Chapter II: Part 2

In 1665 came the Great Plague, followed, in 1666, by the Great Fire of London, in which the old Skinners’ Hall shared the fate of so many others of the City Halls. The Company’s valuables were saved, but the Hall itself was destroyed, and for some years after the meetings of the Company were held in other halls and buildings which had escaped the fire. Little time was lost in rebuilding. Outstanding loans were called in, land was sold, contributions were levied upon members, and by 1672 the new buildings were sufficiently completed for occupation by Sir George Waterman, the Skinner Lord Mayor of 1671–2, on whose accession to office one of the numerous pageants provided by the Company was represented. It was usual at that period for the Hall to be let to City functionaries for their term of office, and the Court Books record a number of such lettings. Mention may be made of such lettings to Sir Robert Hanson, Lord Mayor, 1672–3, and Sir Owen Buckingham, Sheriff, 1695–6. From Christmas, 1698, to Michaelmas, 1707, the East India Company had the use of the Hall, and four silver candlesticks presented by them are still in the possession of the Company. In its leading features the Hall remains as it then was, but various alterations and improvements have been made from time to time. The Great Dining Hall was improved in 1847–8, and again in 1890–1, and is now in course of decoration with historical paintings by Mr. Brangwyn, A.R.A. The famous Cedar Drawing-room, commemorated by Lord Macaulay, was fitted with a new ceiling in 1876; the Oak Parlour was restored in 1889, and a second entrance from Cloak Lane has very recently been constructed.

The more important pieces of plate in the possession of the Company were presented in the seventeenth century. The Cokayne cups, already referred to, belong to the sixteenth century, but with this important exception the plate earlier than the nineteenth century all dates from the seventeenth. Special mention may be made of the Peacock Cup, representing a silver peahen, with removable head, accompanied by three peachicks, the gift of Mary, widow of James Peacock, Master, 1638–9, presented in 1642; the Master’s Salt, bequeathed by Benjamin Albin, Master 1669–70, who had taken an active part in rescuing the Company’s plate at the time of the Great Fire: the Leopard Snuff-box, presented by Roger Kemp, Master 1680, which is always placed in front of the Master at banquets, school prize-givings, and other functions; and the Monteith Bowls, purchased with money bequeathed by Sir Richard Chiverton, Master 1654, Lord Mayor 1657.

At the Court of May 4th, 1681, “Major Manley signifyed that the Right Hono^{ble} the Earl of Shaftesbury would doe the Company the honour to take his ffreedome of this Socyety w^{ch} moc’on the Court agreed to and ordered the Master and Wardens (and certain others named), or as many of them as conveniently can, to attend his Lordship, and to acquaint him with their readiness to receive his Lordship into their Society.” And on November 30th of the same year, it was ordered that Lord Shaftesbury, Lord Herbert, and Francis Charlton, Esq., should have their freedoms presented to them in silver-gilt boxes, engraved with the Company’s arms.

In 1684–5 the Company erected in the Royal Exchange a statue of Edward III. A small model of this statue was kept by the Company, and on April 26th, 1738, “Mr. Deputy Nash was desired to get the modell of King Edward the III’ds statue repaired, and to get a handsome frame and glass case to be set up above the Master’s chair at the upper end of the Hall.” This model is still preserved in the Cedar Drawing-room.

The Company’s charters were seized on a writ of _quo warranto_ in the reign of Charles II, and a fresh charter was granted by James II; but the seizure and the new charter were set aside by Act of Parliament, 2 Wm. and M., Sess. I, cap. 8, and the Company was restored to its previous position.

The sympathies of the Company at this crisis in the national history are sufficiently evidenced by an entry in the Court-Book for 1687, subscribed by thirty-seven names: “Now whose names are hereunder subscribed doe declare that noe fforeigne prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or Authority Ecclesiasticall or Spirituall within this Realme. Soe help me God.”

During the struggle which led to the deposition of James II, a very leading part was taken by Sir Thomas Pilkington, Master in 1677 and 1681. He was elected M.P. for the City of London in 1679, and again in 1680 and 1689. He was Sheriff in 1681, and was very conspicuous in his opposition to the Court party at the election of his successor in the following year. Before steps could be taken against him for his conduct on this occasion, he had already, in November, 1682, been sent to prison, where he remained until June, 1686, for words spoken in disparagement of the Duke of York. On being tried, while a prisoner, for his behaviour at the election of Sheriffs, he was again convicted and fined, but this judgment was set aside by the House of Lords in 1689. He and others, including Roger Kemp, the donor of the Leopard snuff-box, were removed from the Court of the Company at the instance of the Crown, but by Order in Council of September 25th, 1687, they were ordered to be re-admitted, and those who had been substituted for them to be displaced: which was carried out by order of the Court on the 15th October, 1687. He had been Alderman of Farringdon Without since 1680, but removed to Vintry in 1688; and on the death of Sir John Chapman, the Lord Mayor, in March, 1689, he was elected to succeed him for the remainder of the year. Such was the esteem in which he was held, that he was re-elected at the end of the year, and again for a third year. On his becoming Lord Mayor, the King and Queen were present at his banquet, together with the Prince and Princess of Denmark (afterwards Queen Anne), and most of the dignitaries of the Kingdom and foreign representatives. The Company provided a pageant on his re-election in 1689; and so enthusiastic were his colleagues in the Company that, on his second re-election to the Mayoralty, the Court, on November 25th, 1690, passed a resolution which, after setting out various claims which he had to their gratitude, proceeded as follows:—“This Co^t therefore, well weighing the p’misses and calling to minde his Lo^{pps} sufferings by the excessive ffines and exorbitant veredicts formerly given against him, meerly for the faithfull discharge of his duty and trust when Sheriffe of this Citty, and opposeing the arbitrary and popish designs then carrying on for the subversion and totall overthrow of the Lawes and Established Religion of the Kingdom, and that his Lo^{pp} by his wise and prudent government of this Citty for ye yeare last past (being a yeare of extraordinary difficulty) hath done great service to their Ma^{ties}, the Nation, and the Citty. This Co^{rt} did and hereby doe unanimously agree to pr’sent his Lo^{pp} with the use of the Hall for the yeare ensueing. And did alsoe agree that the Master and Wardens and the body of all the Assistants of the Worp^{ll} Company now p^rsent should immediately attend S^{r.} Thomas Pilkington, Knight, the p^rsent Lord Maior, and acquaint his Lo^{pp} with their Order and acknowledgement, and likewise to returne his Lo^{pp} their hearty thankes for the good service he hath done their Ma^{ties}, the Nation, and this Citty in his Lo^{pps} last yeares prudent and good Governm^t thereof.” Lord Mayor Pilkington’s picture, painted at this time by order of the Court, still hangs in the Court-Room.

In 1689, the honorary freedom was presented to the Earl of Monmouth (Master in the following year), Sir Rowland Gwyn, the Earl of Portland, and Lord Sydney; and on Nov. 12th, 1689, it was “Ordered that the Ma^r and Wardens (and others) be desired as a Comm’ee to joyne with the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor and the other Honorary Members of this Comp^a to attend on their Mai^{ties} when the noble persons aforesaid shall appoint to p^rsent them with the copyes of their Freedomes, each in a Box of Gold, of which the Ma^r, Wardens, and Comm^{ee} aforesaid were desired and ordered to provide the same.” This was followed up by the following order on Nov. 5th, 1690:—“Ordered that boxes of gold to ye value of £60 p^rsented to their Ma^{ties} with their ffreedomes, and that the R^t Hon^{ble} the M^r (the Earl of Monmouth) be acquainted with it, and that the Wardens attend his Lo^{pp} touching the same and to follow his Lo^{pps} direc’con therein.”

The time of the Court was not entirely occupied with matters of state. On June 25th, 1689, the following entry occurs:—“M^r Glover (Thomas Glover, the executor of Lewis Newbury, the founder of the almshouses at Mile End) appeared and complayned of diverse great disorders com’itted by severall of the Pen’coners or Almesffellowes in the Almshouses at Mile End of the erec’con of Mr. Lewis Newberry, perticularly of the Wid: Barrett, her unruly sons sometimes comeing in at unseasonable houres and lodgeing there, and of an impudent girle of ill Fame w^{ch} Tho. Row employs there; likewise of others selling ale on Sabbath daies after sermon, namely Goodwife Dawson and Wid: Carver. All which were respectively called in and their sevrall misbehaviours rep^rsented to them and rebuked for it; but upon their promise of amendm^t for the future (and this being the first compl^t against them), the Court was pleased to pardon their sevrall offences at p^rsent.” This warning seems to have been only partially successful, for on Dec. 11th, 1696, the following further entry appears:—“This Co^rt being informed that the widow Carver and the widow Goodwin, who inhabit in the almeshouses at Mile End, did sell strong water and ale, haveing been cautioned ag^t the same, yett nevertheless do still persist therein. Itt was therefore ordered they should have notice given them that unless they discontinue their practice in a week’s time from the date hereof, they shall bee removed from their almeshouses and penc’ons.”

After the close of the seventeenth century, the matters recorded are of less interest, and the troubles of the Company were of a minor order. Thus, in July, 1738, “Mr. Thomas Zachary acquainted this Com^{ee} that he had casually dropt out of the Bag the little keys of this Compa^{ys} small iron chest wherein the Seal of this Company was put, and also the Key of the Poors Box, whereupon this Com^{ee} sent for Mr. Cooke, the Smith, and directed him to break open the said small Chest and Poors Box, which was done in their presence, and the Seal of this Company and the other things therein contained was taken out of the small iron chest, and also twelve pounds fifteen shillings and six pence out of the Poors Box, and were put into a bag and sealed up by this Com^{ee} and lockt up in this Compa^s large iron chest untill such time as the Smith could mend the Locks and make new keys to the said chest and Poors box, which they ordered him forthwith to do.”

The Honorary Members elected in the eighteenth century were:—in 1766, H.R.H. the Duke of Cumberland; in 1767, the Rt. Hon. C. Townshend, Chancellor of the Exchequer; in 1794, Earl Howe, Admiral of England.

The Honorary Members elected in the nineteenth century were:—in 1834, Viscount Strangford, a descendant of Sir Andrew Judd; in 1861, Lord Clyde; in 1877, the late Earl of Dartmouth, a descendant of Sir Thomas Legge; in 1878, T. G. Kensit, Esq., Clerk of the Company, 1828–1878; in 1886, Sir Saul Samuel, Agent-General for New South Wales (on the occasion of the Colonial Exhibition); in 1893, the present Earl of Dartmouth; in 1895, the Rt. Hon. A. W. Peel, Speaker of the House of Commons, afterwards Viscount Peel, and the Most Rev. E. W. Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury; in 1896, the Most Rev. W. Alexander, Archbishop of Armagh, an old Tonbridge scholar; in 1897, the Rt. Hon. W. C. Gully, Speaker of the House of Commons, afterwards Viscount Selby; in 1900, General the Rt. Hon. Sir Redvers Buller.

Since the commencement of the present century the following have been elected:—in 1905, the Most Revd. R. Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Earl of Cromer; in 1906, the Rt Hon. J. W. Lowther, Speaker of the House of Commons, and Viscount Milner.

The later decade of the nineteenth century, and especially the last twenty-five years, have constituted a period of great activity and progress on the part of the Company, especially in the direction of education; and it has been a matter of great satisfaction to the Company to see the number of young persons, trained up under their direction, increased from the two hundred, or fewer, boys, educated at Tonbridge School so late as the early ’eighties, to approximately 1,100, distributed over four schools, of which the second in point of date was opened so recently as 1887. Out of the 1,100, nearly 400 are girls.

These schools are, in addition to Tonbridge School, of which the numbers now exceed four hundred, the Commercial School at Tonbridge, also on Sir Andrew Judd’s Foundation, opened in 1888; the Company’s Middle School for Boys at Tunbridge Wells, opened in 1887; and the Company’s Middle School for Girls at Stamford Hill, opened in 1890. Important buildings have been erected at all these new schools. The rebuilding and enlargement from time to time of Tonbridge School have been already mentioned.

The Company has also contributed very large sums to the City and Guilds’ Institute during the last twenty-five years, for the support of its Central Technical College at South Kensington, its Technical College at Finsbury, its Art School at Kennington, and its Technological Examinations. It also took an active part in the foundation at Clerkenwell, on a site adjoining the Company’s Clarke’s Close Estate, of the Northampton Polytechnic Institute, to which it contributes annually. It has also given material assistance to the Leather Industries’ Department of the Yorkshire College, Leeds, now the Leeds University. Members of the Company take an active part in the government of these various institutions.

In 1887, the Company took steps to obtain the consolidation of their almshouses and of their minor pension charities, and in 1891 a Scheme, framed by the Charity Commissioners at the suggestion of the Company, came into operation, by which such charities were consolidated, and in place of the Judd almshouses in Great St. Helen’s, and the Newbury almshouses at Mile End, new and more convenient almshouses were erected at Palmer’s Green. In connection with this Scheme, the various charitable charges upon the Company’s properties were redeemed, and the Company’s estates are now free from any such charges.

In furtherance of the policy of Parliament to make the occupiers of land in Ireland the owners of their holdings, the Company resolved in 1886 to give their Irish tenants an opportunity of purchasing their holdings under the Land Acts; and the Pellipar Estate, in the County of Londonderry, has now passed entirely into the hands of the tenants.

The Company’s Hall premises have been greatly improved. Special mention may be made of the decoration of the dining-hall, which is now frequently placed at the disposal of other Companies, and literary and scientific institutions, on special occasions, and thus made more frequently useful, and of the renovation of the beautiful Oak Parlour, which had been allowed to fall into disuse.

In these various directions the present Court of the Company claim to have shown themselves not unworthy of the heritage handed down to them by their predecessors.

Quorum pars parva fui.

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APPENDIX I.

_The Award of Sir Robert Billesdon, Lord Mayor, April l0th, 1484.
1 Ric. III._

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Mem’dum quod decimo die Aprilis Anno r’ni Regis Ric’i tertii post conq’m primo Magistri et Gardiani miste’r Pellipa’r & Cisso’r cum q’mpluribus aliis probis hominibus utriusq’ Mist’r compromiserunt se stare Judicio Roberti Billesdon Majoris et Aldermannorum civitatis Londo’n super quâdam materi’a controversiæ inter eos penden’. Qui quidem Major et Aldermanni reddiderunt Judicium pro materi’a prædicta pacificand’ forma seq’n:

[MEMORANDUM that on the 10th day of April, in the first year of the reign of King Richard the third after the conquest, the Masters and Wardens of the Mysteries of Skinners and Taylors, with several worthy men of each mystery, agreed to abide by the decision of Robert Billesdon, Mayor, and the Aldermen of the City of London, in a certain matter of controversy pending between them. Which Mayor and Aldermen gave their decision for the purpose of settling the aforesaid matter in the following terms.]

Be it remembred that where there hath been of late a variaunce and controversie moeved & had betwene the Maist’, Wardeyns, and Feolaship of the Skynn’s of the Citee of London on the one p’tie, and the Maist’, Wardeyns, & Feolaship of Taillors of the same Citee on that other p’tie, for the roume & place in their going afore in p’cessions within the same Citee: And for ceasyng and pacifying thereof the said Maist’rs, Wardeyns, and Feolashipps of both the said p’ties, the x^{th} day of Aprill the first yere of the reign of Kyng Richard the iii^{de}, of their free willes have comp’mitted and submitted theymself to stonde and obey the Rule and Jugeme’t of Robt. Billesdon, Mair, and th’ aldremen of the said Citee of London: Whereuppon the said Mair and Aldremen, the day and yeere abovesaid, takyng uppon theym the Rule, direccion, and charge of arbitreme’t of and in the premisses for norishing of peas and love betwene the Maisters, Wardeyns, and Feolashipps aforesaid, the which ben ii grete and wirshipfull membres of the said Citee, by thassent and agreeme’t of the Maist’s and Wardeyns of both the said Feolashipps have adjugged and awarded in the forme that foloweth: First, that the said Maist’ and Wardeyns of Skynn’s shall yerely desire and pray the said Maist’ and Wardeyns of Taillors to dyne with theym atte their Com’on Hall in the vigill of Corp’ X’ti, yf the same Maist’ and Wardeyns of Skynn’s than make an open Dyner; and that the said Maist’ and Wardeyns of Taillors so praied shall yeerely dyne then and there with the said Maist’ and Wardeyns of Skynn’s aforesaid withoute a reasonable excuse had: Also, it is awarded and adjugged that the said Maist’ and Wardeyns of Taillors shall yeerely desire and pray the said Maist’ and Wardeyns of Skynn’s to dyne with theym in the Fest of the Nativitee of Seint John Bapt’e if thei there than kepe an oppen dyner at their Com’on Hall; and that the said Maist’ and Wardeyns of Skynn’s so praied shall yerely dyne than and there with the said Maist’ and Wardeyns of Taillors aforesaid, withoute a reasonable excuse, etc. Moreover, to sette aparte all manner occasions of strif and debate which hereaft’ myght fall betwene the Maist’s, Wardeyns, and Feolashipps aforesaid for the rowme and going in p’cessions as it is above rehersed, it was awarded and jugged by the said Mair and Aldremen, the day and yeere abovesaid, that the said Maist’, Wardeyns, and Feolaship of Skynn’s shall goo in all p’cessions before the said Maist’, Wardeyns, and Feolaship of Taillors from the Fest of Easter next comyng unto the Fest of Easter than next ensuyng; and that the said Maist’, Wardeyns, and Feolaship of Taillors from the same Fest of Easter then next ensuyng shall goo in all p’cessions before the said Maist’, Wardeyns, and Feolaship of Skynn’s for a yeere, fully to be complete; and so evermore the Maist’, Wardeyns, and Feolaship of Skynn’s for to have the pre-emynencie of goyng afore in p’cessions one yeere, and the said Maist’, Wardeyns, and Feolaship of Taillors to have the pre-emynencie of goyng afore in p’cessions another yeere, begynnyng the yeere alwey in the Fest of Easter: Provided alwey that as ofte as hereafter it shall hapne any Aldreman of either of the said Feolashipps to be Mair of this Citee of London, by reason whereof the Feolaship of the same Mair shall, after the old custume of the said Citee, goo afore all other Feolashipps in all places within the said Citee duryng the tyme of the Mairaltie of the Mair so chosen, that the same going afore all the same tyme be not accompted for any yeere of going afore by this awarde or juggeme’t: But that the same of the said ii Feolashipps which had by this ordenaunce the preemynence of going afore in p’cessions from the Fest of Easter next afore begynnyng of the said Mairaltie have like preemynence from thende of the said Mairaltie to the Fest of Easter than next folowyng, in p’forming of his hole yeere, and from thensforth to kepe thordre above appoynted.”

_The Supplementary Award of January 17th, 1521. 12 Hen. VIII._

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“Where late the Wardens of the Skynn’s exhibited to the Court a Bill of Compleynt agenst the Mayst’ and Wardens of M’chantayllors recytyng by the same an Ordynaunce made in the Mayralt’ of Mr. Byllesdon for thorderyng of the seyd ii Crafts in goyng in p’cessions, and surmytted also in their seyd Bill that the seyd Ordynaunce was to be understand of oonly in goying in p’cessions, and at noon other gen’all goyings or assembles, which Ordynaunce red, herd, and rypely understand by this Court, was clerely interpretyd and declared that the true meanyng and intent of makyng of the seyd Ordynaunce was understand of not oonly for goyng in p’cessions, but also for rydyng, goyng, or metyng in and at all other assembles: And thereupon the seyd Wardens had in comaunde’t by this Court, that they and their succ’ from hensforth shuld use and exercise the seyd Ordynaunce according to the seyd interpretacc’on and declar’ by this same Court made and determyned.”

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APPENDIX II.

_Bidding Prayer used at Tonbridge School at the Annual
Commemoration Service on Skinners’ Day at the end of the
Summer Term._

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_This prayer follows the anthem, the congregation all standing._

INASMUCH as, by the Providence of Almighty God, from whom all good things do come, on this day our School is gathered together here, now as of old, to thank Him for all His blessings, it is right that we should remind ourselves once more of all that we owe to those who have gone before us.

And first you are to remember your Founder, Sir Andrew Judd, Knight.

He was born at Tonbridge on the estate of his ancestors called “Barden,” situated by the river side below Quarry Hill. He was apprenticed in London into the Company of Skinners, and became himself a Skinner and a Merchant of Muscovy. He went with the ships of the Merchants’ Company, which rounded the North Cape to the coast of Russia. He crossed the country in sledges a seven days’ journey to the River Volga, and so to Astrakan on the Caspian Sea. He also went to the West Coast of Africa, to Guinea, at the request of King Edward VI, and brought thence gold dust to be coined into guineas, and many natural curiosities. In the year 1544 he was Sheriff of London, and in the year 1550–1 he was Lord Mayor, in which office he bore himself with loyalty and with valour. On six several occasions he was Master of the Skinners’ Company—in the years 1533, 1538, 1542, 1547, 1551, and 1555. In 1554 he was called upon to make stand for Queen Mary against the rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyatt. He was, moreover, Mayor of the Staple of Calais, and held many public offices of trust, under both Edward and Mary, so that he is rightly accounted one of “the Worthies of England.” He died in 1558, and is buried in the Church of St. Helen’s, in Bishopsgate, in London, where stands a monument to his memory in marble.

Five years or more before he died he founded, not by will, but at his own expense during his lifetime, besides his almshouses near to St. Helen’s Church, “a stately Free School” at Tonbridge. This he diligently fostered, and framed for it Statutes under which it was governed for 327 years: Statutes full of kindly wisdom. Further, he endowed it with certain houses in Gracechurch Street, and with the estate of the Sandhills in the parish of St. Pancras, and afterwards by will in 1558 with other gifts, whence the School is to this day supported and increased. For all these good deeds, and because this School hath for its Founder so manly and so worthy a gentleman, you shall thank God.

And, secondly, you are to remember the grandson of your Founder, the son of his daughter Alice, Sir Thomas Smythe, a great benefactor to the School and to the poor of Tonbridge. He was born about 1558, and dwelt near Southborough. He was for fifteen years Governor of the East India Company, and took part in establishing the Colony of Virginia. He founded four Exhibitions from this School to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. He died in 1625, and was buried at Sutton-at-Hone, in Kent.

Furthermore, you are to remember Henry Fisher, the faithful servant of Sir Andrew Judd, who founded a Scholarship at Brasenose College, Oxford; Sir Thomas White, founder of St. John’s College, Oxford, who, “_propter eximium amorem in Andream Judd_,” gave to Tonbridge School a Fellowship, now a close Scholarship, at his College, also _Robert Holmdon_, the founder of the Leathersellers’ Exhibitions, _Thomas Lampard_, _Lady Mary Boswell_, _Mr. Worrall_, _Mr. Strong_, all of them Benefactors of the School, and many others whose names are not recorded.

Nor shall you forget all those who, as Governors, or as Masters, or as Boys, or in whatever station in this School, during more than 350 years have striven with faithful hearts to serve it; their noble deeds and character are ours by inheritance.

Finally, let us pray, that, when our time shall come to fall asleep, we, too, after their example may have faithfully served our generation by the will of God: To whom be all honour and glory, world without end. _Amen._

_Let us Pray._

[_The two following prayers were written in Latin for the use of Tonbridge School very shortly after its foundation in 1553_, A.D.]

ÆTERNE Deus, a quo solo omne bonum consilium, omnis bona cogitatio procedit, gratias tibi maximas agimus, quod viris optimis, et Andreae Judd, militi, Scholam hanc pie instituendi, magnoque sumptu suo exstruendi et dotandi, et quod Thomae Smythe, militi, eam nec minore sumptu suo augendi et in perpetuum faciendi consilium inspirasti; Teque suppliciter oramus, ut eam a calamitate omni tuearis; et Ecclesiae regnoque tuo utilem semper facias; et ut nos cum omni diligentiâ eo contendamus quo pii illi nos pervenire voluerunt, ut bene pieque eruditi Ecclesiae tuae et Reipublicae tandem utiles evadamus, per Iesum Christum, Dominum nostrum. _Amen._

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CLEMENTISSIME Pater coelestis, qui coelum et terras et quae in iis sunt omnia summâ sapientiâ condidisti, eâdemque providentiâ tuâ perpetuo regis et conservas,—concede, quaesumus, quemadmodum optimi illi, Andreas Judd, et Thomas Smythe, milites, spectatæ societatis Pellipariorum fide et providentiâ freti, eorum curae hanc Scholam commiserunt,—ut et ipsi, fidei suae his defunctis debitae semper memores, Scholam hanc diligenter curent et tueantur; tandemque, post huius vitae cursum honeste confectum, aetemum fidelissimae illius procurationis suae proemium in coelis consequantur, per Iesum Christum, Dominum nostrum. _Amen._

[_Then follow (in Latin) the Prayer of St. Chrysostom and the Blessing._]

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APPENDIX III.

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RECENT MEMORIAL STONES CONNECTED WITH THE COMPANY.

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1.

_The Tonbridge School Chapel of 1859, now the Museum._

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“Hunc lapidem Ἀκρογωνιαῖον ædis hujus ad majorem Dei gloriam, et in usum Scholæ Tonbridgiensis, condendæ posuit Robertus, Episcopus Riponensis, a. d. x. Cal. Jun. A.D. MDCCCLIX. Patroni, vicini, magistri, alumni pecuniam Contulert.

J. I. Welldon, D.C.L., archididascalo;
Wadmore et Baker, architectis;
E. Punnett, Fabro.

Nisi Dominus domum ædificaverit in vanum laboraverunt qui ædificant
eam.”

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2.

_The Tonbridge School Buildings of 1863._

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“Hanc Scholam ab Andrea Judd, milite,
Fundatam et munifice dotatam, A.D. MDLIII,
Curatores ejus honorata Pellipariorum Societas
De integro exstruxerunt et ædibus cum amplioribus tum magis
Hodiernis discipulorum usibus accommodatis ornaverunt.
Lapidem auspicalem posuit vii^{mo.} idus Maias A.D. MDCCCLXIII
Georgius Legg, Armiger, hujus Societatis præfectus annuus.

=Custodibus=
G. Trist
F. Howell
S. Wix
F. Turner

=Ludimagistris=
J. I. Welldon
E. I. Welldon

E. H. Burnell, Architecto.
G. Punnett, Redemtore.

T. G. Kensit, Notario.

Timor Domini principium Sapientiæ

Prov. i, v. 7.”

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_The Tonbridge School Science Buildings of 1886–7._

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“Ad Dei Gloriam
Et in Augmentationem Veteris Scholæ
Ab Andrea Judd, Equite, Conditæ
Has Ædes
Quibus Pristinæ Literarum Disciplinæ
Nova Artium et Scientiarum Studia concilientur
Honorata Pellipariorum Societas
Ponendas curaverunt.
Anno Domini MDCCCLXXXVII^{mo}
Ludovico Boyd Sebastian, I.C.B., A.M.,
Præfecto Annuo.

=Custodibus=
G. B. Kent.
C. Dorman.
W. Masterman, I.C.P.
G. A. Trist.

=Infomatore=
T. B. Rowe, M.A.

=Architecto=
E. H. Burnell.

=Notario=
E. H. Draper.

Audite disciplinam et estote sapientes et nolite abjicere eam.”

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4.

_The Tonbridge School Buildings of 1894._

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“Ad Dei Gloriam
Et in piam fundatoris Andreæ Judd Equitis Memoriam
Has Ædes ad ampliores alumnorum Tonbridgiensium usus
Exædificandas et ornandas curaverunt Honorata Pellipariorum Societas
Anno Domini MDCCCXCIV^{to}
Ludovico Boyd Sebastian, I.C.B., A.M., iterum præfecto annuo.

=Custodibus=
R. C. Bunbury
A. L. Tweedie
A. B. Kent
J. Colman

=Informatore=
Josepho Wood, S.T.P.

=Architecto=
W. Campbell Jones

=Notario=
E. H. Draper

Nisi Dominus æedificaverit Domum in vanum laboraverunt
qui ædificant eam, Ps. CXXVII. i.”

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5

_The Tonbridge School Chapel, 1900–2._

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“Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam
et in usum veteris Scholæ Tonbridgiensis
Ab Andrea Judd milite conditæ
Hanc Ædem Domino Nostro Jesu Christo dedicatam
Ædificandam curavit Honorata Pellipariorum Societas.

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Hunc lapidem posuit Præfectus Annuus Jeremias Colman, A.M., I.P. A.D. Kal. Jun. XI Anno Domini MDCCCC.

=Custodibus=.
C. Herberto Dorman.
Carolo H. F. Christie.
Johanne Poland.
W. Wilding Jones.

=Archididascalo=.
Carolo C. Tancock, S.T.P.

=Notario=
E. Herberto Draper.

=Architecto=
W. Campbell Jones.

In Christo Fratres.”

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6.

_Sir Andrew Judd’s Commercial School, Tonbridge, 1895–6._

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“Sir Andrew Judd’s Commercial School.
This Stone was laid by
Lewis Boyd Sebastian, Esqr., B.C.L., M.A.,
Master of the Worshipful Company of Skinners,
Governors of the School,
On Saturday, April 27th, 1895.

=Wardens=
Robert Clement Bunbury
Alexander Leslie Tweedie
Arthur Barton Kent
Jeremiah Colman

=Clerk=
E. Herbert Draper

=Architect=.
W. Campbell Jones, A.R.I.B.A.

=Builders=
Thos. Turner, Limited.”

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7.

_The Middle School for Boys, Tunbridge Wells, 1886–7._

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“1886.
Skinners Company’s
Middle School for Boys.
This Stone
was laid on the xxvii day of October, MDCCCLXXXVI, by
Lewis Boyd Sebastian, B.C.L., M.A., Master.

=Wardens=
George Barton Kent
Charles Dorman
William Masterman, D.C.L.
George Arthur Trist.

To Commemorate the Foundation of the School by the
Worshipful Company of Skinners, London, Governors.

Edw. Herbert Draper, Clerk.
Edw. Henry Burnell, Architect.
William Oakley, Builder.”

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8.

_The Middle School for Girls, Stamford Hill, 1889–90._

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“This Foundation Stone of the
Skinners’ Company’s School for Girls
was laid by
Charles Dorman, Master,
June 6, 1889.

=Wardens=
W. Masterman, D.C.L.
W. C. B. Stamp
G. A. Trist
H. L. T. Hansard

=Clerk=
E. H. Draper

=Architect=
E. H. Burnell

=Builders=
Holloway Bros.”

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9.

_The Almshouses at Palmer’s Green, 1894–5._

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“The Skinners’ Almshouses.
This stone was laid on the nineteenth day of July,
Anno Domini, 1894,
by
Lewis Boyd Sebastian, B.C.L., M.A., Master.

=Wardens=
Robert Clement Bunbury
Alex. Leslie Tweedie
Arthur Barton Kent
Jeremiah Colman

=Arch^t=
W. Campbell Jones,

=Clerk=
E. Herbert Draper

=Builders=
J. Godfrey and Son”

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10.

_The Northampton Polytechnic Institute, Clerkenwell, 1894–6._

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“Northampton
Institute.
This Stone
was laid by
Charles Dorman, Esq.,
Chairman of
The Governing Body,
July 9^{th}, 1894.

Ed^d W. Mountford, Arch^t.”

[N.B.—Mr. Charles Dorman was Master of the Skinners’ Company, 1888–9, and did much to promote the creation of the Institute.]

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11.

_The Clerkenwell Free Library, 1890._

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“This Stone was laid by
William Masterman, Esq., D.C.L.,
Master of the Worshipful Company
of Skinners, on March 8th, 1890.

Commissioners
Elected 1888.

=Chairman=
Rev. J. H. Rose, M.A.,

=Vice-Chairman=
W^m Robson,

Rev. W. Dawson, M.A.
J. Johnson.
A. J. Dixie.
J. Kelly.
H. W. Fincham.
C. Morris.
T. Wildbore.

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Elected 1890.

W. Davies.
J. D. Spires.

=Librarian=
Jas. B. Brown

=Architects=.
Karslake and Mortimer.

=Builders=.
M‘Cormick and Sons.”

[N.B.—This Library was built on a site provided by the Company on their Clarke’s Close Estate at Clerkenwell.]

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12.

_Leather Industries’ Buildings, University of Leeds, 1898–9._

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“This Stone was laid by
Arthur Barton Kent,
Master of the Worshipful
Company of Skinners,
on the 13 of June, 1898.”

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13.

_Leather Industries’ Buildings, University of Leeds, 1898–9._

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“This Building, erected at
the cost of the
Worshipful Company
of Skinners, of the City
of London,
was opened by
Jeremiah Colman, Esq.,
Master of the Company,
on the 27th of November, 1899,
for advanced instruction
and research in the
science and practice of
Leather Manufacture.”

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20 AND 21, BEDFORDBURY,
LONDON, W.C.]

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● Transcriber’s note:

○ Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected. One
unpaired double quotation mark could not be corrected with
confidence.

○ Typographical errors were silently corrected.

○ Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only
when a predominant form was found in this book.