SCHOOLS 



of the parish, from the age of 4 to 10. By will, dated 14 December, 1724, 

 he gave 300 more. 



DURSLEY : SCHOOL OF THE PROTESTANT DISSENTERS. Joseph Twemlow, 

 in 1718, erected a house at Dursley, used for religious worship, and at other 

 times for a schoolhouse for teaching poor children of Protestant Dissenters. 

 Josiah Sheppard, by will (25 August, 1726) gave 100 to be laid out in lands 

 for the support of the school, and a sum of 260 from the bounty of Mary 

 Twemlow and others has also been expended in lands. 



KINGSWOOD. This school was endowed with lands in Gloucestershire in 

 1720 by the heirs of Israel Mayo, whose father, John Mayo, had by will 

 (15 March, 1674), charged him to erect a free school and endow it with 30 

 a year. Israel Mayo paid the 30 a year during his lifetime, but did not 

 endow it. 



MARSHFIELD : THE CHARITY SCHOOL. A ledger-book of accounts of 

 this school beginning 25 March, 1722, shows the school supported by 

 annual subscriptions, the first name being John Harington, who is said to 

 have given the schoolhouse and half a year's subscription of 3. By 

 indenture 3 February, 1731, Dionysia Long, of Golden Square, Middlesex, 

 granted property in Gloucestershire to trustees to appoint a schoolmaster to 

 teach 20 poor boys of the parish the three R's. The boys were also entirely 

 clothed. In 19001, national school with average attendance of 120. 



AMPNEY CRUCIS : ROBERT PLEYDELL'S CHARITY. The sisters and co- 

 heirs of Robert Pleydell, by an indenture dated 2 May, 1722, granted 

 Ranbury Farm in Ampney St. Peter, pursuant to the design of Robert 

 Pleydell, that out of the rents 65 should be paid for instruction of poor boys 

 and girls, 15 for apprenticing, and they also granted the same trustees 

 premises for the schoolhouse. In 1901, national school with average 

 attendance of 107. 



WOODCHESTER : ROBERT BRIDGES' CHARITY. Robert Bridges, by will 

 (23 October, 1722) gave to trustees 5 to purchase lands and apply the 

 proceeds in teaching 3 poor boys to read and write and apprenticing i yearly. 

 Saint Loes School at Minchinhampton being found sufficient for teaching the 

 boys of this parish, the funds were applied to clothing and apprenticing. 

 In 1900-1 this school had an average attendance of 91. 



THORNBURY : ATWELLS' FREE SCHOOL. John Atwells, by will (16 May, 

 1722) gave 500 in trust f r setting up a free school and directed that a 

 good master and mistress should be placed therein to instruct the children of 

 the parishioners, gratis, in reading, and the girls knitting and sewing as well. 

 Though 24 boys could have had their education free there were only 14 in 

 the school in 1867. This was merged in the Grammar School foundation by 

 scheme under the Endowed Schools Acts, 17 May, 1879. 



TETBURY: HODGES' CHARITY. In 1723 Elizabeth Hodges by will left 

 30 a year for teaching poor children in Tetbury the three R's. On this 

 foundation a school was kept for many years in which 1 5 boys were taught, 

 but when a scheme was made in Chancery in 1830 for all the charity estates 

 this was merged in the national school, the master of which received 30 a 

 year for teaching the boys on Hodges' foundation. 



STAPLETON FREE SCHOOL. Mary Webb, by will (15 October, 1729) 

 bequeathed ^45 > n trust, the interest to be applied for a school and almshouse, 



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