SCHOOLS 



and foundation of the aforementioned Free Grammar School and Hospital in 

 Cheltenham by him erected for that purpose.' One-fourth of the income the 

 college was to take ' to the free and only use of the college.' With the other 

 three-fourths the college covenanted that they would * maintain the Free 

 Grammar School of Cheltenham aforesaid, and the exercise of grammar and 

 the other liberal arts there, and also the said Hospital or Almshouse ' for five 

 poor people. 



An elaborate * Schedule idented ' annexed to the deed set forth the * Rules, 

 Orders, Statutes, and Ordinances ' for the school and hospital. 



The president and seven senior fellows of the college were to manage 

 the property and have ' the placing, displacing, and removing ' of the 

 schoolmaster and usher, subject to gifts over of the appointment first to 

 Magdalen College, Oxford, and then to the bishop, if it was not made within 

 three months of a vacancy. The master was to be an M.A. 30 years old 

 at the least, and both master and usher were to be 



whole and sound in body and examined and allowed touching religion by the ordinary of 

 the diocese of Gloucester for the time being and as well lively examples and patterns 

 of virtue and true godliness to their scholars in life and conversation as sufficient persons to 

 teach and instruct them in the Latin and Greek tongues. 



They were to * teach the Grammar allowed and approved by the common 

 authority of the Queen's Majesty that now is, and of her .... heirs and suc- 

 cessors for the time being,' to take the scholars every Sunday and holiday at public 

 prayers, and divine services, and sermons, at the parish church, ' examining 

 and trying what benefit the scholars shall reap by every such sermon.' They 

 themselves were not to preach above six times a year. If either of the 

 masters became impotent and ' will accept the room of a poor man in 

 the Hospital . . . that then he be preferred to one of those rooms, and have 

 id. weekly more than any other there placed . . . and the best chamber.' 

 The other five poor were to have the extra 2<J. * defalked out of their portion 

 rateably.' The schoolmaster was to have 16 and the usher 4 a year. 



Each scholar was to pay an entrance fee of 4^. ' if his parents be 

 inhabiting or himself lodging in the parish,' 8</. if not, ' with which money 

 the schoolmasters shall . . . buy and provide such Latin and Greek books as 

 shall be most necessary for the public use of the said Scholars, to be tied fast 

 with little chains of iron. * For the reformation of divers enormities 

 and disorders used in the often absence of scholars from school, especially in 

 the time of harvest,' it was ordered that any scholar absent four whole school 

 days ' shall be adjudged a stranger and shall not be admitted thither again 

 without payment of as much as any strange scholar is at his first admission 

 to pay.' 



If there were not 30 scholars, 



of which number 4 at the least shall have knowledge in the Greek and Latin tongues and 

 be able to make exercises in prose and verse in those tongues and to speak the Latin tongue 

 extempore, and 5 others of that number able to translate any piece of familiar English speech 

 into Latin, and 4 other able to make a sentence of true Latin between the nominative case 

 and the verb ; and 14 others able and ready to learn the rules or accidence to the rules of 

 construction and the residue of that number children of good aptness to learn 



then as long as they arc wanting the master was only to be allowed his wages 



at the rate of 20 marks (13 i6j. 8</.) and the usher at the rate of 2, 



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