
A History of Giggleswick School from its Foundation, 1499 to 1912
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- A History of Giggleswick School
- A HISTORY OF
- GIGGLESWICK SCHOOL
- FROM ITS FOUNDATION 1499 TO 1912
- EDWARD ALLEN BELL, M.A.,
- Sometime Scholar of Christ Church, Oxford
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS.
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- Chapter I.
- The Foundation.
- Chapter II.
- 1553-1592.
- Chapter III.
- Schools and their Teaching in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.
- Chapter IV.
- Christopher Shute and Robert Dockray, 1599-1642.
- Chapter V.
- 1642—1712.
- Chapter VI.
- The Eighteenth Century.
- Chapter VII.
- The Rev. Rowland Ingram, B.D.
- Chapter VIII.
- The Rev. George Ash Butterton, D.D. 1845-1858.
- Chapter IX.
- The Rev. J. R. Blakiston.
- Chapter X.
- A New Era.
- Chapter XI.
- The Chapel.
- Chapter XII.
- The Last Decade.
- APPENDIX I. Lease by Prior and Convent of Durham Cathedral Monastery of School Site at Giggleswick.
- [Leach. Early Yorkshire Schools, p. 232.]
- APPENDIX II. Report of the Chantry Commissioners of Henry VIII on Giggleswick School, 1546.
- [English Schools at the Reformation, p. 295, from Rec. Off. Chantry Certificate, 70.]
- APPENDIX III. Report of the Chantry Commissioners of Edward VI, 1548.
- [English Schools at the Reformation, p. 302, from Rec. Off. Chantry Certificate, 64.]
- FOOTNOTES:
- APPENDIX IV. Chantry Commissioners' Certificate for Continuance Of Giggleswick School.
- [Leach. Early Yorkshire Schools, p. 240, Rec. Off. Chantry Certificate, 103.]
- APPENDIX V. Giggleswick. Purchase of School Lands from Crown.
- [Leach. Early Yorkshire Schools, p. 241.]
- FOOTNOTES:
- APPENDIX VI. The Charter.
- APPENDIX VII. The Statutes.
- [Early Yorkshire Schools, p. 254.]
- APPENDIX VIII. Purchase Deed of School House and Yard, 1610.[C]
- [Early Yorkshire Schools, p. 267.]
- FOOTNOTES:
- APPENDIX IX. Scheme made by the Board of Education under the Charitable Trusts Acts, 1853 to 1894, for the Alteration of the Scheme regulating the Giggleswick Grammar School.
- Management Rules.
- SCHEDULE.
- APPENDIX X. Masters of Giggleswick.
- APPENDIX XI. Ushers.
- Writing Masters.
- INDEX.
- A Short List of Yorkshire Books published by Richard Jackson, 16 and 17, Commercial Street, Leeds.
- TRANSCRIBERS' NOTES
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