RUGBY.

"NIHIL SINE LABORANDO."

CHAPTER I.-HISTORICAL.

"There is a little town, within short space
Of England's central point, of various brick
Irregularly built, nor much adorned
By architectural craft-save that, indeed,
As you approach it from the south, a pile
Of questionable Gothic lifts its head
With somewhat of a grave, collegiate air,
Not unbefitting what in truth it is-

A seat of academic discipline

And classic education.

MOULTRIE.

"THE noble impulse of Christian charity in the founding of Grammar Schools," says Dr. Knight, in his Life of Dr. John Colet, was one of the providential ways and means for bringing about the blessed Reformation; and it is, therefore, observable that, within thirty years before it, there were more grammar schools erected and endowed in England than had been in three hundred years preceding. . . . . And after the Reformation was established, the piety and charity of Protestants ran so fast in this channel, that in the next age there wanted rather a regulation of grammar schools than an increase of them." Under the influence of this noble impulse, probably, it was that about the middle of the sixteenth century, Lawrence Sheriff, a benevolent citizen of London, determined to appropriate a portion of his property to the Foundation of a Free