| Description | The School was founded in Rugby on 22nd July 1567 and endowed with the profits of the above; it was to be a free Grammar School for the children of Brownsover and Rugby, and the headmaster was to be an M.A. But the Brownsover and Rugby property passed into the hands of Sheriff's sister Bridget who married John Howkins and her descendants withheld the endowment from the school. Sheriff's trustees were George Harrison and Bernard Field, on the death of the latter his daughter Elizabeth who married John Dukyn acquired the Conduit Close and sold a third part of it to John Vincent and his heirs. Greenhill the Schoolmaster, in 1600 instituted a suit against Dakyn which was stopped in 1602 and a Commission to inquire into the same held, under which the Trust was remodelled under a body of 12 trustees and the sale to Vincent annulled. In 1612 Edward Boughton acquired the tithes and glebe land of Brownsover from the Howkins family, who persisted in treating Sheriff's property as their own: the School instituted yet another suit in Chancery which led to the establishment of this Commission: there follows Howkins defence on the aforesaid charges. The suit was not ended until 1667. |