Reginald Bainbrigg, or Baynbridge (1545–1606), was an

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schoolmaster and antiquary.

Life

Bainbrigg was born, probably in Westmoreland, about 1556. He matriculated as a

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, 12 June 1573, and took his

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in 1576-7. In 1580 he was appointed

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of the

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, endowed by

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in 1574,Carlisle's Endowed Schools, ii. 694 and combined his school work with antiquarian and archæological research. He zealously collected all stones bearing ancient inscriptions in the three counties of

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, Cumberland, and Westmoreland, and in 1602 he built a small house in his garden for their preservation. An inscription cut in one of its walls stated that its owner had been teaching at Appleby for twenty-two years, and was fifty-seven years old. The house, with its contents, was standing till the close of the seventeenth century, but the collection appears, soon afterwards, to have been broken up, and no trace of it has since been found. Bainbrigg sent copies of the inscriptions he had brought together to

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, who printed them in his ''Britannia'', and acknowledged his indebtedness to "the very learned Reginald Bainbrigg". Bainbrigg died in 1606. By his will dated 11 May in that year, he bequeathed his household furniture and a garden to succeeding headmasters of the grammar school, and the annual rental of a small burgage, amounting to 2s. 4d., to the head boy for the time being, provided he wrote a copy of

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verses in praise of himself and two other benefactors of the school. Other lands, building material, and books he left for a new schoolhouse, about to be erected when he died.

Works

Among the Cottonian MSS. at the

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(Jul. F. vi.) are the following papers ascribed to Bainbrigg: * ''Account of Antiquities in Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland, and

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, with several

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inscriptions, drawings of altars, figures, and descriptions of the country'' (No. 162) * ''Genealogica Gospatriciorum et Curwenorum'' (No. 163) * ''De Baronibus de Kendala et familia de Bruis'' (No. 164) An ''Inscription on the Picts wall sent by Reginald Bainbrigg to Mr. William Camden'' is among the

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(121, art. 20). Some Latin

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on the death of

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, signed 'R. Bauningus,' in the ''Lacrimæ Cantabrigienses'' (1587), have been attributed to Bainbrigg.

References

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