Petition from the governors of Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Halifax, to the Commissioners of Sewers, East Riding of York

Folger bibliographic ID: 354327
Folger call number: X.d.769
Folger holdings ID: 502551
Accession Number: 270704

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half-sheet bifolium

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On second leaf: order dated 11 August 1665 signed by the commissioners This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. Please email HamnetHelp@folger.edu for assistance

Item information about Folger X.d.769

From dealer's description: "Quarto (195 mm x 155 mm). Single sheet folded. 2 text pages, conjugate blank. Dusty, folded. Docket title “Free schole of Halifax peticon and an order there upon.” An interesting petition to the governors regarding a water sewer that was abandoned during vacancy (presumably the Interregnum), which had evidently caused unhygienic conditions. The governors, including important Royalists Henry Portington and Riger Jaques, who was the representative of York in the Short Parliament, have here endorsed the decision regarding the “insufficient cleansing”. The free grammar school at Heath was founded by charter granted by Queen Elizabeth “for the continual bringing up, teaching, and learning of children and youth of the said parish and vicarage of Halifax”. To maintain the lands and possessions, her majesty granted, that there should be twelve of the “discreetest and honestest men” dwelling within the same parish and vicarage, to be called, “the governors of the possessions, revenues, and goods of the free grammar-school." Ordered from Dean Byass, D9203, 2018-05-10, Battersea Bibliolater (London Book Fair 2018 catalog), item 18

Extended title: Petition from the governors of Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Halifax, to the Commissioners of Sewers, East Riding of York, 1664. manuscript
Alternate titles: Free schole of Halifax peticon and an order there upon