and the Gentlemen of the Committee '
by Sam POLLOCK
On the site of what Is now a Primary School in Southwark there once stood a ' charity school ' governed by a Committee. Sam Pollock has been browsing through the records of meetings held in those far-off days and was shocked to read of the savage punishments and of the comparatively trivial crimes ' which demanded that small boys should ' beg pardon of God Almighty and the Gentlemen of the Committee.'