A HISTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE 



boys the master was to provide an usher at his own expense. 1 The school 

 was carried on in a room attached to the north transept of the abbey 

 church, formerly used as the chapter-house, 3 but in 1862 it was moved to 

 the private house of the master, John Morgan, who was a layman, appointed 

 in 1858. In 1867 there were the 16 free boys, 9 day boys paying 4 guineas 

 each, and 7 boarders. A few of the boys learnt Latin, but none Greek or 

 French, and the standard was not high in any subject. 3 



NORTHLEACH GRAMMAR SCHOOL 



Hugh Westwood, of Chedworth, left by will, i May, 1559, his 

 parsonage of Chedworth, consisting of tithes and lands there, to feoffees 

 to found 



one grammar school for ever in the town of Northleach ; provided always, that the school- 

 master and scholars shall every day say or sing one Antnempe, and the Paternoster, and 

 Ave, or some other godlie or wholesome prayer, having in remembrance him the founder, 

 and his heirs, for ever ; and provided that the said town of Northleach shall prepare a 

 house convenient for the scholehouse and schollmaster meet and necessarie for that purpose, 

 or else the school not to be there. 



The town prepared the house, as we learn from the preamble to an Act 

 of Parliament procured in 1606. But after this, various abuses in the trust 

 arose. The surviving trustee of the will made a lease of the parsonage to his 

 son at a very small rent, and conveyed the reversion to another son. Hugh 

 Westwood's heir, Robert, a cousin, tried to upset the will, claiming the 

 estate as heir. So the schoolmaster and inhabitants filed a Bill in Chancery. 

 The result was an Act of Parliament in 1 606, whereby the school was incor- 

 porated by the name of the ' Schoolmaster and Usher of the Free Grammar 

 School of Hugh Westwood,' who were to have perpetual succession and a 

 common seal. The provost and scholars of Queen's College, Oxford, were to 

 appoint the master and usher, who were to be graduates of Oxford, to make 

 all the orders and statutes for the school, and to have full power in all the 

 government of it, to suspend and deprive the schoolmaster and usher, and 

 to appoint ' how the rents and profits . . . shall be proportioned, . . . 

 so as the whole rent be disposed between them the said schoolmaster 

 and usher.' 



The first schoolmaster was William Lickebarrow, B.A., and the first 

 usher John Stone, B.A. Lickebarrow was a Queen's College man from 

 Westmorland, who had just taken his B.A. degree, 14 December, 1605, and 

 was only 24 years old. 



In 1769 Queen's College made ordinances which to a large extent were 

 a repetition of earlier ones. The schoolmaster must be an M.A. of Oxford, 

 able to instruct scholars in Latin and Greek prose and verse. The usher also, 

 if it may be, was to be a graduate of Oxford, or at least a good and ripe 

 scholar who has been trained up there, and able to teach Latin and Greek, 

 and also to write, cipher, and cast accounts ; he is to teach beginners ABC, 

 the ordinary primer, and the Psalms of David, and when they can read, the 

 ordinary accidence and grammar of the upper school. 



1 ScA. Ittj. Rep. xv, 107. * Char. Com. Rep. xxi, 195. ' Sch. Inq. Rep. xv, 108. 



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