A HISTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE 



REDLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS 



This school is of much the same type as the last mentioned school. 

 It was established in May, 1882, and is governed by a council of men and 

 women who are co-opted. There are about 260 girls with Miss Elizabeth 

 Ann Cocks, head mistress, and a staff of 1 2 mistresses, mostly of university 

 qualifications. The fees are from 2 2s. to 5 $s. a term. 



1. ST. GEORGE HIGHER GRADE AND TECHNICAL SCHOOL 



2. MERRYWOOD HIGHER GRADE 



3. HIGHER GRADE SCIENCE AND ART COUNCIL SCHOOL 



These three schools are under the direct control of the Bristol Education 

 Committee. The first was opened in August, 1895, m Church Road, the 

 second in January, 1896, in Southville, and the third in November, 1898, in 

 Fairfield Road. 



They are all day schools for boys and girls, St. George having 540, 

 Merrywood 420, and Fairfield Road about 162 pupils ; and charge fees of 

 from 3</. to 6d. a week. Pupils are prepared for London Matriculation 

 and Board of Education examinations. 



CIRENCESTER GRAMMAR SCHOOL 



The first mention of Cirencester Grammar School, or rather its master, 

 which is as yet forthcoming is in July (no day is given), 1242, when the 

 schoolmaster of Cyrencester (maglster scolarum Gyrencestrie) gave judgement as 

 one of three judges in a case between Gloucester Abbey and the abbey of 

 Lyra or Lire in Normandy, the priory of Acley, and Robert Foliot, rector of 

 Fownhope, in favour of the defendants and against the abbey of Gloucester. 



The casus belli was the right to the tithes of the chapelries of Ash and 

 Strongford. The original judges appointed by the pope to hear the appeal 

 were the abbot of Eynsham near Oxford, the prior of St. Frideswide's (now 

 Christ Church, Oxford), and the dean (of Christianity) of Oxford. But 

 they were all too busy to act. So as the case was to be heard in Cirencester 

 parish church the abbot of Eynsham appointed the parish chaplain, the 

 schoolmaster (magistro scolarum), and the warden of the hospital at Cirencester 

 his deputies; the prior of St. Frideswide's appointed the sacrist and succentor 

 of Cirencester Abbey, and the dean of Oxford appointed the dean of Ciren- 

 cester and Sir Richard Poltevin as their respective deputies. One of the 

 deputies of each original delegate sat. The fact that the schoolmaster was 

 coupled, not with any of the officials of Cirencester Abbey, who were named 

 as deputies by the prior of Oxford, but with two of the secular clergy, the 

 parish chaplain, and the warden of the hospital, shows that he was the 

 master not of the monastic school, the novices' school in the cloister, but of 

 the public grammar school, the school of and in the town. 



Whether the school was at this time endowed and who appointed the 

 master does not transpire. But in 1458 John Chadworth, bishop of Lincoln, 

 who had been a fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and was already an M.A. 

 when made one of the first fellows of Henry VI's new foundation of 



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