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Case 517

4. Prospectus from St Oswald's College, Ellesmere August 1886

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Boys are also received as Servitors on probation at £3 6s. 8d. a term for School Dues. They succeed to the full Servitor ships, at £1 13s. 4d. a term, as vacancies occur, if they are found fit.
The following terminal charge for ordinary extras is made for all boys in the Servitors' School:

Boys' Benefit Fund £ 0 0 4
Ordinary Medical Attendance 0 2 6
Seamstress 0 1 6
Hair-cutting 0 1 0
Weekly Allowance of 2d. 0 2 0
£ 0 7 4

TRAINING SCHOOL FOR MASTERS.
16. Candidates for admission to the Training School for Masters must be between the ages of seventeen and twenty. Further particulars of this department are contained in S. Nicolas College Calendar, published by Messrs. Parker and Co., 6, Southampton Street, Strand, London; price one shilling. The Fees are £12 12s. a year, to those who have been for two years in the Grammar School and Ellesmere College.

EXHIBITIONS & SCHOLARSHIPS.
17. There are ten exhibitions in the gift of Patrons, which reduce the School dues to £15 15s. per annum, with fees, &c., as above. See Calendar.
The Izaak Walton Scholarships reducing School dues to £12 12s. per annum are three in number, open to competition to boys who have been for two years previously in a primary or National Church of England School in the old Diocese of Lichfield, one to each of the counties of Salop, Stafford, and Derby, or in the Servitors' School at Denstone, or Ellesmere College.
There is also a Scholarship of the same value, tenable from S. Augustine's, Dewsbury, and another open to the Servitors of Denstone and Ellesmere.
The Wakeman Scholarships, three in number, will be open for competition to boys under 12 1/2 years of age who have been in S. Oswald's College for the previous year-and-a-half, enabling them to proceed to S. Chad's, Denstone, at the cost of £15 15s. per annum, for board and education.

JOHN BULLOCK, M.A.,
Head Master.

August, 1886.
N.B.- It is strongly recommended that boys be entered as soon as possible after 9 years old, provided they can read and write, and particularly by the time they are 12 or 13; that so they may get the full benefit of the School teaching and discipline before they leave the College.
N.B.- The attention of parents is specially called to paragraph 14, section 3. The College disclaim any responsibility for the loss and confusion consequent on the neglect of this rule.


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