for and a new school-house was standing on the site of the old. It was
very solidly built and larger than its predecessor. Over the door was
fixed the stone on which the Hexameter inscription "Alma dei mater,
defende malis Jacobum Kar" etc., was written, and which had already
adorned the face of the old building so long. The old division of an
upper and lower school was retained, but otherwise details are few. The
new School was built at a cost of L276 16_s._ 81/4_d._ and served its
purpose for over sixty years, when it was then itself replaced in 1851.

With new school buildings, greatly increased revenues and a third
Master--Mr. Saul--appointed in 1784 with the privity of the Archbishop
of York but not licensed--the Governors were eager to get additional
statutory power to increase the teaching staff and pay the surplus money
away both in leaving Exhibitions and in gratuities to the Scholars at
the School by way of encouragement. There is a letter extant addressed
in November, 1794, by the Clerk to the Governors to Mr. Clough, who was
requested to lay the whole matter before Mr. Withers and get his legal
opinion.

The letter reads as follows, after first quoting the Charter and also
the Statutes of 1592, which limited the stipend of the Master to L13
6_s._ 8_d._ and of the Usher to L6 13_s._ 4_d._

The Revenues of the said School have for sometime been betwixt
three and four hundred pounds a year, but upon the Governors
lately re-letting the several farms belonging the School, the
Revenues will be advanced to about seven hundred pounds a year.

The Governors have with the privity of the late Archbishop of
York for a number of years employed a third Master to teach
Writing, and Accompts. As the Revenues of the said School are
now so much advanced, viz: from about L350 to L700 a year, the
Governors of the sd School are desirous with the consent of the
Archbishop of York to make some additional Statutes in pursuance
of the sd Charter, authorizing them to engage more assistants at
the sd School to teach different branches of literature.

The Governors propose by the new Statutes to be made that the
Head Master's stipend shall not be less than L200 a year and the
Usher's stipend not less than L100 a year, and then to authorize
the Governors to apply such part of the surplus of the Revenues,
as they shall think expedient, in the hiring one or more