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Cecil, Mildred, Lady Burghley, 1526-1589

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  • 1526-1589

Cecil, Mildred, Lady Burghley; eldest daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke KB MP, Gidea Hall, Essex, tutor to Edward VI, and Anne, widow of Sir John Hawes Kt, and dau. of Sir William Fitzwilliam Kt, Gains Park, Essex, merchant ; b.1526 ; intellectual and Greek scholar ; m. 21 Dec 1545, as his second wife, William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (below) ; d. 24 Apr 1589. Buried St.Nicholas’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey. ODNB.
During her lifetime she gave to the School a number of books now kept in the Busby Library.

Bill, William, d. 1561

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  • d. 1561

Patron of the School; Dean of Westminster. Son of John Bill, Ashwell, Hertfordshire, and Margaret --- ; b. ; educated at St.John’s Coll., Cambridge ; BA 1532/3 ; MA 1536 ; BD 1544 ; DD 1547 ; ordained ; Fellow of St.John’s Coll. Nov 1535 – Mar 1547, Master of St.John’s Coll. 10 Mar 1546/7 – Nov 1551 ; Greek Reader, Cambridge Univ. 1541-3, subsequently Linacre Lecturer in Physic ; Rector of Sutton, Bedfordshire from 9 Jun 1547, and of Sandy, Bedfordshire, from 19 Mar 1550/1 ; Vice-Chancellor, Cambridge Univ. 1548/9 ; Master of Trinity Coll., Cambridge Nov 1551 – deprived 1553, and from 11 Jan 1559 ; Chaplain Extraordinary to Edward VI Dec 1551 ; Almoner to Elizabeth I Nov 1558 ; Provost of Eton from Jul 1559 ; Prebendary of Lincoln from Sep 1559 ; Dean of Westminster from 21 May 1560 (installed 30 June 1560) ; d. unm. 15 July 1561. Buried St.Benedict’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey. ODNB.
He drew up the statutes for the regulation of the College, and by his will dated 6 May 1561, proved 17 Dec 1561, left some plate to the College and some furniture for the scholars’ beds.

James I, 1566-1625, King of Great Britain and Ireland

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  • 1566-1625

Patron of the School; By letters patent addressed to Trinity College, Cambridge, dated 27 June 1607, he recapitulated and confirmed Elizabeth’s injunctions, and at the same time enjoined the election of Westminster scholars at Trinity to fellowships at that college.

Elizabeth I, 1533-1603, Queen of England and Ireland

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  • 1533-1603

By charter dated 21 May 1560 she restored the foundation of Henry VIII as the “Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of the Blessed Peter Westminster”, among the reasons being given for the foundation being the liberal education of youth to the greater ornament of the state. By letters patent addressed to Trinity College, Cambridge, dated 11 June 1561, she expressed a wish that they should select as many Westminsters as possible for education in that college. By further letters patent, dated 7 February 1576, she recapitulated and confirmed her former injunctions, which had established a body of seven electors, including the Dean of Westminster, the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and the Master of Trinity, Cambridge, and she directed that at least three Westminster scholars should be elected annually to Christ Church and at least three more to Trinity College.
She is also said to have instituted an annual grant of £2 in Maundy money to be distributed as awards for exercises in prose and verse (J.Sargeaunt, Annals of Westminster School, 1898, 25), but although this grant is mentioned in the published Order of Service, there seems to be no contemporary evidence to substantiate it.

Henry VIII, 1491-1547, King of England and Ireland

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  • 1491-1547

By letters patent dated 17 December 1540 he reconstituted the suppressed Benedictine monastery of Westminster as a cathedral church, the Cathedral establishment consisting of a bishop, dean, twelve prebendaries and other officers. The patent for the endowment of the Dean and Chapter was not completed until 5 August 1542, when a large part of the estates of the dissolved monastery was assigned to them for their support. Attached to the cathedral was a grammar school of forty scholars under a master and an usher. In the original list of scholars, two are described as “late querister”, presumably boys from the choir school of the dissolved monastery.

Watts, Frances, 1698-1755

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  • 1698-1755

Watts, Frances; sister of John Taylor, St Mary at Hill, City of London, vintner (as shown by her will and accompanying affidavit) ; aged 35 in 1733 ; kept a boarding house in Little Dean’s Yard from 1738 (previously occupied by Mrs.Beresford) (she directed in her will that “the house I live in” should be sold after her death) ; first two of seventy-one recorded boarders adm. Apr 1738, last three recorded boarders adm. Oct 1752, but her boarding house may be presumed to have continued to operate until her death ; her will expresses her wish to be buried in Barnes, Surrey, where she owned two copyhold messuages ; she bequeathed 10 guineas each for mourning rings to William Markham (qv), Head Master, Peirson Lloyd (qv), Under Master, and Charles Cooper (qv), “the usher of my house” ; m.1st, by c.1720, William Cox, surgeon, with whom she emigrated to Savannah, Georgia, North America, 1733 (but who d. there 1733) ; m.2nd, 1 Jun 1734 James Watt (or Watts), Lieut. South Carolina Independent Company (but who d. same month, she returning to England) ; d. Jan 1755 (London Evening Post, issue for 11-14 Jan 1755) (will dated 25 Jun 1754, with codicil 19 Dec 1754, proved PCC 24 Jan 1755, as of Frances Watts, Little Dean’s Yard, St.Margaret’s, Westminster, widow).

Tollett, ---, fl. 1718

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  • fl. 1718

Tollett, ---; presumably kin to George Tollett (qv) ; the bill for boarding William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (qv) in 1718-9, was paid to her.

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