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SCHOOLS There were to be two account or audit days Item to the Governor' of mv Schools in Rutland each year, one at Oakham about Easter, and ^nd thereabouts I give twenty shillings apeece. another at Uppingham about Michaelmas. The /f=™ I give to young Seaton which is now at Cam- presence of the governors was encouraged ^"'^S^ '^^^ ^ student twenty shillings. by allowing out of surplus to each attending , Item I give to such w"> now teach at my charge in 'twelve pence for his dinner, and three shillings Stamford, Ketton, and South Luffenham tenn shil- , r 1 1 ■ • r 1 , ^mgs apeece. and four pence to buy h.m a pa,r of gloves. i,,^^^„ ^^^ inhabitants of Crowland" towards the Every half year £b at least from the overplus trayning upp of their poore children in learning I was to be put mto the treasury of both hospitals, give thirty poundes and my cronacle of Ingulfus. for the increase of each house's stocic towards the re- The annual expenditure required under the pairs, for law suits, for the bettering and buying of statutes falls very little short of ^^250, consisting such things as are needful and convenient and other Qf jj^g foUowincr items • necessary uses, and towards the increase of the mort- T i. d main and purchasing more lands for the same. Salary of the schoolmaster at Oaic- Any residue was to be divided between the c 1 'c ^i ' u 1 Vr ' , ■' , , 1 , , , Salary of the schoolmaster at Up- schoolmaster, usher, poor people, and scholars, pingham .... 24 o o proportionably to the stipends fixed by the founder. Salary of the w.irden of Christ's The half-yearly audit days were also to be em- Hospital, Oakham 600 ployed, if time permitted, in taking stock of the Salary of the warden of Christ's teaching. The governors were ' to oppose, or Hospital, Uppingham ... 600 cause to be opposed, the scholars, and see how Salary of the usher at Oalcham ..1200 they profit, that the schoolmaster and scholars " " " Uppingham . 1200 may have due encouragement, or otherwise such ^'^,'y °!" the sub-warden of Christ's ^ , T7 , . . , Hospital, Oakham ^00 censure as is meet. tor their pams and care p, c I ■ j c ^-l ■ ^ . I II 1 , oalary of the sub-warden ot Lhrist s each governor was to be allowed to have one son Hospital, Uppingh.ira . ... 300 freely educated at one of the schools of the Allow.ance to hospitallers at Oakham foundation. (^3 each to 1 3, ^4 to i) . . 43 o o In the last sentence of these statutes the Allowance to hospitallers at Upping- author reserved to himself a right to modify ham (^^3 each to 13, £ to i) . 43 o o them. 7 scholarships at Oakham ... 14 o o Archdeacon Johnson conferred on his schools » >> Uppingham . . 1400 of Oakham and Uppingham a further benefit in Salary of receiver 500 establishing by his will at each of the colleges of Allowance to (say) 20 governors for c T u > c-j c r-'i J T7 1 ^9 attending the halt-j-early audits, at. I ohn s,sidney-bussex, Clare, and Emmanuel **" r j- j 1 o ,-',,',.•' ■■■II r 1 1 1 for dinners and gloves ... 8 13 4 four scholarships, to which scholars of these schools r^^^^^^ ^^^ extension fund at Oak- of one year s standing at least, 'good schoUers, of j^^jj, _ 12 o o honest conversation ' and ' in need of assistance,' Reserve and extension fund at Up- had a preference, if otherwise qualified. 'And pingham 12 o o I will that all the said students shall be only such which study Divinity, dilligent learners of X24' '3 4 sermons and skilfull in the Hebrew, Greek, and -phis expenditure, with the cost of maintenance Lattin tongues, that soe they may serve God in ^^^ repairs, practically swallows up the whole church and commonwealth.' An annuity of income from endowment. ^100 was to be equally divided among the The subsequent history of the endowment 16 scholars. Other educational provisions of illustrates the superiority of a gift of land over a his will may be quoted :— gift ^f ^ fj^ed charge upon land or other pro- Item to three-score of my poore Schollers I give petty, twelve pence apeece to buy them paper. In 1 660 an inventory of the property of the Item I give further towards the teaching of poore foundation was compiled by one of the trustees, children five poundes to be imployed by the discrecon Dr. Clement Breton, and entered in the Book of ofmyExecto^ the Evidences." Item I give to two poore women to teach poore , , , , . , 1 , children to knitt kersey tenn shillings apeece. Johnson s schools and hospitals were endowed Item to buy Bvbles with the Psalmes in Meeter for "'■» ^'""e °f '^^^ ^P" °^ Crowland. See supra. The poor religious men I give tenn pounds. fo""'i" ^^ems to have been making some attempt at restitution. The extracts from the will are taken from " Clare was Johnson's own college for a short time, a copy of the original in the possession of Mr. A. C. St. John's was his brother's, Emmanuel was his son's, Johnson. Sidney-Sussex was Jeremiah Whitaker's. Abraham " W. L. Sargant, The Book of Oakham School, 6. Johnson married as his second wife the only daughter There are extracts from the Book of the Evidences — of Lawrence Chaderton, first master of Emmanuel, the letters patent of 1587 and the English version of and three of his sons had graduated from this college the statutes — in B.M. Lansdowne MS. 99 1, but the before the founder's death. inventory of Dr. Breton has disappeared. 267