rest in the School,
and in 1718 he wrote to Christ's College, Cambridge, seeking information
about the Carr Scholarships. It was probably due to him that in 1693 two
shillings was laid down for transcribing part of Carr's Will, which
money "the schollars that receive Burton Exhibitions must then (i.e.
1694) allow to the school stock."

One point of interest remains connected with this period: it is a
curious slip of paper without date, which contains an invitation to the
reader, whoever he may have been, to visit the writer J.N. in the
country. It is written on the back of some of Armitstead's accounts,
with an alternative version by its side, which was no doubt a revised
copy of the theme after correction by the Master:

Ex animo rogo ut rus venias
quod cupio tuo frui sodalitio
tum quia tua frequentia haud
parvam ferat consolationem
parentibus natu grandioribus,
persuasum habeto alii qui
potentiores sunt et pluribus
abundant divitiis plura in te
conferant beneficia sed nemo
libentiori et promptiori est
animo tuum promovere honorem
quam humillimus servus. J.N.

Permultum cupio rus venias et
quod vehemens est desiderium tuo
frui comercio, tum quod tua
frequentia admodum esset
consolabilis parentibus
senilibus, certum habeto alii
tum potentiores tum divitiores
plura tibi faciant beneficia sed
nemo et libentior et promtior
est tuam ornare dignitatem quam
servus humillimus. J.N.

The money left to the School by Josias Shute was in part intended to be
paid to the poor of the parish, together with two further sums of five
shillings left by William Clapham and nine shillings by Mr. Thornton for
the same purpose. It is difficult to note the payment of these sums, for
they were as a rule added together and entered as "For the Poor Fund,"
but in 1695 there was paid to:

L _s._ _d._
John Grime Wilkinson 00 02 00
Wm. Nelson 00 01 00
Bryan Cookson 00 07 00
J Robinson 00 01 00
Mary Pert 00 01 00
Thos. Cocket 00 01 00
Ric. Harrison 00 01 00
L00 14 00

Shute's surplus was certainly given to the poor in some years but there
is no consistent record and by the scheme made under the Endowed Schools
Acts it ceased. In 1692 "Arthur, son of Joshua Whitaker, of Settle