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Description: | Recites that Henry VIII has granted licence to Thomas Lovell, knight, Treasurer of the Household, and to her, and to their executors, to found a free school of one school master and one usher perpetually to be kept in the parish of Our Lady in the town of Nottingham.
Now therefore she ordains that the school shall be called the free school of the town of Nottingham. She appoints Mr John Smith, parson of Bilborough, schoolmaster, as long as it shall seem convenient to her and to the Mayor of Nottingham, and she appoints her friends Mr William English and William Barwell, deputies and guardians, keepers and surveyors of the school during their lives. Provision for future choice of two guardians, chamberlains or surveyors and of schoolmaster. Provision for keeping the obits of herself and her husband in the church of St Mary's. If the Mayor, Aldermen and Common Council are negligent in discharging their responsibilities to the school, the Prior and Convent of Lenton are to assume them.
Copy, early 18th century.
Opinion on points arising from the foundation grant, re power of removing schoolmaster and usher, 7 Aug 1704.
Another opinion on same.
undated [1704]. | Subjects: | Country Estates | Temporal: | (c1513) & 1704 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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