SCHOOLS 



Restoration his mastership and the augmentation of the school came to an 

 end. At Michaelmas, 1660, the Chapter Accounts were resumed, and 

 include 'to Mr. John Gregory, arcbidida^calo^ 13 1 3*. 8</.' Next year 

 he had as usher Abraham Gregory, and was paid 4 besides his stipend 

 ' for certaine reasons which must not be taken for a president in the 

 future.' John Gregory was first of Pembroke Hall New College, but took 

 his B.A. degree at Cambridge. The usher was probably his nephew, a 

 son of Francis Gregory of Woodstock, and came from Oriel College, 

 where he matriculated on 7 December, 1660, aged 17, so that he 

 began his scholastic career at the age of 18, while still an undergraduate. 

 While still usher he took his M.A. degree at Cambridge, was vicar of 

 Sandhurst, Gloucestershire, in 1664, and in 1671 retired from the usher- 

 ship to become a canon of Gloucester, and rector of Cowley. Next year 

 he was canon of Lincoln, in 1675 rector of St. Mary le Crypt, in 1679 

 precentor of Llandaff. He died at Gloucester, 29 July, 1690, and is 

 buried in the cloisters. John Gregory, the head master, was also rector of 

 Hempsted and Dursley, and became archdeacon of Gloucester in 1672. 

 He died in 1678. 



The mastership was kept in the family by the succession of Oliver 

 Gregory, who had been usher of the Crypt School from 1670. He seems to 

 have been a Cambridge man, while Nathaniel Lye or Luys, his usher, was 

 of Brasenose. Lye only stayed three years, becoming vicar of Cowley, 

 Gloucestershire, in 1673, afterwards canon of Bristol, archdeacon, and in 1723 

 at the age of 83, canon of Gloucester, dying at the age of 90 in 1737. 

 Oliver Gregory remained head master till 1684, with Thomas Trippett for 

 usher. 



On II September, 1684, Mr. Maurice Wheeler, M.A. 1670 of New 

 Inn Hall, and then chaplain at Christ Church, became headmaster. In 1685, 

 Wheeler began a register of the school, ' The Census or Matriculation book 

 of the King's School, Gloucester ' one of the very few instances of the use of 

 the term King's School. The register has been continuously kept up to the 

 present day. It is headed 'Scholae Regiae Glocestriensis Liber Censualis sive 

 Matricula Alumnorum qui ibidem admissi, ingenium bonis moribus literisque 

 excolendum tradidere; a Mauritio Wheeler, ejusdem Scholae Praeside, instituta 



A.D. MDCLXXXV.' 



The list begins with 52 boys, whom Mr. Wheeler calls ' the aborigines 

 who possessed the school at the time of the interregnum,' i.e. the time 

 between his predecessor's departure and his own appointment (' Scholares 

 aborigines, qui pridem initiati Scolam interregni tempore possiderent '). Those 

 who entered afterwards he speaks of as ' scolares ascripti, qui, superius ad- 

 missis et nominatis, denuo cooptarentur.' There were 54 * aborigines,' of 

 whom 30 came from the city and 23 from the county. The 'ascripti' 

 numbered 25 in 1684-5, and 32 in 16856. So that the school was well 

 over a hundred. The boys included scions of the county families, among 

 them Lysons of Hempsted, Kingscote of Kingscote, Maskelynes of 

 Penton, Fusts and Jenners now fused into Jenner-Fusts, Phelps of Dursley, 

 Crawley-Boevey, and so forth. From the town of Gloucester comes 

 the well-known name of Abraham, son of Abraham Rudhall, the great 

 bell-founder. 



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