It would have been impossible to complete the task of writing the history of the School, if I had not received invaluable help from many sources. Two men in particular must accept my deepest gratitude--Mr. A. F. Leach and Mr. Thomas Brayshaw. Mr. Leach is the foremost authority in England on English Grammar Schools and he has never stinted his help. Mr. Brayshaw probably knows more than any other man of the history of the School during the last eighty years and he has supplied me generously with pamphlets and information. In addition he has been most assiduous in helping me to choose and decipher documents belonging to the School, which the Governors of the School were kind enough to allow me to use. The Rev. G. Style, the Rev. J. R. Wynne Edwards and many others have helped me materially with Chapters X and XI, while Mr. J. Greaves, of Christ's College, Cambridge, sent me his own copy of Volume I of the Christ's Admission Book and an advance proof copy of Volume II. The photographs are taken from originals in the possession of Mr. A. Horner, of Settle, Mr. P. Spencer Smith and Mr. E. D. Clark. Mr. Spencer Smith in particular has gone to endless trouble in procuring photographs of every kind for the special purpose of this book. These names by no means include all those who have helped me with advice on many occasions. I thank them all and in particular I would thank the present Headmaster, Mr. R. N. Douglas, who has put every convenience in my way and without whose co-operation the book could never have been written. E. A. B. GIGGLESWICK, _June, 1912._ CONTENTS. CHAPTER I.--THE FOUNDATION. [13-24. James Carr, capellanus, earliest date 1499--Rood Chantry of Giggleswick Parish Church--The Earliest Records of the Carr Family--Private Adventure School--Lease of Ground for a School-house--Terms of the Lease--Description of the first School--James Smith, a Boarder, 1516--Death of James Carr--Endowment of Chantry--Chantry Commission, 1547--Edward VI, Injunctions--Chantry Commissioners, 1548--Chaunterie of our Ladye--Tempest Chantry--Chaunterie of the Rode--Richard Carr--Thomas Iveson--Song-school. CHAPTER II.--RE-FOUNDATION, 1553-1599. [25-38. John Nowell--Edward VI Charter--"Free" School--Position of the Vicar--Master and Usher--New Endowment from S. Andrew's College, Acaster--School Seal--Statutes of 1592--Archbishop of York--Election of Governors--The Master--"Strangers"--Vacations --Subjects of Instruction--The Usher--Hours of School--The Scholars--Præpositors. CHAPTER III.--SCHOOLS AND THEIR TEACHING IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES. [39-46.