Sir Roger Cholmeley. By the Rev. G. W. Douton. (Highgate
Literary Institution. Is. net.).—This well-written pamphlet contains a memoir of the Tudor judge who founded Highgate School and a short history of the foundation, the funds of which were diverted to parochial purposes until 1828, when the Court of Chancery remedied the wrong. Cholmeley did much legal work for Henry VIII., was Recorder of London, and sat in Parliament before being raised to the Bench in 1545. He was dismissed by Mary because he had witnessed her brother's will, excluding her from the throne, but ho afterwards sat in Parliament for Middlesex and died at his house in the Old Bailey in 1565. Mr. Douton might perhaps have mentioned that Cholmeley owned the grocer's shop in Newgate Market where Laurence Sheriff, who survived him by two years, made the fortune which he bequeathed to found Rugby School.
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