The Records of Blackburn Grammar School, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The Blackburn Grammar School was originally one of the many Chantry Schools disestablished and disendowed by Edward the Sixth. It is exceptional in possessing a large number Of documents which shed light upon its history, and an almost unbroken account of the doings of its Governors from the time when it was re - established by Queen Elizabeth, and constituted a Corporation. Its earliest deed, of which one full Copy and one incomplete draft is extant, is an Indenture Tripartite, made between Thomas, second Earl Of Derby, the Church Reeves or Church Masters of Blackburn, and the then Chantry priest Sir Edmund Bolton, in the fifth year of King Henry VIII., i.e., 1514. Other documents state that the school had been in existence since the first year of the same king, viz., 1509. The foundation deed speaks of the first Earl of Derby, as late deceased, when he had been dead ten years, so it seems quite likely that the Chantry and School had been kept for some time, and that the founder who was a favourite soldier Of the King, and accompanied him in his French wars, had maintained the Chantry and School for a few years before they were Officially established by Law. The proviso that Bolton should be priest and schoolmaster, and the fact that he was to be furnished with a copy of the deed of foundation, seem to favour this sugges tion. By the time of the King's Valores taken in 1534 and I 546, Thomas Burgess was the chaplain. The Commissioners of both this Sovereign and Edward the Sixth found the same Incumbent there, and he was allowed the usual pension, in this case, of £4. 75. 4d., which afterwards became part of the endowment of the Elizabethan School. It is not clear what became of Bolton A deed, in possession of the School, was witnessed by Sir Edmund Bolton.

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