (m.). All Exhi- bitions were to be paid up to Michaelmas, 1666.
14 FASTI OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL.
1066-70. During this interval the School appears to have been closed. The three Masters received their bare salaries, according to the Founder's directions, on yjromising to return when the School opened : meanwhile they might find other employment. In the accounts of 1666-7 a quarter or half-year's Exhibition only is j)aid to each Exhibitioner, and all Exhibitions cease till Lady Day, 1678-9.
1666-70. All entries in the Accounts refer, firstly to the clearing away rubbish (1666-7), secondly to the purchase of some additional ground and tenements in Old Change (1667-8), and thirdly to the expenses of rebuilding (1668-9 and 1669-70).
1670. (Schola) "Eestaurata feliciter" post incendium (Inscription).
1671. March 28 — It was ordered that the School should open the
next week after Easter week (m.).
1672. It was resolved that the Exhibitions in the gift of the Mercers'
Company (Lady North's and Mrs. Robinson's) should in preference be given to boys of St. Paul's or of Mercers' Chapel School. This rule was renewed February 17, 1681^.
Aug. 5— (jrf)OmaS €fale, WS^ M^^ttX, vice Cromleholme, deceased.
1674. Jan, 25 — The Scholars' Feast revived (after ten years' interval).
1676-7. The sum of £110 was paid for a house in Old Change, which was "laid into" the High Master's house.
The following entry refers to Monmouth's re- bellion : — 1685. "Allowed Henry Somner, Esq., the Company's propor- tion of the charge for finding a soldier for the Wathes ffarme in time of the late rebellion in the West, £3 lO.s." (A.).
1687-8. "For new laying all the front of the Schole and Schole- master's houses, the most part of it now Purbeck Stone within the posts, £18 3s." (a.).
1693-4. " For convex lights at St. Paul's School, 12.3."
1696. Exhibitions at Trinity College, Cambridge, founded by Rev. William Perry. (Appendix E. 4.)
1097. Sept. 3— gJoi)n lostlftijtoaet, ?i?igf) iHa0tct, vice Gale, resigned. „ This year a fire occurred in tlie Surmaster's house (Mr. Ays- cough). Jan. 25 — The Scholars' Feast revived (after eighteen years' interval).
1699-1700. A clock was put up at St. Paul's School, and the " Dyall " gilded and painted.
FASTI OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL. 15
1702. The School was repaired and beautified.
1711. Exhibitions founded by Dr. Gower at St. John's College,
Cambridge. (Appendix E. 5.)
1712. March 20 — The High Master was ordered to file the presenta-
tions issued by the Surveyor Accountant, and to register the names in a book.
1713. ^I^tltp ^ )S(:OUgf), Witt i^aStrr, vice Postlethwayt, deceased.
1721. June 2 — Smfamtn iHovlanti, ?t?tgf) JKastrr, vice Ayscough,
resigned.
1723. Jan. 25 — The Scholars' Feast revived (after six years' interval).
1725. From this date till 1749 there are no records of payments to Exhibitioners out of the School Funds.
1733. Cimoti))) (Crumpf , ?t?tgt) iilastfr, vice Morland, deceased.
1737. ^SfOrgc Clftarlrs, WQ^) i^astrr, vice Crumpe, deceased.
l7-i3. The earliest known printed Catalogue of the School Library.
174'5. From this date till 1755 there are no records of payments to Campden Exhibitioners.
1748. Aug. 12— SfCrgc CJ)lcfencSSf, ?^lg$ iKaStrr, vice Charles,
resigned.
1749. May 16 — The High Master was ordered to deliver yearly to
the Surveyor Accountant a list of Scholars. (These lists are to be found complete up to the present time.)
1752. March 25 — It was ordered that a Gold Medal, weighing l^oz., be given annually to the most deserving Scholar.
1755. Jan. 25 — The Scholars' Feast revived (after twenty-seven years' interval).
1766. Exhibitions founded by Rev. George Sykes at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. (Appendix E. 6.)
1769. May 24— l^idjart IRollfltS, WQ^ Hflastfr, vice Thicknesse, resigned.
1773. The Hiqh Master began to employ an Assistant to help him in the teaching the Fifth and Sixth Classes.
1780. Exhibition founded by John Stock at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. (Appendix E. 7.)
1782. The School was held at Blacksmiths' Hall, near Old Fish Street, the buildings being under repair.
1791. Meeting of Old Paulines in consequence of the death of Mr. Thicknesse, formerly High Master.
1810. May 1— The Fourth Centenary Festival of the School, held at Freemasons' Hall. Present, the Lord Bishop of Salisbury, Sir Philip Francis, K.B., &c.
16 FASTI OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL.
1814. June 16— 3Jof)n Slfatf), ji^iQf) M^^ttt, vice Roberts, resigned.
1815. The Governors' Prizes for Latin Hexameters and English Verse
first given. (Appendix F. 1.)
1823. Foundation of the Sleath Prize (Latin Prose). (Appen-
dix F. 2.) „ The School was held in Aldersgate Street during rebuilding.
1824. Sept. — The School occupied its new Buildings — the third since
its foundation.
1828. The Governors' Prize for Greek Iambics first given. (Ap- pendix F. 1.)
1838. June 22—^CXttXt Kgnaston, Wsb i^astrr, vice Sleath, resigned.
1840. The Governors' Prize for an English Essay first given. (Appendix- F. 1.)
1844. Address to Queen Victoria on the opening of the Royal Exchange. „ Feb. 7 — Foundation of the Thomas Barnes Scholarship at Cambridge, (first Election, 1867). (Appendix E. 8.)
1847. The Shields with the names of famous Scholars were placed on the School Walls. „ May 18 — Prince Albert was present at the Apposition.
1849. The Thruston Prize instituted. (Appendix F. 3.)
1851. The Truro Prize founded by Lord Chancellor Truro, (Ap- pendix F. 4.) The Milton Prize founded by Sir Charles M. Clarke. (Appendix F. 5.)
1859. June 8 — The Seventh Jubilee of St. Paul's School was celebrated at the Apposition. Publication of the High Master's Lays of the Seven Half-Centuries.
1863. March — Address on the entry of the Princess Alexandra into
London (presented at the subsequent Icvde).
1864. June 15 — The Prince of Wales was present at the Apposition. „ June 15 — The Old Pauline Dinner was revived.
1868. Foundation of the Keen Scholarship. (Appendix F. 6.)
1876. Establishment of the New Governors under the Scheme of
the Endowed Schools Commissioners.
1877. dFrrtfrlrk 2121i. SSlalltfr, ?t?lg$ JHastcr, vice Kynaston
resigned. „ Foundation of the Kynaston Prize. (Appendix F. 7.)
1881. Foundation of the Bedford Prize. (Appendix F. 8.)
THE MASTEES AND SCHOLARS
ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL.
ABBREVIATIONS.
A., The School Accounts.
A.B., Artium Baccalaureus.
A.C., Athen* Cantabrigienses.
A.M., Artium Magister.
A.O. Athens Oxonienses.
A.R.I.C.E., Associate of the Royal Insti- tution of Civil Engineers.
B.A., Bachelor of Arts.
B.C.L.. Bachelor of Civil Law (Oxford).
B.D., Bachelor of Divinity (generally used, in this work, of Oxford Graduates).
B.M., Bachelor of Medicine.
B.M., Bloxam's Magdalen College.
C.M.G., Companion of St. Michael and St. George.
C.I.E., Companion of the Indian Empire.
D.C.L., Doctor of Civil Law (Oxford).
D.D., Doctor of Divinity (generally used, in this work, of Oxford Graduates).
F.R.C.P., FeUowof the Royal College of Physicians.
F.R.C.S., Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.
F.R.I. B.A., Fellow of the Royal Insti- tution of British Architects.
F.R.S., Fellow of the Royal Society.
H.M., High Master.
K.B., Knight of the Bath.
K.C.B., Knight Commander of the Bath.
K.G., Knight of the Garter.
LL.B., Bachelor of Civil Law (Cambridge).
LL.M., Master of Civil Law (Cambridge).
LL.D., Doctor of Civil Law (Cambridge).
L.S.A., Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries.
M., Marginal Notes to the Minutes or Acts of Court of the Mercers' Company.
M.A., Master of Arts.
M.B., Bachelor of Medicine.
M.D., Doctor of Medicine.
M.L., Licentiate of Medicine.
M.R.C.S., Member of the Royal College of
Surgeons. N.S., New Style. O.P., Old Pauline. O.S., Old Style : the year began on the
25th March till January 1st, 1752. Q.C., Queen's Counsel. S.A., Surveyor-Accountant. S.C.L., Student of Civil Law. S.P.C.K., Society for Promoting Christian
Knowledge. S.P.G., Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel. S.P.S., St. Paul's School. S. T.B. , Bachelor of Divinity (generally used,
in this work, of Cambridge Graduates). S.T.P., Doctor of Divinity (Sancta; Theo-
logife Professor) (generally used, in this
work, of Cambridge Graduates).
Lit. Hum., Literee Humaniores ; the final
Classical School at Oxford, arm. fil., armigeri filius. cler. fil., clerici filius. gen. fil., generosi filius. pleb. fil., plebeii filius.
? preceding a name suggests a doubt whether he was a Pauline.
? following a name suggests a doubt as to the spelling.
? follo\ving a date suggests that the author- ity is doubtful.
Observe that Benet was the old name of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge ; Cardinal College of Christ Church, Oxford ; Broad- gates Hall of Pembroke College, Oxford ; Gloucester Hall of Worcester College, Oxford ; and Hart Hall stood on the site of Hertford College, Oxford.
LIST OF MASTERS AND SCHOLAES.
1512—1522 High Master^ WILLIAM LILY.
Bom at Odyliam, Hants, circa 1466 ; Demy of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1486, B.A. ; visited Jerusalem and made some stay in Rhodes where he acquired the Greek tongue, thence visited Rome ; returned to England and settled in London where he taught Grammar, Poetry, and Rhetoric ; selected by Colet as first High Master; died 1522. He was the joint author of a Latin Grammar {Brc.vissima Institutio) which remained the basis of all Latin grammars in use till the present generation. He is probably identical with William Lily, Vicar of Holcote, Northampton, 1492-95.
Sur master 1512 Thomas Percy, otherwise Persy.
Siirmastcr 1515 Maurice Birchinshaw.
Called Master Morris in the "Accounts." "In 1511 (December 11th) M. B., a scholar of the faculty of Rhetoric, was admitted (at Oxford) to inform in the faculty of Grammar. He taught in the School adjoining Magdalen College great gate. In 1515, July 2, M. B. the celebrated grammarian was admitted B.C.L. He was afterwards Prebendary of "Wells" (A.O.). Possibly he was Mauritius to whom Constable addresses the following epigram : —
Nunc scio, Maurici, placuit tibi culta vetustas
Quod delegisti fertile gymnasium. Nempe virum expectat te clara Britannia talem
Qualis erat Romte Tullius ipse suse.
Surmaster 1517 * John Ritwise.
Subsequently High Master 1522— 1532 (which see).
Chaplain.
There is no record of any payment to a chaplain till 1523-24. Probably these duties were supplied under the immediate direction of the Founder up to that time.
' A complete list of the High Masters but afterwards
and Sub (Sur) Masters, from 1512 to 1637, 1559. John Cook, chosen High-mr.
is found api^ended to one of the copies of James Jacob, Sub-mr.
Colet's statutes preserved at Mercers' Hall. 1561. John Cook, High-mr.
"Whenever a change in the tenant of either Christopher Holden, Sub-mr.
oflBce occurs, the name of the tenant of Possibly this is the copy of the Statutes
the other is usually repeated. for writing which Mulcaster was paid
Thus— 3s. 4d. in 1598-99.
1512. "Willm Lilie, high Mr- placed As I have discovered no notice at
by ye Founder. Mercers' Hall of the appointment of
Thomas Persy, Submaster. Masters for the School before 1522, I am
1515. Maurice Birchinshaw, Sub- inclined to think that the first three Sur-
mr., &c. masters were appointed by the Founder.
18 SCHOLARS OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL. [1512-22
SCHOLAKS.
Thomas Lupset,
Son of William Lupsei, goldsmith of London ; born about 1495 ; said to have been supiiorted by Colet (to whom he is said to have acted as amanuensis) at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge ; accompanied Richard Paice on his embassy to Venice, 1515 ; took his B.A. at Paris; and returning to England, 1519, settled at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he rend the Pihetoric and Humanity lecture founded by Wolsey. "in 1521 he was admitted M.A. of Oxford, and read Wolsey's Greek lecture. In 1523 he was admitted to the Chapel of St. Nicholas, in the parish of Stanford-le-hope, Essex. The same year he was at Padua with Pole (afterwards Cardinal), whose acquaintance he had made in 1515. Rector of Great Mougeham, Kent, 1526, and also of St. Martin, Ludgate ; Rector of Cheriton, Hants, 1530 ; and Prebendary of Ruscombe (Samm). He died of consumption in 1530, and was buried at St. Alphege, London Wall. He was the author of Epistokc varicc, Basle, 1520 ; A treatise of Charitc, London, 1529. Two works of his were posthumously printed, An exhortation to yonge men, persivaudi/nge them to walk in the pathe way thj,t leadeth to honestye and goodnes, written to a frendc of his, by Thomas Lupsete, Londoner, London, 1530, and A compendious and a very frutcful treatise teaching the way of Dyeing well, London, 1534.
Edward North,
Born in 1496 ; son of Roger, citizen and mercer of London ; proceeded to Peter- house, Cambridge, but did not graduate ; studied the law and became one of tlie King's Serjeants iu 1537. Henceforth till the accession of Elizabeth, he plays an important part in the history of England. He was summoned to Parliament as Baron North of Kirtling, iu 1554 ; died 1564. He is reckoned as a Benefactor by the University of C'ambridge and by Peterhouse. He was ancestor of the present Baroness North and the Earl of Guilford.
Anthony Denny,
Born 1500-1 ; entered St. John's College, Cambridge ; became a gentleman of the bedchamber to Henry Vlll. and finally King's Remembrancer and Groom of the Stole ; was knighted before 1546 ; was one of the executors of the king's will ; died 1550. He was a great benefactor of the School of Sedbergh, York.
William Paget,
Son of a Serjeant-at-Mace in Ijondon ; said to have gone to Trinity Hall, but apparently did not gi'aduate ; entered the household of Gardiner, afterwards Bishop of Winchester; went thence to the University of Paris. In 1532 he entered the service of king Henry VI 1 1., under whom he held various offices and was appointed one of the executors of the king's will. During the reign of Edward VI. he attached himself first to the side of Somerset, and on his fall to that of Northumberland. He was made K.G. in 1546-47, and called to the House of Lords as Baron Paget of Beaudesert in 1551. He was on the Privy-Council of Queen Jane, but was one of the first to welcome Queen Mary's accession. He retired from puldic life on the accession of Queen Elizabeth, and died in 1563. His monument was erected in Lichfield Cathedral. He was High Steward of the University of Cambridge in 1546 and again in 1554. He filled one of the foremost places in the history of England for nearly twenty years : his descendant is now Marquess of Anglesey.
John Leland, otherwise Leyland,
Born in London about 1506 ; graduated B.A. (Lelond) at Christ's College, Cambridge, 1522, whence he removed to All Souls' College, Oxford; was sent to Paris with an exhibition by Henry VIII. where he acquired the friendship of Budseus and other famous men of the time. In 1530 he was admitted Rector of Poppeling in the Marches of Calais, but serving the King as Librarian had licence for non-residence. In 1533 he was appointed King's Antiquarian. For six years he travelled over England pursuing his researches, and in 1546 presented the King with a scheme of his great work under the title of a New Year's gift. In 1542 he became Rector of Haseley, Oxon. ; and in 1543 he was made a Canon of King's College, Oxford, (now Chiist Church) ; he was also Prebendary of Sarum, an apjiointnient which he perhaps received in exchange for his Canonry. In 1550 he lost his reason, and dying in 1552 was buried in the church of St. Michael le Quern. His works were not published in his lifetime, but liis MSS. are mostly jireserved at Oxford. His Co7nmentnrii de Scriptoribus Britaniiicis was eilited iu 1709 by Anthony Hall ; his Itinerary in 1710, &c., by Thomas Hearne ; his Collectanea de rebus Britannicis in 1715 by Heanie.
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John Clement,
He was taken from St. Paul's School by Sir Thomas More. He read Wolsoy's Ehctoric Lecture at Corpus Christ! College, Oxford, 1519 ; and also his Greek Lecture, '•' being singularly seen in the Greek tongue." He became tutor to Margaret More (Koper). Being opposed to the Keformation, he retired abroad during the reign of Edward VI., and though he returned to England in the reign of Mary, he exiled himself again after the accession of Elizabeth, and died at Mechlin, in Brabant, 1572. He was a member of the College of Phj'siciaus : see his character in Mores Epistle to Peter Giles in the Utopia.
Robert Pursgiove,
Alias Sylvester, a native of Tideswell, in Derbyshire, was maintained by his uncle, "William Bradshaw, at St. Paul's School for nine years ; from thence he went to St. Mary Overies and subsequently to Corpus Cliristi College, Oxford, where he remained fourteen years ; thence he became Prior of Guisborough, York, which post he resigned on the dissolution of the monasteries in 1540. He was subsequently Suffragan Bishop of Hull and died in 1579, being buried at Tideswell, where his epitaph exists on a brass. He founded in 1560 a free grammar school at Tideswell ; and at Guisborough he founded the Jesus School and also almshouses for six men and six women in 1561.
Eichavdus Vernanms,
Pauline Scholfe alumnus. Author of an epigram printed at the end of Rudimenta Grammatices —
Quisquis adest Latiam cupiens contexere linguam
Nostraque dulciloquis verba referre modis Hunc emat, hunc tenero perstriugat corde libellum PoUice quern faeili Lilius ediderat.
Also of the following epigram, appended to Lily's De Generibus Nominum et Verborum prmteritis ac supinis Rcgidtv, Antwerj), 1538 —
En parvo sumptu parvoque volumine prodit
Parvus non parvo {sic) scriptus ab arte liber. Hunc emat et parva {sic) silii quilibet sere puellus Comparet et parvo tempore niulta sciet.
RlCHARDl VeRNAMI CaRMEN.
The two following are sometimes assigned to St. Paul's School : — John Constable,
Son of Roger C. ; born in London, and educated under William Lily ; afterwards at Byham Hostel, Oxford, B. A. 1511, M. A. 1515. He published /««?(» is Co?^staiZ/^, Londincnsis, Artium Profcssoris Epigrammata apud indyti Londini urban. Londini MCXX (ex oflicina Richardi Pynsonis nonis Septembris). Among his epigrams the following refer to Lily —
AflD LiLIUM Pr.ecf.ptorem. Prseceptor facunde tuas quis dicere laudes
Quas meritus multis es quseat ecce modis : Nunc seris in nostris cultissima semina camjiis,
Maturasque refert pingue solum segetes. Ipse puer teneris a te enutritus ab annis
CoUegi ex aaro (? arvo) semina piulchra tuo : Ergo magis nostro crescant si gramina campo, Nunc danda est, Lili, gloria tota tibi.
In BoSSUM LlLlO-MASlIGEM.
Heus subito tacuit, vidit sua carmina Bossus
Quum viciis toties stulta scatere malis. Quumque pari nequeat conatu vincere vatem,
Suppudet et versus jam negat esse suos. Euome de angnineo libeat si pectore virus :
Nil nocet egregio perfida lingua viro.
Thomas Nightingale,
("Vir le]iidus et poeta," as Balseus saith) B.C.L. of Oxford, 1515; was educated under AVilliam Lilj', but there is no ground for supposing that he was a pupil of St. Paul's School ; author of De obitu Joannis Colcti Carmen ; In mortem Gul. Lilii clcgifr.
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SCHOLARS OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL. [1522-32
1522—1532 High Master JOHN RITWYSE.
December 10, 1522.
Rightwyse, Kitwis, Rightewes (iu Latin, Righeuus and Justus) ; born at Sail (Saul, Sawl) in Norfolk. Educated at Eton, whence he went to King's College, Cambridge; B.A. 1513; was Surmaster in St. Paul's School, 1517-22, and man-ied Dionysia, daughter of "William Lily, who survived him. Author of the tragedy of Dido which he acted with liis scholars before Cardinal "Wolsey ; Polydore Vergil speaks of him as " Docti-inte et morum magister." In January, 1531, occurs the entry in the Privy Purse Expenses of Henry VIII : "Paid to Rightwise, Schole Master of Ponies by the king's commandment, sxii. lib. ix. s." (probabljf for the King's Scholar, George Frauncs, see below). ^ He was removed from his office November 10th, 1531, for neglect of his duties.
Surmaster 1522 Richard Jones.
Subsequently High Master 1532-49 (which see).
Chaplain 1523 SiR John Thomson.^
The first Chaplain : this office not having been filled up till 1523. He received for the rent of his chamber ten shillings per annum, subsequently increased to thirteen shillings and fourpence.
Chaplain 1531 Sir William Dyngley.
February 27.
SCHOLARS.
George Frauncs,
It appears from the Privy Purse Expenses of Henry VIII. that in 1531 and 1532 payments were made to the School blaster of Powles for G. F. the King's Scholar, and in July of 1532 "for the Exhibucion of G. F."
Nichola.s Frauncs,
Also in September and December of 1532 payments were made for N. F,
1 It is from this entry that I proceed to Harrison's "Children of Pawles School"
infer that the similar payments made in (1541), Stow's " Children of S. Pauls
1531 and 1532 to the "School Master of School" (1554), and Nowel's "Scholars
Powles," were made for boys at Colet's of Ponll's Scholle " (1569 and 1573).
School, rather than at the Cathedral School, - The title of "Sir" (Dominus) was
tlie very existence of which as a place of commonly given to the clergy (possibly
good education at this date seems to require especially to Cliantrj' Priests) before the
further demonstration. And if it be granted Reformation. Compare Shakespeare's Sir
that Colet's Foundation is meant by Hugh Evans, Sir Oliver Martext, Sir Na-
" Powles School" in 1531, (as it certainly thaniel, and Sir Topaz, was in 1527,) I venture to claim as Paulines,
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1532—1549 High Master RICHAED JONES.
Novemlcr 11, 1532.
Sur Master 1522 — 1532. " Deinde secutus est Richardus Jonys" (Polydore Vergil Hist, Angl. xxvi. ). He died 15-19.
Surmaster 1532 James Jacob.
Novcmher 16. "(Jakobbe) married Diouysia, daur. of "W. Lily, and \yidow of John Eitwyse. (1560) the xvjth day of January was bered at Sant Aus(tins) Jakobe the husser of Powlles SkoUe : at ys berehyjig were a xx. clarkes syngyng ym to the chyrche and (there) was a sermon " (Diary of Henry MacTiyn). This entry is confirmed by the Register of St. Augustine's parish.
Chaplain 1532 Sir William Dyngley (conUmied).
In 1543 Sir W. D.'s name occurs again as Chaplain, probably from an error of the \n-iter.
Chaplain 1542 Sir John Benson,
Sir John Benson dyde 18th day of Auguste 1552 (a).
• SCHOLAR.
William Harrison,
Born 18 April, 1534. He says in his Chronology under date 1544 : " The children of Pawles Scheie, whereof I was one at that time, were enforced to buy those bookes " {i.e. "the Letimy in thenglish towng"); subsequently he went to Westminster School, and thence to Oxford where he graduated; in 1569 he was made B. D. of Cambridge being then an M. A. of Oxford of seven years' standing ; he was Chaplain to Sir William Brooke, Lord Cobham ; Rector of Radwinter, Essex, 1558-59 — 1593 ; Vicar of Wimbish, Essex, 1570-71 — 1581 ; Prebendary of Windsor, 1586 ; died about February 11, 1593-94 ; Author of Chronology.
22 SCHOLARS OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL. [i549-S9
1549—1559 High Master THOMAS FREEMAN.
October 8, 1549.
On March 22, 1545, he was granted the reversion of the High Mastership, being then Master of the Mercers' Chapel School, in preference to one, Gryndall, (possibly Edmund Grindal, subsequently Archbishop of Canterbury,) who had made application on January 2, 1545, under favour of the Queen's grace for the room of the High Mastership. Stow says of him, " who also spent ten years in the laborious employment of the education of youth, and then came into his province John Cook." On July 17, 1559, he was warned "to avoide from his ofhce for insuificiency of learning and lack of the Greek tongue."
Surmastcr James Jacob {continued).
See 1532 — 1549. He received a reward by reason that he was not made Master after Ric. Jones' death £6 13s. 4c?.
Chaplain SiR John Benson {continued).
See 1532—1549.
Chaplain 1552 Sir Thomas Shakespeyre.
September 7. Departed at Lady Day, 1555-56.
Chaplain 1556 Sir John Chattelles.
Jpril 24.
Chaplain 1557 Sir Thomas Monymay.
These three Chaplains were no doubt concerned in tlie restoration of the Mass, &c., in the School Chapel (see Fasti under date).
Chaplain 1558 {N'o name).
SCHOLAR.
Maximilian Poines,
"After supper (on Queen Mary's visit to the Princess Elizabeth at Hatfield, 1554) a play was presented by tlie children of Paul's. After the play and next morning one of the children named Mix. Poines sung to the Princess while she played at the Virginals." ^--Warton's Hist. Eng. Poetry, iii. 218.
1 Hp may of course have been a chorister of the Cathedra], hut see Fasti, 1584.
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1559—1573 High Master JOHN COOK.
Born at Sherborne, Dorset, 1516 ; educated at Eton ; admitted to King's College, Cambridge, 1533 ; Fellow 1536 ; took his degrees in due course. Cooke of King's Coll. takes B.A. in 1638 ; Kector of North Cadbury in Somersetshire. He was dead in 1590-91, when his widow is mentioned in the Accounts.
Surmaster 1560 James Jacob {continued).
See 1532—1549.
Surmaster 1561 Christopher Holder.
" To the usher of Poules Scolle to give to his cosins in Oxford as appeareth by an abstract of 28 of October ; xxs. (1570)." — Spending Book of liobcrt Nowel.
Chaplain 1559 {No name).
Chaplain 1560 Elles.
"That teaches the first forme."
Chaplain 1561 Thomas Holden.
"That teaches the first forme."
Chaplain 1567 Thomas Hodles.
"Teacher of the pettites."
Chaplain 1568 {No name).
Chaplain 1569 Thomas Mercer.
Chaplain 1571 Richard Wilkynsone.
"Teacher of the first forme there, Accidence or Petite with the Cathechysou, the Articles of Christian faith, and the ten Commandments."
SCHOLARS.
William Whi taker,
Born in 1547 ; nephew of Alexander Nowel, Dean of St. Paul's ; first educated at his birthplace, Burnley, in Lancashire ; subsequently placed by liis uncle at St. Paul's School, whence he proceeded to 'Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a Scholar and B.A. in 1567 ; Fellow in 1569 ; M.A. 1571. He became Canon of Norwich, 1577-78, and was incorporated at O.xford ; he took his B.D. in 1578 and in 1580 was appointed Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, and in the same year was appointed Chancellor of St. Paul's ; in l.'J86-87 he was admitted Master of St. John's College, Cambridge, and took his D.D. ; in 1587 he resigned the Chan- cellorship of St. Paul's, and in 1595 was installed Canon of Canterbury, but died the same year, and was buried in the Chapel of St. John's College. He was one of the authors of the Lamhrth Articles, and was considered the champion of the Church of England against Bellarmine. He was the author of many theological works which are enumerated in the Athcnce Cantab. He is frequently mentioned in the Spending Book of Robert Nourl as receiving presents.
24 SCHOLARS OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL. [i5S9-73
William Camden,
Born in 1550 ; went from St. Paul's School to Magdalen College, Oxford, whence he migrated to Broadgate Hall, and tlience to Christ Cluirch ; B.A. probably in 1570 ; Under Master and afterwards Head Master of Westminster School ; subse- quently became Richmond Herald, and in 1597 Clarencieu.x King at Anns, I'rofessor of History in Chelsea College, founded by Matthew Suttclive ; died in 1623 and was buried in Westminster Abbey. He founded a Professorship of Ancient History in the University of Oxford in 1622, and was the author of numerous antiquarian works, of which the most famous is the Britannuc Dcscriptio, commonly called Britannia. He also brought out a Greek Grammar for the use of Westminster School.
John Howsoa,
Born in St. Bride's Parish, London, about 1556 ; went to Christ Church, Oxford ; Vicar of Bampton, Oxon. ; Canon of Christ Church ; Vice-Chancellor, 1602 ; was one of the original Fellowsof King James \. College at Chelsea, 1610 ; Bishop of Oxford, 1618 ; translated to Durham, 1628 ; died 1631-32, and was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.
Thomas Langhorne (Lawgherne),^
Called in the Accounts the Company's Scholar in Oxford ; but in the Minutes said to be of Trinity College, Cambridge ; elected to an Exhibition, September 26, 1564, which continued till 1568-69. A Thomas Langherne was chosen Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, in 1567.
Thomas Cole,
B.A. of Magdalen College, Oxford, but in the Accounts said to be of Cambridge ; elected Scholar October 14, 1564, but his Exhibition was withdrawn November 2, 1565, because he had left the realm without the Company's leave ; but Dom. Cole had leave from the College to go abroad with Lawrence Tomson, May 6, 1565 (B.M.).
Thomas Knight,
Son of William K. (deceased) ; Exhibitioner to Cambridge, 1565.
Ralph Warcop (RafFe Warcoppe, Warcope),
Exhibitioner 1566 ; son and heir of Cuthbert W., mercer, of English, Oxon. ; entered at Christ Church, Ox., about 1561 ; B.A. 1564 ; he was a Justice of the Peace and M. P. for Oxfordshire in the 43rd year of Elizabeth ; he was appointed ambnssador to France or Spain by James L, but died in the 60th year of his age in 1605. He was the author of a Translatiori of Prayers on the Psalms by August Marlorat 1571 (A.O.).
Henry Hickman,
Second son of Anthony H., of Woodford Hall, Essex ; Exhibitioner 1570, St. John's Coll. Camb. ; D.C.L.
Thomas Byllingford,
Son of Richard B., and a kinsman of Sir Thos. Gresham ; elected Company's Scholar at Broadgates Hall, Oxford, April 7, 1570, and continued till 1576-77.
William Sadler, Nycholas Smythe, William Husnis (Hunnis), Edward Levison (Levisus), Jefree Morgane, Robert Russell, Anthony Egliefield,
The above appear as " Schollers of Poulls School " who receive gowns fi-om Robert
Nowel's estate in the year 1568.
1 With regard to these early Exhibitioners they came from St. Paul's School, but
I cannot assert that they received their several of them are claimed by Iilerchant
education at St. Paul's School. In going Taylors' School, as will be noticed hereafter
through the Accounts I found it stated in (see 1596 and 1597). I have however in-
two instances at least that the Exhibitioner eluded here the names of all Exhibitioners
had been educated at Mercers' Chapel School; except those who are explicitly stated to
two more had been educated at Horsham have been educated elsewhere, inasmuch as
School, which was also under the govern- whether Paulines or not, they owed part of
ment of the Mercers. 1 was at first inclined theii- advancement at the University to the
to assume that where no school was stated funds furnished by Colet's liberality.
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1573-1581 High Master WILLIAM MALYM.
Lady Day.
(Malin or ]\Ialim) born at Stapleliurst, Kent, 1533. Educated at Eton, whence he proceeded to King's College, Cambridge, 1548; Fellow, 1551; B.A. 1552; lil.A. 1556 ; travelled and visited Antioch, Constantinople, Jerusalem, and other Eastern cities, 1561 ; appointed a Master at Eton, where he remained ten years ; Prebendary of Biggleswade, Lincoln, 1569. He received a present from the Court on leaving St. Paul's School, and the implements which he left behind were purchased for the School ; he died probably in 1594. Author of A true Report of all the succcsse of Famagosta, London, 1572 ; Oratio Latino, duci Joanni Cccsimir, 1578, and various Latin Verses. He also edited the poetical works of Sir Thomas Chaloner, under the immediate care of Cecil, (Lord Burleigh).
Suo-mastcr Christopher Holden {contimied).
See 1559-1573.
Surmastcr 1578 John Medley.
Michaelmas. See below among the Scholars.
Surmasier 1580 John Harrison.
Michaelmas. Subsequently High Master, 1581 — 1596, which see.
Under Usher '^ 1573 Guy Houlden.
Lady Day.
During a vacancy " one Harrolde.'
" Paid to one Harrolde, under usshere, for three weeks teaching a little afore Brad- shawe's coming .... and so dismissed."
Under U slier 1574 Eobert Bradshawe.
"He had much contention with Malym and Holden."
Under Usher 1575 "A young man that wayted a moneth at
Powles School hoping to have been placed in Bradshawe's room."
Under Usher 1576 Francis Richmond.
He received a free gift at the Audit Dinner, February 4, 1576.
Uidcr Usher 1578 George Knolles. Under Usher 1579 Walter Da unter.
He departed " suddenly. " A gratuity was given him, therefore, by decree of the Court (November 20, 1583).
* The title of the Chaplain is changed to the Cathechysmus and Ten C'ommaunde- " the Under Ussher, or rather callyd the mentes in Inglysh." teacher of the pettites or Accidence there
26 SCHOLARS OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL. [iS73-8i
SCHOLARS.
Thomas Chaloner,
Born 1559 ; removed from St. Paul's School to MagcLalen College, Oxford ; took no degree ; travelled beyond the seas ; Knighted by King Henry IV. of France in 1591 ; created M.A. at a Royal visit to Oxford, Aug. 30, 1605 ; Tutor to Prince Henry, son of James I. ; died in 1615, aged 51 (?) years. He is said to have written Pastorall Poesic, and a translation of Ovid's Epistle Helen to Paris, but no works are extant.
Martin Reade,
Of Powles Schole, receives money from Robert Nowel's estate on April 8, 1573, and October 5, 1575 (on going to Oxford). "Coll. S. Johis, Bapt. 1572 (?) Martinus Reade, Londinensis, plebeus an. 17 " (Matriculations in the University of Oxford).
William Clark or Cierke,
Of Powles School, recommended by Mr. Malyne, receives money on June 3 and February 20 (on going to Cambridge), 1579, from Robert Nowel's estate. Possibly this was William Cierke, Sizar of Trinity College, Cambridge, June, 1575 ; B.A. 1578-79 ; soon afterwards elected Fellow; M.A. 15S2 ; reputed author of The Triall of Bastardie, and Polimantcia (A. C).
" Divers Scholars of Powles Schole " received gratuities. November 10, 1576; and also "certain poor Scholars of Powles" on October 10, 1577.
John Medley,
Son of John M. , mercer (decccn^cd) ; (of Paul's School) Exhibitioner, 1574-78 ; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1575-76 ; M.A. 1579. He is frequently mentioned in the Spending Book of Robert N'owel as receiving Gratuities in the years 1568 (or 1569), 1573, 1575, 1577, and ("against his proceeding Mr. of Arte ") 1579. He was Surmaster of St. Paul's School 1578-1580.
Walter Nethercote (Nethercoat),
(of Paul's School) ; Exhibitioner, 1574-82 ; Clare Hall, Camb. B.A. 1577 ; Surmaster of St. Paul's School, 1584-86.
Anthony Hickman,
Fourth son of Anthonv H., of AVoodford Hall, Essex; Exhibitioner, 1576-84;^ Peterhouse Cambridge B.A. 1579 ; M.A. 1583 ; elected Fellow of Benet, 15S3, by mandate from the Queen. The fact of his not taking orders led to considerable disputes in the College, which are described at length in Masters' History of the College. In 1593 he was created LL.D., and in 1596 he was admitted Advocate. He died in 1597, and was buried at St Benet's, Paul's Wharf, London.
Thomas Mudd,
(Of Powles School), Exhibitioner, 1578-84 (at the suit of Mr. Nowel, Dean of Paul's) ; Peterhouse Camb. B.A. 1580 ; he Matriculated Sizar of Caius Coll. June, 1577; Fellow of Pembroke Hall; M.A. 1584. He was living in 1590; see Ath. Cant. ii. 99.
Robert Bartlett,
" Some time a Scholar brought up in the Mercers' Chapelle." Exhibitioner, 1578-84 ; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1581.
'^ Cooper {A. C. ii. p. 232), says that he whence al.so Masters says that he was was Pensioner of St. John's, 1575, but the elected to Benet. School Accounts say he was of Peterhouse,
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1581—1596 High Master JOHN HARRISON.
October 8,. 1581.
Born in London 1553, and educated at Eton, whence he became Scholar of King's College, Cambridge, 1570: Fellow 1573-79; B.A. 1574; M.A. 1578. He is mentioned in the Spending Book of Robert Nowel as "our cosyn," receiving gifts on many occasions. In 1585 he was made M.A. of Oxford. He engaged in a controversy with the Mercers' Comjjany on the subject of his salary and other matters which led to his leaving the school (see Fasti, 1595) ; Cooper (A.C.) states that be died in 1596.
Surmaster 1581 Kichakd Levesey.
November 17.
Surmaster 1584 Walter Nethercoat.
Lady Day. See among the Exhibitioners in Malym's time (1573-81).
Surmaster 158t) Richard Smyth.
Lady Day. See below among the Scholars.
Under Usher Walter Daunter (continued).
See before, 1573—1581.
Under Usher 1583 George Shepparde.
July 3. Of Christ's College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1580 ; in 1583-84 he received £.2 towards his commencing M.A.
Under Usher 1588 Wise (Withes).
He died in 1589, and Harrison was his executor (.\.).
Uider Usher 1590 Francis Herring (Hearinge).
Having taken part in the controversy between Harrison and the Company (see Fasti, 1595), he seems to have left the School at the same time as Harrison. He received a grant of £6 13s. id. in 1598-99.
SCHOLARS.
Richard Smyth,
Son of William S. Exhibitioner 1582, Magdalen Coll. Oxford. Probably Sur- master of St. Paul's School from 1586-99, when he was pensioned, " being fallen into decay of his eyesight and impotency. " He was the Surmaster who took part in " the suit and controversy " between Harrison and the Mercers. There is a R. S. chorister of Magdalen ; matriculated 1581 (i)lebei fil.) ; aged 15 ; Clerk at JIagdalen 1585-89 ; B.A. 1584 (B.M.).
Edward Sharpe,
Exhibitioner 1582, Queens' Coll. Ca7nb. ; B.A. 15S0.
28 SCHOLARS OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL. [1551-96
Lionel Holliman (Holyman),
Exhibitioner 1583 or 1584. Trinity Coll. Camb. ; matriculated 1582; B.A. 1585; M. A. 1589 ; Fellow of Corpus Christi ; proceeded B.D. and was one of the University Preachers, 1597 ; vacated his Fellowship about 1598 (A. C).
Willie Raven,
"A poore scholar, formerly of Powles Schole,'" receives a benevolence of forty shillings, 1586.
John Boyell (Boile),
Exhibitioner 1587, Benet Coll. Camb. John Boyle of Beuet took his B.A. in
1586; Dean of Lichfield, 1610; D.D. 1614; Bishop of Cork, 1618, holding the
Sees of Pioss and Cloyne in commendam ; died July 10, 1620, aged 57, and was buried in the church at Youghal.
John Bolde,
Exhibitioner 1589, Magdalen Coll. Oxford ; Non-Foundationer, of Wilts ; Matricu- lated (min. fil.) October 10, 1589, aged 16 ; B.A.
Adam Cooper (Cowper),
Exhibitioner 1589, Emmanuel Coll. Camb.
Edward Munnes,
Exhibitioner 1589, Peterhouse, Camb.
Andrew Sharpe,
Exhibitioner 1590, Clare Hall, Camb.
Francis Sturtivant,
Exhibitioner 1591, Trinity Coll. Camb.
John Gray,
Exhibitioner 1591, Emmanuel Coll. Camb.
Richard Danser (Daunser),
Exhibitioner 1593, Trinity Coll. Camb.
Roger Derhame,
Exhibitioner 1593, Peterhouse, Camb. (Rob. Derham of Peterhouse takes his B.A. in 1602.)
William Bourne,
Received a gi'ant of £2 in 1592 with a promise of the next vacant Exhibition. Exhibitioner 1593, Christ Church, Oxford. In 1594-95 he received £5 to buy books.
William Chauntrell,
Exhibitioner 1595, Emmanuel Coll. Camb.
John Preston,
Peterhouse, Camb.; receives £5 in 1596-97 on commencing B.A.; and again in 1601-2 he receives £5 "in regard of his poverty," when he is described as M.A. of Magdalen Coll. Camb.
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1596-1608 High Master RICHARD MULCASTER.
Awjust 5, 1596.
Said to have been Lorn in Carlisle ; etlucated at Eton whence he became Scholar of King's College, Cambridge, 1548 ; B.A. 1553 ; Student of Christ Church, Oxford, 1555; M.A. (Oxon.) 1556; First Head Master of Merchant Taylors' School, 1561-86 ; Vicar of Cranbrook, Kent, 1590-91 ; Prebendary of Yatesbury (Sarum), 1594 ; resigned the High JMastership, 1608, on a jiension of £66 13.s. id. a year, which was paid till Lady Day, 1610-11 ; Rector of Stanford Rivers, Essex ; Died 1611, and was buried at Stanford Rivers. Peter Mulcaster received a gratuity (£3 6s. 8rf.) April 30, 1628. Author of Positions respecting tho Training of Children, 1561 ; The first part of the Elementary which entreateth chiefly of the true writing of the English tongue, 1592 ; Catechismus Paulinus, written in long and short verse, 1599.
Snnnastcr EiCHARD Smyth (continued).
See under 1581—1596.
Surmastcr 1599 James Parker.
Died of the plague before Michaelmas, 1603.
Surmastcr 1603-04 William Sound (Sond or Sounds).
Died February 21, 1637 {Obituary of Rich. Smyth), and was buried at St. Augustine's Church (Register). His widow Mary continued to receive an allow- ance until 1659 ; and his daughter, Sarah Hide (widow), received grants in 1671 and 1672.
U^idcr Usher 1597 Christopher Johnson.
Lady Day. He had previously taught the boys under Mulcaster (see Fasti, 1595). He retired iu 1614, when he received a pension at the rate of £6 13s. id. a year and a grant of forty shillings.
SCHOLARS. John Sandsbury,
Exhibitioner 1596, St. John's College, Oxford. He is said to have been educated at ^Merchant Taylors' School, and probably received his Exhibition on the recommen- dation of Mulcaster, the new High Master. He was elected to St. John's, 1592 ; P.. A. 1597 ; M.A. 1601. In 1605-6 he received a grant of £3 6.9. Srf. towards his commencement ; B.D. 1608. He died in 1610.
Michael Boyle (Boile, Boyell),
Son of Michael B. of the parish of St. Mary, Magd , Milk St., London. Exhibitioner 1597, St. John's College, Oxford. He is also said to have been educated at Merchant Taylors' School (see above). He was elected to St. John's, 1592 ; B.A. 1597 ; M.A. 1601 ; B.D. 1607 ; D.D. 1611 ; Vicar of Finden, Northants, 1610 ; Dean of Lismore, 1614 ; Bishop of "Waterford and Lismore, 1619. He was also Archdeacon of Cork, 1613, and of Cloyne, 1613 ; Chancellor of Lismore, 1621, and Treasurer of Water- ford, 1621 ; with several other pieces of preferment in various dioceses. He died 1635, and was buried in Holy Trinity Church, Waterford (A.O.).
Samuel Browne,
Exhibitioner 1597. He was bom near Shrewsbury, and became a servitor at All Souls' Coll. Oxford, 1594, aged 19 ; B.A. 1601 ; M.A. 1605 ; Preacher at St. Mary's, Shrewsbury ; Died 1632. Author of the Sum of the Christian Religion by way of Catechism ; and Certain Prayers, LoiuloTi, 1630.
30 SCHOLARS OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL. [1596-1608
Richard Boyle (Boiell),
London. Exhibitioner 1597, St. John's Coll. Cambridge ; incorporated M.A. of Oxford, 1601 ; Dean of Waterford, 1604 ; Archdeacon of Limerick, 1605 ; Bishop of Cork, Cloyne, and Eoss, 1620, when he was allowed to hold all his former bene- fices in comincndam, except the Deanery of Waterford ; Archbishop of Tuam, 1638.
William Braddishe,
Educated at Powles School. Exhibitioner 1597, Emmannel Coll. Camb. ; in 1698-99 he received a grant (£3 6s. 9>d.) " towards payment of his debts owing to the late dere yeres" (a.); again in 1600-1 £5 towards his M.A. ; and in 1603-4 £10 " towards payment of his debts."
Thomas Martyn,
Exhibitioner 1598, Peterhouse, Cambridge.
Daniel Votier,
Exliibitioner 1598, Trin. Coll. Camb. (sic) ; he received £3 6s. 8d. towarls B.A. 15 April, 1602 ; again a grant towards his M.A. 1606, when he is described as of Trin. Coll. Oxford. In 1609-10 he receives £2 for his Sermon which he made before the Mercers, and for his charges in coming.
John Hassall (Halsall),
Exhibitioner 1599, New Coll. Oxford ; Fellow of New, 1594-1603 ; B.C.L. ; created D.D. 1625; Preb. of Eccleshall (Lichfield), 1602; Dean of Norwich, 1628. He died "in the times of the usurpation" (A. 0.). The Count Palatine and the Lady Elizabeth, his most royal spouse, were his especial patrons.
Arthur Best,
Exhibitioner 1599, Pembroke Hall, Camb. ; B.A. 1602.
John Woodford,
Exhibitioner 1599, Balliol Coll. Oxford.
George Walter,
He received a grant towards commencement (1600-1), £5.
Humphrey Moorer,
Exhibitioner 1600, Sidney Sussex Coll. Camb. ; in 1605-6 he received a grant towards commencement.
Thomas Wilkinson,
Exhibitioner 1601, Trin. Coll. Camb. ; B.A. 1605 ; he received in that year a grant towards commencement, £5.
Richard Pemberton,
Exhibitioner 1601, Pembroke Hall, Camb. ; in 1601 he received a grant of twenty shillings at his going to the Univer.sity ; B.A. 1605 ; Fellow 1608 ; a benefactor to Pembroke Library.
William Hodgin,
1602-3, " For books for W. H. a poore scholar in Ponies Schole," 5s. id.
Joseph Wiborne,
Trin. Coll. Camb. 1602 ; April 15, a grant (£5) ; again, 1604-5 a benevolence (£5), 1605-6, towards commencement, £3 6s, 8d.
Anthony Flower,
Exhibitioner 1 602, Cambridge.
Deliverance Wilton,
Exhibitioner 1604-18, Demy of Magd. Coll. Oxford ; B.A. 1609 ; M.A. (of Magdalen Hall, which then formed part of the College, and where he was probably a tutor) 1612 ; B.D. 1619 ; D.D. 1621 ; Fellow 1610 ; Praelector of Hcb. 1622-24 ; Bur.sar 1622 and 1626 ; resigned his Fellowship, 1627. Author of some lines in Luctus Posthumtos, 1612-, &c.
Alexander Howe,
Exhibitioner 1604, Corpus Christi Coll. Oxford ; in 1605-6 he received £3 6s, M. towards commencement ; and on March 11, 1610, a gratuity.
Richard Paskall,
Exhibitioner 1604, Pembroke Hall, Camb.
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Daniel Washborne,
Exhibitioner 1604, St. John's Coll. Oxford.
— Phillips,
Son of John P. some time a scholar in St. Paul's School, 1604-5. A payment is made to J. P. for his son's ijrefeniient at the University, and "in regard that he missed the Comjfany's nomination to St. Mighel's in the Koyal " (a.).
— Moure,
Some time of Jesus College, Oxford ; received a grant towards commencement, 1604.
Richard Culverwell,
Exhibitioner 1605, Exeter Coll. Oxford.
Heiiry Wilkinson,
E.xhibitioner 1605, Trin. Coll. Camb. ; B.A. 1608.
— Stockwood,
1605-6, " To one Stockwood, a poor scholar in Cambridge, £2 " (a.).
Christopher Hely, (?)
1606-7, grant of twenty shillings, to buy him books. John Chappell,
Exhibitioner 1607, Trin. Coll. Camb. ; B.A. 1607, grant towards commence- ment, £5.
John Toose,
St. John's Coll. Oxford ; 1606, June 19, a grant towards commencement. Probably J. Towse, son of William T. admitted to Merchant Taylors' School, March 31, 1600 ; elected to St. John's, 1603 ; M.A. 1611.
Richard Worsley,
Exhibitioner 1607-13, Magdalen Coll. Oxford; Non-Foundationer; matriculated (plebei fil.) July 3, 1607, aged 18 ; B.A. (St. Mary Hall) 1610 ; 1637-38, K. W. "a poor Minister," has a grant of £2 (a.).
John Goodridge,
Exhibitioner 1607, Clare Hall, Camb. Robert Smith,
Exhibitioner 1607, Emmanuel Coll. Camb. ; B.A. 1613. John Johnson,
Exhibitioner 1607-18, Pembroke Hall, Cambridge ; 1608, June 24, twenty shillings were lent him to buy books, and afterwards forgiven him ; B.A. 1611 ; Fellow 1613. He had the College title for Orders, 1618. A benefactor to Pemb. Library.
Thomas Skatlyng (Scatlin),
Exhibitioner 1607, Clare.Hall, Camb. ; B.A. 1609, when also he receives a grant of £1 6s. 8d. in regard of his poverty.
Richard Baker (alias Tomkins),
Exhibitioner 1609. On February 19, 1611, he was paid £2 "and his Exliib. to cease" (a.).
Richard Chappell,
1608-9, gi-ant of £4 to K. C. a scholar. William Rippon (Rippin),
Exhibitioner 1609, St. Join's Coll. Oxford. Said to have been educated at Merchant Taylors' School ; elected to St. John's, 1607 ; B.A. 1611-12 ; M.A. 1615.
32 SCHOLAES OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL. [1608-35
1608-1635 High Master ALEXANDER GILL.
March 10, 1608.
Born in Lincolnsliire ; Scholar of Corpus Cliristi College, Oxford, 1583 ; B.A. 1586 ; M.A. 1589. He was living in Norwich in 1597. He died November 17, 1635, and was buried in Mercers' Chapel. His widow Elizabeth continued to receive a pension till 1647-48, and Annah Banister, "daughter of old Jlr. Gill," received a grant in 1665-66, and again, as a widow, in 1672-73. He was the author of a Treatise concerning the Trinity in Unity ; Logonomia Anglica qua gentis sernio facilius addiscitur, London, 1621 ; Sacred Philosophy of Holy Scripture (a commentary on the Creed), 1635.
Surmastcr William Sound (continued).
See before, 1596—1608.
Under Usher Christopher Johnson {continued).
See before, 1596—1608.
Under Usher 1614 Oliver Smythe.
Lady Bay.
Under Usher 1621 Alexander Gill, the Younger.
Ilichacliiias.
Succeeded his father as High Master. Exhibitioner of St. Paul's School, 1612, which see.
Under Usher 1628 George Gill.
3Iichaelmas. Afterwards Surmaster. Exhibitioner of St. Paul's School, 1615, which see.
SCHOLARS.
Roger Davies,
A poor Scholar, £2 grant, August 14, 1610.
Alexander Gill,
Son of the High Master. Exhibitioner 1612 (aged 15), of Woodham (Wadham) College, Oxford (one of the first Bible Clerks, admitted April 20, 1613) ; B.A. 1615 ; M.A. (of Trinity College, where he had been part of his time as undergraduate) 1619; B.D. 1627 (grant of £10); D.D. 1636. At Michaelmas 1621, he became Under Usher of St. Paul's School, which post he held till Michaelmas 1628 : in which year he was involved in considerable trouble for reckless expressions regarding the King and the Duke of Buckingham (see A.O. 1628), being condemned to degradation and severe punishment by the Star Chamber. In 1631 he received a gratuity of £5, and 1633 £10, and again in 1634. He was elected High Master November 18, 1635, on the day after his father's death : but was removed from his post for excessive severity in 1640, with a pension of £25 per annum, which ceased at his death in 1642. He was author of Arithmcticoruiii 'Avd/j.^'-qa-is, Panthea, A Song of Victory upon the proceedings and succrss of the Wars undertaken by the most puissant King of Sweden, London, 1632, 'EipripuKov, Udp^pya, and some MSS. verses.
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Bartilmew Kempe,
Exliibitionei- 1612, Pembroke Hall, Cambridge ; B.A. 1616.
Barten Hollidaie (Holyday),
Son of Thomas H. of Oxford. Exhibitioner 1612, Christ Church, Oxford (where he is said to have been a choir-boy) ; Student of Christ Church ; B.A. 1615. He was a famous preacher and chaijlain to Charles I. ; Archdeacon of Oxford, 1626 ; created D.D. 1642. He died in 1661, and was buried in Christ Church Cathedral. Translator of Persius, Juvenal, and Horace.
Thomas Hill,
Exhibitioner (for seven years) 1613, Christ Church, Oxford, but he does not appear to have drawn his Exhibition after 1616.
John Eeade,
Exhibitioner 1613-18.
William Cogram,
Exhibitioner 1613-21, New College, Oxford. Son of Oliver C, who receives a grant in 1613 towards placing his son at the University. He appears to have died at College, as on August 17, 1621, Oliver C. receives a grant of 50s. " towards the huriall of his son."
Thomas Jackson,
Exliibitioner 1614-21, Trinity College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1619.
Nicholas Padmore,
Exhibitioner 1614-23, Benet College, Cambridge; B.A. 1617 ; M.A. 1621.
John Garfield,
Exhibitioner 1614-23, Jesus College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1618.
George Gill,
Exhibitioner 1615-26, Trinity College, Oxford ; M.A. 1623 (when he received a grant of £10) ; Under Usher of St. Paul's School, 1628-37 ; Surmaster 1637-40. He died before Lady Day, 1639-40, and his widow received a pension which was continued after her second marriage to one Merry, by whom she was again left a widow in 1647.
Godfrey Petley,
Exhibitioner '1616-19.
Thomas Bunbury,
Exhibitioner 1617-27, Balliol College, Oxford; D.D. 1645; Vicar of St. Mary, Reading ; suffered for the Royal cause.
John Hodgett,
Exhibitioner 1617-27, Exeter College, Oxford ; grant towards commencing M.A. (October 1, 1621) £4.
John Shilton (^Shelton),
Exhibitioner 1617-24, Pembroke Hall, Cambridge ; B.A. 1621.
Richard Jaggard (Jagger),
Possibly son of William J., printer. Exhibitioner 1617-26, Magdalen College, Oxford: possibly identical with Richard Taggart, chorister of Magdalen 1616 (17) Matriculated (plebei fil) 1621 ; B.A. (Magdalen Hall) 1623.
Ralph Rotheram,
Exhibitioner 1618-28, St. John's College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1622, grant of £5 (? towards M.A.) 1628.
William Grave,
Exhibitioner 1618-28, Pembroke Hall, Cambridge ; B.A. 1622.
Robert Butterfield,
Exhibitioner 1618-24, Trinity College, Oxford. He appears to have published a defence of Bishop Hall against H. Bui'ton, in conjunction with H. Cholmely.
Henry ffrauncis,
Exhibitioner 1619-25, Pembroke Hal], Cambridge; B.A. 1623. He received a gratuity of £5 for his riding charges, February 18, 1623.
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34 SCHOLARS OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL. [1608-35
John Mathewe,
Apparently son of John M., the Porter, who receives a grant, 1619-20, " a gratuity given to his sou toward apparelling him to the University, £5." Exhibitioner 1620-26, Pembroke Hall, Cambridge ; B.A. 1623.
Richard Tedder,
Exhibitioner 1621-27, Jesus College, Cambridge. (There is a Kichard Futter of Jesus, B.A. 1626, in the Cole MS. List of B.A.'s.)
Thomas Heath,
Exhibitioner 1621-29, Lincoln College, Oxford. T. H. of All Souls' is B.C.L. 1631, and of Merton, D.C.L. 1634.
Nathaniel Gill,
Exhibitioner 1621-32, Trinity College, Oxford. He received a gratuity of £10, April 20, 1632, again of £5 in 1639-40, and of £5, June 27, 1656.
Edward Lane,
St. John's College, Cambridge; B.A. (probably) 1625; M.A. ; Vicar of North Stredbury in Essex, 1630 ; Vicar of Spersholt. Author of Look unto Jesiis, 1663, Mercy Triumphant, 1680.
Charles Diodati (Deodatus),
Son of Theodore D., Doctor of Medicine. Proceeded from St. Paul's School to Trinity College, Oxford, in 1621-22 ; left College as MA. 1628 ; practised physic in Cheshire ; died 1638. To him are addressed two of Milton's Latin letters — the first and sixth Elegies and the fourth Sonnet. In the Introduction to the Epitaphium Damonis he is described as "ingenio, doctrina cfeterisque clarissimis virtutibua juvenis egregius."
Richard Turk,
Exhibitioner 1622-32, Magdalen College, Oxford ; afterwards (1628) of St. Edmund Hall ; B.A. 1626.
John Eicketts,
Exhibitioner 1622 -32, Emmanuel College, Cambridge ; subsequently of Jesus College ; B.A. 1625 ; receives a grant towards M.A. May 13, 1629 ; and on February 28, 1633, he receives a benevolence of £3 6s. 8rf. " to fit him to provide himself for a small benefice lately bestowed upon him."
Thomas Horton,
Exhibitioner 1623-33, Emmanuel College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1625 ; he receives a grant towards M.A. 1629-30, and in 1633-34 a gratuity of £10.
Nathaniel Harwood,
Exhibitioner 1623-32, Queens' College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1627 ; he receives a grant towards M.A. 1630-31. The first two quarters of his Exhibition were paid by Sir Baptist Hicks (founder of the Campden Exhibitions), and were repaid to him by the Company, 1624-25 (a).
William Burton,
Exhibitioner 1624-32, Queen's College, Oxford. Migrated to Gloucester Hall 1629, where he was Greek lecturer ; B.C.L. 1630, when he received a gi-ant of £6 13s. 4(i. On February 16, 1642, he received a present of £6 13s. 4:d. in lieu of a book which he presented to the Company. Head Master of the Grammar School, Kingston-upon- Thames ; died 1657. Author of Gracce linquce Historia, Veteri3 linguce Persicm Historia, Annotations on the First Epistle of Clement the Apostle tu the Corinthians, 1647, A Commentary on Antoninus, his Itinerary of the Eoman Empire, so far as it concerncth Britain, published after his death, 1658 ; he also translated The Beloved City of Alstedius.
Robert Pory,
Son of Robert P. ; admitted Pensioner of Christ's College, 1624-25; B.A. 1628; S.T.P. (by the King's Mandate "for his particular and eminent sufferings for Our self and the Church") 1660; Rector of St. Margaret's, New Fish Street, London, and of Thorley, Herts, 1640 : from which he was driven during the rebellion, but was restored in 1660 ; resigned them the same j'ear when he became Archdeacon of Middlesex, Rector of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, and Prebendary of Willesden in St. Paul's Cathedral ; Chaplain to Bishop Juxon ; resigned St. Botolph's in 1662, and became Rector of Much Hadham, Herts ; was incorporated D.D. of Oxford, 1663 ; died 1669 (November 28, 1668, in the Obituary of Eichard Smith).
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JOHN MILTON,
Son of John M., scrivener ; born 1608 ; entered St. Paul's School probably in 1620 (see Masson) ; Pensioner of Christ's College, Cambridge, February 12, 1624-25 ; B. A. 1628. In 1629 he wrote his Nativity Ode; M.A. 1632. In 1634 Goimis was acted at Ludlow, before which he had written L' Allegro, II Penscroso, and Arcades ; incorporated M. A. of Oxford, 1635 ; Zj/ciVte was written in 1637, and the Epitaplmim Damonis (on the death of Charles Diodati) in 1639. From 1640 to 1660 he published numerous Treatises on religious and political subjects, including the Areopagitica (1644), a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing, the tractate "of Education " (1644), and Defemio pro poptoloAnglicano, 1651. From 1648 to 1659 he was Secretary for Foreign Tongues to the Council of State, but on the Restoration he withdrew into private life. The first edition of PARADISE LOST appeared in 1667, and the second in 1674. In 1669 he published The History of England, and in 1671 Samson Agonvites and Paradise Regained. He died November 8 (November 15 in the Obituary of Richard Smith), 1674, and was buried on the 12th in St. Giles', Cripplegate.
Colonel Duncombe,
" Often Dr. Gill whipped Duncombe, who was afterwards a Colonel of Dragoons at Edgehill fight." — MS. of Aubrey, quoted in Masson's Milton.
Nicholas Woollaston,
" The poore schollar that sweepeth Paul's School"^ for | year wages (1624-25) 20.'!.
John Slater,
Exhibitioner 1625-33, Keyes {i.e. Caius) College, Cambridge ; B.A. (of Pembroke Hall) 1628, when he receives a grant, as also towards his M.A. in 1631-32.
Henry Meryell (Myriell),
Son of Alice Merial {sic), widow. Exhibitioner 1625-35, Benet College, Cambridge; B.A. 1629, when he receives a grant, as also towards his M.A. 1632-33. In 1640-41 he presented the Assistants with books, and received £13 6s. 8(i. ; was incorporated B.D. of Oxford, 1642 ; died 1643, aged 33, and was buried in All Saints' Church, Oxford. He edited (probably in 1641) Daily Devotions ; or the Christian's Morning and Evening Sacrifice ; a popular collection of prayers and meditatoins commonly attributed to Colet (but see Lupton's Colet on the Sacraments), a memoir of whom by Thomas Fuller is prefixed to the work.
Augustine Harwood,
Exhibitioner 1627-29, Queens' College, Cambridge.
William Chambers,
"A student in the University and formerly scholar," June 25, 1627, £5 (a).
Thomas Skynner,
Exhibitioner 1627-30, Christ Church, Oxford. T. S. of St. John's was created M.D. 1672.
Eoger Ashton,
Exhibitioner 1627-37, Pembroke Hall, Cambridge ; B.A. 1631, when he received a gi-ant ; Fellow 1634 ; ejected 1644, but restored in 1660 ; D.D. 1663 ; Vicar of St. Andrew's in Plymouth, Prebendary of Exeter Cathedral. A benefactor of Pembroke Library.
George Harris,
" A poor scholler in Cambridge, some time of this School, towards his commencement £5," 1627-28 (a). G. H. of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, takes his B.A. 1627. Probably the G. H. who was Under Usher of' St. Paul's School 1641-47. He was dismissed on April 9, 1647, "in regard that he deserted the Scheie of his own accord " (m).
^ See Colet's Statutes (Appendix B.), harder work, after paying whom he kept
under the heading "The Children." This the rest of the stipend for himself. I am
is the first record that I have found con- inclined to think that the Poor Scholar
ceming the Porter or Poor Scholar. The acted as librarian, and that this was the
post continued to be held by one of the origin of Ihe annual grant of £30 to the
boys through the century ; it was generally Captain of the School for acting as librarian,
held for one year, sometimes longer. He which continued till 1876. (See Note under
was allowed to employ a deputy for the S. Johnson, Exhibitioner, 1064.)
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36 SCHOLARS OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL. [1608-35
Charles Gataker (Gatacre),
Sou of Thomas G. Entered Sidney-Susses College, Cambridge (at the age of 16) ; B.A. 1632 ; removed to Pembroke College, Oxford ; admitted M.A. 1636 ; said to have been Chaplain to Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland ; Rector of Hoggeston, Bucks, 1647, where he died in 1680, aged 67. Author of The Way of Truth and Peace, 1670, The Papists' Bait, 1674, Examination of the Case of the Quakers, 1675, Ichnogra'phia Dodrince do Justificatione, 1681.
Stephen Jones,
1628, August 8, " a poor Scholar of Paul's School, a gratuity of £5 " (a).
William Griffith,
"Poore Scholar" 1626-30 ; Exhibitioner 1629-33, Gloucester Hall, Oxford.
John Callis,
On February 17, 1629, the complaint of a scholar (J. C.) against Mr. A. Gill was brought before the Court of Assistants (m) ; Exhibitioner 1629-34, Emmanuel College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1633, when he receives a grant.
Rowland Nichols,
Exhibitioner 1629-39, Queen's College, Oxford ; he receives a gratuity of £2 in 1639-40 ; R. N. (of Magdalen College) became B.D. 1646, and was subsequently Chancellor of Carlisle.
Edward Powell,
Exhibitioner 1629-36, Balliol College, Oxford ; he receives a grant towards his B.A. in 1632-33, and towards his M A. in 1636-37. He was Under Usher of St. Paul's School 1640-41, and Surmaster 1641 to Lady Day 1646-47, when he resigned. On October 26, 1643, Mary Powell, wife of the Schoolmaster of St. Paul's School, applied for a pass into Berkshire and back.
Edward Lightborne,
Exhibitioner 1630-37, Clare Hall, Cambridge ; B.A. 1635. In 1637 he is described as of Queen's College, Oxford.
John Man,
" Poore Scholar," 1629-30, Exhibitioner 1630-37, Emmanuel College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1634.
Thomas Barnard,
"1630, May 12, T. B., a poor scholar of St. Paul's School, a gratuity of £5 " (a). "John Barnard of Christ's College, Cambridge, takes his B.A. 1630.
John Poole,
1630, February 1, a scholar in Cambridge, towards his M.A. £10. John Powle of Benet College "takes his B.A. 1626.
Bartholomew Barnes (Baron),
Some time a scholar, towards bis M.A. £10, 1630-31 ; Under Usher of St. Paul's School, 1638-40. He is mentioned as interfering to rescue John Bennett from Dr. Gill's violence.
John Smithson,
Exhibitioner 1631-37, Trinity College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1636. On April 11, 1638, John Smith (? Smithson) received £5 towards his M.A.
Samuel Garrard,
Exhibitioner 1631-41, Pembroke Hall, Cambridge; B.A. 1635. In 1638 39 he receives a gratuity of £3 6s. 8fZ.
James Withers,
Exhibitioner 1632-39, Balliol College, Oxford ; he received a gi-atuity (February 7, 1631) of £5, in 1636 £5 towards his B.A. ; he died at Oxford in 1639, and his mother, Anne Withers, received a gratuity towards the charges of burying him.
George Lawrence,
Exhibitioner 1632-40, New Inn Hall, Oxford. In 1632-33 he received a gratuity of £4 to buy books, and two gratuities in 1638-39 ; M.A 1639.
Nathaniel Culverwell,
Exhibitioner 1632-42, Emmanuel College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1636.
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Charles Scarborough,
Exhibitioner 1632-42, Goiiville and Gains College, Cambridge ("an ingeniose young student," Auhrnfs Letters) ; B.A. 1636 ; M.A. 1640 ; Fellow ; incorijorated M.D. of Merton College, Oxford, 1646, and began to practise in London ; became principal physician to Charles IL in 1669, and was knighted. He continued physician to James H. and William III., dying in 1693, aged 79. He lectured for sixteen years at Surgeon's Hall on the Muscles of the Human Body, and was characterised as "a learned and incomparable Anatomist " {Pcpys). He was the author of Syllabus Mus- culorum, and a Treatise on Trigonometry, and is said to have methodised Lily's Grammar (Fuller's TVorthies). He was a benefactor to St. Paul's School Library in 1674 and 1675.
Christopher Milton,
Brother of John M. ; born 1615 ; took the Royalist side, and was fined £200 for serving as Commissioner of Sequestrations for the king ; resided in Exeter during the siege, 1646 ; bencher of the Inner Temple ; Serjeant-at-Law, April 21, 1686 ; Baron of the Exchequer, April 24, 1686 ; knighted by James II. ; Chief Justice of Common Pleas, April 18, 1687 ; dismissed July 3, 1688. He was suspected of leaning to the Church of Rome. He died at Rushmore, near Ipswich, and was buried in the Church of St. Nicholas, Ipswich, 1692-93, of which town he had been nominated deputy-recorder by Charles II.
Samuel Cheney,
Exhibitioner 1633-39, Emmanuel College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1637 (when he received a grant). He received £5 in 1640-41.
Robert Ellyson,
Exhibitioner 1633-36, St. John's College, Oxford.
Richard Shalmer,
He receives a benevolence (£8 6s. %d.) in 1632-33.
William Blackmore (Blackamore),
Exhibitioner 1634-43, Lincoln College, Oxford. In 1634-35 he receives a benevo- lence (£3 6s. M.), in 1638-39 '(probably for his B.A.) £5, and in 1640-41 (probably for his M.A.) £6 13s. U.
Samuel Swan,^
Campdeu Exhibitioner, 1634, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Richard Culverwell,^
Campden Exhibitioner, 1634, Trinity College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1638.
Samuell Anthony,
Son of John A., Medical Professor of London ; born at Ipswich ; entered St. John's College, Cambridge, 1634, aged about 16, after five years at St. Paul's School ; B.A. 1638.
^ These appear to have been the first to advance the necessary funds until the Exhibitioners elected under Lord Camp- money came in from the property be- den's bequest. The Company undertook queathed for the Foundation.
38 SCHOLARS OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL. [1635-40
1635-1640 High Master ALEXANDER GILL.
November 18, 1635.
Exhibitioner of St. Paul's School 1612, which see. In 1639 a complaint was made against him for violence and excessive severity towards a boy named Bennett : and he received a warning that he would not be re-elected at the annual re-election of masters in 1640. He seems to have given the Court some trouble, as there is an item of £13 Is. l\cl. in the accounts, "charges for displacing Dr. Gill : " and further in the accounts for 1639-40 he is paid only the stipend allowed by the founder, all extra payments and gratuities being stopped. However, on February 22, 1640, he was granted an allowance of £25, annually renewable : and in the course of the year received £50 in full of all demands. He only lived to draw his allowance for a year and a half.
Sitrmaster William Sound (continued).
See before, 1596—1608.
Surmaster 1637 George Gill.
March 3. Exhibitioner of St. Paul's School, 1615, which see.
Surmaster 1639-40 John Baldwin.
Lady Day.
A John Baldwin was created B.C.L. of Oxford, 1643, "for his loyalty and faithful service to his Majesty," though it does not appear that he had been educated at any university (A.O.).
vtler Usher} ^^^^^^ ^^^^ (continued).
Chapleynor } ^^gg Bartholomew Baron. Under Usher J
Alias Barnes, see Scholars of St. Paul's School, 1630 — 31,
?J''fTr \ 1640 Edward Powell. Under Usher )
Midsummer. Exhibitioner of St. Paul's School, 1629, which see.
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SCHOLARS.
Thomas Johnson,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1635-43, ^ Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A. 1639, when he receives a grant of £5, which is repeated in 1642-43.
Samuel Crosse,
Son of Robert C, gentleman of London, Pauline Exhibitioner, 1635-42, entered St. John's College, Cambridge, after three years at St. Paul's School, March 13, 1635, aged 16.
Richard Pye,
Campden Exhibitioner, 1635, Trinity College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1639. He receives a grant of £8 in 1641-42.
Richard Glover,
Campden Exhibitioner, 1635, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Daniel Barnes,
Campden Exhibitioner, 1635, Trinity College, Cambridge. He receives a present of £4 in 1640-41.
Daniel Latham,
Campden Exhibitioner, 1639, Trinity College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1640.
George Ricketts,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1637-43, Emmanuel College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1640, when he receives a grant of £4.
Thankfull Owen,
Son of Philip 0. of Taplow. Pauline Exhibitioner, 1637-50, Exeter College, Oxford ; B.A. 1639 ; Fellow of Lincoln, 1642 ; M.A. 1646. He receives grants of £5 in 1642, and £6 13,s. 4d. in 1645. In 1650 he was Proctor, and also became President of St. John's College, Oxford, but was ejected in 1660. He was a celebrated supporter of the Independent Cause ; he died in Hatton Garden in 1681, and was buried in Bunhill Fields. He is otherwise known by the L»tinized form of his name. Gracious Owen,
Anthony Cherry,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1637-43, Queen's College, Oxford.
William Hippesley,
"Poor Scholar," 1636-37 (for a year and a half), Pauline Exhibitioner, 1637-42, Trinity College, Oxford, whence he migrated to Gloucester Hall, 1641. He receives a gratuity of £5 to buy books in 1636-37, and again £6 13s. Ad. in 1641-42.
John Cox,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1637-43, Trinity College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1641.
John Amery,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1639-41, Pembroke Hall, Cambridge.
John Bennett,
" Poor Scholar," 1637-38 (three-quarters of a year), Pauline Exhibitioner, 1639-43, Trinity College, Cambridge, It was for violent treatment of this boy, that Dr. Gill was eventually "displaced." He and his brother were expelled by the High Master but readmitted February 18, 1639.
^ With regard to these and the sue- February 7th, 1643, the Court postponed
ceeding Exhibitioners, it must be remem- the question of Exhibitions till "when
bered that hardly any payments were made it shall please God the time be more
between 1643 and 1647. There are a few settled." (m.) See Fasti, under date, in 1644 and 1646, but none in 1645. On
40
SCHOLARS OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL.
[1635-40
Thomas Smith,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1639-43, he was restored to his Exhibition, March 23, 1646, and it continued till 1652, Christ's College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1643 ; M.A. 1660 ; University Librarian, 1659-61. He receives a grant of £6 13s. 4tZ. in 1646-47, of A' 5 on February 4, 1652, and again of £5 on October 5, 1653 ; died September 27, 1661 ; Author of a translation of Dean Colet's Sermon before Convocation; also of a Life of Dean Gold, translated from Erasmus' account of him ; he alsa translated Dalleus dc usu Patrum.
Thomas Arris,
Son of- Edward A., surgeon, born in Smithfield ; entered St. John's College, Cambridge, June 29, 1639 (aged 17) ; B.A. 1642.
John Hurt,
Son of W. Hurte (sic), merchant, born in London ; entered St. John's College, Cambridge, July 4, 1640 (aged 18), after seven years at St. Paul's School. He petitioned for an Exhibition February 4, 1639, but was refused.
William Hunter,
Petitioned for an Exhibition, February 4, 1639, but was refused.
William Thomas,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1639-52, Wadham College, Oxford. He receives a gratuity (£6 13s. id.) in 1646 ; W. T. (of Trinity College, Oxford) took his M.D. 1645.
Alexander Smith,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1639-47, Balliol College, Oxford. He receives a gratuity (£6 13s. id.) in 1646, and again (£5) in 1648.
Alexander Kersley,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1639-47, BalHol College, Oxford. He receives a gratuity (£6 13s. 4(1) in 1646.
Hurafry Drake,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1640-49, Wadham College, Oxford. He receives a gratuity (£6 13s. 4(/.) in 1646, and again (£4) in 1647-48.
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1640—1657 High Master JOHN LANGLEY,
January 7.
Born near Banbury. Magdalen Hall, Oxford, B.A. 1616 ; M.A. 1619 ; became Master of the College School at Gloucester, and Prebendary of the Cathedral, where he remained twenty years ; when he was elected High Master Mr. Lloyd and Mr. Minors were disappointed suitors and received a present of £4. Dr. Gill, the displaced High Master, also received a few votes. He was one of the witnesses against Archbishop Laud at his trial. He was appointed one of the censors of the Press under the Act of 1643. He died September 13, 1657, and was buried in Mercers' Chapel. His funeral sermon was preached by Dr. Edward Reynolds (afterwards Bishop of Norwich) who says that he was "a great Antiquary," "a most judicious Divine," " Pausanias was not more learned in the description of Greece than he of England," "it might be said of him 'doctum in hoc uno crederes quodcunque diceret.' " He recommended his successor (Mr. Crumlum) on his death-bed. Author of Totius Rhetoricw adumhratio in usum Schol. Paul. 1644 ; Introdxietion of Grammar ; and a translation of Polidwe Vergil de rerum inventorihus, 1663 (but this latter is attributed also to Thomas Langley).
Stcrmaster 1640 John Baldwin (continued).
See before, 1635—1640.
Surmastcr 1641 Edward Powell.
Exhibitioner of St. Paul's School 1629, which see.
Simnaster 1646-47 Samuel Crumlum.
Lady Day. Subsequently High Master 1657—1672, which see.
Surmaster 1651 William Cox.
But in the Accounts 1657 he is called John Cox.
U'lider Usher \ ^^^^ Edward Powell (continued), or Chaplin j ^ '
Exhibitioner of St. Paul's School 1629, which see.
Under Usher
>■ 1641 George Harris.
or Chaplin
Scholar of St. Paul's School 1627, which see
l^?^*'l 1647 John Mason. m j
Under Usher or Chccplir
Midsummer.
He continued Under Usher till 1675, when he retired on a pension of £20 a year. He appears to have been in continual distress for money, frequently receiving extra grants " for his gi'eat charge " : in 1654, for the sickness of his wife ; for himself and his wife much afflicted with sickness (1656 and 1657) ; for the loss sustained by him by thieves (1657) ; but he appears to have given gi-eat satisfaction, frequently receiving rewards for his great pains, especially in 1657, during the vacancy of the High Mastership, and in 1672, during the long illness of Mr. Bull, and at Mr. Crumlum's death.
42 SCHOLARS OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL. [1640-57
SCHOLARS. Raph Ash,
Poor Scholar, 1640-41.
Matthew Hunter,
Pauline Exliibitioner, 1641-52, Queen's College, Oxford ; lie received £5 in 1640-41, £6 13s. id. in 1646, £3 in 1647-48, and £5 in 1653.
Edmund Man,
Pauline Exliibitioner, 1641-43, Wadham College, Oxford.
John Higgins,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1641-47, Peterhouse, Cambridge ; B.A. 1645. He received a grant of £5 in 1641-42, £5 in 1646, and in the same year £6 13s. id. In 1647 the Coui-t ordered inquiiies to be made about him.
— Parsons,
On February 7, 1642, at the request of the High Master this boy was removed from the School because he was troubled with the falling sickness.
Christopher Hill,
Received a grant of £3 in 1641-42,
Thomas Jessop,
Son of Thomas J. Pauline Exhibitioner, 1642 and 1646-50, Emmanuel College, Cambridge; B.A. (of Peterhouse) 1646, when he receives grants of £5 and £6 13s. id.
Toby (Thomas) Harvest,
Son of Toby H. Pauline Exhibitioner, May 16, 1643 ; he was re-elected to his Exliibition March 23, 1646, and continued till 1648 ; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1646 (as Tobit Harvest).
James Valentine,
Petitioned for an Exhibition in 1642, 1643, and 1644, but the Court were unable to give it for want of funds, but made him a grant in the last year ; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1648.
Thomas Hearne,
Petitioned for an Exhibition in 1643, but the Court were unable to grant it.
Michael lies,
Petitioned for an Exhibition in 1643, but the Court were unable to grant it ; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1648.
Peter Smith,
Poor Scholar, 1640-44.
Vincent Byfield,
Petitioned for an Exhibition in 1644, but was refused for want of funds.
Joseph Sedgewick,
Petitioned for an Exhibition in 1644, but was only granted a benevolence. He went to St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge, and petitioned again in 1648, when he received a grant of £4 ; B.A. 1648.
Nathaniel Sterry,
Petitioned for an Exhibition in 1644, but was refused for want of funds ; Emmanuel College, Cambridge, B.A. 1648.
Francis Quinton,
Poor Scholar, 1644.
Robert Hearne,
Received a grant of £5, November 1, 1645.
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Peter Pett,
Son of Peter P. of Deptford, Master Shipbuilder to the King. Entered Sidney- Sussex College, Cambridge, 1645 ; entered Pembroke College, Oxford, 1647 ; incorporated B.A. 1648 ; Fellow of All Souls', 1648 ; B.C.L. 1649-50 ; Original Fellow of the Royal Society ; Student of Common Law in Gray's Inn ; Advocate- General for Ireland ; knighted by the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant. Author of a Discourse coiicerning Liberty of Conscience, 1660 ; The Happy Future Estate of England, 1680 ; A Casuistical Discussion of the Obligation of the King ; Editor of Memoirs of Arthur Earl of Anglesey.
Edward Reynolds,
Son of Edward R. (afterwards Bishop of Norwich) ; born 1629 ; proceeded to Merton College, Oxford ; Fellow of Magdalen College, B.A. 1649-50 ; M.A., B.D., and D.D. 1676; Rector of St. Peter's, Northampton, 1658; Prebendary of Worcester, 1660; Archdeacon of Norwich, 1661 ; died 1698.
John Janeway,
Born October 27, 1633 ; son of William J. of Lilley, Herts. He was sent to St. Paul's School, where he made considerable proficiency in Latin and Greek ; when about eleven years of age he took a great fancy to Arithmetic and the Hebrew tongue : in 1646 he was chosen for the foundation at Eton, being examined in the Hebrew tongue, which was thought beyond precedent ; while at Eton he spent some time at Oxford as a pupil in Mathematics of Dr. Seth Ward ; elected to King's College, Cambridge, about the age of seventeen, and became a Fellow about twenty ; B.A. 1654 ; he became a zealous Presbyterian, and took orders, but only lived to preach two sermons (On communion with God, Job xxii. 21), dying in June, 1657 ; he was buried at Kelsall, Herts ; his younger brother James published, in 1673, a work entitled Invisibilities Realities, demonstrated in the Holy Life and Triumphant Death of Mr. John Janeway, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. (See also Cox's Lives and Times of the Janeway s, 1847.)
Thomas Davies,
Son of John D. of London, draper ; free of the Drapers' Company ; an eminent bookseller ; served as Sheriff in 1667 ; knighted, October 23rd ; and Lord Mayor 1677, when the Monument was erected to commemorate the Great Fire ; died in 1679, at the age of 48 ; and was buried in St. Sepulchre's Church.
Hugh Shelton,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1647-52 ; Clare Hall, Cambridge, B.A. 1651.
John Powel,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1647-58 ; Emmanuel College, Cambridge, B.A. 1651.
Samuel Cholmely,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1647-52; Peterhouse, Cambridge, B.A. 1650; Fellow 1651. He receives a grant of £4 in 1647, and of £5 in 1653.
William Carpenter,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1647-53 ; Christ Church, Oxford.
Richard Bures,
Was granted an Exhibition in 1647, and a gratuity of £4.
Benjamin Dister,
Son of John D. of Glemsford, Suffolk, gentleman ; St. John's College, Cambridge, September 6, 1648.
Anthony Edmonds,
Poor Scholar, 1645-47, Pauline Exhibitioner, 1648 -52 ; Christ's College, Cambridge, B.A. 1652.
Robert Pead,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1648-55 ; Emmanuel College, Cambridge, B.A. 1652 ; Fellow 1655.
Thomas Laurence,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1648-56 ; Merton College, Oxford. Benjamin Phipps,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1648-52 ; Christ Church, Oxford ; received a grant of £2 in 1649- 50.
44 SCHOLARS OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL. [1640-57
John Cade,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1649-55 ; Queens' College, Cambridge, B. A. 1653; Fellow 1655.
Eichard Cumberland,
Bom 1631, in the parish of St. Bride, in London ; Pauline Exhibitioner, 1648-53 ; Magdalen College, Cambridge, B.A. 1653 ; M.A. 1656 ; Fellow of Magdalen ; Vicar of All Hallows, Stamford; Bishop of Peterborough, 1691—1718 ; died 1718, aged 86. Author of Blsquisitio F/iilosophica de Iccjibus Nalurce ; Essay towards the recovery of Jewish Weights and Aleasicres (dedicated to Samuel Pepys, his school- fellow and companion at College) ; and Sanchoniathon s Phoenician History (published posthumously).
John Wagstaffe,
Son of John W. of London ; Pauline Exhibitioner, 1649-58 ; Oriel College, Oxford, B.A. 1653 ; M.A. 1656. He succeeded to an estate at Hasland, "a little crooked man of despicable appearance " (A.O.) ; he died distracted in 1677, aged 44, and was buried in Guildhall Chapel. He was the Author of Historical Reflections on the Bisho}} of Rome, 1660, and The Question of Witchcraft Debated, 1669.
Samuel Nalton,
Poor Scholar 1649, when he petitioned for an Exhibition.
Benjamin PuUeyn,
Petitioned for an Exhibition in 1649, and again in 1652, when he received a grant of £10; Trinity College, Cambridge, !B. A. 1653; Fellow; D.D. 1673; Regius Professor of Greek, 1674-86 ; possibly the Mr. Pullen whom Pepys met at the Apposition, February 4, 1663.
Eichard Meggott,
Queeiis' College, Cambridge, B.A. 1653 ; M.A., S.T.P. 1669 ; Rector of St. Wave's, Southwark ; Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty ; Canon of Windsor ; Vicar of Twickenham, 1668-86 ; Dean of Winchester, 1679 ; died 1692. Preached at the School Feast, 1675-76, in St. Michael's, Cornhill.
— Christmas,
Mentioned in Pepys' Diary (November 1, 1660) as his schoolfellow ; he left the School before January 30, 1648-49.
William Corker,
Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1654 ; Fellow of Trinity ; Proctor ; Senior Fellow ; Benefactor of St. Paul's School Library 1673 and 1682 ; he died in 1702, leaving considerable property to the College, which, in token of gratitude, placed a black marble stone over his remains in the ante-chapel, 1709.
Gabriel Towerson,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1650-59 ; Queen's College, Oxford, B.A. 1654 ; M.A. 1657 ; Fellow of All Souls' 1660 ; Vicar of Welwyne, Herts, 1662 ; D.D. (from Archbishop Sancroft), 1677 ; Rector of St. Andrew Undershaft, London, 1692 ; died 1697. Author of many religious works (A.O.).
Eobert Elborough,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1650-53 ; Emmanuel College, Cambridge, B.A. 1655. Pepys dined with him after the Apposition, February 4, 1662, and " found him a fool as he ever was or worse." He was parson of St. La\vrence Poulteney (a donative) at the time of the Fire, 1666 (Pepys). He was appointed to it in 1664.
Thomas Johnson,
Recommended for a Robinson Exhibition, 1650 ; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1654 ; M.A. 1661.
Samuel Pepys (Peapes),
Son of John P., tailor of London ; born 1632 ; recommended for a Robinson Ex- hibition, 1650 ; entered at Trinity College, Cambridge, as sizar, 1650, but removed to Magdalen College (sizar, October 1, 1650) before commencing residence, March 1650-51, where he was first elected to one of Spendhiffe's Scholarships, and sub- sequently to one of Dr. Smith's ; B.A. 1653 ; M.A. 1660 ; man-ied in 1655, and entered the service of Sir Edward Montague, whom he accompanied to Holland to fetch back Charles IL, 1660 ; shortly after tlie Restoration he was appointed Clerk of the Acts of the Navy (June 1660) ; Clerk of the Privy Seal (July 1660) ; Younger
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Brother of the Trinity House (February 1661-62) ; Commissioner of Tangier (August 1662) ; Assistant to the Royal Fishery Corporation (March 1663-64) ; Member of Gresham College (Febniary 1664-65); F.R.S. 1664; Treasurer of Tangier (March 1605) ; Surveyor-General of the Victualling Office (October 1665) ; defends himself and his colleagues of the Navy Board successfully before the House of Commons (March 5, 1667-68) ; M.P. for Castle Rising 1673 ; Secretary for the Navy 1673-80 ; committed to the Tower 1679, but let out on bail ; in a few months the prosecution ■was dropped ; reappointed Secretary for the Navy 1684, which office he held till the abdication of James II. 1688 ; M.P. for Harwich 1678-88 ; President of the Royal Society 1684-85 ; he retired into private life after the Revolution, and died in 1703 and was bui-ied in Crutched Friar's Church (St. Olave's, Hart Street) ; he assisted as one of the Barons of the Cinqne Ports at the Coronation of James II., and was a standing governor of all the principal houses of charity iu and about London ; Master of the Clothworkers' Company 1677 ; benefactor of St. Paul's School Library 1662, 1675, and 1677.'
John Trevor,
Son of Sir John T. of Brynkynvelt, Denbigh, Secretary of State ; Gentleman Com- moner of Merton College, Oxford ; created M.A. 1670 ; admitted Student of the Inner Temple, 1654 ; called to the Bar, 1661 ; knighted, 1671 ; served as Treasurer, 1674 ; and Reader, 1675 ; M.P. for Yarmouth, Isle of Wight ; Speaker of the House of Commons, 1683, and again in 1690 ; expelled from the Chair and the House, March 12, 1695, on a charge of corruption ; Master of the Rolls, 1685-89, and 1693-1717 ; one of the Commissioners for the Great Seal, 1690-93 ; died, 1717, and was buried in the Rolls Chapel.
Henry Yelverton,
Son of Sir Henry Y., Bart., of Easton-Mauduit, and grandson of the Attorney- General of James I. ; born 1633 ; Gentleman Commoner of Wadham College, Oxford, 1650 ; M.P. for Northampton (County), 1660 ; married Susan, daughter, and sole heiress, of Charles Longueville, Baron Grey (of Ruthyn), and by her was ancestor of the Yelvertons, Earls of Sussex (extinct), and the Barons Grey de Ruthyn ; died, 1670. To him Dr. Edward Reynolds dedicates his funeral sermon on Langley's death with the words, " to whose care your father trusted the two props of his family, yourself and your most hopeful brother (whom God took from that scliool to a celestial academy)." Author of A Short Discourse of the Truth and Reasonableness of the Ecligion delivered by Jesus Christ, 1662 ; A Vindication of the Church of England against Edward Bagshaiv of Christ Church.
Humphrey Gower,
Son of Rev. Stanley G., Rector of Brampton Bryan, Hereford, and of Holy Trinity, Dorchester, Dorset ; entered St. John's College, Cambridge, May 21, 1655, aged 17, having been three years under Mr. Crumlum at Dorchester ; B.A. 1658 ; M.A. 1662 ; S.T B. 1669 ; S.T.P. 1676 ; Fellow ; Master of St. John's, 1679 ; Margaret Professor of Divinity, 1688 ; Canon of Ely ; died, 1711, in his 74th year and was buried in the College Chapel. He founded by his will, dated 1708, two Exhibitions for boys educated at St. Paul's or Dorchester Schools, "the two Schools in which he was prepared for the University " (see Appendix E. 5), so that I suppose he was under Crumlum when Surmaster at St. Paul's School (1647-1651), and accompanied him when appointed to Dorchester.
(?) William Heburne,
Was deprived of his Exhibition, February 4, 1651.
Anthony Smithson,
Son of Hugh S., hatter; St. John's College, Cambridge, June 28, 1651; Fellow Commoner, October 28, 1653.
Jonathan Tuckney,
Son of Doctor Anthony T., Pastor of St. Michael le Querne, London, and suhse- (juently Master of Emmanuel College, and of St. John's College, Cambridge ; admitted to Emmanuel College, October 4, 1651 ; St. John's College, January 21, 1653 (agedlS) ; B.A. 1655 ; Foundress Scholar, 1655 ; M.A. 1659 ; died 1693. He edited his father's Sermons and Latin Treatises.
William Griffith,
Poor Scholar, 1651-52 ; Pauline Exhibitioner, 1651-60 ; Christ's College, Cambridge, B.A. 1655.
46 SCHOLARS OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL. [1640-57
Thomas Hatley,
Petitioned for an Exlubitiou in 1650 and was promised tlie next vacancy ; Pauline Exhibitioner, 1651-55 ; Christ Church, Oxford.
Bernard Skelton,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1651-60 ; Peterhouse, Cambridge, B.A. 1654 ; Taxor, 1662 (when Pepys voted for him, October 10) ; benefactor of St. Paul's School Library, 1669 and 1670.
John Bellars,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1651-54 ; Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
(?) Stephen Warman,
Exhibitioner (Lady North's) 1652 ; Trinity College, Cambridge, M.B. 1660.
Thomas Rotherham,
Son of Christopher R. (deceased), a Mercer, and Barbara his wife ; Pauline Exhibi- tioner, 1652-62 ; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1656 ; M.A. 1660. He received a grant of £5 on his election to his Exhibition.
Martin Pindar,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1652-60 ; Queens' College (Oxford {sic) till 1655, afterwards), Cambridge, B.A. 1656 ; M.A. 1660.
John Payne,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1652-60 ; Queens' College, Cambridge, B.A. 1656 ; M.A. 1660.
Thomas Griffith,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1652-58 ; Christ's College, Cambridge ; migrated to Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1658.
Samuel Geree,
Poor Scholar, 1651-52 ; Pauline Exhibitioner, 1652-59 ; Emmanuel College, Cam- bridge, B.A. 1656.
Daniel Butler,
Poor Scholar, 1652-53 ; Pauline Exhibitioner, 1653-61 ; Magdalen College, Oxford, B.A. (Magdalen Hall) 1658.
William Gibbs,
Of London ; Pauline Exhibitioner, 1653-61 ; Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, B.A. 1657 ; M.A. 1661 ; Fellow ; resigned, July 4, 1667.
Samuel Woodford,
Son of Eobert W. of Northampton, born in London, 1636 ; Pauline Exhibitioner, 1653-58 ; "Wadham College, Oxford, B.A. 1656 ; became a Student at the Inner Temple, and eventually took Orders, 1669 ; Eector of Hartley Mauduit, Hants ; Prebendary of Chichester, 1676 ; D.D. (from Archbishop) 1677 ; Prebendary of Winchester, 1680. Author of A Poem on the Return of Charles II., A Paraphrase of the Psalms, 1667 (commended by Richard Baxter), and A Paraphrase of the Canticles, 1679.
Thomas Colley,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1653-56 ; Peterhouse, Cambridge, B.A. 1657 ; M.A. 1661. His Exhibition was declared void February 4, 1656, because "he was the son of a very able and suiEcient man" (m).
Thomas Daniell,
Son of Richard D. of Colchester, druggist ; St. John's College, Cambridge, July 21, 1654, aged 17 (after two years at St. Paul's School) ; B.A. 1658 ; M.A. 1662.
Thomas Gipps,
Campden Exhibitioner, 1654-62; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1658; M.A. 1662 ; Fellow of Trinity ; benefactor to St. Paul's School Library, 1673 ; Chaplain to William Earl of Derby ; Rector of Bury, [Lancashire ; died, 1700. Author of A Sermon on Corrupting the Word of God, 1696, and A Defence of the said Sermon in ariswer to John Owen.
John Yardley,
Campden Exhibitioner, 1654-61; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1658; M.D.; died, 1697, aged 60.
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John Ougliton,
Campden Exhibitioner, 1654-59 ; Trinity College, Cambridge.
John Hutchinson,
Campden Exhibitioner, 1654-61 ; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1658 ; probably J. H. of Sidney-Sussex, M.A. 1660, who was afterwards Vicar of Moreland, West- moreland.
Henry Frere,
Son of Thomas F. of Whitwell,- Rutland ; admitted to St. Paul's School, February 3, 1653, at the request of Viscountess Campden.
Henry Stephens,
Poor Scholar, 1653-54 ; in 1659 he receives a present of £10 to buy books, "having left some years ; " probably H. S. of Exeter College, Oxford, i3.A. 1659 ; M.A. 1662.
Henry Thomson,
A present (£6 13s. id.) to buy books, 1653-54 ; possibly H. Thomson of New Inn Hall, Oxford, B.A. 1660.
George Franklin,
Petitions for an Exhibition February 3, 1654.
Thomas Arnold,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1654-61 ; Peterhouse, Cambridge, B.A. 1678 ; M.A. 1662 ; LL.D. 1680.
Henry Cole,
He receives a benevolence (20s.) 1654-55.
John Spurling,
Petitions, February 3, 1654 ; Pauline Exhibitioner, August 25, 1655-60 ; Peterhouse, Cambridge ; B.A. (Spierling) 1657 ; M.A. 1661.
George Hooper,
Removed from St. Paul's School to Westminster School, whence he proceeded to Christ Church, Oxford, 1657 ; Student ; B.A. 1660 ; M.A. 1663 ; B.D. 1673 ; D.D. 1677 ; Chaplain to Morley, Bishop of Winchester and Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury ; Rector of Lambeth, 1675 ; Precentor of Exeter, 1677 ; Rector of Woodhay, Hants ; Chaplain to King William and Queen Mary ; Dean of Canter- bury, 1691 ; Bishop of St. Asaph, 1703 ; Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1704 ; died 1727 ; Author of several Sermons.
Jeremy Whitaker,
Son of Jeremy W. of Stretton, Rutland ; Pauline Exhibitioner, 1655-60 ; St. John's College, Cambridge, December 21, 1655, aged 15, after four years at St. Paul's School ; B.A. 1659 ; M.A. 1663 ; Fellow of St. John's ; died, 1683.
John Elmore,
Son of William E., carrier of London ; as a poor Scholar of St. Paul's School he received £5 to fit him for the University, 1655-56 ; admitted sizar of St. John's College, Cambridge, March 11, 1655-56, after two years at St. Paul's School ; B.A. 1659.
William Rosewell,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1655-62 ; Wadham College, Oxford, B.A. 1660 ; migrated to Magdalen Hall ; Fellow of All Souls', 1662 ; M.A. 1663.
Robert Willan,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1655-62; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1659; M.A. 1663 ; LL.D. 1671.
Arthur Abbott,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1655-61 ; Queens' College, Cambridge, B.A. 1659 ; M.A. 1663. He received a benevolence (50s.) in 1661-62.
Daniel Wilson,
Son of Thomas W. of Otham, Kent, Clerk, deceased ; admitted sizar of St. John's College, Cambridge, April 25, 1656, aged 17 ; B.A. 1659.
48 SCHOLARS OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL. [1640-57
George Viner,
Son of Sir Thomas V. , Bart. ; Fellow Commoner of St. Jolin's College, Cambridge, May 7, 1656, aged above 17 ; B.A.. (on St. Jolin's Day) 1658 ; succeeded his father in 1665 ; married Abigail, daughter of Sir John LawTence, and was living at Hackney, April 21, 1667, when he and his wife were "very civil " to Samuel Pepys ; died 1673 ; and was buried with his wife in the Chui'ch of St. Mary Wolnoth with great pomp, August 18.
Joseph Lane,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1656-63 ; Peterhouse, Cambridge, B.A. 1660 ; M.A. 1664,
Richard Alexander,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1656-58 ; Queen's College, Oxford.
Edmund Collet,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1656-60 ; Christ Church, Oxford, B.A. 1659. From 1648 to 1655 the Court paid £10 annually to John Colet, of the Hale in Bucks, towards the education of his youngest son.
Robert Delachamp,
Sou of Caleb D. , Clerk, deceased, of Ingham, Lincolnshire ; admitted to St. John's College, Cambridge, 1662 (as pupil of Mr. Langley) ; B.A. 1665.
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1657-1672 High Master SAMUEL CROMLEHOLME.
September \i, 1657.
Crumlum or Crumbleholme, son of Eev. Kichard Cromleholme, of (iuedgeley, Gloucester; Corpus Christi College, Oxford (November 13, 1635), aged 17. Became Surmaster of St. Paul's School, May 13, 1647, having been previously Master of the Mercers' Chapel School. In 1651 he was appointed Head Master of Dorchester Grammar School, on the recommendation of Mr. Langley to the Eev. Stanley Gower ; and on Langley's death was recalled to St. Paul's School being recommended to the Governors by Langley on his deathbed. He lost a valuable library in the Fire of London, 1666, and did not long survive the re- opening of the School after it was rebuilt, dying on July 21, 1672. He was buried in Guildhall Chapel, and his funeral sermon was preached by Dr. Wells, of Aldersgate. He left as his executrix his wife, Mary Cromleholme, who was paid £17 13s. 6cl. for fixtures by the Mercers' Court. He was surnamed iro\vy\oi>TTos for his skill in languages.
Surmaster William Cox (contimted).
See before, 1640—1657.
Surmaster 1658 Nathaniel Bull.
He died before Midsummer 1672, after a long illness.
Chaplain or \ ^^^^ Mason (contimtcd).
Under Usfier J ^ '
See before, 1640—1657.
SCHOLARS.
John Oldham (Ouldham),
Son of John 0. mercer ; Panline Exhibitioner, 1657-63, Queens' College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1663, in which year he twice received benevolences of 50s.
Israeli Collen,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1657-63, Queens' College, Cambridge ; B.A. (Trinity College) 1660. In 1663-64 ho received a grant of £5.
William Orme,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1657-60, "Bayliall" College, Oxford.
■John Fuller,
Son of Thomas F. (author of The Worthies) ; entered St. Paul's School, 1653, aged circa 11. Pauline Exhibitioner, 1657-64, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1660 ; Fellow 1663 ; M.A. 1664. He obtained confirmation from Charles II. of his rights in The Worthies, March 14, 1661-62. Nothing is known of him after 1667.
Richard Pelley,
Campden E^ibitioner, up to 1665, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Robert Lowe,
■ Pauline Exhibitioner, August 31, 1658-64, Clare Hall, Cambridge; B.A. 1661; M.A. 1665. He received a benevolence of £5 in 1664.
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Mathew Abell,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1658-67,^ Magdalen Hall, Oxford ; B.A. 1662; M.A. 1665.
Silvester Jule,
Poor Scholar, 1657-58 ; Pauline Exhibitioner, 1658-67, Pembroke College, Oxford.
John Balderstone,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1658-67, Emmanuel College, Cambridge; B.A. 1662; M.A. 1666 ; Fellow; S.T.B. 1673, in which year he was incorporated B.D. of Oxford; S.T.P. 1681 ; Master of Emmanuel, 1680-1719, when he died ; Prebendary of Peter- borough, to which cathedral he presented the fourth bell, 1709. He was chosen Vice- Chancellar of the University in 1687, when Dr. Peachell was turned out of the ofifice for opposing King James II. "as a man of much spirit ; aud in his speech which in course he made upon his being chosen, he promised that during his magistracy neither religion nor the rights of the body {i.e. University) should suffer by his means " (Burnet, History of his own Times).
Peter Clarke,
Son of Peter C. fellmonger, of London ; Emmanuel College, Cambridge, March 17, 1658-59; migrated to St. John's College, February 6, 1659-60, aged 16 ; admitted Fellow-Commoner, February 28, 1664-65 ; possibly the Mr. Clarke who was admitted B.A. (on St. John's day) 1663.
William Wyatt (Wyat),
Christ Church, Oxford; Student; B.A. 1662; M.A. 1665; Public Orator, 1679— 1712, having previously been Deputy to Dr. South ; Principal of St. Mary Hall, 1690—1712-13, when he died; preached at the School Feast, 1678-79.
Thomas Lagoe,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1659-62, Magdalen Hall, Oxford.
Richard Howard,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1659-66, Trinity College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1663.
John Pepys,
Brother of Samuel P. ; bom 1641 ; Poor Scholar, 1658-59 ; Pauline Exhibitioner, 1659-66. His brother corrects his Apposition Speech, 1659-60 ; Scholar of Christ's College, Cambridge, February 1660-61 ; B.A. 1662 ; M.A. 1666 ; takes orders, 1666; becomes a Clerk in the Trinity House, 1670 ; succeeds his brother as Clerk of the Acts ; died 1677.
Richard Smith,
Campden Exhibitioner, 1659, Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A. (Smyth) 1663; M.A. 1667.
Nathaneel (sic) Jackson,
Sou of N. J. of Boston, Lincolnshire, deceased ; St. John's College, Cambridge, March 23, 1659 (aged 15) ; B.A. 1663; M.A. 1667.
John Cotterell,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1660-67, St. Edmund Hall, Oxford; B.A. 1664; M.A. 1667.
Thomas Mayhew,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1660-62, "Wadham College, Oxford.
Thomas Lovett,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1660-67, Christ's College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1664 ; M.A. 1668.
John Allen,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1660-66, Jesus College, Cambridge; B.A. (Trinity) ^1664 ; M.A. 1668. ° V J/ .
<aeorge Eales,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1660-64, Christ Church, Oxford ; B.A. 1664, when he received a gi-ant of £5,
^ It must be noted that all Exhibitions were suspended after the Fire in 1666. (See Fasti.)
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Thomas Almon,
He received a benevolence (£10) 1660-61.
Humphrey Ffownes,
He received a benevolence (£6 13s. id.) 1660-61.
Thomas Cox,
Son of Thomas C. tailor, of Putney ; Sizar of St. John's College, Cambridge, June 6, 1661 (aged 16) ; B.A. 1664, when he received a benevolence of £5 ; M.A. 1668 ; Fellow ; S.T.B. 1676.
George Jeffreys,
Born at Acton, near Wrexham, Denbigh, 1648 ; entered the Free School at Shrews- bury ; was removed to St. Paul's School about 1659 " where he applied himself with considerable diligence to Greek and Latin" ; removed to Westminster School, 1661 ; entered the Inner Temple, 1663 ; was called to the Bar in 1668 ; in 1671 he became Common Sergeant ; and in 1678 Recorder of London, and Bencher of his Inn ; he was knighted in 1677, on his appointment as Solicitor to the Duke of York. Chief Justice of Chester ; became King's Sergeant and was made a Baronet in 1680 ; resigned the Reeordership the same year. Knight of the Bath ; Chief Justice of England, 1683 ; created Baron Jeffreys of Wera, May 1685 ; Lord Chancellor, September 1685 to December 1688 ; died in the Tower, April 19, 1689. His remains were buried under the altar of St. Mary Aldermanbury in 1693.
Benjamin Calamy,
St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge; BA. 1664; MA. 1668; S.T.P. 1680; Fellow of St. Catharine's and Tutor ; Curate of St. Mary Aldermanbury, 1677 ; Vicar of St. Lawrence Jewry, 1683 ; Prebendary of Harleston in St. Paul's Cathedral, 1685 (June to January) ; Chaplain in Ordinary to King Charles II. ; died 1685, aged about 40. Preached at the School Feast either 1676-77 or 1677-78. His Sermons were collected and frequently published ; one of the most famous was preached in 1683 against the Nonconformists on A Scrupulous Conscience, and dedicated to Sir George Jeffreys with much praise of his loyalty and vigour in support of Monarchy,
Jonathan Houghton,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1661-66, Corpus Christi College, Oxford; B.A. 1665. In 1661-62 he received a grant of £5,
John Strype (Stryp),
Born 1643 ; educated at St. Paul's School, 1657-61 ; Pauline Exhibitioner, 1661-66, Jesus College, Cambridge, March 29, 1662 ; B.A. (St. Catharine's Hall) 1665 ; M.A. 1669 ; Rector of Theydon Bois, Essex, 1669 ; Vicar of Low Leyton, Essex, 1669 ; Lecturer of Hackney till 1724 ; Rector of Terring, Sussex (sinecure) ; died 1737, aged 94. An eminent Ecclesiologist and Divine ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet ; author of numerous Biographical and Antiquarian works, including Annals of the Reformation, and an accurate edition of Stow's Survey of London.
William Davies,
Campden Exhibitioner, 1661, Trinity College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1665 ; M.A. 1669.
John Herring,
Campden Exhibitioner, 1661, Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A. 1664; M.A. 1668.
Samuel Taylor,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1662-66, Trinity College, Oxford ; B.A. 1666.
Thomas Basset,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1662-67, Wadham College, Oxford ; B.A. (St. Mary Hall) 1666 ; 1. St. Edmund Hall (a) M.A. 1669.
Samuel Goodwin,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1662-67, Wadham College, Oxford ; B.A. 1666 ; M.A. 1669.
Richard Velley,
Campden Exhibitioner, 1662, Trinity College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1666.
John Evans,
He received a grant of £2 to buy books, 1662-63. Exhibitioner (Mrs. Robinson's) up to 1669, Trinity College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1666 ; M.A. 1670.
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52 SCHOLARS OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL. [1657-72
Henry Edwards,
Pauline Exhibitioner, December 9, 1663-67, St. Edmund Hall, Oxford; B.A. (Magdalen College) 1666 ; M.A. 1669.
Josias White,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1663-67, Wadham College, Oxford ; B.A. 1667.
James Manfeild,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1663-67, Trinity College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1668 ; M.A. 1672. He appears also to have held a Campden Exhibition till 1673.
George Calvert,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1663-67, Peterhouse, Cambridge ; B.A. 1667.
Robert Vile,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1663-67, Peterhouse, Cambridge ; B.A. 1668.
Francis Cope,
Son of Thomas C. (deceased) of St. Olave's, Sun-ey ; St. John's College, Cambridge, February 25, 1663 (aged 18), after four years at St. Paul's School ; B.A. 1667 ; M.A. 1671.
James Ware,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1664-67, Peterhouse, Cambridge.
John Annesley,
Pauline Exliibitioner, 1664, Trinity College, Oxford.
William Oughtred,
Petitioned for an Exhibition, February 1663 ; Pauline Exhibitioner, April, 1664-67, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Symon Blenkarne,
Petitioned for au Exhibition, February 1664, but was refused because he was not of four years' standing in the School ; probably S. B. of Caius College, Cambridge, M.D. 1676,
John Shirley,
Petitioned for an Exhibition, February 1664.
Rowland Pryce,
Son of Peter P. of Caergai, Merioneth, gentleman ; St. John's College, Cambridgt, June 1665 (aged 16) ; B.A. 1668.
William (? Hemy) Dugard,
Petitioned for an Exhibition, February 1664, but was refused as not j'et of sufficient standing in the School. H. D. is Poor Scholar, 1663-64 ; W. D. is elected Pauline Exhibitioner, 1665, but in 1667 he appears as Henry D. in the Accounts. Henry D. of Trinity College, Oxford, was B.A. in 1667, and received a benevolence (£5) in 1664-65.
Nathaniel Shute,
Petitioned for an Exhibition, February 1664 ; Pauline Exhibitioner, 1665-67, Christ's College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1668 ; M.A. (Queens' College) 1672 ; S.T.B. 1680.
Samuel Johnson,
Born 1649 ; became Library Keeper^ at St. Paul's School, and acquired much perfec- tion there in Oriental languages ; Poor Scholar, 1664-65 ; Campden Exhibitioner, 1665, Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A. 1669; held the living of Curingham, Essex, and was Chaplain to Lord Russell. Was pi'osecuted for libel for the defence of his work Julian the Apostate, and was sentenced to fine and imprisonment in the King's Bench, when he secretly issued An humhle and hearty address to all the ' Protestants in King James^ Army, for which he was sentenced to stand in the pillory and to be whipped from Newgate to Tyburn, but first he was degraded from the priesthood in the Chapterhouse of St. Paul's, 1686. After the Revolution his de- gradation was declared illegal, and he received a pension. In 1692 an attempt was made to murder him in his own house in Bond Street, but he recovered from the wounds then inflicted on him ; died May, 1703. Author of Julian the Apostate and numerous political tracts, and some sermons. Collected edition of his works published in London, 1710.
^ From this I ma inclined to infer that Librarianship was held with the Captaincy among the Poor Scholar's duties was in- of the School up to 1876. eluded the charge of the Library. The
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Sir Edward Northey,
Knight, of Epsom, Surrey, son of William N. gentleman, of Stepney, Middlesex ; born 1651 ; MP. for Tiverton, 1710-13-14 ; Attorney-General, 1701-7, and again 1710-18 ; one of H.M.'s Commissioners for building fifty new Churches in and about Westminster, 1715 ; Steward of the School Feast, 1714 ; died August 16, 1723.
William Bernard,
Recommended by the High Master for an Exhibition as " pauper pins et doctus," February 1665, but it was refused because he had not been four years in the School ; it was promised, however, that he should be regarded with favour ; probably W. B. B.A. (Christ Church, Oxford,) 1669 ; M.A. (Merton) 1675 ; B.D. and D.D. 1685.
John Pulleyn,
Campden Exhibitioner till 1675, Trinity College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1669 ; Prebendary of Wildland in St. Paul's Cathedral, 1688 ; preached at the School Feast, 1698-99 ; author of several sermons.
JOHN CHURCHILL,
Son of Sir Winston C, born 1650 ; he left St. Paul's School to enter the household of James, Duke of York, in 1665 ; in 1666 he became an Ensign in the Guards, and served at Tangier. He served under Turenne against the United Provinces in 1672 ; in 1673 he became Lieut-Colonel of Littleton's regiment and Gentleman of the Bed- chamber to the Duke of York, and in 1680 niiirried the celebrated Sarah Jennings, In 1682 he was created a Scotch Peer by the title of Lord Churchill of Eymouth, and in 1683 became Colonel of the Firet or Royal Regiment of Dragoons. In 1685 lie received the Colonelcy of the Third Troop of Life Guards, and was second in com- mand as Brigadier-General at Sedgemoor, 1685 ; in the same year he was created Baron Churchill, of Sandridge, Herts, After the Revolution he became Earl of Marl- borough, 1689, and commanded successfullj' at Cork and Kinsale. In 1698 he became a Privy Councillor and Preceptor to the Duke of Gloucester. In 1702, on the accession of Queen Anne, he became Captain-General and Master-General of Ordnance, Am- bassador Extraordinary at the Hague, and Commander-in-Chief of the allied forces in Flanders. He was also made Knight of the Garter, Marquis of Blandford, and DuKK OF Mahlboeough. He won the successive victories of Blenheim, 1704, Ramillies, 1706, Oiulenarde, 1708, and Malplaquet (or Blaregnies) 1709 ; and in 1705 was created a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire ; but in 1712 he was removed from all his posts. On the accession of George I. 1714, he became again Captain- General and Master-General of Ordnance ; died in 1722.
Samuel Bradford,
Born 1651 ; Corpus Christi College, Cambridge ; M.A. (per lift. Reg.) 1681 ; Fellow of Corpus; S.T.B. (Com. Reg.) 1705 ; Rector of St. Mary-le-Bow, 1693 ; Chaplain in Ordinary to King William III. and Queen Anne; Master of Corpus, 1716-24; Bishop of Carlisle, 1718 ; Bishop of Rochester, 1723 ; Prebendary and Dean of West- minster, 1723 ; First Dean of the revived Order of the Bath, 1725 ; died 1731, aged 79, and was buried in .Westminster Abbey ; Preacher at the School Feast, 1699 — 1700 ; author of numerous sermons.
? Henry Day,
Exhibitioner (Mrs. Robinson's) 1^69, Trinity College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1668 ; MA, 1672 ; Vicar of Hunstanton, Norfolk ; died 1703, aged 54.
? Antony Spinage (Spinedge),
Exhibitioner (Mrs. Robinson's) 1669, Jesus College, Cambridge ; B A. 1670 ; M.A,
1674 ; Fellow ; S.T.B, 1681.
William Perry,
Campden Exhibitioner, 1671-76, Tiinity College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1671 ; M.A.
1675 ; Fellow ; Lecturer of St. Peter's-upon-Cornhill, London. He died about 1701, and by will founded Exhibitions for Paulines at Trinity College, Cambridge. (See Appendix E. 4.)
Henry Parker,
Magdalen Hall, Oxford ; B.A. 1675 ; M.A. 1678 ; Rector of St. Michael, Crooked Lane ; died 1733 ; preached at the School Feast, 1727-28 ; was Steward in 1723, and subscribed to Knight's Life of Cold ; aathor of several sermons.
Samuel Annesley,
Poor Scholar, 16'71-72-
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Edmund Lawley,
Poor Scholar, 1671-72.
Hugh Nurse,
Poor Scholar, 1671-72.
Samuel Brewer,
Sou of John B. (deceased) of Middlesex : pensioner, St. John's College, Cambridgo, October 1, 1672 ; LL.B. 1678.
William Bramston,
Queens' College, Cambridge; B.A. 1676; M.A. 1680; S.T.B. (Com. Peg.) 1705; Fellow of Queens' ; Rector of Woodham Walter, Essex, 1691 ; Prebendary of Worcester ; Preacher at St. Clement Danes, 1701 ; Rector of St. Christopher-le- Stocks, 1714 ; died 1735 ; preached at the School Peast, 1701-2, the dedication of this sermon is a bitter comjilaint of the neglect of sermons ; author of a sermon preached at Maldon, 1697, and another sermon at the Temple Church, 1714, "pub- lished in its vindication against some gross misrepresentations," a strong Protestant sermon on the accession of George I. (Text, 1 Tim. ii. 1, 2).
Robert Nelson,
Son of John N. Turkey merchant ; born 1656 ; finished his education under a private tutor, and was entered as Gentleman Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge, but does not appear to have graduated ; F.R.S. He was a great promoter of the S.P.G. andS.P.C.K. and a benefactor to Charity Schools, and dying January 16, 1714, left the whole of his estate in charitable bequests. He was the author of numerous religious books, of which the most famous are A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of Emjland, 1703, and The Life of Bishop Bull.
George Dodington,
Treasurer of the Navy and one of the Lords of the Admiralty ; M. P. for Bridge- water ; Lord-Lieutenant for Somerset ; died 1720.
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1672-1697 High Master THOMAS GALE.
August 5, 1672.
Bom at Scruton, York, circa 1635, and educated at Westminster School, whence he proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1658 ; M.A. 1662 ; Fellow of Trinity ; Begins Professor of Greek, 1672-76 ; Prebendary of Consumpta per Mare in St. Paul's Cathedral ; Member of Royal Society, 1677. He was a friend and correspondent of Samuel Pepys ; became Dean of York, 1697 ; died in 1702, and was buried in York Cathedral. Author of editions of Herodotus, Jambliehus, Rhctores Selecti, Opuscula Mythologica, &c.
Surmaster 1672-73 Fkancis Fox.
Lady Day.
Between Bull's death and Fox's appointment John Bedford (probably of Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A. 1668; M.A. 1672), was assistant "in the second Master's place" (a). Francis Fox preached at the Herefordshii'e Feast in London, 1683. He died in 1685, and his widow, Mary, received a present of £30.
Surmaster 1685 Philip Ayscough.
Subsequently High Master, 1713. Campden Exhibitioner of St. Paul's School, 1675, which see.
CJuiplain, John Mason (continued).
See before, 1640—1657.
Chaplain 1675 Edward Farmer.
Christmas,
Probably of St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge ; B.A. 1663 ; M.A. 1667. In 1686 he resigned on a pension of £20, and on March 15, 1688, was appointed by the Court to the Vicarage of Kirton, Lincoln ; died 1702.
Chaplain 1686-87 Nicholas Dyer.
Lady Day.
On February 15, 1686, it appears (m), that Daniel Hopkins (Campden Exhibitioner, 1675), was chosen Chaplain : if so, he did not take up the appointment. Nicholas Dyer was B.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1674. In 1690 he was ill, and Andrew Lortie (Pauline Exhibitioner, 1680), was employed as his substitute.
56 SCHOLARS OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL. [1672-97
SCHOLAES.
Edmund Halley,
Son of Edmund H. ; born 1656 ; Queen's College, Oxford, 1673, but did not graduate. Visited the island of St. Helena for astronomical purposes ; on his return to England was created M.A. of Oxford, 1678 ; Secretary of the Royal Society, 1686 ; Savilian Professor of Geometry, 1703 ; D.C.L. 1710 ; Astronomer Royal, 1713 ; died January 14, 1741-42. In 1680 he first observed the comet which bears his name.
William Stonestreet,
Trinity College, Cambridge ; B. A. 1677 ; M.A. 1681 ; Fellow of Trinity ; Rector of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, 1689 ; Preached at the Feast, 1700-1 ; died 1716 ; bent- factor of St. Paul's School Library, 1676.
John Wells,
Campden Exhibitioner, 1673 (so in the Minutes), but as he was elected vice Manfeild, who was a Pauline Exhibitioner, and appears to have gone to Queens' College, Caml.iridge, where he graduated B. A. 1673, M.A. 1677, I suppose that his Exhibition was not really on the Campden Foundation.
Francis Godfrey,
An Exhibitioner on the Campden Foundation till 1675, when his Exhibition was filled up as he was reported to the Court to be deceased.
Thomas How,
Son of Alexander H. of Battersej', Middlesex, gentleman. St. John's College, Cambridge, June 25, 1673 ; LL.B. 1678.
Philip Ayscough,
Poor Scholar, 1673-75 ; Campden Exhibitioner, 1675, Trinity College, Cambridge ; 15.A. 1676 ; Surmaster St. Paul's School, 1685 ; High Master, 1713 ; Vicar of St. Olnve's, Southwark, 1721 ; Steward of the School Feast, 1727 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Cold; died February 22, 1741-42.
Daniel Hopkins,
Son of a mercer. Poor Scholar, 1674-76 ; Campden Exhibitioner, 1675-88, Trinity College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1679 ; M.A- 1683 ; Fellow of Trinity ; S.T.P. 1707 ; Rector of Fakenham, Norfolk ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Cold.
Thomas Baker,
Son of Richard B., mercer. Campden Exhibitioner, 1676-85, Trinity College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1681 ; M.A. 1696.
Charles Montagu,
Son and heir of Robert, third Earl of Manchester ; by courtesy Viscount Mande- ville ; M.A. of Cambridge, 1680 ; succeeded his father as Earl of Manchester, 1682 ; Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard, 1689—1701 ; served at the Battle of the Boyne and the Siege of Limerick ; Ambassador Extraordinary to the Republic of Venice, 1697 ; Ambassador Extraordinary to the Iv,ing of France, 1699 ; Principal Secretary of State till the death of the King, 1701-2 ; Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Hun- tingdon ; Ambassador Extraordinary to the Court of Vienna, when he also visited Turin and Venice, 1707 ; created Duke of M;inchester, 1719 ; died 1721-22.
Joseph Spinedge,
Poor Scholar, 1675-76. Exhibitioner (Mrs. Robinson's), 1677-82, Jesus College, Cambridge; B.A. 1679; M.A. 1683.
Stephen Cressar,
Poor Scholar, 1676-77. In 1677 he petitioned for an Exhibition ; but did not obtain one till 1682, when he was elected to Mrs. Robinson's Exhibition, which he held till 1685; Trinity College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1681 ; M.A. 1685; S.T.B. 1703; S.T.P. 1708. John Strayhearnt,
Petitioned for an Exhibition, 1677, but was refused.
^.ichard Lidgold,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1678-87, Trinity College, Oxford ; B.A. 1682; M.A. 1685.
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Joseph Woodroffe,
Fauliue Exhibitioner, 1678-81, Queens' College, Cambridge.
Samuel Awbeiy,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1679-86, Jesus College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1683 ; M.A. 1687. Joseph Dunstan,
Son of Thomas D. ; born in London. Pauline Exhibitioner, 1679-86, St. John's College, Cambridge, (Siziir), March 1, 1680, aged 17 ; B.A. 1683.
John Elliott,
Poor Scholar, 1677-78; Pauline Exhibitioner, 1679-83, Trinity College, Cam- bridge; B.A. 1682. In 1679 he received a grant of £5, because of his "poor condition."
William Nichols,
Son of John N. of Donington, Bucks ; born circa 1664. Pauline Exliibitioner, 1679-86, Magdalen Hall, Oxford; Wadham College, March 12„ 1680-81; B.A. 1683 ; migrated to Merton College ; M.A. (Fellow of Merton) 1688 ; B.D. 1692; D.D. 1695 ; Chaplain to the Earl of JMontagu ; ? Rector of Cheshunt, 1691 ; resigned 1693 ; Rector of Selsey, Sussex, 1691 ; preaclied at the revival of the School Peast in St.' Paul's Cathedral on St. Paul's Day, 1697 — the first anniversary ol the Saint after the rebuilding, " where we remember to have played our ehilaish pastimes. amoniT its desolate ruins." Author also of A Scnnon on God's Blessing on the use of Mineral Waters, preached at Tiinbridge Wells, 1702, A Conference with a Theisty A Short History of Socinianism, Tlie Luty of Inferiors tu Superiors, d-c. Consolation on the Death of the Duke of Gloucester, and a translation of The Devout Life of Francis Sales, reformed from the Errors of the Popish Edition ; buried in the rciddle aisle of St. Swithin's Church, May 5, 1712 (but Knight says that he died April 11, 1711, aged 48).
Samuel Munford,
Christ's College, Cambridge ; M.B. 1683 ; M.D. 1694 ; subscriber to Knight's Zi/'e of Cold.
William Lightfoot,
Steward of the Feast, 1711 ; possibly B.A. of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1684.
John Lidgold,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1681-89, "Wadham College, Oxford ; B.A. 1685 ; M.A. 1688 ; Fellow of Oriel, 1690.
Beaupre Nowers (Nowres, Nowes),
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1681-89, Christ's College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1685 ; M.A. 1689.
Andrew Lortie,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1.681-88, Christ's College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1685.
Isaac Pepys,
Poor Scholar, 1679-81.
Constantius Sylvester,
Son of Constantius S. of London. rellow-Commoner, St. John's College, Cambridge,, April 9, 16M, aged 18.
Richard Edwards,
Jesus College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1685 ; M.A. 1689 ; Steward of the Feast, 1724 ;. subscriber to Knight's Life of Colct.
Richard (? William) Willis,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1682-90 (when he was beneficed), St. John's College, Cam- bridge ; B.A. 1686; M.A. 1690.
Couyers Place,
Exhibitioner (Mrs. Robinson's), 1682, Trinity College, Cambridge ; Campden Ex- hibitioner, 1685-90; B.A. 1686 ; M.A. 1693; Master of the Grammar School at, Dorchester. He was " beneficed " in 1690 (m).
Thomas Vincent,
Campden Exhibitioner, 1682-88, Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A. 1684; M.A,.
58 SCHOLARS OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL. [1672-97
James Stanley,
Second son of Charles, eighth Earl of Derby ; bom July 6, 1664 ; served in Flanders under William IH. ; was Groom of the Bedchamber and Colonel of a Eegiment of Foot till 1702, when he succeeded his brother as tenth Earl ; Lord- Lieutenant of North Wales ; Vice- Admiral and Lord- Lieutenant of Lancashire ; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1707 ; Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard, 1715 ; died 1735-36, without surviving issue ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet,
Michael Hutchinson,
Trinity College, Cambridge ; B.A, 1686 ; M.A. 1690 ; S.T.B. 1701 ; S.T.P. 1706 ; Fellow of Trinity ; Prebendary of Lichfield ; Minister of Derby ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Cold.
John Leng,
Petitioned for an Exhibition in 1683, and was promised the next void ; St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge; B.A. 1686; M.A. 1690; S.T.B. 1698; S.T.P. 1716 ; Fellow of St. Catharine's ; Rector of Bedington, Surrey ; Chaplain in Ordinary to George L ; Bishop of Norwich, 1723 ; died 1727 ; preached at the School Feast, 1712-13 and 1726-27 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
Robert Bevin,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1682-92, Christ's College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1687 ; M.A, 1691.
Richard Hopkins,
Poor Scholar, 1682-83 ; Trinity College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1687 ; M.A. 1693.
Edward Chester,
Son of Edward C. ; born in London. St. John's College, Cambridge, Fellow- Commoner, May 28, 1683, aged 18.
Robert Thomas,
Poor Scholar, 1683-85. Campden Exhibitioner, 1684-86.
Charles Walkley,
Son of John W. of London, merchant. St. John's College, Cambridge, May 19, 1684, aged 15.
John Jenkins,
Son of John J. of Gateside (= head). St. John's College, Cambridge, May 20, 1684, aged 16.
William Grigg (Gregg),
Jesus College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1688 ; M.A. 1697 ; Fellow of Jesus ; Master of Clare Hall, 1713-26 ; S.T.P. (Comitiis Reg.), 1717 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
Sir Nathaniel Lloyd,
Eldest son of Richard L., LL.D. (knighted 1676), and Elizabeth his wife ; born November 29, 1669, in Dutchy Land in the Savoy Parish ; Lincoln College, Oxford ; Fellow of All Souls, 1689 ; B.C.L. 1691 ; D.C.L. 1696 ; Dean of Arches and Judge of the Admiralty Court; LL.D. (Doctors' Commons); knighted May 29, 1710; Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1710-35 ; resigned in 1735, and died at Sunbury on March 3, 1741, and was buried in the Chapel of Trinity Hall on April 8, to which he was a great benel'actor, as also to All Souls ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Cold ; benefactor to St. Paul's School Library by a bequest of fifty guineas received in 1741.
Edward Foster,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1685-92, Queens' College, Cambridge: B.A. 1689; M.A. 1693.
Thomas Gibbon,
Petitioned for an Exhibition in 1684. Pauline Exhibitioner, 1686-93, Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1687 he is of Jesus College ; B.A. (of St. John's College), 1688 ; M.A. 1692 ; S.T.P. 1714.
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Thomas Tooke,
Petitioned for an Exhibition in 1684 (T. Tuck). Pauline Exhibitioner, 1686-91, Wadham College, Oxford. In 1687 he is of Mertou College, and in 1688 of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; B.A. 1689; M.A. 1693; S.T.P. 1712; Fellow of Corpus, 1690-99 ; Rector of Lambourn, Essex, 1707 ; Head Master of Bishop Stort- ford Grammar School, 1693 ; died 1721 ; a benefactor of Corpus Christi College. Eobert Newton,
Petitioned for an Exhibition in 1684. Pauline Exhibitioner, 1686-93, Trinity- College, Oxford. In 1688 he is of Hart Hall ; B.A. 1688 ; M.A. 1691 ; Rector of St. James', Garlick Hythe, London, circal708 ; Rector of St. Augustine's, ? 1706-21 ; preached at the School Feast, 1702-3.
William D'Ewe,
Trinity Hall, Cambridge ; LL.B. 1693 ; Steward of the Feast, 1708. Henry Stonestreet,
Trinity College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1690 ; M.A. 1694 ; Vicar of Eaton Bray, Nothill and Tottcnhoe, Beds ; preached at the Feast, 1708-9.
James Shipton,
Campden Exhibitioner, 1686-88, Trinity College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1690 ; M.A. 1694 ; Surgeon ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet,
John Shore,
Steward of the Feast, 1724, and subscriber to Knight's Life of Cold; possibly of Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A. 1690 ; M.A. 1700 ; M.D. 1706.
Samuel Robinson,
E.xMbitioner (Lady North's), 1686-94.
Benjamin Lane,
Exhibitioner (Mrs. Robinson's), 1686, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge: B.A. 1690; M.A. 1706.
Richard Dry,
Exhibitioner (Mrs. Robinson's), 1686. ? Richard Day of Jesus College, Cambridge • B.A. 1686.
? — Basset,
Exhibitioner (Lady North's), till 1694 ; possibly John Basset of Magdalen College Oxford ; B.A. 1686 ; M.A. 1689.
Joseph Godfrey,
Queens' College, Cambridge ; M.B. 1691 ; Steward of the Feast, 1727 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
William Smith,
Pauline Exhibitioner, T687-91, Jesus College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1690 ; M.A. 1702 ; Preacher at St. Clement Danes ; Preacher at the School Feast, January 26, 1710-11.'
Ralph Davison,
Son of William D. Esijuire ; born at Laton, Durham ; St. John's College, Cambridge June 9, 1687, aged 18 ; B.A. (of Trinity Hall), 1690.
Thomas Hill,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1688-93, Jesus College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1691.
John Manning,
Poor Scholar, 1686-88. Pauline E.xhibitioner, 1688-91, Emmanuel College, Cam- bridge ; B.A. 1690.
George Jeffs,
(At first Campden, subsequently) Pauline Exhibitioner, 1688-97, Merton College Oxford ; B.A. 1692 ; M.A, 1697.
John Millerd,
Poor Scholar, 1689-90. Pauline Exhibitioner, 1689-94, St. John's College, Cam- bridge ; B.A 1693.
Robert Maxwell,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1689-97, St. John's College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1693 ; M.A. 1697; S.T.P. 1719.
60 SCHOLAES OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL. [1672-97
Henry Denne,
Poor Scholar, 1688-89 ; petitioned for an Exhibition, 1688. Campden Exhibitioner, 1689, Trinity College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1693.
Charles Boyle,
Second son of Roger, Earl of Orrery ; born 1675 ; entered as a nobleman at Christ Church, 1690, and graduated in Arts (says Wood) ; published in 1695 a Latin translation of Phalaridis Agrigentinorum tyranni Epvtolcc, which gave rise to his celebrated controversy with Dr. Bentley. He succeeded his brother as fourth Earl in 17u3 ; and was Lieutenaut-General and Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the States-General of the United Provinces, and the Council of State in the Spanish Low Countries, 1710-11, when he was Steward of the School Feast. The astronomical instrument invented by Thomas Graham was named " Orrery " after him ; died 1731.
Spencer Compton,
Second son of James, third Earl of Northampton ; M.P. for Eye, Suffolk, from seventh year of William III., 1695, and through the first three Parliaments of Queen Anne ; Chairman of Committee for settling the Act of Union with Scotland, 1707 ; Chaii'manof the Committee of Privileges, 1708 ; oueof the managers of Dr. Sacheverel's Impeachment, 1709 ; M.P. for East Griustead, and also for the County of Sussex ; Speaker of the House of Commons, 1714-15; Paymaster- General and Treasurer of Chelsea Hosiiital, 1721-22 ; Knight of the Bath, on the revival of the Order, 1725 ; created Baron Wilmington, 1727 ; Viscount Pevensey and Earl of Wilmington, May 8, 1730 ; Lord Privy Seal, May 14 ; D.C.L. of Oxford, August 5 ; Lord President of the Council, December 31 ; Knight of the Garter, 1733 ; died 1743.
George Tilson,
Petitioned for an Exhibition, 1688. Campden Exhibitioner, 1689-96 (he exchanged with George Jeffs), Trinity College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1692 ; M.A. 1696 ; Fellow of Trinity ; Steward of the Feast, 1702, and subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
Edward Tenison,
Nephew of Archbishop Tenison ; Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; B.A. 1694; LL.B. (Lambeth) 1697 ; D.D. (Lambeth) 1731 ; Rector of Willersham, Kent, 1697, of Sandwich, 1698 ; Rector of Chiddingstone ; Prebendarj^ of Lichfield, 1704 ; Canon of Canterbury and Archdeacon of Carmarthen, 1708 ; Chaplain to the Duke of Dorset, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 1730 ; Bishop of Ossory, 1731 ; died 1735 ; a benefactor of Corpus, but his legacy was so charged with conditions that the College declined half of it in 1736 ; preached at the School Feast, 1710-11 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Cold.
Roger Gale,
Son of the High Master. Campden Exhibitioner, 1690-98, Trinity College, Cam- bridge; Scholar 1693 : B.A. 1694 ; M.A. 1698 ; Fellow of Trinity, 1697 ; M.P. for Northallerton, 1705, 1707, 1708, 1710; Commissioner of Stamps, 1714; of Excise. 1715 ; F.R.S. ; F. A.S. ; died 1744 ; Editor of Antoninus' Itinerary ; Steward of the Feast, 1708 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colct.
James Johnson,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1691-96, Trinity Hall, Cambridge ; Scholar 1690 ; LL.B. 1696; LL.D. 1702; Fellow 1696—1727-28; Chancellor of Ely; Master of the Faculties ; died at Hemingford Grey, Huntingdon, February 3, 1727-28, and is buried in the chancel there ; benefactor of Trinity Hall and Hemingford Grey ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
John Tattersall,
Poor Scholar, 1690-91. Jesus College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1695 ; M.A. 1699.
Richard Chambre,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1692-98, Trinity College, Cambridge; BA. 1695; M.A. 1699; Fellow of Trinity ; preached at the School Feast, 1709-10.
Daniel Sturmy,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1692-96, St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge ; B.A. 1695 ; M.A. 1702.
Roger Williams,
"Pauline Exhibitioner, 1692-97, Merton College, Oxford ; B.A. (All Souls), 1695 ; M.A. 1699.
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John Thorpe,
Poor Scholar, 1690-92. Pauline Exhibitioner, 1692-96, Tnnity College, Oxford ; B.A. 1694.
Thomas Pike,
Poor Scholar, 1691-93. Exhibitioner (Lady North's), 1692. Possibly Thomas Peake B.A. (of Magdalen Hall, Oxford), 1699 ; M.A. 1702.
Charles Pinfold,
Trinity Hall, Cambridge; LL.B. 1699; LL.D. 1704; Fellow of Trinity Hall; Steward of the Feast, 1707 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Cold..
Samuel Hilliard,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1693-99, University College, Oxford ; B.A. (of Trinity College, Oxford), 1697.
Thomas Nicholson,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1693-98, University College, Oxford ; B.A. 1698 ; M.A. 1701.
Phillips Gretton,
Exhibitioner (Mrs. Robinson's) 1693, Trinity College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1697 ; M.A. 1701 ; S.T.P. 1732 ; Fellow of Trinity ; Steward of the Feast, 1728, and subscriber to Knight's Life of Cold ; author of a sermon On the Uncertainty of Reason and the Certainty of Revelation, 1732.
Arnold Bouchery,
Exhibitioner (Mrs. Robinson's), 1693—1700, Jesus College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1697,
William Cave,
Exhibitioner (Mrs. Robinson's), 1693—1700, Trinity College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1696.
William Scrafton,
Exhibitioner (Mrs. Robinson's), 1693—1702, Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A. 1697 ; M.A. 1701.
St. John's College, Cambridge; B.A. 1697; M.A. 1701; S.T B. 1709; S.T.P. (Comitiis Regiis) 1717 ; Fellow of St. John's ; Rector of Heydon, Essex, and of Chishall Parva, Essex, 1717 ; died 1728, aged 50 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
Edward Wakeman,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1694-96, University College, Oxford.
Arthur Blackmore,
Exhibitioner (Lady North's), 1694. Possibly Abraham Blackmore of Trinity College, Cambridge; B. A.' 1696.
Thomas Hollingshead,
Exhibitioner (Lady North's), 1694—1700.
Nicholas Rodgers (Rogers),
Exhibitioner (Lady North's), 1694, Balliol College, Oxford, B.A. 1698 ; M.A. (Oriel), 1701.
Richard Carter,
Petitioned for an Exhibition, 1694.
Richard Lyde,
Petitioned for an Exhibition, 1694. Probably identical with Richard Lloyd, Steward of the Feast, 1699.
William Thornbury,
Petitioned for an Exhibition, 1694. St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge ; B.A. 1698.
Charles Gale,
Son of the High Master; bom August 5, 1677 ; Trinity College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1698 ; M.A. 1702 ; Rector of Scruton, Yorkshire ; died 1738 ; subscriber to Knight 3 Life of Colet.
Jordan Thorpe,
Petitioned for an Exhibition, 1694. Pauline Exhibitioner, 1695-98, Trinity College, Cambridge (a), but Trinity College, Oxford (m).
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Jolm Fisher,
Petitioned for an Exhibition, 1694. Campden Exhibitioner, 1695—1702, Trinity College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1699.
John Jeffreys,
Campden Exhibitioner, 1695—1703, Trinity College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1698 ; M.A. 1702 ; Fellow.
Edward Rudd,
Petitioned for an Exhibition, 1694. Pauline Exhibitioner, 1696—1701, Trinity College, Cambridge. Possibly Edward Pvudd, B.A. (of Sidney Sussex), 1706; Kector of Runcton, Norfolk ; D.D. ; subscriber to Knight's Life, of ColcL
Charles Godden,
Pauline E.xhibitioner, 1696—1700, Lincoln College, Oxfor4 ; B.A. 1699.
John Towersy,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1696—1702, Trinity College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1699 ; M.A. 1703; S.T.P. 1710.
John Gurney,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1696—1704, Trinity College, Cambridge. (Probably George Gurney, B.A. 1700 ; M.A. 1705.)
Clement Tookie,
Campden Exliibitioner, 1696—1702, Trinity College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1701 ; M.A. 1708 ; LL.D. (Comitiis Regiis) 1728 ; Chaplain of St. Paul's School, 1702 ; Surmaster 1714-19 ; Vicar of Chippenham, Cambridge ; Rector of Worlingtou, Suffolk ; Prebendary of Ely, 1723-24 ; died 1748, and was buried at Chippenham ; preached at the School Feast, 1716-17, when the cost of printing his Sermon (£2 3s. Od.) was paid by the Company (a) ; Steward in 1725 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colct.
Samuel Rosewell,
Born 1680 ; .son of Thomas Rosewell, who was tried before Judge Jeffreys in 1684 ; Nonconformist Divine ; Chaplain to Lady Clinton ; died 1722 ; author of an account of his father's trial, and several sermons and discourses.
Richard Skikelthorpe,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1697—1704, Jesus College, Cambridge; B.A. 1700; M.A.
1707.
Samuel Knight,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1697—1704, Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A. 1702; M.A. 1706 ; S.T.P. (Comitiis Regiis) 1717 ; Vicar of Chippenham, Cambridge ; Vicar of Borough Green, 1707 ; Prebendary of Ely, 1714 ; Rector of Bluntisham, Hunts, 1717, and Chaplain to the Earl of rOrford ; Archdeacon of Berks, 1735 ; died 1746 ; author of Life of Colet, for which the Company contributed an effigie of Dean Colet, engraved on copper; preached at the School Feast ("On the child Jesus, the great Exemplar of youth" — St. Luke ii. 52) 1717-18 ; Steward 1723.
John Deighton (Dighton),
Pauline Exhibitioner,_ 1697 — 1703, Jesus College, Cambridge ; B.A, 1701 ; M.A. 1705 ; S.T.P. (Comitiis Regiis) 1717 ; Rector of Newmarket ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
Gregory Clarke,
St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge ; B.A. 1701 ; M.A. 1705 ; Rector of Blundeston, Suffolk ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
Samuel Dod,
Campden Exhibitioner, 1697—1705, Clare Hall, Cambridge ; B A. 1701 ; M.A. 1705 ; Fellow of Clare ; Lecturer of St. Katharine Coleman ; preached at the School Feast, 1713-14.
Samuel Gale,
Son of the High Master ; bom December 17, 1682 ; apprenticed at "The Naked Boy" in St. Paul's Church Yard, 1700 (Pepys) ; F.S.A. : Treasurer of S.A. Steward of the Feast, 1712 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet,
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The following Paulines were Scholars under Dr. Gale or his predecessors : —
Edward Alexander,
Steward of the Feast, 1701 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Cold.
Thomas Alexander,
Steward of the Feast, 1702. •
Thomas Ayres,
Steward of the Feast, 1702.
Eichard Blondel,
Surgeon ; died 1718, when his funeral sermon was preached at St. Lawrence Jewry by Dr. Nathaniel Marshall.
John Baggs,
steward of the Feast, 1698.
William Bonner,
steward of the Feast, 1698.
Robert Baylis,
Steward of the Feast, 1700 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
Dr. Thomas Brown,
Steward of the Feast, 1700 ; benefactor to St. Paul's School Library, 1690,
Richard Crawley,
Steward of the Feast, 1699.
Richard Chiswell,
Steward of the Feast, 1700.
Spencer Cowper,
Son of Sir William Cowper, and brother of the Lord Chancellor ; Attorney-General to the Prince of Wales, 1714 ; Chief Justice of Chester, 1718-27 ; Sergeant-at-Law, 1727 ; Puisne Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, 1727 ; died 1728. He was grandfather of William Cowper ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
John Downe,
Steward of the Feast, 1702.
Robert Fowle,
Steward of the Feast, 1698. Edward Farmer,
Steward of the Feast, 1700. Possibly a son of the former Cliaplain of St Paul's School, 1675.
Thomas Fowke,
Steward of the Feast, 1701.
Edward Gibbon,
Steward of the Feast, 1701.
John Hollo way,
Steward of the Feast, 1701.
George Huxley,
Steward of the Feast, 1701,
Edward Haulsey,
Steward of the Feast, 1702.
Samuel Jackson,
Steward of the Feast, 1700. John Killingworth,
Steward of the Feast, 1698. Samuel Lloyd,
Steward of the Feast, 1698.
64 SCHOLARS OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL. [1672-97
Henry Lovibond,
Steward of the Feast, 1701.
Edward Nelthorpe,
Steward of the Feast, 1699.
Anthony ISicoll,
Steward of the Feast, 1702.
Robert Paltock,
Steward of the Feast, 1699.
Edward Parr (Parre),
Proctor ; Steward of the Feast, 1702 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
Charles Peers,
Son of Edward Peers, confectioner to the King ; born in St. Bride's parisla ; Sheriff of Loudon, 1707, when he was knighted July 17 ; Lord Mayor 1716. He was living at Bromley, Middlesex, 1723 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Cold.
Richard Robinson,
Steward of the Feast, 1699.
George Smith,
Steward of the Feast, 1698.
Anthony Smith,
Steward of the Feast, 1699.
Dr. Thomas Sutton,
Steward of the Feast, 1699.
Thomas Southouse,
Steward of the Feast, 1700.
Samuel Smithin,
Steward of the Feast, 1701.
Samuel Stebbing,
Steward of the Feast, 1702. Mentioned by Disney among the friends of A. A. Sykes.'
John Tully,
Steward of the Feast, 1699. Benjamin Tinne,
Steward of the Feast, 1700.
Christopher Tilson,
Steward of the Feast, 1700.
John Tayler,
Steward of the Feast, 1701.
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1697-1713. High Master. JOHN POSTLETHWAYTE.
Sfptombcr 3, 1697.
Born at Jlillom, Cumberland, circa 1650; Merton College, Oxford; B.A. 1674; M.A. 1678 ; Master of Arclibisliop Tenison's School, whence he was preferred to St. Paul's School on the recommendation of the Archbishop. Died September 26, 1713, and was buried in St. Augustin's Church, Old Change, when Dr. Hancock preached a funeral sermon over him, j)iiblished with the title of The Christian Schoolmaster. A benefactor to St. Paul's School Library, 1704.
Stirmastcr Philip Ayscough (conthmcd).
Subsequently High Master, 1713; Campden Exhibitioner of St. Paul's School, 1675, which see.
Under Usher Nicholas Dyer {continued).
See before, 1672—1697.
Under Usher 1702 Clement Tookie.
February 12.
Subsequently Surmaster, 1714 ; Exhibitioner of St. Paul's School, 1696, which see.
SCHOLARS.
Archibald Douglas, Lord Wandale (Wandell),
Succeeded his father as second Earl of Forfar, 1713 ; appointed Colonel of the Buffs, 1713 ; Envoy Extraordinary to Prussia, 1714 ; served as Brigadier-General at the battle of Sheritfmuir, November 13, 1715, where he was severely wounded and taken prisoner. He died of his wounds at Stirling, December 8, 1715, unmarried, when Ids title and estates devolved on the Duke of Douglas. Steward of the School Feast in 1710-11.
Matthew Postlethwayte,
Nephew of the High Master ; Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, April 3, 1699 ; migrated to St. John's College, Cambridge, December 28, 1702 ; B.A. 1702 ; M.A. 1706 ; Vicar of Shottisham, Norfolk, 1708 ; Rector of Denton, Norfolk, 1714 ; Rector of Redenhall and Archdeacon of Norwich, 1742 ; died 1745. A benefactor to St. Paul's School Library, 1699 ; Preached at the School Feast, 1714-15 ; Steward, 1727 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
Roger Cotes,
Son of Robert C. of Burbage, Leicestershire ; Trinity College, Cambridge, 1699 (aged 17); Scholar, 1701; B.A. 1702; M.A. 1706; Fellow, 1705-13; Plumian Professor of Experimental Philosophy, 1706 ; Mathematical Reader at Trinity, 1706 and 1708; Junior Treasurer, 1707-9; F.R.S. 1711; died 1716. Author of Harmonia Mensurarum. The friend and correspondent of Isaac Newton.
Daniel Lock,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1698 1707 ; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1702; M.A. 1706.
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Leonard Darrant,
Poor Scholar, 1697-99 ; Pauline Exhibitioner, 1698-1703 ; Trinity College, Cam- bridge, B.A. 1702.
John Price,
Campden Exhibitioner, 1698-1706 ; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1701 ; M.A 1705.
John Leake,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1699-1708 ; Hart Hall, Oxford.
Benjamin Marshall,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1699-1707 ; Christ Church, Oxford, Student 1701 ; B.A. 1703 ; M.A. 1706 ; in Holy Orders; benefactor of St. Paul's School Library, 1698; sub- scriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
Arthur Ashley Sykes,
Poor Scholar, 1698-1701 ; Exhibitioner (Lady North's), 1700-1705 ; Benet College, Cambridge, B.A. 1704 ; M.A. 1708 ; S.T.P. 1726 ; Vicar of Godmersham, Kent, 1712-14 ; Rector of Dry Drayton, Cambridge, 1714-18 ; Sector of Eayleigh, Essex, 1718 ; Afternoon Preacher at King Street Chapel, 1718 ; Morning Preacher, 1721 ; Prebendary of Alton Borealis (Sarum), 1723 ; Precentor of Sarum, 1726 ; Dean of St. Burian, Cornwall, 1739 ; Prebendary of Winchester, 1740 ; he died in 1756. Disney, in his Life of Sykes, says that on leaving College he became an assistant in St. Paul's School, but I find no record of it. He was one of the Apposers at St. Paul's School most years from 1748-56. He was Steward of the Feast in 1723, and Preacher iu 1724-25. The list of his works (sixty-three in number, extending from 1712 to 1757) fills fourteen jtages 8vo. in Disney's Life of Sykes. Some papers of his were published under the initials T.P.A.P.O.A.B.LT.C.O.S. (i.e. The Precentor and Prebendarj^ of Alton Borealis in the Cathedral of Sarum). There are many letters of Sykes, in the Birch MSS. (Biitish Museum, Sloane, 4319), and amongst them a copy of Dr. Birch's answers to certain questions about A. A. S. The Sykes Exhibitions at Benet College, Cambridge, were founded in 1766 in his memory by his brother. Rev. George Sykes (Exhibitioner, St. Paul's School, 1707). See Appendix E. 6.
Thomas Jackson,
Exhibitioner (Mrs. Robinson's), 1700-1707 ; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1704 ; M.A. 1708.
John Barnwell,
Exhibitioner (Mrs. Robinson's), 1700-1707 ; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1704 ; M.A. 1708; S.T.B. 1725; S.T.P. (Com. Reg) 1728; Rector of Little Samford, Essex, 1727 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
Algernon Coote,
Third son of the Earl of Montrath ; succeeded his brother in 1720; M.P. for Castle Rising, 1727 ; died 1744 ; benefactor of St. Paul's School Library, 1706 ; Steward of the Feast, 1710 ; subscriber to Knight's Z{/e of Colet,
William Dechair,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1701-1708; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1705; M.A. (Fellow of Peterhouse), 1709 ; Vicar of Culham, Oxon ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
W illiam Betterley,
Poor Scholar, 1700-1701 ; Pauline Exhibitioner, 1701-1707 ; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1705 ; M.A. 1709. He was a candidate for the High Mastership in 1721.
Thoinas Greene,
Exhibitioner (Mrs. Robinson's), 1701-1705; Peterhouse, Cambridge B.A. 1705; M.A. 1709.
William Harris,
Exhibitioner (Lady North's), 1701-1709 ; Benet College, Cambridge, B.A. 1705.
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Matthias (Matthew) Mawson,
Exhibitioner (Lady North's), 1702 ; Benet College, Cambridge, Scholar, B.A. 1704 ; Fellow, 1707 ; M.A. 1708 ; Moderator, 1708; Taxor, 1709 ; S.T.B. 1716 ; Master of Benet, 1724 ; S.T.P. 1725 ; Eector of Conington, Cambridge ; Vice-Chancellor of the University, 1730-31 ; Rector of Stadstock, Essex, 1733. In 1734 he refused the Bishopric of Gloucester, but in 1738 became Bishop of Llandaff, whence he was translated in 1740 to Chichester, and in 1754 to Ely. He resigned the Mastership of Benet in 1744, and died in his eighty-ninth year in 1770, and was buried in Ely Cathedral, bequeathing Scholarships of the value of £400 a year to Benet College. He published several sermons, &c., and among them one preached before the gentlemen educated at St. Paul's School, January 25, 1723, Un the duty of doing as we luould he done unto. He appears among the subscribers to Knight'a Life of Colet, but is not marked as "of St. Paul's School," and was a benefactor to St. Paul's School Library ; Steward of the Feast, 1724.
William Mince,
Poor Scholar, 1701-1702 ; Pauline Exhibitioner, 1702-1708 ; Trinity College, Oxford, B.A. 1705 ; M.A. 1707.
William Cooper (Cowper),
Son of William C. {deceased) ; Campden Exhibitioner, 1702-1708 ; Trinity College, Cambridge, aged 18 ; B.A. 1706.
Peter Ashton,
Campden Exhibitioner, 1702-1705; Trinity College, Cambridge.
Christopher Hussey,
Exhibitioner (Mrs. Robinson's), 1702-10 ; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1706 ; M.A. 1710; Fellow; S.T.P. 1731.
Thomas Wyatt,
Poor Scholar, 1702-1703 ; was refused an Exhibition in 1702 for want of a "petition" ; Pauline Exhibitioner, 1703-1706 ; Jesus College, Cambridge.
James Levett,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1703-11 ; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1707 ; M.A. 1711.
Thomas Rowell,
Campden Exhibitioner, 1703-1709 ; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1707.
Uvedale Price,
Son of Robert P., Baron of the Exchequer ; St. John's College, Cambridge, January 12, 1703 (aged 18).
Fitzwilliams (Fitzwilliam) Plumtree,
Queens' College, Cambridge, B.A. 1707 ; Steward of the Feast, 1710.
Thomas Bell,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1704-13 ; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1708 ; M.A.
1712 ; Vicar of Liverpool ; benefactor to St. Paul's School Library, 1705 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet,
Thomas Andrews,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1704-12; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1708; M.A. 1712.
Edward Neden,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1705-13 ; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1709 ; M.A. 1713 ; S.T.P. 1735; Fellow of Trinity; Rector of Rougham, Suffolk, 1723; Eector of Rushbrooke ; Prebendary of Lincoln ; J. P. for SuiTolk ; died 1768, aged seventy- eight, and was buried at Rougham ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
William Smith,
Campden Exhibitioner, 1705-12 ; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1709 ; M.A.
1713 ; Fellow of Trinity.
Miles West,
Campden Exhibitioner, 1705-11 (he appears to have also held one of Lady North's Exhibitions) ; B.A. of ilerton College, Oxford, 1709 ; M.A. (of All Soul.s) 1713.
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Daresy (Darcy) Curwen,
Exhibitioner (Lady North's), 1705-1708.
Thomas Matthew (Machen) Fiddes,
Exhibitioner (Mrs. Kobiuson's), but on going to Oxford he exchanged with Isaac Steele ; Queens' College, B.A. 1709 ; M.A. 1712.
Isaac Steele,
Poor Scholar, 1702-1705 ; Exhibitioner (Mrs. Eobinson's), 1705 ; B.A. 1709 ; M.A. 1720 ; Chaplain of St. Paul's School, 1713 ; Surmaster, 1719-21, when he was an unsuccessful candidate for the High Mastership ; he died shortly after, and the Company paid the parish dues for his burj'all, July 19, 1721.
Beresford Baker,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1706-13 ; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1710 ; M.A. 1714.
John Higgott (? Higgett),
If so, St. John's College, Cambridge, B.A. 1710 ; M.A. 1723 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet ; in Holy Orders.
John Hilkiry (Hilary),
Campden Exhibitioner, 1706-13; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1710; M.A.
1714. Augustine Bryon (Bryan),
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1707-15 ; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1711 ; M.A. 1716 ;
Editor of Plutarch's Lives, 1719 ; died 1724.
Nicholas Wickens,
Son of John W., of Stoke Edith, Hereford ; Pauline Exhibitioner, 1707-15 ; Trinity College, Cambridge, 1707 (aged 18) ; Scholar, 1709 ; B.A. 1711 ; M.A. 1715 ; Fellow of Trinity, 1714-21.
John Luke,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1707-13 ; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1711.
Thomas Leigh,
Exhibitioner (Lady North's), 1707 ; Corpus Christi College, Oxford, B.A. 1711 ; M.A. 1714 ; B.D. 1723.
George Sykes,
Exhibitioner (Mrs. Robinson's), 1707 ; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1711 ; M.A. 1715; Vicar of Hawkeswell ; Piector of Piayleigh, Essex; Founder of the Sykes Exhibitions in 1766 (see Appendix E. 6).
Christopher Faucet (Fawcet),
Exhibitioner (Mrs. Robinson's), 1707 ; Benet College, Cambridge, B.A. 1711 ; M.A. 1715 ; Fellow ; S.T.B., 1723 ; Rector of St. Mary Abchurch ; died 1747, aged 56, and was buried at Monk's Illeigh, Suffolk ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
John Myers,
Poor Scholar, 1706-1707; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1710; M.A. 1714; S.T.B. 1725 ; Fellow of Trinity ; in Holy Orders ; benefactor to St. Paul's School Library, 1716 ; Steward of the Feast, 1727 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
Thotnas Bentley,
Nephew of Richard Bentley ; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1711 ; M.A. 1715 ; LL.D. 1724 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Cold.
John Busfield,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1708-14 ; Pembroke College, Oxford ; Exeter College, 1709, where his name was removed, 1712.
Charles Nelthorpe,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1708-13 ; Jesus College, Cambridge, B.A. 1712.
John Simpson,
Son of Joseph S., of London; Campden Exhibitioner, 1708; Trinity College, Cambridge, 1706 ; Subsizar (aged 18) ; B.A. 1712 ; M.A. 1716.
William Allbright,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1709-18 ; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1713; M.A. 1718.
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Edward Peacli,
Campden Exliibitiouer, 1709 ; Trinity College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1713.
Thomas Browne,
Poor Scholar, 1709-10 ; Exliibitioner (Lady North's), probably of Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1713 ; M.A. 1717 ; Fellow ; M.D. 1724.
James Barker,
Pauliue Exhibitioner, 1710-16 ; Mertou College, Oxford, B.A. 1715.
Charles Thomas,
Exhibitioner (Mrs. Robinson's), 1711 ; Benet College, Cambridge, B.A. 1715 ; M.A. 1721 ; possibly Vicar of Barton, Norfolk, 1722-27 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Cold.
Thomas Wright,
Exhibitioner (Mrs. Robinson's), 1710 ; Benet College, Camljridge, B.A. 1714 ; benefactor to St. Paul's School Library, 1717 ; subscriber to Knight's Lifo of Colct.
Abraham Shewell,
Exhibitioner (Lady North's), 1711 ; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1715.
Alured (Aldred) Clarke,
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1712-19 ; Benet College, Cambridge, B.A. 1716 ; M.A. 1720 ; Fellow of Benet, 1719 ; S.T.P. 1728 ; Rector of Chilbolton, Hants ; Chaplain in Ordinary to George L and George II. ; Prebendary of Winchester, 1723 ; Prebendary of Westminster ; Dean of Exeter, 1740 ; died 1742 ; was Steward of the School Feast, 1723, and preached in 1726-27 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet. Both at Winchester and Exeter he exerted himself to found County Hosjiitals, in which he was successful at the former city, but did not live to complete his work at the latter. Author of several sermons (printed), including the Feast Sermon, 1727, and a Hospital (Winchester) Sermon, 1736.
Andrew Rogers,
Poor Scholar, 1710-12 ; Pauline Exhibitioner, 1712-15 ; Benet College, Cambridge,
1711 ; B.A. 1715 ; M.A. 1728 ; Rector of Sandringham, Babingley, and Wolferton, Norfolk; died 1731.
William Bradford,
Son of the Bishop of Rochester ; Pauline Exhibitioner, 1712-17 ; Benet College, Cambridge, 1712 ; B.A. 1716 ; M.A. 1720 ; Fellow of Benet, I7l7 ; Archdeacon and Prebendary of Rochester, 1728 ; Vicar of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1722 ; died 1728, aged 32 ; Steward of the Feast, 1725.
Thomas Vaiighan,
Poor Scholar, 1712-13 ; Pauline Exhibitioner, 1712-17 ; Trinity College, Cambridge,
1712 (but Thomas Vaughan graduated B.A. 1716 from Jesus College ; M.A. 1720, where he entered as Sizar, May 2, 1713).
John Lawson,
Son of Joseph L., of London ; Campden Exhibitioner, 1712 (aged 17) ; Trinity College, Cambridge ; Scholar, 1715 ; B.A. 1716 ; M.A. 1720 ; S.T.B. 1727 ; Fellow of Trinity, 1719-34 ; Latin Reader, 1728 ; Greek Reader, 1729 ; in Holy Orders ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
George Swan,
Trinity College, Cambridge ; petitioned for an Exhibition in 1712, but was refused ; B.A. 1716.
John Browne (Brown),
Pauline Exhibitioner, 1713-19 ; Trinity College, Cambridge ; Perry Exhibitioner up to 1721 ; B.A. 1717 ; M.A. 1721.
Joseph Crayker,
Campden Exhibitioner, 1713; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1717; M.A. 1721.
70 SCHOLARS OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL. [1697-17 13
Samuel Kerricli (Kerrick),
Benet College, Cambridge, B.A. 1717 ; M.A. 1721 ; Fellow ; S.T.P. 1735 ; Vicar of Dersingham, Norfolk, 1729 ; Rector of Wolferton, 1731. He married a daughter of his schoolfellow, Matthew Postlethwayte ; died 1784 ; Steward of the Feast, 1725 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Cold.
Sir John Strange,
Son and heu- of John S., of Fleet Street ; born circa 1695 ; called to the Bar (Middle Temple), 1718; King's Counsel; Solicitor-General, 1737-42; Recorder of London, 1739 ; Knighted, May 12, 1740. Resigned his posts and retired almost entirely from practice in December, 1742, to the surprise of Westminster Hall : on which occasion he I'ecords " His Majesty, when at a private audience I took leave of him, expressed himself with the greatest goodness towards me, and honoured ma with his patent to take place for life next to his Attorney-General. Anno set. meae, 47." — (Foss.) Master of the Rolls, 1750-54 ; died May 18, 1754, and was buried in the Rolls Chapel ; Steward of the Feast, 1727.
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1713-1721 High Master PHILIP AYSCOUGH.
Previously Surmaster, 1685-1713 ; Campden Exhibitioner of St. Paul's School, 1675, which see.
Surmaster 1714 Clement Tookie.
Previously Chaplain, 1702-14 ; Exhibitioner of St. Paul's School, 1696, which see.
Sicrmaster 1719 Isaac Steele.
3Iichaclmas. Previously Chaplain, 1714-19 ; Exhibitioner of St. Paul's School, 1705, which see.
Chaplain 1714 Isaac Steele.
See above.
Cha/plai7i 1719 Hugh Wyat.
August 7. Educated at St. Paul's School ; proceeded to Cambridge, 1714, which see.
SCHOLARS. John Escolme,
Poor Scholar (otherwise Porter boy),i 1713-14 ; Pauline Exhibitioner, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1714-21 ; Perry Exhibitioner, up to 1721 ; B.A. 1718 ; benefactor to St. Paul's School Library, where his name is found on the title-page of a folio copy of Plutarch.
Hugh Wyat,
Benet College, Cambridge, B.A. 1718; M.A. 1722; Chaplain of St. Paul's School, 1719-28 ; Vicar of West Ham, Essex, 1727 ; Rector of St. Alphege, London Wall, 1732-62 ; his library was sold in 1762 ; he was Steward of the Feast in 1728 ; sub- scriber to Knight's Life of Colet ; and a benefactor to St. Paul's School Library.
Thomas Stephens.
Benet College, Cambridge, B.A. 1719 ; M.A. 1723 ; Fellow, 1722 ; Rector of Sherfield, Hants ; and Lecturer in the New Church, Strand ; died 1747 ; Steward of the Feast 1725.
WilHam Low (Lowe),
Benet College, Cambridge, B.A. 1719 ; M.A. 1723 ; S.T.B. 1730 ; Fellow ; Proctor, 1727; Rector of Stalbridge, Dorset; died 1750; Steward of the Feast, 1728; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
Thomas Price,
PauUne Exhibitioner, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1715-24 ; LL.B. 1722.
David Capon,
Porter boy, 1714-15 ; Pauline Exhibitioner, Trinity CoUege, Cambridge, 1715-21 ; B.A. 1719.
John Ramsay,
Campden Exhibitioner, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1716; B.A. 1720; M.A. 1748.
' From this time the title of Porter boy is substituted in the Accounts for tliat of Poor Scholar. His annual fee was £2.
72 SCHOLARS OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL. [17 13-21
Theodosius Staige,
Pauline Exliibitioner, St. John's College, Cambridge, 1716-18.
John Holland,
Porter boy, 1715-16 ; Pauline Exliibitioner, Trinity CoUege, Cambridge, 1716-21 ; Perry Exhibitioner up to 1721.
Thomas Hough,
Porter boy, 1716-17 ; Pauline Exhibitioner, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1717-24; B.A. 1721 ; M.A. 1725 ; Fellow of Trinity ; Preached at the School Feast, 1728 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colct.
Christopher Morrison,
Pauline Exhibitioner, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1717-24 ; B.A. 1722 ; M.A. 1728 ; VicarofHorndonontheHill, 1732 ; resigned, 1738 ; subscriber to Knight' sZi/co/Co/ei.
John Sadler,
Pauline Exhibitioner, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1717-22.
Samuel Grove,
Trinity College, Cambridge, LL.B. 1724 ; in Holy Orders ; of East Barnet, Herts; died 1769, aged 71 ; Steward of the Feast, 1724.
John Capon,
Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge; LL.B. 1725 ; subscriber to
Knight's Life of Cold. John Prise,
Porter boy, 1717-18. Henry Panton,
Campden Exhibitioner, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1718; Perry Exhibitioner, up to 1725 ; B.A. 1722 ; M.A. 1735. Timothy Crumpe,
Son of Timothy C. of Lugwardine, Hereford ; Pauline Exhibitioner, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1718-24, aged 18; Perry Exhibitioner, up to 1725; Scholar 1720; B.A. 1722; M.A. 1726; Fellow of Trinity, 1725-36; Chajdain of St. Paul's School, 1728 ; High Master, 1733 ; died (leaving a widow) 1737 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
John Butler,
Pauline Exhibitioner, Benet College, Cambridge, 1718-24 ; B.A. 1722 ; M.A. 1726 ; Fellow ; Rector of Barton, Cambridge, 1730 ; of King's Teynton, Devon ; of Water- iugbury, Kent, 1736 ; of Stockbury, 1737 ; Prebendary of Canterbury, 1747 ; Steward of the Feast, 1727.
John Ellis,
Perry Exhibitioner, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1722-25; B.A. 1722.
John Smith,
Campden Exhibitioner, Trinity College, Cambridge 1719 ; Perrv Exhibitioner, 1721-27 ; B.A. 1722 ; M.A. 1726 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colct.
William Wood,
Porter boy, 1718-19; Pauline Exliibitioner, Chiist Church, Oxford, 1719-25; Matriculated, April 14, 1720.
John Gibson,
Pauline Exhibitioner, Benet College, Cambridge, 1719-21 ; in Holy Orders ; Steward of the Feast, 1727.
Joseph Key,
Perry Exhibitioner, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1722-27 ; B.A. 1723 ; M.A. 1727 ; a benefactor to St. Paul's School Library, 1728 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
John Boyce,
Porter boy, 1719-20; Pauline Exhibitioner, Christ Church, Oxford, 1720-24; B.A. 1724.
Thomas Shard,
Campden Exhibitioner, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1721 (probably Thomas Shaw, Porter boy, 1720-21).
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The following Paulines were Scholars of Ayscough or Postle- THWAYTE, or in some cases perhaps of their predecessors : —
Timothy Alleyn,
Steward of the Feast, 1710.
Maurice Atkins,
Steward of the Feast, 1711.
Gabriel Ayres,
Steward of the Feast, 1714.
James (? Joseph) Anderton,
Steward of the Feast, 1717 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
James Brace,
Steward of the Feast, 1707 ; benefactor to St. Paul's School Library, 1678.
Sir Henry Bendyshe,
Son of Sir John B. of Steeple Bumstead ; Baronet ; succeeded his father in 1706; Steward of the Feast, 1708; J.P. and D.L. for Essex; died 1717, without issue male.
Thomas Barrow,
Steward of the Feast, 1708. Henry Bull,
Surgeon ; Steward of the Feast, 1708 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Cold.
Thomas Batson,
Steward of the Feast, 1709. John Benson,
Steward of the Feast, 1711. Nathaniel Blanford,
Steward of the Feast, 1712 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
Robert Brackley,
Steward of the Feast, 1714.
Henry Boone,
Steward of the Feast, 1715. John Brace,
Steward of the Feast, 1715.
John Beth ell,
Steward of the Feast, 1715.
Stephen Bateman,
Captain ; Steward of the Feast, 1716. Charles Blackstone,
Steward of the Feast, 1716. Edward Blackstone,
Steward of the Feast, 1716.
William Brown,
Steward of the Feast, 1717.
Edward Bentley,
Steward of the Feast, 1717.
Thomas Slater Bacon,
Subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet. Thomas Bradford,
In Holy Orders ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
William Bridges,
Lincoln's lun ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
74 SCHOLARS OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL, [17 13-21
Charles Browne,
Steward of the Feast, 1755.
Thomas Clarges,
Son of Sir Walter C. of St. Martin's in the Fields ; Baronet ; succeeded his father in 1705-6 ; Steward of the Feast, 1709 ; M.P. for Lostwithiel, Cornwall ; died 1759.
Robert Clarges,
Half brother of the above ; Steward of the Feast, 1710.
Eobert Cooke,
Steward of the Feast, 1712.
Richard Clifton,
Steward of the Feast, 1713 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Gold (but not marked there as a Pauline).
Anthony Chamberlayn, Steward of the Feast, 1713.
William Campbell,
Steward of the Feast, 1714.
Thomas Cook,
Steward of the Feast, 1714.
Charles Crumpe,
Steward of the Feast, 1715. C. C. was clerk to the Mercers' Company ; died 1756.
John Chauncy,
Steward of the Feast, 1715.
Thomas Carter,
Steward of the Feast, 1715.
Richard Colet,
Steward of the Feast, 1717 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
John Coppinger,
Steward of the Feast, 1724 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
William Clarke,
Steward of the Feast, 1728 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
James Button,
Steward of the Feast, 1714.
Bartholomew Dandridge, Steward of the Feast, 1716.
James D'Argent,
Steward of the Feast, 1724 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
Thomas Dickson,
-V Subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
Joseph Downing,
Subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
Nicholas Field,
Steward of the Feast, 1709.
John Fotherby,
Steward of the Feast, 1713.
John Gresham,
Steward of the Feast, 1708.
Thomas Gill,
Steward of the Feast, 1712.
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Joseph Goddard,
Steward of the Feast, 1712.
William Glanville,
Steward of the Feast, 1716.
Charles Gardiner,
Steward of the Feast, 1723.
John Glanvil,
Subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
Maurice Green,
Steward of the Feast, 1727.
Thomas Huxley,
Steward of the Feast, 1707 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
Joseph Hodges,
Steward of the Feast, 1709.
Samuel Haywood,
Steward of the Feast, 1709.
Robert Hulls,
Steward of the Feast, 1709.
Humphrey Hide,
Steward of the Feast, 1710.
John Hatley,
Major ; Steward of the Feast, 1711 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
John Hall,
Steward of the Feast, 1717.
Samuel Herring,
Steward of the Feast, 1723 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
Kenrick Hill,
Steward of the Feast, 1725 (probably the same as Kendal Hill, subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet).
James Heywood,
Colonel ; Steward of the Feast, 1728.
John Jacob,
Steward of the Feast, 1711 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
Edmund Jeffery,
Subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
John Kersey,
Steward of the Feast, 1716.
John Knapton,
Steward of the Feast, 1724 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
Francis Loggin,
Steward of the Feast, 1717. Joseph Major,
Steward of the Feast, 1711.
Simon Morse,
Steward of the Feast, 1711.
Benjamin Mawson,
Steward of the Feast, 1713. Benjamin Marriott,
Of the King's Remembrancer's Office ; Steward of the Feast, 1723 ; subscriber to
Knight's Life of Colet.
76 SCHOLAKS OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL. [17 13-21
Kichard Marriott,
Steward of the Feast, 1725 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
John Marriott,
Steward of the Feast, 1728 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet ; benefactor to St. Paul's School Library, 1690.
Francis Motteux,
Subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet,
Thomas Norris,
Steward of the Feast, 1707.
Gabriel Neve,
Steward of the Feast, 1712, possibly the same as WUliani N., benefactor, to St. Paul's School Library, 1700.
Peter Normansel,
Steward of the Feast, 1713.
Thomas Needham,
Steward of the Feast, 1716.
Henry Newcome,
Of Hackney ; Steward of the Feast, 1725 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
John Nicks,
Bookseller ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
Robert Pawlet,
Steward of the Feast, 1707.
Samuel Palmer,
Steward of the Feast, 1709 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
George Morton Pitt,
Steward of the Feast, 1711.
Sherard Pickering,
Steward of the Feast, 1715. Leonard Pead,
Steward of the Feast, 1715 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
John Price,
In Holy Orders ; of Thetford, Norfolk ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
Richard Rogerson,
Steward of the Feast, 1716.
Thomas Savage,
Subscriber to Knight's Life of Cold. John Smith,
Subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
Major Snow,
Subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet. Robert Stevens,
Middle Temple ; subscriber to Kniglit's Life of Colet. Robert Swynborne,
In Holy Orders ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
Edward Salisbury,
Steward of the Feast, 1728.
Richard Saunders,
Steward of the Feast, 1728.
William Tilson,
Steward of the Feast, 1707.
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Humphrey Thayer,
Steward of the Feast, 1707.
Benjamin Tooke,
Steward of the Feast, 1708. Wilhani Tyms (Tinims),
Steward of the Feast, 1709 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Cold.
Thomas Trenchfield,
Steward of the Feast, 1712.
Charles Townley,
Steward of the Feast, 1717.
Eichard Truby (Trubey),
Steward of the Feast, 1723 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Cold.
George Taylor,
Vicar of Wymondham, Norfolk ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Cold.
Roger Williams,
Steward of the Feast, 1707.
Charles Welham,
Steward of the Feast, 1710.
Daniel Wilcocks,
Steward of the Feast, 1712.
Edmund Wiseman,
Steward of the Feast, 1713.
William Willcocks,
Steward of the Feast, 1714.
Richard Wyld,
Steward of the Feast, 1714.
Robert Williams,
Steward of the Feast, 1717.
Richard Walter,
Steward of the Feast, 1724 ; subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
Robert Ward,
Subscriber to Knight's 'Zi/e of Colet.
Hammond Ward,
Subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
Thomas Wotton,
Subscriber to Knight's Life of Colet.
Allen Webb,
Steward of the Feast, 1725
Richard Young,
Steward of the Feast, 1713
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1721-1733 High Master BENJAMIN MORLAND.
June 23, 1721.
F.K.S. (Marcli 1707) ; probably the author of the Latin Epigram in the Prrces, signed B. M. ; died October 9, 1733, aged 80, leaving two