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 The following are the particulars of the charge:—

The amount of the Scholarships have each been increased to £20 per annum. "Rental £1,167."

It was here that Sir Thomas Wyatt's rebellion was stopped.

The sign of the Belle Sauvage is thus spoken of in No. 28 of the Spectator:—

""As for the Bell Savage, which is the sign of a Savage Man standing by a Bell, I was formerly very much puzzled by the conceit of it till I accidentally fell into the reading of an old romance translated out of the French, which gives an account of a very beautiful woman who was found in a wilderness, and is called in the French, 'La Belle Sauvage,' and is everywhere translated by our countrymen 'The Bell Savage.'""

The sign was originally a bell hung within a hoop, as proved by a grant in the time of Henry VI, when John French gives to Joan French, his mother,

""All that tenement or Inn called Savage Inn, otherwise called 'Bell on the Hoop'.""

Here also lived Grinling Gibbons,

""Where he carved a pot of flowers, which shook surprisingly with the motion of the coaches that passed by."—Walpole."