Skipton Grammar School Act 1867
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1867 c. 9 |
| Year | 1867 |
ANNO TKICESIMO & TRICESIMO PRIMO
VICTORLE REGINTE.
Cap,
9.
An Act for the better Regulation of Skipton
Grammar School. [21st August 1867.]
W
HEREAS Her Majesty's Attorney General on the Fifteenth
Day of November One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
five filed an Information in the High Court of Chancery
as Informant, which was afterwards amended, and as amended was
against Sir Charles Robert Tempest Baronet (since deceased),
Mathew Wilson, John Benson Sidgwiclc, Henry Alcock, Stephen
Bailey Hall (since deceased), Thomas Heelis, and John Coulthurst,
the Trustees of the Free Grammar School herein-after mentioned,
the Reverend Philip
Chabert
Kidd,
the Vicar of the Parish of Skipton,
William Paget, Angus Nicolson, John Heelis, Thomas Gill, Richard
Raihmell, and Henry Lister, Churchwardens of the said Parish, and
the Reverend William Cartman, Doctor of Divinity, Head Master of
the said School, as Defendants, showing among other things, (as the
Facts were,) that the Free Grammar School at Skipton-in-Craven in
the County of York was founded in the Year One thousand five
hundred and forty-eight by William Ermysted, Clerk, and that the
Two Deeds of Foundation thereof were duly enrolled in the High
Court of Chancery in the Year
1550-1;
that the First of such Deeds
was as follows; (that is to say,) " In the Name of the Father and of
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Skipton Grammar School Act, 1867.
" the Son and of the Holy Ghost, Amen. In the Year of our Lord
" One thousand five hundred and forty-eight, and in the Second Year
" of the Reign of the most Excellent Prince our Lord Edward the
" Sixth, by the Grace of God of England, France, and Ireland
" King, Defender of the Faith, and on Earth of the Church of
" England and Ireland supreme Head, and on the First Day of the
" Month of September, I William Ermysted, Clerk and Canon
" Residentiary in the Cathedral Church of Saint Paul, London, to
" all the Sons of Holy Mother Church, present and future, to whose
" Knowledge the present Schedule quadripartite indented shall come,
" Salvation in the Lord everlasting and perpetual Memory of the
" Thing done: Whereas amongst other Remembrances of Human
" Piety [it is a] Duty most pious and it hath especially pleased the
" Most High that Boys should be rightly educated from their very
" Infancy and (with God's Mercy) be informed or drawn along to
" Virtue and Discipline, according to the Strength and Endowments
" to them by Heaven granted to promote this, that the Common-
" wealth may from Time to Time not only have learned and wise
" Men, but also especially Men fearing God and knowing that which
" is divine and reverent, and that Divine Worship may be augmented
" and be had more in Celebration, hence it is since I the aforesaid
" William Ermysted, by my Writing quadripartite indented, to which
" the present Schedule is annexed, have given, granted, and con-
" firmed to Ingram Clyfford Knight, William Tankard, Stephen
" Tempeste, Esquires, Tristram Bollyng, Lancelot Marten, Thomas
" Lyster of Westeby, William Ardington, Thomas Jolye, Gentlemen,
" Christopher
Moore,
John Hardesworth, Robert
Moorehowse,
Thomas
" Stirke, and John
Moorehowse,
and their Heirs, all those Messuages,
" Lands, and Tenements in Adyngham of which within in my same
" Writing mention is made, to the Behoof and Use and the Intents in
" my aforesaid Writing in dented specified, and to the Intent that the
" aforesaid Ingram Clyfford and other his Co-feofFees abovesaid, and
" their Heirs and Assigns, all the Issues, Rents, Revenues, Profits,
" and Emoluments of the Premises in my said Deed indented
" specified should yearly take, perceive, and receive, and the same
" Issues, Rents, Revenues, Profits, and Emoluments should yearly
" convert as in this Schedule are expressed and declared : Know ye
" therefore that I the aforesaid William Ermysted, to execute the
" Intent aforesaid, by the Presents ordain that there be One ' Ludus
" Literarius' or One Pedagogy in Skipton-in- Craven in the County
" of York from Time to Time in perpetual future Times for Boys
" therein in Grammar Tongue to be educated, taught, and instructed;
" and lwill and assign that the said 'Ludus Literarius' or Pedagogy
" be kept and had in a certain House in Skypton aforesaid which I
" have lately purchased to me and my Heirs from the Honourable
" Man the Lord Henry Earl of Cumberland, situate in a certain void
" Place
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