| Description | 23 Sep 1650-1 Mar 1715 [incomplete] (Latin) list of boys in the school (Latin) 14 Feb 1717; extract from Pocklington Inclosure [enclosure] Award giving lands allotted to Pocklington School 1759 (original); copy of letter from the Master and Usher of Pocklington School to Reverend Robert Jenkins Doctor of Divinity., Master of St John's College, Cambridge, informing him of the election of Ralph Watson to a vacant scholarship nd.
Inside front cover: memorandum of payment of arrears of rent by John Taylor of Wetwang for his brother Richard 16 Sep 1682.
At end of volume in the reverse: cover 'A Catalogue of the monasteries in Yorkshire that were dissolved by the statute of Henry VIII and so capable of being discharged of paying tithes'
p1 rental nd;
p2 receipts for Whitsunday rent
pp3 and 4 memorandum of Edward Llewellin, schoolmaster, that land belonging to the school in Wetwang is the subject of a suit in Chancery 1655;
p5 memorandum of election by the schoolmaster and the churchwardens of John Sturdy as usher (Latin) 24 May 1652;
p6 memorandum of election by Rowland Greenwood, school-master, of James Vaison as usher (Latin) 9 Jun 1659;
p7 memorandum of election by the schoolmaster of John Winne as usher (Latin) 30 May 1654;
p8 memorandum of decree by Commissioners of Pious Uses concerning land belonging to the school withheld by Walter Taylor of Wetwang 1670;
p9 memorandum of election by schoolmaster and churchwardens of James Vayson as usher 9 Jun 1659l;
p9 note by James Vayson of his resignation as usher 27 Jan 1662;
p11 memorandum of election by the schoolmaster and churchwardens of William Dunne as usher (Latin) 27 Jan 1662; copy letter from the Master, Usher and Churchwardens to Reverend Peter Gunning Doctor of Divinity, Master of St John's College, Cambridge, informing him of the election of John Wilkinson to a vacant scholarship nd;
p13 list of scholars admitted to St John's College [Cambridge] 1666-1690;
pp15-34 memoranda of renewals of leases 1698-1809;
p39 memorandum of election by schoolmaster and churchwardens of Richard Donn as usher (Latin) 20 Nov 1710;
p41 memorandum of election by schoolmaster and churchwardens of Robert Jackson as usher 16 Aug 1745;
p42 note by Robert Jackson of his resignation from the post of usher 28 Jan 1763;
p43 memorandum of election by the schoolmaster and churchwardens of John Cross as usher (Latin) 28 Jan 1763;
p45 memorandum of election by schoolmaster and churchwardens of Thomas Brown as usher 28 Oct 1811;
p46 note by Thomas Brown of his resignation from the post of usher 5 Nov 1834;
p47 memorandum of election by schoolmaster and churchwardens of Robert Shield as usher 7 Nov 1834;
p48 memorandum of appointment by the Archbishop of York of Reverend Edward Bentley Slater as usher Oct 1849;
p49 letter from Reverend EB Slater resigning his post as usher 1 Jun 1871;
p50 memorandum of election by the schoolmaster and churchwardens of Reverend Charles Gilmour Wilkinson as usher 3 Jun 1871;
p57 note of Mr Lewellin's possessions entrusted to Mr Greenwood at Mrs Dorothy Bishop's 1657;
p59 list of school-books delivered by Mrs Dorothy Byshop, and books already in the school 26 Nov 1657;
pp60,61 list of masters and ushers of the school 1653-1849, compiled from this volume by FJ Gruggen 1858;
pp93-115 'The Case of the Free School of Pocklington', being a brief history of the founding of the school and an appeal for funds for re-building, with alphabetical list of subscribers nd [1698?];
p117 statement of accounts for re-building schoolhouse 28 Jun 1698;
pp123-124 copy deed of appointment of Miles Farrer Master of Arts as Master of Pocklington School by Humphrey Gower D Thomas Master of St John's College, Cambridge (Latin) 25 Jun 1698. |