house and yard in 1610 and a cart-road in the same yard and
liberty for the schollers to resort to a certain spring to drink and
wash themselves 1619, and likewise a garden for the use of the Masters
and several other good things." Paley had become Head Master in 1744
when no accounts were kept, when the Master and Usher appropriated all
the money from the rents and when the boys were few in number. Rapidly
matters began to mend. His own son William left the School in 1759
already a scholar and destined to a lasting fame. Thomas Proctor was a
boy at the School between 1760 and 1770, and became a great sculptor.
His "Ixion" exhibited in 1785 is still recognized as a work of genius.
William Carr, of the same family as James Carr, the founder of the
School, won a Scholarship at University College, Oxford in 1782, a
Fellowship at Magdalen 1787, and settled down at Bolton Rectory in 1789.
His literary tastes brought him the friendship of Wordsworth, and he
became famous as the breeder of a heifer of remarkable proportions.

One of Paley's pupils--Thomas Kidd--probably a member of the same family
as the Writing Assistant, a family who had lived in the neighbourhood
certainly since 1587--wrote from Trinity College, Cambridge, to the
Vicar, the Rev. John Clapham, in 1792:

Revd. Sir,

I recd your Draught of L26 0_s._ 0_d._ April 19, 92. Mr. Jas.
Foster left the University in March. I _was_ very happy to
congratulate him on his being elected Fellow of S. John's Col.
_by that_ respectable _Society_ and I _hope_ that he will be
able to assert this honour _legally_ x x x. I am sincerely sorry
that the Governors are not pleased that I so long deferred to
send a certificate of my residence, if it is an _offence_, it is
_involuntary_:--and for the future it shall be sent in due time
and _nearly_, I expect in the same _formula_. For what business
have I in the country previous to "taking" my degree?

There aren't any I remember in the country, _some here_, who
affect to despise what they cannot understand; such enterprising
critics and fastidiously hypercritics, men of truly
philosophical penetration--of a truly classical taste spurn
aside the coarse beverage to be found in Gr. mss. scholiasts and
various _lections_; but

[Greek:
all' aidesai men ... en lygro
gera proleipon ... metera
... he =me= pollakis
=theo= aratai zonta pros domou