The schools of medieval England . are frequent entries of the masters beingadmitted members of the gild without, or at a reduced, en-trance fee. One of these, Richard Fox, , , ad-mitted in 1477-8, seems to have been no less a person thanthe future Prime Minister of Henry VII and founder of CorpusChristi College, Oxford. The first step towards its separate en-dowment was taken 6 October, 1456, when John Webbe, aliasJolyf, and his wife delivered to Master Thomas Jolyf, chaplain,probably the master, and the Vicar of Snitterfield, ex-master,and others certain lands, to hold according to
The schools of medieval England . are frequent entries of the masters beingadmitted members of the gild without, or at a reduced, en-trance fee. One of these, Richard Fox, , , ad-mitted in 1477-8, seems to have been no less a person thanthe future Prime Minister of Henry VII and founder of CorpusChristi College, Oxford. The first step towards its separate en-dowment was taken 6 October, 1456, when John Webbe, aliasJolyf, and his wife delivered to Master Thomas Jolyf, chaplain,probably the master, and the Vicar of Snitterfield, ex-master,and others certain lands, to hold according to their the deed gave the lands to Thomas Jolyf, no doubttheir son, personally or in trust for the school does not , as in other cases, the Wars of the Roses stayed theproceedings. At length by deed of 7 July, 1482, MasterThomas Jolyffe gave ? all his lands to the master, wardenand proctors of the gild to find ajpriest fit and able in learn-ing to teach grammar freely to all the scholars coming to him. ?J H <XU Q < o6«o < H THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY AND HUMANISM 243 to school in the said town, taking nothing from his scholarsfor his teaching . The said priest was to be admitted one ofthe five priests of the gild at the next vacancy, receiving £8stipend till admission and ;^io after. Twice a week the grammar priest and his scholars were to sing the anthemof St. Mary, and then say De Profundis for Jolyffes first appointment of a schoolmaster under the new termswas made on 24 June, 1482, when the gild granted apriestlyservice to William Smyth, clerk, on the condition that hewould conduct a free grammar school. Among other schools first mentioned, though certainly notfirst founded in Henry Vs reign, is Darlington, which hadcertainly been maintained by the collegiate church there sincethe thirteenth century, and now appears in a payment by theAlmoner of Durham Priory, of 14s. to the schoolmaster comingfrom Darlington to teach the boys of Dur
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