SCHOOLS 



trustees shall desire to take account of his sufficiency and ability to keep a 

 free grammar school.' He was to teach freely all children 'that may come 

 to him to be taught, being of the parish of Newland ' an unwarranted 

 narrowing of the original intention charging an entrance fee of if. 6</. In 

 1711, and for many years afterwards, the school was sacrificed to the alms- 

 folk, the whole surplus after paying 10 a year to the school being divided 

 among them. 



At the time of the Schools Inquiry Report 1 in 1866 the master just 

 appointed was an Etonian, F. L. A. GOrtz, who after a roving life had 

 settled down to teach this school, the endowment of which should have been 

 half of .176, or 88, but was, through the almshouse being more favoured, 

 only 6 5- He found 5 boys in the school, his predecessor having been a 

 non-resident clergyman, who lived at Tidenham, and discharged his duties by 

 deputy. Under the new master these had risen to 14 12 foundationers and 

 2 private pupils. The population had ebbed from Newland to Coleford. 

 In 1868 the Rev. C. M. Perkins was appointed master, but from 1872 did 

 duty by deputy, the school being practically elementary. The school was 

 moved to Coleford under an order of the Charity Commissioners in 1875, 

 the old building being sold and a new site purchased, and a large schoolroom 

 and a class-room erected at Coleford. The school was not much more 

 flourishing in its new habitat. The Rev. G. Burrows, 19 September, 

 1876, and Alfred Dykes Sylvester, 12 June, 1878, each held office for two 

 years. Then came Mr. John Bond, an elementary Irish schoolmaster, but 

 LL.D. of Dublin, and kept to Christmas, 1896, a school of about 30 boys. 

 He was followed for five years by Mr. J. Talbot Gardiner. On 6 December, 

 1901, the present head master, Mr. William Hodder, M.A. of Clare College, 

 Cambridge, was appointed. A scheme is now being made by the Charity 

 Commissioners under the Endowed Schools Acts, apportioning the endow- 

 ments between school and almshouses and creating a representative governing 

 body. 



CHIPPING CAMPDEN GRAMMAR SCHOOL 



Chipping Campden Grammar School was founded in or about 1487, by 

 John Ferby, or Feriby, and Margaret his wife. The earliest evidence yet 

 produced of its foundation is in the certificate of the commissioners of 



Henry VIII. 1 



The parishc of Campden. 



Feraby servis, otherwise callyd the Scolemaisters servys, founded and lands put in feoff- 

 ment to fynde a preste for ever to kepe a Free scole and to have for his salary by yere 8 to 

 kepe an obyt and to geve in almes yerely 40*. [yearly value] 13 6s. 8J. whereof for the 

 prestes stipend ^8 for the poore folk 10 ; and so remayneth clerc 3 6s. 8</. 



The foundation was left undisturbed by Henry VIII. In the certificate 

 of the commissioners of Edward VI it appears as : 



The Scolemaister Servyce alias dictum Ferbye Service. This scrvyce is left out in 

 thother certificat. Founded by one John Ferbye and Margaret. 



The date of 1487 is derived from a statement in a Bill in Chancery of 

 1627 that the school was founded 'about 140 years before.' It is confirmed 



1 Set. Inf. Rep. xv, 88. 



' A. F. Leach, Engl. Set. at tht Reformation, 36 ; from Chant. Cert, ai, No. 31 ; ^^, No. 57. 



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