A HISTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE 



Petty Sessional Division in which Northleach lay, 2 by the trustees of the 

 Northleach Town Charities, I by the Board of Guardians, I by the Vestry, 

 now Parish Council, of Chedworth, and 4 co-optatives. 



Mr. Lowry, the head master, received a pension of 220 a year for life ; 

 the usher, the Rev. Richard Rice, received a pension of 60 a year for 

 life, and the commercial deputy was given the option of becoming head 

 master. 



TETBURY GRAMMAR SCHOOL 



By an inquisition 1 taken 19 September, 1622, it was found that Sir 

 William Romney, knight, held from Lord Berkeley the tolls on wool and 

 yarn and other profits. He devised all these by will made in 1610 to the 

 town, and from them 13 was to be paid yearly to a schoolmaster to teach 

 the children of the parish gratis and he ' earnestly recommended that the 

 Schoolmaster shall be very skilful in arithmetic, which art teacheth much 

 wit.' By decree made on the inquisition the schoolmaster was to be chosen 

 by thirteen townsmen elected for the rule of the town, and paid 20 yearly. 



The Ordinances 8 made by the thirteen, 8 April, 1623, required that 

 the schoolmaster 



shall teach the Latin tongue by the use of Lillie's 3 grammar and such ordinary books as are 

 most approved in schools, and in like manner for the Greek, by such grammars and authors 

 as are most usual, and not by any quaint, strange, or new devices of his own. 



The town bought the lease and all his rights from Lord Berkeley in 

 1632, and then declared that 20 should be for ever continued to a school- 

 master and usher to teach the children of inhabitants. 



The first master's name recorded is Mr. Debb, who appears in the 

 St. John's College, Cambridge, register as master at Tetbury when George 

 Long was admitted to St. John's, 5 March, 16445, at ^e age of 22. 

 Presumably he had left the school some years before, as in 1642 Thomas 

 Tully of Queen's College, Oxford, became head master and remained till 

 1657, when he was made Principal of St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford, and 

 became Dean of Ripon in 1673. John Oldham, the poet, author of Satires 

 upon the Jesuits and A Satire against Virtue ', was in the school 1668-70. The 

 next master known was Henry Heaven, appointed 1678. He matriculated 

 at Wadham 2 July, 1658, and took his B.A. from Trinity College, 

 22 March, 16612. During his reign William Talboys, by will in 1680, left 

 a yearly sum of 2OJ. for buying books for the poorer scholars. Philip Bisse, 

 afterwards bishop of Hereford, is mentioned by the Rev. A. T. Lee as 

 having been educated at this school, but he can only have used the school 

 for a short time as a preparatory school, as he was admitted to Winchester 

 College as founder's kin in 1686* at the age of 14. Joseph Trapp, 

 professor of poetry at Oxford 170818, is also claimed by Lee, but the 

 Dictionary of National Biography says he was trained at home by his father and 

 at New College School before matriculating at Wadham in 1695. Mr. Lee 

 says the grammar school was held in a room over the church porch till the 



1 Char. Com. Rep. xviii, 350. ' Rev. A. T. Lee, Hist, of Tetbury, 1857, p. 177. 



' Not Leltie's as misread by the reverend historian. 



4 This is the date given by Lee, but it was in fact 1682; Kirby, Winchester Scholars, 204. 



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