a room for a schoolmaster of stone, within (he said Town, and that the said Town of Cawthorne is populous and consisteth of many poor families who have many children teachable and fit to learn, and are not able to set them elsewhere to school; and that the said towne of Cawthorne is distant from Pontefract aforesaid fourteen miles, and upon reading of an order of the Court made in the six and twentieth year of Queen Elizabeth of famous memory, whereby the said decree was then dispensed withal by returning to the Town of Rawston the stipend assigned by the said Commissioners for the School at Rawston aforesaid (being by the said decree transferred to Pontefract aforesaid), the said decree notwithstanding; and for that the Court considered it fit, that, as the stipend of five pounds four shillings was at first by command from the late King Edward the sixth assigned to be employed for a charitable use in the education,of youth and maintaining a school at Cawthorne aforesaid, so the intention of the first donor ought to be in substance continued and maintained, according to the several statutes in that behalf made, as well concerning the dissolution of Chantries, as concerning such charitable gilts and uses: And for that it is now offered in Court by the Plaintiffs for themselves and the rest of the Inhabitants of Cawthorne aforesaid, that they will add to the said stipend of five pounds four shillings the sum of eight pounds two shillings and eight pence per annum, for the better maintenance of the schoolmaster there for the time being, whose willingness and offer in that behalf did farther appear unto the Court by the depositions now read, with this condition only, that the said Inhabitants might be at liberty from time to time to elect such schoolmaster by the approbation of the right honourable the Chancellor of the Court for the time being; It is therefore finally ordered, adjudged, and decreed by the said Right Hon. the Chancellor and Counsell of this Court and the advice of Mr. Baron Henden aforesaid, that a free Grammar School be settled and from time to time continued within the said Town of Cawthorne, and that the said stipend of five pounds four shillings assigned by the said Commissioners to the said school and schoolmaster of the Town of Cawthorne aforesaid be yearly translated and severed from the said School and Schoolmaster of the said Town of
