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as 'squyer' in a bequest to him by will of Richard Dixton, 'squyer,' 8 August, 

 1438, of 'my serp of silver and my cheyne of gold,' while 'Jone Greyndor, 

 his wyf,' was given by the same will ' a covered cup of silver the wich I was 

 wont to drink of and a bracelet of gold.' 



Greyndour had probably while alive l provided the brass on the floor of 

 the south of Greyndour chapel which still bears his effigy and that of his wife 

 Jane, in the costumes of the period. 



A subsequent owner of the manor and descendant, Sir Christopher 

 Baynham, knight, who died in 1557, has had the audacity to inscribe his 

 own name on the brass, in which he, or some other sixteenth-century person, 

 inserted a representation of a miner of the Forest of Dean. The result is 

 that the figures of Greyndour and his wife were called Sir Christopher 

 Baynham and Lady.* To Sir John Maclean must be given the credit of 

 having restored the attribution to the rightful owners. 



Greyndour had no doubt made provision by his will for the foundation 

 of the chantry school, as his wife obtained a licence, 6 November, 1445,* for 

 the foundation of a perpetual chantry at the altar of St. John and St. Nicholas 

 and a further licence in mortmain dated the same day * to endow it with 

 lands to the value of 12 a year in Lydney, Alveston, and Newland. John 

 Clifford was named in the patent as the first chaplain of the chantry. Sir 

 John Maclean identifies ' him with a rector of Staunton of the same name 

 admitted 26 April, 1426, a successor being appointed, on his resignation on 

 1 8 June, 1 449. As it will be seen that his successor in the schoolmastership 

 was appointed the same year, the identification is probably correct. 



The patents, as is usual, are limited to the chantry provisions, and the 

 creation of the chantry priest as a perpetual corporation sole, which alone 

 required the royal licence, and nothing is said about the scholastic duties of 

 the chantry-priest, which were left for the Ordinance of foundation, for the 

 making of which power was given by the patents. This, unfortunately, has 

 wholly disappeared, and all we know about this ancient and interesting 

 foundation is derived from the documents which recorded it for the pur- 

 pose of confiscation. 



' In the certificate ' of John Currell, esquyer, Richard Pate (afterwards 

 re-founder or re-endower of Cheltenham Grammar School) and Edwarde 

 Gostewyke, gentilmen,' commissioners under the permissive Chantries Disso- 

 lution Act of Henry VIII in 1545, under the heading of 'The Parishe of 

 Newland within the Deanry of the Forest,' there appears ' Gryndoures 

 Chauntrye foundyd To fynde a preste and a gramer scole half free for ever, 

 And to kepe a scoller sufficientt to teche under hym contynually. And he 

 to have for his salary by yere 10 \s. zd. Gryndoures Chauntery is within 

 the said churche.' The total yearly value is given as i i 16*. 8</., ' whereof 

 for the priestes stipende, 10 4*. zd. ; for renttes resoluttes, 2s. lod. ; for the 



1 Sir John Maclean (Tram. Bristol and Ghi. Arch. Sec. ri, 36) ajr$ that his wife had it made. But in 

 the fint place the armour is of a somewhat early type for 1443, and the dress of the lady is also the same. 

 Secondly, few if any who left the erection of their monuments to their successors, unless with very stringent 

 directions in their wills, ever obtained them. The great bulk of mediaeval monuments were erected by those 

 who commemorated themselves in their own lifetime. 



Haines, Manual of Monumental Braiiei, i, cxii. ' Pat. 24 Hen. VI, pt. i, m. 19. 



4 Ibid. pt. ii, m. 17. ' Tram. Bristol ana" Glos. Arch. Soc. rii, 155. 



A. F. Leach, Engl. ScA. at tht Reformation, 78 ; from Chant. Cert, z I, No. Z4. 



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