PETITION BY TOWN OF BEVERLEY FOR GRAMMAR SCHOOL. [From Yorkshire Chantry Surveys, vol. ii. p. 542, from Chantry certificate No. 73 at Record Office.] Most humblie compleyning unto your excellent heighnes your true and feithful subjectes, the burgesses and comynaltie of your graces towne of Beverley, that whereas there is within the said towne of Beverley a grete parrishe churche, comonly called the churche of Seinte John of Beverley, within which churche there was latelie a colleage, whiche had dyvers manours, landes, tenementes and hereditamentes belonging unto the same amounting to the yerelye value of one thowsaunde poundes; all which manors, landes, tenementes and hereditamentes are nowe come into your heighnes handes by reason of a statute, made for the dissolucion of colleges and chauntries. For the necessarie reparacions of whiche churche, long tyme syns, there was geven and assured certaine landes and wooddes, amountinge to the yerelie value of three score poundes and above, whiche landes and woodes by the saide. statute were not geven to your heighnes, nor are not within the compas of the same statute, notwithstanding, most gracious soveraigne lorde, that ever syns the dissolucion of the said colledge, all the rentes and proffites of the same hath byn received to your Majesties use, by reason whereof the saide church is in grete decaye, and in shorte space is very like to fall into utter ruyn and decaie, the parrishioners not being liable to repayre the same. Furthermore, pleaseth it your grace to understande, that the said towne of Beverley is a market towne and the greatest within all Estryding of your Majesties countie of York, having a grete nombre of youthe within the same, and fyfe thowsaund persons and above, whereof some of them be apte and mete to be brought up in learning, whiche are not, for so muche as there is neither gramer schole, or any other schole, as yet founded, wherewith they might be brought up in any vertuous studdie. For present remedy whereof it may pleas your grace, of I 1552. your moost noble habundante clemency and goodnes, not only to graunte unto your said humble and faithfull subjectes, the said £60 and above, which was and is assured to them by graunte and gifte, as afore-mentioned; but allso that there maye be erected within the said towne, of your moost princely fundacion, one fre gramer schole, to the further encrease of such youthe as there remayneth at this present daye and in tyme to come, so shall the same youth be educated and taught of all thinges to serve God, to lyve in due obedyence and feare of your heighnes, their soveraigne lorde and king, and they with thole inhabitauntes of the said towne to praie (as they are bounde) for the preservacion of your moost excellent heighnes in estate long to reigne. Endorsed:-Th'inhabitantes and burgesses of the towne of Beverley. 1552. 6 July. THE LORDS OF THE COUNCIL TO THE COURT OF AUGMENTATIONS TO REPORT ON THE BEVERLEY PETITION. [D° f. 541.] our very loving freendes Sir Richard Sackvile, knight, T° chauncellor of th'augmentacions, and to the rest of the Kinges Majesties counsell of the Court and to every of them. After our right harty commendacions wee do send unto you herewith a supplication exhibited to the Kinges Majestie, and therewith also a declaracion of certayne lands given to the reparacions of the parish church of Beverley, as hath byn informed here by twoo parisshioners of the sayd parish, which be specially come upp for that purpose; and bycause the sayd church is very greatt and in decay, and for that also it is a very notable parishe, the Kinges Majesties pleasure is that you shall consider this ther supplication and the matter thereof and fynding the same to be true, and that the landes mencioned therin war given to the reparacion of the church and therfor out of the compasse of the statute of colleges and i.e. the whole. chauntries, his Majesties pleasure is they shall remain to such BEDFORD, W. NORTHAMPTON, Fare JOHN GOTTE (?), WILLIAM PETRE. MR. REPORT OF THE COURT OF AUGMENTATIONS. R. Chauncellor of the Augmentacions and Mr. Goodrick to the counsell touching the sute of th'inhabitantes of Beverley. To the right honorable the lordes of the Kinges Majestyes privye counsayle. May it lyke your most honorable lordshippes to understand, that according to your comaundmentes to us given by your letters, we have considered the peticion of th'inhabitauntes of the towne of Beverleye, and by the serche of recordes towching the Kinges title to the premisses, we find the same landes, which theye make sute for, to be the possessions of the collegiate churche of Beverleye, and therefore we think the Kinges Majestye to have verie good right and title to the same landes, that they demaund by force of the statute made in the firste yere of his highnes reigne, concerning colleges and chaunteryes. Nevertheless we find by serche of the certificate made by the commissioners for the surveye of chaunteryes, remayning of record in his highnes courte, wherein we serve, that there was an office called the office of the woorkes within the same collegiate chirche, whiche had landes and tenementes and other proffettes to the yerelye valewe of £68 os. 12d. assigned, and with the proffettes thereof th'officer of the workes did from tyme to tyme repayre the said chirch, being also a parisshe chirche, and was accomptable to the college for the same. This is all we Probably Sir John Gates. 1552. 14 Julie. have to certifie your lordshippes in the premisses, referring the same to your good consideracions. Written the xiiijth of Julye, 1552. Your Lordshypps assured to command RYC. SAKEVYLE. RIC. GOODWICK. 1552. 23 Nov. [D° p. 540.] Mr. Wrightington, you shall understand that my lordes At Westminster, thys xxiijrd of November, 1552. J. JOHNES. SCHOOLMASTER PAID BY CORPORATION TO TEACH A [Account Roll of Governors in possession of Corporation of Beverley. T predicti computantes petunt allocacionem de 1562-3. ET Common Expences. Et de 12 solutis ludimagistro pro docendo paupertato(sic) puero. Et de 12 datis in regardo Regi Armorum pro faciendo signum hujus villæ. • This irrelevant entry I could not forbear, as showing the Herald kindly assuming to give the town leave to have a seal of arms which they had borne for centuries. SCHOOLMASTER CONDUCTS PLAYS AT TOWN EXPENSE. [Minutes of Governors of Town of Beverley in possession of Corporation. Bev. Gov., vol. i. 1558-1567.] Item gyven to the Schole maister his players. Schole maister's players played p. 20. p. 25 (b). [D° vol. ii. 1568-73.] Anno Domini 1570. Common Expences and Reparacions. Item given in rewarde to the Schole maister players upon the potacion daie before fastnes evin Anno Domini 1571. 1571. p. 36. Common Expences and Reparacions. 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