The Early History of the Guild of Merchant Taylors of the Fraternity of St. John the Baptist, London Volume 1; With Notices of the Lives of Some of Its Eminent Members (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...came that from the Corporation of London soliciting the Guilds to promote the same object. The Lord Mayor' had taken counsel with the Bishop of London (Edmund Grindall), and as a consequence the Corporation made request to each of the twelve Companies in April, 1564, to establish "Exhibitions" out of their corporate incomes for one or more students at the Universities.4 The result, so far as the Merchant Taylors were concerned, is set out in the order of the Court of the 19th April. "Finding the 1 Cal. State Papers (Dom.). on date. 3 The number of students matriculating at Oxford at the periods below are thus given in the Register of the University, Vol. 2, page 416. For the names of London students in 1575 see Lansdowne MS., Vol. 20, page 82. 4 City Records Reports, Vol. 15, page 328; Vol. 18, pages 398 and 238, post. Company not to be of ability to sustain or bear any furtber cbarge," it was "agreed that no such charge as requested by the Corporation shall be borne out of the common box of this mystery." There the matter might have ended but for the benevolence of individual Taylors, who taxed themselves (a fair criterion that the "common box" was empty) upon this scale, "every member, being a Sheriff of the city, should give what he pleased; Sir Thomas Rowe (an Alderman) should give 20s.; the Master, 6s. 8d.; and every Assistant 5s. a year, payable quarterly;" but the scholar, it must be noticed, was to be appointed by the Master and Wardens, and to make promise "to study and be student in divinity," and these contributions of 51. for each scholar were continued in subsequent years,1 but ultimately paid out of corporate funds.2 As to almsgiving.--To relieve the poor of the Guild, it is probable, ...