The present governors of this royal donation are

John Whateley, _bailiff_,

_Rev_. Charles Newling,

Abraham Spooner, _esq_;

Thomas Russell,

John Ash, _M.D._

Richard Rabone,

Francis Goodall,

Francis Parrott, _esq_;

William Russell, _esq_;

John Cope, _dead_,

Thomas Hurd,

Thomas Westley,

Wm. John Banner,

Thomas Salt,

William Holden,

Thomas Carless,

John Ward,

Edward Palmer, _esq_;

Francis Coales,

AND

Robert Coales.

[Illustration: _Charity School_.]

Over this nursery of science presides a chief master, with an annual

salary of one hundred and twenty pounds; a second master sixty; two

ushers; a master in the art of writing, and another in that of drawing,

at forty pounds each: a librarian, ten: seven exhibitioners at the

University of Oxford, twenty-five pounds each. Also, eight inferior

schools in various parts of the town, are constituted and fed by this

grand reservoir, at fifteen pounds each, which begin the first rudiments

of learning.

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