Devonian Schools (1869): … (letter listing establishments) … In “Carlisle’s Grammar Schools,” vol. 1, A.S. 1818, these in Devon were described: viz. Ashburton, Chudleigh, Crediton, Exeter, Honiton, Saint Mary, Ottery, Plymouth, Plympton, Tiverton, and Totnes. Chudleigh School, founded by John Pynsent, 1668, is now a boarding school with an endowment of £30 per annum on an estate at Combe, near Croydon. The donor’s executors did not carry his will into effect, as he ordered three Cambridge scholarships to be founded and the endowment was secured by application the Court of Chancery. I am Sir, yours obediently Chris. Cooke: London, 2nd April 1870.
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