A HISTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE 



15 a year to a master for teaching 20 poor boys and 10 poor girls. Various 

 other donations brought up the capital amount to 785 15^., of which the duke 

 of Beaufort was treasurer. A schoolmaster and his wife taught the stated number 

 of children, and had a salary of 25. Represented in 19001 by Stapleton 

 church school ; average attendance, 133 ; now in the borough of Bristol. 



CAM : FRANCES HOPTON'S CHARITY. By will, dated n March, 1730, 

 Mrs. Frances Hopton gave an estate called Draycott Farm to trustees, to 

 build a schoolroom with apartments for a master and mistress to teach 

 10 poor boys and 10 poor girls, the boys to learn the three R's and the girls 

 reading, knitting, and sewing. The total income in 1826 was ^C 1 ^ IDJ., 

 which had increased to 237 by 1867, when there were 22 boys and 

 21 girls. In 19001, average attendance, 82. 



BISLEY : BLUE COAT SCHOOL. John Taylor, clothier, of Stroud, by will 

 dated igth January, 1732, devised lands in trust for teaching 10 poor boys in 

 Bisley to read and write and to clothe them. The rents of this land in 1829 

 were 55 los. The master had a salary of 12 guineas, and 18 6j. 6d. was 

 spent on clothing. In 1867 there were 18 boys on this foundation in the 

 parish school, part of the income of the church lands being employed in the 

 maintenance of a free school, and >C X 3 I 4- r - out of the rent being paid yearly 

 to the schoolmaster, who is also master of the Blue Coat School. In 1900-1, 

 national school, average attendance, 1 1 1 . 



RANDWICK CHARITY SCHOOL. On 20 February, 1734, lands were con- 

 veyed to trustees for this school, in accordance with the will of Thomas 

 Vobes, of Standish, dated 8 February, 1706. Richard Cambridge, merchant, 

 of London, gave 50 and Ann Hawker 20, with which lands were bought 

 in 1730. In 1749 4 was subscribed by the inhabitants to buy a dwelling- 

 house for the master. Thomas Genner, by will 27 May, 1756, bequeathed 

 his house and garden, the rent to be disposed of in clothing for the poor 

 scholars. Other bequests of property have later been made to the school, 

 which in 1826 brought in an income of 40 igs. in all. There were then 

 38 boys and girls. In 1900-1, average attendance, 143. 



CHURCHDOWN : HENRY WINDOW'S CHARITY. Henry Window, esq., by 

 will dated 13 December, 1734, devised lands to pay the yearly sum of 20 

 to a schoolmaster to teach poor boys and girls of Badgeworth and Churchdown 

 the three R's, and he gave a house for the master to live in. Two schools 

 were being regularly kept after the death of the testator, 1745 one under a 

 schoolmaster for boys and girls, and another under a schoolmistress for infants. 

 The school was given a new governing body by a scheme under the 

 Endowed Schools Acts. In 1900-1, represented by a board school, average 

 attendance, 1 16. 



HORSLEY : THE FREE SCHOOL. Ed ward Webb, of Nailsworth, by will 

 (15 April, 1744) gave to trustees 200 to be by them disposed of for the poor 

 in such manner as they should think fit, and by indenture dated 7 December, 

 1 7 5 2 > Elizabeth Castleman assigned 200 to her trustees to apply the profits 

 for the education of the poor children of Horsley. Land was bought in 1755 

 and the school established. Other gifts have since been made, and in 1823 a 

 new school building was begun, and opened in March, 1824. The old school 

 only accommodated 24, but in 1867 there were 76 boys and 63 girls. In 

 1900-1, average attendance, 135. 



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