1682. The Right Honourable Sarah Duchess Dowager of Somerset founded Scholarships at St John's College, with a provision that every third turn the scholars should be chosen from the school of Manchester. At present there are six Scholarships of £40 each and fourteen of £20 each per annum. (See p. 321.)

There are besides exhibitions and scholarships appropriated to students of this school who may proceed to the University of Oxford.

BOLTON.

THE FREE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.

FOUNDED 1641, A.D.

THE free Grammar-school of Great Bolton, or Bolton in the Moors, was founded by Robert Lever, citizen and clothier, of London, who by his will devised certain lands in Harwood, in the county of Lancaster, for erecting and maintaining a free-school, or a chapel, as should be thought meet by his executors.

In 1784 an act was obtained for incorporating the governors and for enlarging their trusts and powers for the benefit of the school. The governors are empowered to appoint a head master and an usher, "to teach and instruct the children and youth who shall be educated at the said school, not only in grammar and classical learning, but also in writing, arithmetic, geography, navigation, mathematics, the modern languages, and in such and so many branches of literature and education, as shall from time to time, in the judgment of the governors, or the major part of them, be proper and necessary to render the foundation of the most general use and benefit."

There are two exhibitions each of the value of £60 a year, for scholars who have been three years at this school. They may be held at Oxford or Cambridge, and are tenable for four years.

BLACKROD.

THE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.

FOUNDED 1568, A.D.

THIS school was founded by John Holmes, citizen and weaver of London. Mr Holmes bequeathed rent-charges of £8 and £5 issuing out of his lands, &c. in Lombard Street, London, to trustees;-the former

for the use of the master of Blackrod School, and the latter for the exhibition, founding, and keeping of one scholar for four years within Pembroke College, Cambridge, educated in this school.

This rent-charge of £5 for the exhibition has been suffered to accumulate for many years; and it appears that in 1823 the accumulations amounted to £1901. 15s. 8d. which was laid out in the purchase of £2574. 6s. 6d. three per cent. Consols.

The dividends and the rent-charge are applied to the purpose intended by the founder, whenever a candidate properly qualified applies for the exhibition, if not, the whole is accumulated.

The present value of this exhibition is £65 per annum.

1748. Mr Warren founded one Exhibition at Pembroke College. (See p. 224.)

BURY.

THE FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

FOUNDED 1726, A.D.

THIS school was founded by the Rev. Roger Kay, M.A. prebendary of Sarum and rector of Fittleton, and sometime fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and endowed with estates which now produce nearly £500 a year.

The estates are vested in thirteen trustees, who are also governors of the school, of whom seven are required to be clergymen, rectors, or vicars of parishes within ten miles of Bury, and including always the rector of Bury, the rector of Prestwich, and the dean of Manchester, and the other six to be lay inhabitants of the town of Bury being in constant communion with the Church of England, and possessed of property in the parish to the amount of at least £50 per annum.

It is not necessary that the master of this school be in holy orders, but it is required by the statutes of the founder, "That he be a graduate in one of the two Universities, either Oxford or Cambridge, well skilled in the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew tongues, a man of prudence and sobriety, and of a good temper."

From the revenues of the school two Exhibitions, each originally of the value of £20 a year, but now augmented at the discretion of the trustees to £30 or £40, are given to scholars in this school, belonging to the parish of Bury, who must proceed either to St John's College, Cambridge, or to Brasenose College, Oxford, and which may be held for seven years if the exhibitioners are resident.

The late Rev. James Wood, D.D. Master of St John's College, (formerly an exhibitioner from this school) left by his will £500 for the increase of these exhibitions.

The rectors of Bury and Prestwich, together with the dean of Manchester, have the appointment to the Hulmian Exhibitions at Brasenose, Oxford, and the founder of Bury School recommends in the statutes his scholars to these trustees, hoping that they may sometimes receive a nomination from them.

HAWKSHEAD.

THE FREE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.

FOUNDED 1588, A. D.

THIS free Grammar-school was founded by Edwin Sandys, archbishop of York, who obtained letters patent under the great seal in the twenty-seventh year of Queen Elizabeth, by which Her Majesty granted that from thenceforth there should be one grammar-school within the parish of Hawkshead in the county palatine of Lancaster.

By virtue of the letters patent the archbishop drew up constitutions for the government and management of the school.

1674. Thomas Braithwaite, Esq. of Ambleside, bequeathed £250 to St John's College, Cambridge, for the maintenance of two Scholars educated at the grammar-school of Hawkshead or Kendal. (See p. 320, also 323.)

KIRKHAM.

THE FREE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.

FOUNDED 1655, A.D.

THIS school was originally founded by Isabel Wildinge, and endowed with a portion of the proceeds of the rectory of Kirkham, purchased by the Drapers' Company, with funds bequeathed to them in trust by Henry Colborne, Esq.

1670. Rev. James Barker, to testify his love to his native town of Kirkham, and to make some addition to the stipend of the master of the school, and some provision for a poor scholar at Cambridge, and for other uses, directed his executors to purchase lands, &c. of the value of £30 per annum or upwards, and that out of the profits, £10 should be paid to the schoolmaster, and £12 as an exhibition to a poor scholar from Kirkham school, for his maintenance in the University of Cambridge, for seven years.

An estate for these purposes was purchased at Nether Methop, in Westmoreland, for £530.

In consequence of the increased income from the estates left by Mr Barker, an application was made in 1806 to the Court of Chancery that the sum of £80 a year might be paid to such poor scholar of Kirkham school as should be qualified and nominated in the manner directed by the will of the founder.

A subsequent order issued by the Court of Chancery directed that the exhibition to a poor scholar should be increased from £80 to £120 per annum, and that the trustees should have power, in case the funds allow, to grant a second exhibition at one of the Universities, of an annual sum not exceeding £100.

It was also proposed, for the purpose of increasing the number of persons qualified to take the benefit of the said exhibition, that the qualification of an exhibitioner, as fixed by the will of Mr Barker, and thereby confined to a poor scholar born in the town of Kirkham, be extended to any poor scholar born in any part of the parish of Kirkham, and bred up and sent from the said school of Kirkham; but that a preference should be, in all cases, given to a poor scholar born in the town of Kirkham, in case one shall appear duly qualified.

1854. "There was an exhibition a few years ago, but the funds thereof were spent by the trustees in procuring from the Court of Chancery a new scheme for the better management of the school."

LIVERPOOL.

THE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.

ESTABLISHED 1843, A.D.

THE Schools of this institution are designed to supply an education suited respectively to the wants of the three classes of society, the upper school providing an education similar to that given in the public schools and preparatory to the English Universities.

The following exhibitions to the Universities have been founded in connexion with the upper school, each tenable for three years and a half, and one of them becoming vacant every year. The candidates for these exhibitions must be under twenty years of age.

1. The McNeile exhibition, of the annual value of £40, tenable at Oxford, Cambridge, or Dublin.

2. The Gladstone exhibition, of the value of £40 per annum, may be held by a student at Oxford or Cambridge.

3. The Masters' exhibition, of the value of £50 a year, at Oxford, Cambridge, or Dublin.

4. The Canning exhibition, of £40 a year, tenable at Oxford or Cambridge.

LEICESTERSHIRE

ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCH.

THE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.

FOUNDED 1567, A.D.

THIS School was founded by Henry, Earl of Huntingdon, Lord Hastings of Loughborough, Robert Brookesby, Nicholas Ashbye, and Robert Baynbrig, "for instructing youth in good Morals, Learning, Knowledge, and Virtue.”

The endowment consists of houses in Ashby and seventy-five acres of land and the school is open to the children of all persons belonging to the parish of Ashby.

By an order of the Court of Chancery, two Exhibitions have been established for scholars of this school who have been at least two years at the school, immediately before entering a college, to keep terms at either University. These exhibitions are each of the value of £40 per annum, and are tenable till the exhibitioner is of sufficient standing to be admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Arts.

1654. Francis Ash, Esq. founded ten Scholarships, each of £10 a year, at Emmanuel College, for which a preference is given to students who have been educated at the grammar-school of Ashby or of Derby. (See page 365.)

LEICESTER.

THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL.

INSTITUTED 1835, A.D.

THIS is one of the Proprietary Schools, and is designed to afford a sound religious, classical, and mathematical education.

There are two Exhibitions of £25 each at either University for three years from the school, and poor students cæteris paribus have a preference.

These exhibitions were established in the year 1852 by the Rev. A. Hill, M.A. the present head-master; the entrance fees of new scholars being devoted to the purpose of forming an exhibition fund.