A HISTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE 



appeared in the Valor Ecclesiasticus as spiritual possessions, that is, rectories 

 and tithes, as distinct from temporal possessions like manors and lands, were 

 vested in I 3 trustees upon trust for salaries and augmentations of salaries to 

 preaching ministers and schoolmasters. 13,000 a year was assigned for 

 ministers and schoolmasters and 2,000 a year for the augmentation of the 

 universities. On 16 March, 164950, the council agreed to petition 

 Parliament for confirmation of the charitable objects of the foundation 

 including 



the constant reparacione of the goodly fabricke of the colledge 1 and for the maintenance of a 

 schoolmaster and usher in the colledge school, and for the charging thereof upon some of 

 the lands belonging to the late Dean and Chapter. 



Parliament had no intention of letting the schools suffer by the abolition of 

 the chapters out of whose revenues they were supported. By another 

 ordinance on 5 April, 1650, the duty of directing the grants to be paid by 

 the trustees was given to the Parliamentary Committee for Reformation of 

 the Universities. We learn from the order of 1655 already quoted that the 

 council's request had been complied with, 'the amount of 19 6s. 8*/. being 

 secured by lands of the Dean and Chapter for the purpose reserved and settled 

 on the trustees for the sale of Deane and Chapter lands.' But the augmenta- 

 tion of 10 13-r. 4</. was not included in this settlement. When, under an 

 Act of the Protectorate Parliament, 2 September, 1654, the direction of 

 grants as well as the management of the property was given to the trustees 

 for maintenance of ministers, thus making them a complete Ecclesiastical 

 Commission, by an order 2 of the trustees of 5 April, 1654, it was provided 

 that 



liberty be given unto the Scholemaster and Usher of the schoole in Gloucester to prove the 

 pensions by them claymed and demanded from the said Trustees on the 7th day of May 

 next, when the Trustees appoint to hear the same. 



This they apparently did and were paid up to December, 1654. But a year 

 later, 20 December, 1655," the augmentation still remained unprovided for, 

 and it was therefore 



ordered that the said yearly summes be paid untill further order of the Trustees and that 

 Mr. Henry Langley and Mr. Matthew Langley receivers, doe pay the same out of the rents 

 and profitts of the impropriated rectory of Churchedowne. 



Nor was this the only augmentation, for on 2 June, 1655, the town added to 

 their stipends : 



This House doth agree to give Mr. Russell, Schoolmaster, 10 yearely out of the chamber 

 of this city for his better encouragement, to be paid quarterly, the first payment to begin 

 at Michaelmas next and to continue during the pleasure of this house. 



There was, however, a difficulty in getting payment, as on 26 June, 1656, pay- 

 ments though ordered to be continued, were on 25 June, 1657,* 



in arreare for [ ] years, amounting unto the summe of 63 6s. 8d. So Mr. Langley 



the receiver was ordered to pay those arrears out of the arrears of the rents and profits of 

 the lands seized, not particularly disposed of for the said yeares, paying each yeare's arreare 

 out of the rents and profits of the said yeare. 



1 So untrue are the common allegations against the Commonwealth's men that they destroyed or 

 desired to destroy all the ancient churches. At Winchester at this time large funds were raised by 

 subscription for the restoration of the cathedral. 



' Lambeth MSS. Aug. 1005, fbl. 236. * Ibid. 972, fol. 383. ' Ibid. 493, fol. 250. 



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