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orders by which he was appointed to pay augmentations and allowances, 

 together with his acquittances indorsed upon the said order, soe that he hath 

 not sufficient warrant to pay such augmentations and allowances.' So he 

 received a new order to pay up to Michaelmas, 1654, the sums scheduled, 

 including ' Bristoll Schoole schoolemaster, Mr. Adams, 13 6s. 8</., usher 

 6 13-r. 4*/.' By a further order of 24 July, 1655,' the payment was charged 

 on the impropriate rectories of Banwell, Puxton, and Churchill in Somerset. 

 Two years later, 17 November, 1657,* Adams having either retired or died, 

 the trustees ordered ' that Mr. William Thomas bee and he is hereby settled 

 schoolemaster of the Free Schoole att Bristoll in the county of Somerset and 

 that hee doe from time to time diligently discharge the duty of schoolemaster 

 there,' with 20 a year out of the tithes of the same parishes. 



In the absence of documents the next we hear of the Cathedral School 

 is a most astounding and inaccurate return by the dean and chapter to the 

 Cathedral Commission * in 1852. ' In the Choristers' School, which is a 

 grammar school,' the statutable allowance of the head master is 8 Ss. 8</. 

 and of the under master 2 igs. "id. An increased allowance is made to the 

 head master of 51 i is. 6</., in all 60. There is no statutable house, but 

 one is provided by the dean and chapter in which scholars may be boarded. 

 They then make this astounding statement, ' The schools are open to others 

 not by statute but by permission of the dean and chapter.' This in face 

 of the statutes which made the school open to all. There were then in the 

 school 6 choristers, 2 probationers, and 25 others. The school struggled on as 

 a grammar school under the Rev. Robert Hancock, a minor canon, and the 

 Rev. F. E. Skey, now vicar of Weare. But in 1866 it was placed under 

 the control of a Mr. Morgan, a certificated master, and was degraded into 

 a merely elementary school. 



The Endowed Schools Commissioners took it in hand at the same time 

 as the other secondary schools of Bristol and endeavoured to make it again 

 take its place as a secondary school. But the scheme actually made and 

 approved by Queen Victoria in Council, 4 February, 1875, was a compro- 

 mise. It declared the 



object of the trust shall be to maintain the efficiency of the cathedral school founded by 

 Henry VIII in Bristol, and in connexion therewith to train teachers for supplying educa- 

 tion higher than elementary education, in accordance with the doctrines of the Church of 

 England 



and it gave the institution the name of Bristol Cathedral College, calling the 

 upper part the Training College, and the lower part the College School. 

 Towards the endowment the commissioners extracted 120 a year from 

 the dean and chapter and 12,000 from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners 

 for buildings.; which was approximately the equivalent of what a canon 

 received in 1835, without any allowance for the 150 years during which 

 the school had been starved. The governing body was a quaint one consist- 

 ing of n, the bishop, the dean, and 5 nominees of the dean and chapter, 

 one appointed by the Lord President of the Council, and 3 by the 

 rival schools of Bristol, 2 by the governing bodies of the Grammar School 

 and of Colston's Hospital, and one by the head masters of the Grammar 

 School, Colston's Hospital, and Queen Elizabeth's Hospital. 



a Lamb. MSS. (Lamb. Lib.), Aug. 967, fol. it. ' Ibid. 993, fol. 280. ' Cath. Cam. Rep. 1 854, p. 2 1 8. 



