close the school with these words.
When the boys were let out for 10 minutes, to freshen up in the school
yard, as was done at 11.30 every morning, the expression was varied to
"exire licet."

{99c} Among the tasks set us to do by ourselves between Saturday morning
and Monday, were theses on various subjects, or original verses, on some
chosen theme; the writer still possesses several of these, of varied
merit. They taught us, however, the careful use of words.

{100a} The ringing of this bell was given up a few years ago, as the
Governors decided not to pay for it.

{100b} The veteran, Mr. Thomas Baker, the friend of the champion
cricketer, Dr. W. G. Grace, and the trainer of Sir Evelyn Wood, had not
yet arrived at Horncastle, which he did a few years later, to put life
and energy into our cricketers.

{106a} By Rev. T. P. Brocklehurst, Vicar of that parish, 1901.

{106b} As a similar instance to that named in the text, the school at
Kingston on Thames is now called "Queen Elizabeth's," but it was founded
by Bishop Edington, in 1364. It may here be mentioned that the grammar
school of Bruton, Somerset, which was originally founded in 1519, was
re-established by Edward VI., "by letters patent, dated June 20, 1549,
Corpus Christi day," on which day the Governors, Masters, and Scholars
still attend a special commemoration service in the Parish Church.
(_Guardian_, August 2, 1905, p. 1,287.)

{106c} Full details of these appointments are given in a Paper, by Mr.
A. F. Leach, author of _English Schools at the Reformation_, for the
_Gazette of the Old Bostonian Club_, which is reprinted in the Journal of
the Lincolnshire Architectural Society, vol. xxvi, pt. ii, pp. 398 et
seq, 1902.

{108a} The firm of Handley were Solicitors, of Sleaford. Their recent
representative was a member of the Banking Company of Peacock, Handley &
Co. Henry Handley, Esq., represented South Lincolnshire in Parliament
during 9 years, after the passing of the Reform Bill, dying in 1846, much
regretted, after a long illness. As a memorial of his public services a
statue of him was erected in the main street of Sleaford in 1851, costing
upward of 1,000 pounds.

{108b} The Swallows were a well-to-do family in Horncastle, living in
the same part of the town as Mr. Watson, and the Coningtons. Members of
it, within memory, have been farmers, nurserymen, victuallers, &c.

{110a} This particular plot of ground, sometimes called "fool