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A History of the County of Gloucester
… The masonry is said to have been carried out by French masons and every possible use was made of stone rather …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wesleyan Methodists have each a place of worship. The free grammar school was founded and endowed in 1585, by Richard …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Bought in 1587 with Richard Cornwell's bequest for the grammar school, were transferred to the corporation in 1599 … the wish of the 4th duke (d. 1817) to give it to the grammar school was not fulfilled, although the master was … occupant in 1654 was Dr. Francis Gregory, master of the grammar school, and it was probably the 12-hearth house which …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Company of London, to be divided equally between the grammar school, a sermon, and doles of 6 d. to the poor who … ordered the capital to be replaced from the income of the grammar school estate. 20 By will proved 1817 George, duke of … given in 1646 by Charles Padget, a former pupil of the grammar school, was kept up to date and few charities had …
A History of the County of Oxford
… two curates, of whom several were also headmaster of the grammar school. 15 One early 19th-century rector complained … former north-east chapel served as a schoolroom for the grammar school; it included a living chamber, and was … 8 by A. W. Blomfield in 1877-8. The north aisle and the grammar school were replaced by an arcaded north aisle, a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Market Place, mentioned in the early 17th century, and the grammar school of 1585, housed from c. 1600 in a room …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Education Education Woodstock had an early free grammar school, two small charity schools, and by the early … for continuing problems with the financially inadequate grammar school. Martin Cave, curate of Woodstock and former … born in Woodstock, left £ 300 to provide and support a grammar school and a master, who was to be a good preacher. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the local wool trade, and in 1585 the town acquired a grammar school. 72 The extent of building activity in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was closely involved in the establishment of the grammar school, and in 1599 obtained a licence to hold in … on the initiative of the Revd. John Carlyle, master of the grammar school, who by then was owed five years' salary, a … the benefit of its members, and for mismanagement of the grammar school. Certainly the corporation's contribution to …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… lights and tracery; the lower opening now contains modern french doors and the upper one is blocked; in the gable is a … has a central thatched porch supported by rough poles, french windows to each side and round-headed windows above, …