J. OF ITS FOUNDERS, PATRONS, BENEFACTORS, AND MASTERS.

II. OF ITS PRINCIPAL SCHOLARS.

By the Rev. H. B. WILSON, B. D.

Second Under-Master.

NOSTRA INFANTIA COLUM

HAUSIT AVENTINUM.

LONDON:

1812.

[Entered at Stationers' Hall.]

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The Foundation of the School.-The Masterships of Mulcaster, Witkinson, and E. Smith, containing the Space of Thirty-Eight Years.

TOWARDS the close of the year 1560, or early in the following spring, the Merchant-Taylors' Company conceived the laudable design of founding a grammar-school; and part of the Manor of the Rose, in the parish of St. Laurence-Pountney, (a mansion which had successively belonged to the Duke of Buckingham, the Marquis of Exeter, and the Earls of Sussex,) seeming eligible

* Between July 1560, and May 1561, in the mastership of Emanuel Lucar. Stow's Survey, b. i. p. 169.

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+ Stow, in the passage above referred to, is unquestionably wrong in extending the purchase to the whole of the mansion, as the Merchant-Taylors' Company were never in possession of more than the west gatehouse, the long court, part of the chapel, the winding stairs of stone, and galleries. Some curious particulars respecting the Manor of the Rose, and the adjoining college of Corpus Christi, may appear at some future time in a parochial history of St, Laurence-Pountney's, for which I have made collections::'v

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