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GOING TO MARKETS
AND
GRAMMAR SCHOOLS,
BEING A SERIES OF
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL RECORDS AND SKETCHES
OF FORTY YEARS
SPENT IN THE MIDLAND COUNTIES,
FROM
1830 TO 1870.
EMBELLISHED WITH THIRTY-FOUR WOOD ENGRAVINGS,
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
BY
GEORGE GRIFFITH.
LONDON:
WILLIAM FREEMAN, 102, FLEET STREET, E.C.
1870.
DA625
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
MONROE GUTMAN LIBRARY
1682
vol. 2
Nov. 22, 1921
CONTENTS.
VOLUME II.
PAGE.
CHAPTER I.-The Birth of the Penny Postage.—The Penny Age.-The
School-boy's Appeal.-Town Council Election.-Worcester Contest of
Corn Markets.-The Kidderminster Petition.-Epistle to John Bull
Junior.
. 403
CHAPTER II.-The Chancery Commissioner.-The Vice-Chancellor's
Court. Digestion and Indigestion.-The Trial.-Public Opinion.-
The School Committee's Vindication.-Epistle to a Friend in London. 426
CHAPTER III.-The Head Master of Bromsgrove School.-The Two
Ways. Mr. F. Mowatt, M.P.-Verax, and Reply, on Bromsgrove School. 448
CHAPTER IV.—History of Worcestershire Endowed Schools.-Dedi-
cation.—Original Propositions of Reform of Endowed Schools.—
Reviews.-Worcester College, Oxford.-A Remonstrance.—Address
to Christmas.
CHAPTER V.-Life and Adventures of George Wilson.-Dedication.—
Thomas Thrift, the Droitwich Dealer.-The Song of the Tradesman.—
Kidderminster Town Council.-Address to a Russian Gun.-Quatford
Church.-Adieu Plaisier, Adieu Folie.-Centenary of Burns.-Miss Isa
Craig.
479
. 507
CHAPTER VI.-History of the Endowed Schools of Staffordshire.—
Waterfall Schoolmaster.-The Bilston Trustee.-Louis Napoleon's
Dream.-Lord Brougham's Permission.-The Editor of the Spirit of
the Times.
CHAPTER VII.-The Three Candidates.-The Birmingham Journal Review.-Opening of the Severn Valley Railway.-Arley Castle.-
542
Inspection at Chaddesley-Corbett.-Presentation to Mr. Beresford.—
Robin Wren.
. 568
CHAPTER VIII.-Careswell's Exhibitions at Bridgenorth School.-
Dean Peel.-Strengthening Plasters.
. 604
CHAPTER IX.-Application as Assistant Commissioner.-National
Social Science Association at York.-Endowed Schools of England
and Ireland.
. 638
CHAPTER X.-The Years 1864 and 1865.-Dr. Watts, of Manchester.
-A Noble Enemy to the Education of the Poor.-Inquiry at Etwall
and Repton, Derbyshire.
CHAPTER XI.-The Bazaar.-Calne Election.-Leominster, Oxford,
and Lancashire.-Jemima Rood's Epistle.-The Severn Valley Farmer's
Club. The Tragedy of the Two Houses. Dedication to Mr. Spode.
CHAPTER XII.-The Queen's Visit to Wolverhampton to unveil the
Statue of the Prince Consort.-Inauguration Ode.-Letter from Her
Majesty's Secretary.-Pat O'Brien's Description of the Inauguration.—
Punch and his Malignity.-The Shropshire Chamber of Agriculture.—
Bridgenorth Agricultural Hall.-Public Dinner at Etwall.
CHAPTER XIII.—Mr. Hasell of Kidderminster, and the School.-
Drama of Charles II.-Dedication to Mr. Henry Whitgreave.-The
Wedding Ring.-A Donkey in a Pound.-Westminster Dean and Chapter.
-Mr. Arthur Hobhouse, Q.C., the New Charity Commissioner.—
Kidderminster Election.-Death of Lord Brougham.-The Severn
Valley Farmers' Club.-The Statue and the Cannon.
CHAPTER XIV.-Letter to the Rock Newspaper.-The three Birming-
ham Schoolmasters in 1824.-Memorial as to Wolverhampton School.
-The Dean and Chapter, and the Freemason's of Worcester.-The
Post Obit satisfied.-The Rev. Mr. Wall of Brewood.-The National
Education League. Conclusion.
Separate Indexes of Schools, of Markets, of Public Meetings, and Engravings will be found at the end of the second volume.
664
725
751
803
834
ERRORS.
Page 861 I say, "the same good Archbishop said," it should have been,
Archdeacon Paley in his Apology for the Spirit of his Controversial Writings
said.