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?tlie art of teaching under tlie master of the Model and
Practising School which is in connection with this college.
On certain conditions students are admitted on the small
annual payment of £5, others at £35. There is a private*
chapel attached.
BLUE COAT BOYS' SCHOOL.
-St. Anthony's Hall, formerly St. Anthony's Hospital,
Peaseholme Green, was founded by a number of citizens,
without distinction of sex, who formed themselves into
a guild (1446) dedicated to the Blessed Mary and St.
Martin the Confessor, and erected upon a site given by
Sir John Langton about 1450, for the reception of aged
,and impotent poor. This Sir John was grandson of
Sir John de Langton, nine times Mayor of York, who
lived about a century earlier. Although the building
and guild were dedicated as above mentioned the members
persisted in claiming St. Anthony as their patron, and named
their guild after him, notwithstanding the strong prohibition
against such a course contained in their charter. At the
dissolution of religious houses by Henry VIII. this institution
managed to escape, and continued through various
fortunes until 1627, when it was abolished by order of the
Corporation. During the latter 80 or 35 years of the 16th
century it was used partly as a work-house^ partly as a poorhouse,
and partly as a house of correction for the confinement
and punishment of rogues and vagabonds (1586). In
the troublous times of Charles L, this building was offered
to the Council of the North as a magazine for arms, and
stored no doubt with piles of muskets and barrels of gunj)owder.
After the battle of Marston Moor (1644) it was
converted into a hospital for sick and wounded soldiers, and
again in 1655 it became the house of correction—the only
one in the city.
In 1705 all the parts of the building not required for
jail purposes, including the great hall, were appropriated
for the accommodation of a newly formed charitable institution
called the Blue Coat Boys' School, and a century
later another prison being built the whole of the building
was devoted to the same charity. In it 70 poor boys
are now clothed, boarded, and educated, the cost being