did. He
had left it, while quite young, to become Rector of Musgrave,
Cumberland, at L80 a year. In 1805 he died, Giggleswick's most
distinguished son.

William Paley was soon to discover the nature of the Governing Body.
Charles Nowell, one of the kin of the second founder, was confined in
Lancaster Gaol for some offence which is not recorded and there results
a neat little comedy:

April 25, 1745.

Willm. Banks, of Feizer, elected in the room of Charles Nowell,
of Capleside (now being and having been long confined in
Lancaster Gaol) having in the presence of us taken the
accustomed oath.

ANTHO. LISTER.

May 20, 1745.

Be it remembered that the said William Banks on the said
twenty-fifth day of April, having some doubt within himself
whether he was legally elected, the above-named Charles Nowell
not having resigned, he did not take the oath required by the
Statutes of the ffree School of Giggleswick but on this day,
being satisfied that his election was legal, he took the said
oath before us (the Vicar and other Governors withdrawing
themselves).

W. DAWSON.
WM. CARR.

May 23, 1745.

Be it remembered that I was absent when Mr. Wm. Banks was sworn
but I hereby agree that he was legally elected a Governor at a
prior meeting. I also hereby declare the sd Wm. Banks to be a
legall Governor.

ROBT. TATHAM.

Twenty years passed and another question arose to engender bitter
feelings in the hearts of the Governors and Masters. In 1755 George Carr
ceased to be Usher and John Moore took his place. As far as can be
known, Moore had not been educated at the School, certainly he had not
gone up to Christ's with a Burton Exhibition. For some years Master and
Usher worked together for stipends respectively of L90 and L45,
according to the regular method by which the Master received double the
pay of the Usher. They had been accustomed to make an acknowledgment of
"all ye wages now due to us as masters." But the Statutes of 1592 had
declared the Master's wage to be L13 6_s._ 8_d._ and accordingly the
Governors in 1768 proposed to emphasize the additional sum, as being
given of grace. They brought forward a dra