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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.

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

Painting of the School

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

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.

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.

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