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SCHOOLS gives the name and date of appointment as 'Waller, L.M., 1616.' Wallis is no doubt the correct form ; it occurs again in the Gonville and Caius Register, under date 27 January 1 61 5-1 6, in the entry of the admission of William Sherarde son of William Sherarde, kt.,'^ who had been under Mr. Wallis two years. During his period of office the school received a further gift from the Noel family towards increasing the master's stipend — a yearly rent-charge of 4.0s. on property at Langham. The donor in this in- stance was Sir Edward Noel, who in 1629 succeeded his father-in-law as second Viscount Campden, and in making the gift he was carry- ing out the wishes of his father. Sir Andrew Noel, who had in 1588 already made a grant for the same object. From 1623 the school was under the regime of Jeremiah Whitaker, described by the founder, in the first chapter of the statutes, as ' Jeremy Whitaker, my schoolmaster of Oakham,' and appointed a member of the governing body with his contemporary at Uppingham. Whitaker was of Sidney-Sussex College, Cambridge, where he entered the same year as Oliver Cromwell, 1 6 1 6 ; he took his B.A. degree in 1619. He combined clerical with scholastic work, being rector of Stretton from 1627. After leaving Oakham he became rector of St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, in 1644. He was a member of the Westminster Assembly of Divines in 1643 and Moderator in 1647. ^'^ """^^ ^^ Oakham seems to have ended in 1629, when he was succeeded by Mr. James Stackhouse,whose name appears in various disguises in St. 'Johns Admhsion Registers — Stackhouse, Stackouse, Stackhurst, and Stakkers. A pupil of his, Robert Smyth, legitimate son of [William] Rudkyn, smith (Jerarius), was admitted at St. John's on 11 November 1630. The name of the next head master, who held office from 1642 to 1644, is doubtful ; he was probably a Dr. Gill. At any rate, Thomas Meakins, who had been at Oakham six years under Mr. Stackhouse and Dr. Gill, was admitted at St. John's on 2 1 October 1643.^* Dr. Alexander Gill, who, as under usher at St. Paul's School, London, had Milton for a pupil, and who, in 1635, succeeded his father as high master, was dismissed in 1639'* for excessive severity. He may have found refuge at Oakham. According to the Book of Oak- ham Schooi^^ R. Swan was appointed master on 30 April 1644, but it is difficult to reconcile this statement with the Gonville and Caius Register," where William Adamson, who had been a year and a half at Oakham under Mr. Swan, is said to have been admitted a sizar on 24 June 1644. Adamson subsequently became scholar and fellow of his college. This seems to reduce Dr. Gill's reign to something less than a year. The new head master may have been the < Mr, Swanne, jun.,' who is mentioned in the Peterborough diocesan records as usher of Up- pingham in 1 64 1. Two pupils of Swan entered St. John's, both in 1 647,'* the latter entrant having also been at Uppingham ; in neither case is the name of the master given. Michael Frere was appointed to succeed Swan in 1649 — 'Mr. Freere, Frear, Fryer,' and ' Dr. Frier,' as he appears in the St. John's Registers — where a pupil of his was admitted as early as 28 July 1650-1.'^ In 1653 he sent to St. John's William Cave and William Beveridge, both sons of Leicestershire parsons, and distinguished writers on early church history. Cave was chaplain to Charles II and canon of Windsor ; Beveridge chaplain to William and Mary and Bishop of St. Asaph. Richard Watts was head master for a few months in 1661, and for an equally short space Mr. Brooks, whose pupil, John Greene, who had been under him at ' Oukham ' for one year, was admitted at St. John's on 29 April 1662.^° John Love (also Low and Lowe in the St. John's Registers) was appointed the same year, and atoned for the brief stay of his immediate predecessors by an exceptionally long reign of forty years. During his time he sent 22 pupils to St. John's, the earliest being Joshua Westland, a farmer's (Jirmarius) son, entered on 23 May 1663, who had been under him one year,^' and the latest, Thomas Mason, son of Francis, grazier [pecuarlus), on 14 February 1697—8.^^ Love may have been the John Love of the parish of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, son of a cooper (doliarius), who was admitted sizar of St. John's on 8 November 1645,"^ but more probably the person of that name of Stanesby, Leicestershire, son of Robert, yeoman, who ducted for 1 2 years with the greatest praise, and afterwards under Jeremiah Whitaker.' A boy who had been under Mr. ' Wallys ' four years at Melton Mowbray entered at Gonville and Caius College 25 Sept. 1609 (J. Venn, op. cit. i, 204). '* J. Venn, op. cit. i, 23 I. " Jdmissions to St. Join's, pt. i, 2. " Ibid. pt. i, 67. " R. B. Gardiner, JJmission Reciters of St. PauPs School, 38. The Did. Nat. Biog., following Wood, ■says that he was a private tutor in London after his dismissal. He died in 1643, and was buried in St. Botolph's, Aldersgate. '^ W. L. Sargant, op. cit. 21, from the School records. " J. Venn, op. cit. i, 352. '* St. John's Admissions, pt. i, 85, 86. "Ibid. 98. '"Ibid. 154. "Ibid. 159. The precariousness of strict in- ferences from the statements in the registers is illustrated by another entry (pt. i, 164) : 'William Smith, of Oakeham . . . bred at Oakeham (Mr. Love) for 7 years, admitted sizar ... 25 May [1664], (7^/. 20.' This, if literally understood, would bring Love's appointment to 1657 instead of 1662. '^ Ibid. pt. ii, 146. Ibid. pt. i, 74. 27]