Certain sermons, first preached, and after published at several times, by M. Thomas Gataker…Certaine sermons, first preached, and after published at severall times, by M. Thomas Gataker…

¹And here can I not wholly pass by in silence, nor forbear to put you of this place, in mind, of those two Honourable Knights,^c the Grand-Father, and^d the Grand-Child, the one long since deceased, the other yet living; whom God hath made Instruments of a great blessing, in this kind, to this place. The former of them first founded a free School among you, for the training up of your youth in virtue, religion, and good learning, and left land and means to maintain it, with stipends (such as were in those times ordinary) for School-master and Ushier. The latter of them hath added liberally to his Grand Fathers gift, hath increased the salaries of the Teachers, and beside sundry yearly pensions to the poor both of this place, and of divers others near about you, to encourage Parents the rather to set their Children to learning, and the Children to bend their minds and endeavours thereunto, hath given a^e large and liberal exhibition for the maintenance of seven Scholars in one of the Universities, to be chosen successively each year from your School. The Lord reward this his bounty and liberality abundantly into the bosom of Him and His; give you grace to make a good use of it; and stir up many more whom he hath blessed with ability, to show their thankfulness in like manner to him from whom they have it, by setting apart and consecrating some part of their means, to the furtherance and advancement of religion and learning.

¹And here can I not wholly passe by in silence, nor forbeare to put you of this place, in minde, of those two Honourable Knights,^c the Grand-Father, and^d the Grand-Childe, the one long since deceased, the other yet living; whom God hath made Instruments of a great blessing, in this kinde, to this place. The former of them first founded a free Schoole among you, for the training up of your youth in vertue, religion, and good learning, and left land and meanes to maintaine it, with stipends (such as were in those times ordinarie) for Schoole-master and Ushier. The latter of them hath added liberally to his Grand Fathers gift, hath increased the salaries of the Teachers, and beside sundry yeerely pensions to the poore both of this place, and of divers others neere about you, to incourage Parents the rather to set their Children to learning, and the Children to bend their minds and endevours thereunto, hath given a