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cious men, well learned in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, being by the master and wardens thereunto required two or three days before. The place of examination to be in the south part of the school, commonly called the chapel. The time to be between the 11th and 21st days of the months of March and September; and the whole business to be so ordered, that the examination be fully done between the hours of six and eleven. The master and wardens, or two of them, to be at the school with the two learned men at six o'clock in the morning.

Upon these days, which are called the doctor's days, after the business of examination is finished, the audience return into the school, where certain public exercises are then performed by the eight senior scholars or monitors of the school.

Another public examination of the scholars of the upper form, by the president and fellows of St. John Baptist college in Oxford, takes place on the 11th day of June yearly. This is previous to the election of scholars to be made upon that day, to fill up the vacant fellowships in St. John's college; of the fellows of which college, thirty-seven are supplied from this school. After the public exercises of this day are finished, the dean of the college addresses himself to the scholars, out of whose number the vacancies are to be filled up, in a Latin speech suited to this occasion.

The gentlemen brought up at this school, citizens and others, began an annual feast in 1698. The collections made at these feafts, amounting to a considerable sum, they lay out upon exhibitions, to be allowed to such of the school as are superannuated, and miss of elections.

Among the eminent masters and scholars of this excellent foundation we select the following:

RICHARD MULCASTER, elected 1561, afterwards master of St. Paul's school, rector of Stamford Rivers, Essex, and author of a tract called "The Education of Children," and "The Elementary for the true writing of the English Tongue." NICHOLAS GREY, D. D. formerly master of the Charterhouse school, elected 1624. He continued here till he was appointed to the head mastership of Eton college in 1631.

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During the civil wars, when merit was compelled to sink under the intemperate policy of the times, Dr. Grey was ejected from his government of Eton college, and was ap-. pointed master of Tunbridge school, where he continued. unmolested till the Restoration, when he was re-established in the charge to which he had done so much credit. He was author of a Latin and English dictionary.

WILLIAM DUGARD, elected May 10, 1644. He also felt the rigours of persecution. He was discharged from the government of the school, and committed to Newgate by the council of state, Feb. 20, 1649; the cause of offence was, that having a property in a printing office, he had printed Salmasius's Defence of King Charles I. dedicated to his right and lawful heir King Charles II. During his confinement he had nothing to support himself, his wife, and six children, but what the mercy of God afforded; * after his printing types, to the value of 1000l. at least, had been destroyed. Mr. Dugard having at length procured his enlargement, kept a private school on, St. Peter's Hill, Doctor's Commons, till he was reinstated in the school of which he had been deprived, in 1650, at the instance of the very council of state who had so cruelly punished him. In 1661, he was finally discharged by the company for breaking some of their rules, after a service of seventeen years. Such, however, was his reputation, that when he opened a private school in Coleman Street, he had in the course of eight months no less than a hundred and

* Ad 20 Februarii, 1649. Atque hæc sunt nomina discipulorum quos ego Gulielmus Dugard, in scholam liberam dignissimæ societatis Mercatorum Scissorum admissi à 10 Maii 1644, ad 20 Feb. 1649, quo tempore à Concilio Novi status ab archididascalatûs officio summatus, & in carcerem Novæ Portæ conjutus sum; ob hanc præcipuè causam quod Claudii Salmasii librum qui inscribitur DEFENSIO regia pro CAROLO primo ad serenissimum regem CAROLUM secundum, legitimum hæredem et successorum typis mandandum curaveram: Typographéo integro spoliatus ad valorem mille librarum, minimum. Nihil jam reliquum habens unde victum quæram uxori et sex liberis, quos Dei miserecordis et benignissimi Patris providentiæ alendos committo & commendo per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum. Register of the Scholars of Merchant Taylors' School, Sion College Library.

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ninety-three scholars. act, and very learned man in every kind of grammatical knowledge; it is therefore not surprising that the school flourished eminently whilst he was master. He was a good orator and poet, and printed several books for the use of his school.

Mr. Dugard was a diligent, ex

JOHN GOAD, B. D. master of Tunbridge school, succeeded Mr. Dugard in 1661, and continued till 1681 with great success and approbation, till some fanatical sectaries urging that he wished to instil popish notions by means of his Comment on the Church Catechism, used by his scholars, he was called before the company, who dismissed him with the gratuity of a handsome service of plate. The particulars of this transaction are related in the postscript of a book entitled "Contrivances of the fanatical Conspirators, in carrying on the Treasons under umbrage of the Popish Plot laid open: with Depositions, &c. London, 1683." In this book Mr. Goad is styled "a pious and learned person, so extraordinarily qualified for his profession, that a better could not be found in the three kingdoms." After his dismission, he took a house in Piccadilly, to which place the genteeler part of his scholars followed him; and there he died, October 28, 1689. JOHN HARTCLIFFE, A. M. succeeded; he was afterwards D. D. and canon of Windsor.

AMBROSE BONWICKE, B. D. his successor, held the school from 1686 till 1691, when refusing to take the oaths, he was ejected, and afterwards kept a private school at Epsom..

MATTHEW SHORTING, D. D. fellow collegian of Mr. Strype. THOMAS PARSELL, B. D. elected April 30, 1707, who published "Liturgia seu Liber Precum communium," &c. which prayer-book has been often reprinted.

The last of the respected list of masters which we shall notice is the late Rev. SAMUEL BISHOP, A. M. This excellent scholar succeeded. Mr. Townley, rector of St. Stephen, Walbrook, in 1783. He was also rector of St. Martin Outwich, and of Thames Ditton. Mr. Bishop was a worthy man, and generally beloved; and though the task of being headmaster of a large school must have been very arduous, he found leisure to write poetry in a very respectable style; but VOL. II. No. 48. 3 Q

"too modest to force himself upon the notice of the public, and entirely devoted to the laborious duties of his employment, he had neither inclination nor opportunity to print any of those numerous and exquisite poems which he wrote within the last twenty years of his life." After his death, which happened on November 17, 1795, they were published by subscription, for the benefit of his family.*

* One of Mr. Bishop's poetic effusions we submit to our readers :

QUOD PETIS HIS EST.

NO plate had John and Joan to hoard,

Plain folk, in humble plight;

One only tankard crown'd their board,
And that was fill'd each night.
Along whose inner bottom sketch'd,
In pride of chubby grace,

Some rude engraver's hand had etch'd
A baby angel's face.

John swallow'd first a moderate sup;

But Joan was not like John;

For, when her lips once touch'd the cup,
She swill'd till all was gone.

John often urg'd her to drink fair,
But she ne'er chang'd a jot;
"She lov'd to see the angel there,
And therefore drain'd the pot."

When John found all remonstrance vain,
Another card he play'd;

And where the angel stood so plain,

He got a devil pourtray'd.

John saw the horns, Joan saw the tail,
Yet Joan as stoutly quaff'd;

And ever, when she seized her ale,
She clear'd it at a draught.

John star'd, with wonder petrify'd,

His hairs rose on his pate;

And "Why dost guzzle now," he cry'd,
"At this enormous rate?"

"Oh John," says she, "am I to blame?
I can't in conscience stop;

For sure 'twould be a burning shame
To leave the devil a drop.”.

Dr.

Dr. Richard Latewar, an ingenious Latin poet, and chaplain to queen Elizabeth; Dr. Matthew Gwinne, professor of medicine in Gresham college; Dr. John Rawlinson, chaplain to James I.; Dr. John Buckeridge, bishop of Rochester, 16115 Dr. Launcelot Andrews, bishop of Winchester; Sir James Whitelock, justice of the court of Common Pleas, and one of the first fellows of the Society of Antiquarians; Dr. John Speed, son of the historian, an eminent physician and anatomist; Dr. Rowland Searchfield, bishop of Bristol; Dr. Robert Boyle, bishop of Waterford; Dr. George Wilde, bishop of Londonderry; Lord keeper Whitelock; Dr. Joseph Henshaw, bishop of Peterborough; Dr. Edward Bernard, Savilian professor of astronomy in the university of Oxford; Archbishop Juxon; Dr. More, bishop of Bath and Wells; Sir William Dawes, archbishop of York; Sir John Cook, L. L. D. dean of the Arches; Dr. John Thomas, bishop of Lincoln; Dr. Joseph Wilcocks, bishop of Rochester; Dr. John Gilbert, archbishop of York, &c. occur among the many eminent scholars who received the rudiments of their education in Merchant Taylors' School.

Opposite Suffolk Lane, in Thames Street is the churchyard, and part of the wall of ALHALLOWS THE LESS: this church was also called Alhallows on the Cellars, because it stood upon vaults let out for cellaring. Being a rectory, it was originally in the gift of the bishops of Winchester, and rebuilt by Sir John Poultney, who purchased the advowson and appropriated it to his college of St. Laurence. The steeple and choir of Alhallows the Less stood on an arched gate-way, leading to the mansion of Cold Harbour, already mentioned. After the purchase and appropriation, the living became a donative or curacy, and coming to the crown, as an appendage to the monastic foundation of St. Laurence Poultney college, queen Elizabeth granted it on a lease for twenty-one years to William Verle; at the end of which James I. sold it to William Blake, &c. and their heirs in free soccage for ever. It was destroyed by the fire in 1666, and the parish united to that of Alhallows the Great.

Between Hay-Wharf Lane and Alhallows Lane, stands the parochial church of

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