and Hugh Eglisfeilde, three inhabitants of the parish of St. Olave, Southwark, and was assured to them by a fine levied to them by Sir Roger Copley, and Dame Elizabeth his wife, in Easter Term, 36 Henry VIII.
The parish of St. Olave came into possession of Horseydown in 1552, under a lease which the said Hugh Eglisfeild had purchased of one Robert Warren, and which the parish purchased of him, for twenty pounds and twelve pence (the sum he had paid to Warren for it), and the grazing of two kine in Horsedown for his life.[1]
A free grammar school was founded by the parishioners of St. Olave's, Southwark, in 1561, and was incorporated by charter of Queen Elizabeth, dated 26 July, 1571.[2]
The original endowment of the school was £8 per annum, which had been bequeathed by Henry Leke, of the parish of St. Olave, brewer (who is justly entitled to the credit of having caused this school to be founded), by his will, dated 12th March, 2 Eliz., towards the foundation of a grammar school in St. Olave's; but if no such school were established there within two years from his death, then he gave it to St. Saviour's Grammar School.[3]
On the 22nd July, 1561, it was resolved by the vestry of St. Olave's, that the churchwardens should receive of Mr. Leke's executors the money given towards the erection of a free school, and should prepare a school and provide a schoolmaster. And on the 4th May, 1579, it was resolved by the vestry, that Thomas Batte, William Willson, Oliff Burr, Thomas Harper, Rye
