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SCHOOL HOUSES. 351 The school-house in Blindhole was evidently an insub- stantial building. It was a continual source of expense to the Corporation, and, as we have seen (p. 319), Lord Lans- downe, in 17 18-19, made a public appeal for subscriptions in aid of repairing it. By the year 1765 the building had become unfit for its purpose, and the Latin scholars were obliged to meet in a room rented from Mrs. Penge. In the following year a chamber was again rented for them, and in that same year (1766) one of the conditions on letting the guildhall and market tolls was, " The master of the Latin school to have the liberty of keeping school in the Crown Bar of the hall during the term, without paying the caretaker anything for the use thereof." In 1767 a carpenter "fastened up the latin school windows and doors, took part of the old stuff from the school-house, and sawed it up, and took down the other part of the school-house." Thus the whole building seems to have disappeared. Meanwhile another chamber was rented for the Latin boys, and during the few succeeding years a similar reser- vation to that already cited was made on letting the tolls ; viz., that " the master of the latin school might keep school in the Crown bar of the Hall." In January, 1775, there was a charge of 3s. 4d. for "four sashes in the School Room on the Walk? This may there- fore be assumed as about the time when the Corporation began to occupy an old building of their own, which stood on the site of the houses facing the higher walk. They afterwards repaired and improved that building, and con- tinued to occupy it for school purposes until 1835, when they sold it to the Duke of Northumberland. By indentures dated 18th and 19th December, 1835, the house in St. Thomas, Old Hill, lately known as the Gram- mar School-house, with the land behind it, on part o r which