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Michael the son of Michael Gilbert (the Vicar) was baptised at Aldborough in Yorkshire on 1 or 7 Feb (transcription of the day is difficult to interpret) 1641/42.[1]
Michael Gilbert aged 16, matriculated at Christ College, [his father's alma mater] Cambridge on 25 May 1658 and was awarded his AB (Latin "artium baccalaureus" now known as Bachelor of Arts). He was ordained as a priest at Lincoln and became curate at Boroughbridge on 17 Aug 1662. [2][3][4] On 1 March 1668 he married Dorothy Hargreaves (according to Leeds' School records) and they lived at New Chapel Road in Leeds. The New Chapel in Lady Lane had been bought by the people of Leeds for the use of the school. They married at St. Peter's Church in Leeds, Yorkshire[5] with the marriage licence dated 1 Mar 1667,[6] with him aged 26 and her aged 23, and with Dorothy's maiden name recorded as Hargrave or Hargreaves (transcriptions vary).
The Baptism entries at St Peter's Church Leeds for his children Mary, Robert, Thomas, Robert, Gervais, and Charles, note that he was the Master of the Leeds Free School for Boys.[7] Children:
Named in his father's 1677 will with wife Dorothy and children Michael, Robert, Thomas and Mary.
Michael Gilbert was the Master of Leeds Grammar School,[2] or Leeds Free School as it was known at that time, from 1662 to 1690. The school records have his family name as Gilberts. This is a period when there is only very limited information about the school although there are some details about its governance in the minutes of the Committee of Pious Uses. The school's curriculum was limited to Latin and Greek. No fees were charged - hence it was called the Free School, receiving funding from the Commitee. From 1663 the minutes of the Committee of Pious Uses gives information about the life of the school although they are mainly concerned with appointments and the payment of the Master. The meetings of the Committee meetings were known as 'Courts" and the committee itself was entitled "the Commitee appointed by decree for the execution of charitable uses within the borough of Leeds". IN THE INQUISITION of 1661 it is stated that the yearly sum of the rents of the school lands do amount to the sum of 32 13s. 1d. at a rent day or half year's rent. In 1666 their value had about doubled; but out of this the Master and the Usher had to be paid, the school and the buildings kept in repair, and fines paid for the renewal of the copyholds
In 1674 it was decided that the Master should receive rents on all the land owned by the school on condition that he paid the Usher (second master) and officials, kept the building in repair and handed to the committee a stated sum for fines (Licences) and other purposes.
Salaries however, fell into arrears, and in 1691 the Committee, for divers weighty reasons to them appearing, but especially that the houses given to the said School were found to be very ruinous and in great decay, took back the management into their own hands,
In 1691 Rev. Michael Gilberts left the school by mutual consent.
Death and Burial: Primary Source not found for death quoted on some on-line trees of 2 Oct 1691.
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