Over this nursery of science presides a chief master, with an annual salary of one hundred and twenty pounds; a second master sixty; two ushers; a master in the art of writing, and another in that of drawing, at forty pounds each: a librarian, ten: seven exhibitioners at the University of Oxford, twenty-five pounds each. Also, eight inferior schools in various parts of the town, are constituted and fed by this grand reservoir, at fifteen pounds each, which begin the first rudiments of learning.
CHIEF MASTERS.
| John Brooksby, | 1685. |
| ---- Tonkinson. | |
| John Husted. | |
| Edward Mainwaring, | 1730. |
| John Wilkinson, | 1746 |
| Thomas Green, | 1759. |
| William Brailsford, | 1766. |
| Rev. Thomas Price, | 1776. |