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HORWELVS SCHOOL. 57 We have seen in an old catalogue of books the following: "History of the horrid and detestable plots and conspira- cies contrived and carried on by Papists and other persons for the compassing the death and destruction of King William III. London: printed for W. Major, bookseller in Newport near Launceston in Cornwall, 1697." ©ortoeU'a fec&ool, NOW KNOWN AS HORWELL'S CHARITY AT NEWPORT. On the 6th May, 1707, John Horwell, describing himself as of the city of Dublin, gentleman, made his will, and thereby gave to six poor boys of the parish where he was born ^30 a year, to buy them meat, drink, and other necessaries ; £6 to buy them clothes, all of one colour ; ,£5 a year to a poor widow for her meat and drink, in looking after those boys ; and ^3 a year to a schoolmaster to teach the boys : And he stated it to be his pleasure that three of the boys should be elected by his nearest relative in the parish, and the other three by the feoffees of the parish ; that no boys be admitted under seven years old, and that they be put to trades at fourteen years old. His further will was that all the moneys he left behind him should be put out at interest for the use of the boys, the widow, and the schoolmaster aforesaid for ever ; and that two years' interest of whatever he left behind him should go towards the building and furnishing a house for the uses aforesaid. We make this abstract from an old and apparently genuine copy of the will. It is singular that the testator does not name the parish of his birth. He died in the year 1726. There is in the church of St. Stephen a stone to the memory of Christopher Horwell, buried there 7th Novem- ber, 1628, and Thomas Horwell is described in a deed, dated 31st October, 16 Car. II. (anno 1664), as an inhabi-