Wax Seal from Queen Elizabeth's School Foundation Charter
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Wax Seal from Queen Elizabeth's School Foundation Charter
The QE Foundation Charter and Wax Seal
The Queen Elizabeth School Foundation Charter
1587 and 1591 (Minute Book 1, Governing Body)
1591 and 10 October 1591 (Minute Book 1, Governing Body)
10 October 1591 and 1594 (Minute Book 1, Governing Body)
1612 (Minute Book 1, Governing Body)
Monday 10 January 1654 (Minute Book 1, Governing Body)
This is the minute appointing William Sclater as Headmaster. The appointment was made during the interregnum, a period when there was no monarch on the throne. Instead, the head of state was Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector. Somewhat surprisingly, Sclater was a prominent and unrepentant Royalist officer.
Note: 10 January 1654 was a Tuesday, not a Monday.
1663 (Minute Book 1, Governing Body)
1587-1665 Minute Book 1 (Governing Body)
John Owen contract, reverse (detail)
John Owen contract, front view 3
John Owen contract, front view 1
John Owen contract, front view 2
John Owen contract, wax seal (detail)
Contract between John Owen and the governors of the school
An indenture (a type of legal contract) under which John Owen (and thereafter his estate) promised to pay an annual sum of £9 12s to the governors of the school on 20 March of each year. William Marsh, another governor of the school, signed the contract with Owen on behalf of the governing body. The £9 12s sum was intended for the 'better maintenance of the Free School [QE], physic well, and poor people of the parish of Chipping Barnet.' Three pounds were paid to the Master of the school to provide free education for 3 poor boys from Barnet, three pounds were directed to repairs of the school buildings, and one pound were directed to repairs of the Barnet physic well or, in certain circumstances, the free education of one other poor boy. The remaining 52 shillings were to provide bread for the poor in Barnet. As late as 1935, the £9 12s was still being paid annually to the governors of the school by the Fishmongers' Company.
The indenture has John Langham's signature in the bottom right corner, under the fold (not visible in photographs). The indenture is dated 1677, yet Langham died in 1671. It is unclear why and how his signature is present on the document. It is possible that the animal membrane writing material was signed by Langham before his death and then repurposed in 1677 when the governors were drawing up the indenture.
Owen, Captain John
Transcripts of the First Minute Book, the School Charter and Other Early Documents
Part of Barnet Museum Collection
The School in 1790 from a painting by Thomas Baskerfield in The Environs of London, by Lysons, in the British Museum. Cecil Tripp states (p15) that from 1637 to 1873 "the school buildings remained practically unaltered".
Thomas Baskerfield
East Barnet Inclosure - Plan of the Lots
Barnet Inclosure - Statement of Claims
Letter sent by James Pearson to his parents in 1854
This is a letter written by James Pearson to his parents when he was aged ten and a student of the School.
1688-1854 Minute Book 2 (Governing Body)
Photograph of the School Hall and Headmaster's house
The School Hall and Headmaster's house (built 1874), from the playground.
Autumn 1876 issue of The Elizabethan
Architect's drawing for new classrooms
Architect's drawing for new classrooms, 1st July 1876. Cecil Tripp states (p120) that originally only four classrooms were planned. Before long however, further classrooms were needed, and it was proposed that the line of classrooms already erected be extended. Funds became available for the building of four additional classrooms (with a separate entrance), which were completed by the end of 1877.
Architect's drawing for new classrooms
Architect's drawing for new classrooms, 1st July 1876. Cecil Tripp states (p120) that originally only four classrooms were planned. Before long however, further classrooms were needed, and it was proposed that the line of classrooms already erected be extended. Funds became available for the building of four additional classrooms (with a separate entrance), which were completed by the end of 1877.
Summer 1877 issue of The Elizabethan
Autumn 1877 issue of The Elizabethan
Spring 1877 issue of The Elizabethan
Summer 1878 issue of The Elizabethan
Spring 1878 issue of The Elizabethan
Autumn 1878 issue of The Elizabethan
Spring 1879 issue of The Elizabethan
Summer 1879 issue of The Elizabethan
Autumn 1879 issue of The Elizabethan
Autumn 1880 issue of The Elizabethan
Some Further Notes by 'Old Elizabethan'
Cricket Team in front of Tudor Hall 1880
Cricket Team in front of Tudor Hall 1880 with handwritten caption
Handwritten caption: Of the signatories, H W Engleheart obtained the VC [Victoria Cross] in the Boer War; H W Bryant kept wicket as an amateur for Middlesex; and J Samuels captained the Past v Present XI on Founder's Day for many years, scoring over 1100 runs in the match, and also arranged for a cutting to be taken of the mulberry tree in the playground of the old buildings (said to be one of the original trees introduced by James I) and planted between the road and the lodge of the present [Queens Road] buildings, where it now grows.
Summer 1880 issue of The Elizabethan
Spring 1880 issue of The Elizabethan
Summer 1881 issue of The Elizabethan
Spring 1881 issue of The Elizabethan
Autumn 1881 issue of The Elizabethan
Spring 1882 issue of The Elizabethan
Autumn 1882 issue of The Elizabethan
Summer 1882 issue of The Elizabethan