Pontefract, and that the same be settled and established with the School and schoolmaster of the Town of Cawthorne aforesaid for the time being, and to be from time to time yearly and every year paid by the particular Receiver of the House of Pontefract for the time being at two usual terms in the year, that is to say, at the Feasts of St. Michael the Archangel and the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, by even and equal portions * * * and the said schoolmaster shall be from time to time nominated, elected, and chosen by the Right Hon. the Chancellor of this Court; and that, according to the consent declared as aforesaid, the Inhabitants of the Town of Cawthorne shall from time to time well and truly satisfy and pay to the schoolmaster the sum of eight pounds two shillings eight pence per annum, for the better maintenance and encouragement of the said schoolmaster, the same to be paid quarterly, viz., at the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel, the Nativity of Christ, the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the Feast of St. John the Baptist; and that the said Inhabitants shall from time to time at their own cost and charges keep and maintain a commodious schoolhouse within the said Town, with all needful and convenient reparation, And it is further decreed, that, forasmuch as there appeareth proved by the depositions now read the learning, honesty, and ability of Peter Deane, the present schoolmaster at Cawthorne, the said Mr. Deane shall continue schoolmaster of the said School, and shall receive the several stipends so long as the said Mr. Deane shall demean himself well in the execution of the said place.
(signed) Thomas Bedingfield."
It has been already noticed in speaking of the Endowments, that this sum of £5 4s. is exactly the amount at which the Bosvile Chantry was valued at its suppression, being a yearly stipend of one hundred shillings and the Chantry priest's residence, valued at other four shillings. The Richard Wigfall who is here mentioned as the first schoolmaster is given in the King's Book—Henry VIII's "Valor Ecclesiasticus"—as the Incumbent of the Chantry, whose income and residence would therefore be continued to him in his different capacity after the Chantry was suppressed. The Parish-
