As frequenting chapel, decent clothing and behaviour,
to be regulated by the governors.
This munificent benefactor also founded a grammar school in the
Charter House, to consist of a master, usher, and forty scholars.
No scholars to be admitted at above fourteen or under ten years of
age.
The scholars are habited in black gowns, and when any of them are
fit for the university, and are elected, each of them receives 20
pounds per annum for eight years out of the revenues of the house.
And such boys who are found more fit for trades are bound out, and a
considerable sum of money given with them.
When any of the forty boys are disposed of, or any of the old men
die, others are placed in their rooms by the governors in their
turns.
The master is to be an unmarried man, aged about forty; one that
hath no preferment in Church or State which may draw him from his
residence and care of the hospital.
The preacher must be a Master of Arts, of seven years' standing in
one of the universities of England, and one who has preached four
years.
The governors meet in December, to take the year's accounts, view
the state of the hospital, and to determine other affairs; and again
in June or July, to dispose of the scholars to the university or
trades, make elections, &c. And a committee of five at the least is
appointed at the assembly in December yearly, to visit the school
between Easter and Midsummer, &c.
