divers other Schoolmasters there received the said Stipend, until the 20th year of Queen Elizabeth, that, the said school being vacant by the death of the last Master, an order was made in this Court reciting the said declaration concerning the erection among others of the said School at Cawthorne, and that amongst the rest the schoolmaster at Cawthorne had received the Stipend of five pounds four shillings out of the Duchy revenues, and that the schoolmaster at Pontefract, being one of the said schools so erected, had only fifty nine shillings and twopence, which was not sufficient for an able schoolmaster: and for that some other towns, particularly Cawthorne, had neglected to have a schoolmaster, it pleased the Court to direct that the Stipend should be paid to the schoolmaster at Pontefract, yet not with intention to deprive the other towns of Schoolmasters and Stipends, but, when a convenient schoolhouse and able schoolmaster should be provided, then the stipend to be continued; and further setting forth, that of late the Inhabitants of Cawthorne aforesaid have at their great charge builded and decently furnished a spacious schoolhouse with other necessary rooms for a schoolmaster, and are willing, so the King's stipend be continued, to make up at their own charge a convenient stipend for a schoolmaster to instruct their youth there, the rather for that Cawthorne is twenty miles from Pontefract, and not within eight miles, as the order suggests; and for that, since the said order, they have not had any benefit by the school at Pontefract, nor hath any care been had by the Master and his Brethren at Pontefract for providing able and fit schoolmasters, nor was the then schoolmaster so careful as he ought to be, nor have the Master and Brethren appointed an usher as they ought to have done by the said order; and for that Cawthorne is so populous as Pontefract, and therefore hath as much need of a School: and for that this Court hath since the said order, upon the like reasons, restored the pension formerly allotted to Rowston school, and by the said order transferred to Pontefract; for the restoring of which pension of five pounds four shillings to the Schoolmaster of Cawthorne aforesaid the Bill was exhibited, to which Bill the defendant, being served with processes of this Court, appeared and answered, and in his answer set forth that he hath heard of the Commission mentioned in the said Bill for setting
