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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1818 edition. Excerpt: ...in a cover and sealed. It may be useful to Parents to know, that during Two years, ending at Election 1813, the average of each Boy's Half yearly Account was 39..15..7, during which time as many Bills were much above the average, so those of prudent Boys were below it. The Money is usually paid to Mr. Williams, the Second Master, by the Boy upon his return to College after the Vacation; or it may be paid to Messrs Waller, Bankers, Winchester; or to Messrs. Sir. Peter Pole, Bart., Thornton, and Co., Bartholomew Lane, London, on account of Messrs. Waller, for Mr. Williams. formerly Head Master, whose Benefactions to the Chapel and Library likewise entitle him to a grateful remembrance. The Latin and Greek Grammars in use, are those printed at Eton. The Exhiritions are numerous; but their number and value are uncertain, as they arise from variable Funds. The Revd. Edward Corden, D. D., Archdeacon of London, by his Will dated in April, 1784, bequeathed the sum of 400. to a certain fund of Winchester College, called The Superannuated Fund, ' to the intent that the interest thereof might be applied to found an Exhirition at Trinity College, Oxford, for the advantage of the Superannuated Scholars of Winchester College. This Exhibition having been augmented from time to time by the liberality of the Warden and Fellows of Winchester College, amounts at present to the sum of 45. per annum. The Statutes, which the Illustrious Founder gave to Winton College, may be regarded as the Counter-part of those which he composed for his College in Oxford. And, as he determined that his Successors, the Bishops of Winchester, should have the superintendence of both these Societies, he constituted them Visitors of New College, by a special...

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