![]() Whereas by an Act passed in the thirty-first year of the Reign of our Royal Predecessor, His Majesty King Henry the Eighth, His Majesty was empowered to establish more Bishopries and Collegial and Cathedral Churches, to the intent, among other purposes, that thereby God’s Word might be better set forth, children brought up in learning, clerks nourished in the Universities, and readers of Greek, Hebrew, and Latin might have good stipend: and His Majesty was also empowered to make Statutes for the Institutions by Letters Patent, under His Great Seal.Īnd whereas His said Majesty, King Henry the Eighth, by Letters Patent, under the Great Seal, dated the twelfth day of May, in the year of our Lord Christ one thousand five hundred and forty-one, after mentioning, among other inducements, “ut bonorum morum disciplina observetur, juventus in literis liberalibus instituatur, et cetera omnis generis pietatis official illinic exuberantia in omnia vicena loca longe lateque demanent, ad Dei omnipotentis gloriam, et ad subditorum nostrorum cominunem utilatatem, felicitremque”, founded a Cathedral Church at Durham, to consist of one Dean and twelve Prebendaries, and other Ministers: and His said Majesty ordained that the said Dean and twelve Prebendaries should be one Body Corporate, and have perpetual succession under the name of “The Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral church of Durham, of Christ, and of the Blessed Mary the Virgin” and that they should be governed by certain Statutes to be afterwards given to them.Īnd whereas Statutes were afterwards given to the said Cathedral Church one of which is entitled “De pueris grammaticalibus et eorum informatoribus”, by which, after the preface following, “Ut pietas et bonae literae perpetuo in dicta ecclesia suppullulescant, erescant, floreant, et suo tempore in gloriam Dei et Reipublicae commodum et ornamentum fructificent,” It is ordained that eighteen poor boys, of good natural parts, should be for ever maintained in the said Church of Durham, but who should not be admitted before they could read, write and understand the rudiments of grammar.
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